Rosine Perelberg

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Rosine Perelberg
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Thesis Family and Mental Illness in a London Borough (1983)

Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Brazilian-born British psychoanalyst. She served as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society between 2019 and 2022. Perelberg won The Sigourney Award in 2023, [1] awarded to recognise outstanding work that advances psychoanalytic thought worldwide.

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Career

Perelberg completed her master's degree in 1980 at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, [2] and received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, University of London in 1983. [3] [4] Towards the end of her PhD, Perelberg worked with anorexia nervosa patients at Maudsley Hospital, before moving into a role as Senior Psychotherapist and Family Therapist at the Marlborough Family Service, where she worked between 1981 and 1991. [5] For 18 years, between 1997 and 2016, Perelberg was the coordinator of the Freud Seminars as part of the MSc in Psychoanalytic Theory at University College London (UCL), as well as those on Sexuality. [6] Perelberg has been a visiting professor at UCL since 2008. Between 2011 and 2012, she was also a visiting fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. [7]

Perelberg served as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society [8] between 2019 and 2022, and is also a fellow of the society. [9]

Perelberg is known for her work on unconscious phantasy, and the treatment of violent patients. [10] She has also discussed excess trauma and helplessness in treatment of patients. [11] [12] [13] In the BBC news she has discussed slip-ups in language and what they reveal about a person. [14] She has also been quoted by The Guardian in stories about overcoming hypochondria [15] and nervousness about singing in public. [16]

Works

Selected publications

Awards and honours

In 2023, Perelberg won the Sigourney Award for her work establishing a creative dialogue between psychoanalysis and social anthropology to address temporality, sexuality and antisemitism. In 1991, Perelberg was the co-recipient of the Sacerdoti Prize at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, in Buenos Aires. [17] Her book, Psychic Bisexuality, won the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for an edited book in 2019. [18]

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  1. ↑ Parker, Jennifer (2023-11-01). "Rosine Perelberg's Work Wins The Sigourney Award - 2023". The Sigourney Awards. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine Jozef (1980). As fronteiras do silencio (Thesis) (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes Achiame. OCLC   7276229.
  3. ↑ "MPhil and PhD theses submitted in the Department of Anthropology since 1927, compiled from departmental records". LSE Anthropology Department.
  4. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine Jozef (1983). Family and mental illness in a London borough (Thesis). OCLC   1000845725.
  5. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine (2009). "On Becoming a Psychoanalyst". Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 29 (3). Taylor & Francis Online: 247–263. doi:10.1080/07351690802275188. S2CID   144001646.
  6. ↑ "List of Perelberg's past events". UCL staff page. 5 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Visiting fellowships — Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  8. ↑ "Who we are | Institute of Psychoanalysis". psychoanalysis.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  9. ↑ "List of Society Members | Institute of Psychoanalysis". psychoanalysis.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  10. ↑ Perelberg, R. J. (1995-12-01). "A core phantasy in violence". The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 76 ( Pt 6): 1215–1231. ISSN   1745-8315. PMID   8789171.
  11. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine Jozef (2003-06-01). "Full and empty spaces in the analytic process". The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 84 (3): 579–592. doi:10.1516/J980-X38U-NKR6-TWPH. ISSN   0020-7578. PMID   12873362. S2CID   25765318.
  12. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine (1997). Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work. The Anna Freud Centre. p. 73.
  13. ↑ Perelberg, Rosine (2015). "On Excess, Trauma and Helplessness: Repetitions and Transformations". International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 6 (96): 1453–1476. doi:10.1111/1745-8315.12438. PMID   26663026. S2CID   40573968.
  14. ↑ Gorvett, Zaria (July 22, 2016). "Lo que revelan sobre tu mente los deslices freudianos". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  15. ↑ Barbieri, Annalisa (2016-05-20). "My mother is a hypochondriac and has tantrums like a toddler". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  16. ↑ Cocozza, Paula (2019-09-01). "I'd been too scared to sing since childhood – could I find my voice?". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  17. ↑ "Awards and Prizes Archive". www.ipa.world. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
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