Celia Brickman

Biography

Celia Brickman has been an independent scholar and a practicing psychotherapist for the past 25 years. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2000. For most of her career she has been associated with the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago where for many years she directed the Education Program and taught several different courses on psychoanalysis, and psychoanalysis and religion. She has also taught and/or given lectures at the Chicago Institute for Clinical Social Work and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She was a fellow at the Leighton Arts Colony at the Banff Center for the Arts in the summer of 2011, and a senior fellow at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School for the academic year 2005-06.  She has contributed essays to several edited books and has spoken at conferences throughout the U.S. Most recently, in December 2017 she was a respondent for Jessica Benjamin at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; and in April 2017 she presented a paper on “Fanon, Race, and Psychoanalysis” at a conference on “Race and Resistance in a Psychoanalytic Key” at the Chicago Institute for Clinical Social Work.

Education

PhD., University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, 2000.

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and race, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, history of anthropology, relational psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and gender

Websites

• website

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