Member Highlights

Vera Camden and Valentino Zullo are featured in the May issue of the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter regarding the American Psychoanalytic Association book prize for The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis.  The volume is also reviewed by Murray Schwartz in the summer 2024 issue of American Imago.

You can read the interview here: https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/kent-state-emerita-english-professor-wins-apsaa-prize-highlighting-literature

Additionally, Vera Camden and Valentino Zullo will be giving two presentations this July on their work on psychoanalysis and comics. 

On July 18, they will be in Athlone, Ireland for the Graphic Medicine Conference. They will chair and present on a panel called "Comics on the Couch: Old Ways of Seeing, New Ways of Looking" with New Yorker Cartoonist, Suzy Becker. 

On July 27, they will conduct a live interview at San Diego Comic Con with comics creators Sarah Kuhn, writer of Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story and Sina Grace, writer/artist on Superman: The Harvests of Youth. 

Finally, Valentino Zullo was invited to the board of The Siegel & Shuster Society, which honors the legacy of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, in Cleveland, Ohio. The society will be overseeing the recently approved Siegel & Shuster Tribute Plaza at the southwest corner of the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland at Ontario Street and St. Clair Avenue. 

Check out Valentino Zullo, CPC Member, featured here: https://www.ideastream.org/newsdepth/2024-05-15/know-ohio-supermans-ohio-origins

Ohio Asylum Project

In 2018, Nanette Auerhahn, Ph.D., and Shari Nacson, LISW, co-founded the Ohio Asylum Project where they provide consultation to immigration attorneys and mental health forensic evaluations to refugees and asylum seekers.  Dr. Auerhahn has also recently consulted with a migrant shelter in Mexico that is being established with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Latin American Relief fund as a safe haven for migrants escaping danger in their home countries.      

Since April, 2023, Nanette has worked with Eyra (a humanitarian aid organization providing psychoanalytic assistance during social crises), through which she has been providing weekly supervision to psychoanalysts working in Ukraine. Since October, 2023, she has provided weekly supervision to faculty and psychology graduate students at Reichman University in Israel where they provide emergency mental health support to individuals traumatized by the Oct 7 massacre and the ongoing war.  She will be teaching an in-person course on trauma at Reichman University in September.

Vera J. Camden won the American Psychoanalytic Association Book Prize for her edited book, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. 

Kathleen Ross, the Chair of the committee made the following remarks at the award ceremony at the APsA meeting in February:

 "The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis fulfills the aspiration of this book prize to promote the integration of the academic and clinical worlds of psychoanalysis in several ways. It offers a resource to students, teachers, and clinicians who wish to delve deeply into the links between literature and psychoanalysis through new, contemporary readings carried out by its sixteen contributing authors, who themselves come from the worlds of academia and the clinic. …Professor Camden and her collaborators have given the fields of literature and psychoanalysis, broadly conceived, a most valuable gift with their collective work. We are very proud to award this volume the 2024 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association."