In 2020, Mrs. Catherine Shropshire Hardman gave the EUPI a new home to continue its mission of educating clinicians, researchers, and scholars in the theory and practice of clinical psychoanalysis. We are immensely grateful to Mrs. Hardman for supporting our sustained excellence in psychoanalytic education. To date, she is one of our most generous supporters.
In addition to a suite that includes state-of-the-art technologies, a library for a special collection, and clinical offices, Mrs. Hardman assisted the EUPI in creating a philanthropy fund that secures funding for the Catherine Shropshire Hardman Symposium and supports candidates in training. The symposium creates an opportunity for clinicians, researchers, scholars, and advocates to engage one another in interdisciplinary dialogue on current mental health topics. In 2019, the EUPI hosted the first Catherine Shropshire Hardman Symposium “Struggling to Connect: Addiction, Attachment, and the Self.” This symposium explored the relationship between addiction and attachment from multiple perspectives, including psychoanalysis, neurobiology, trauma, family systems and compassion-based ethics.
The Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute is proud to host the second Catherine Shropshire Hardman Symposium this Spring. Please join us Saturday, March 25, for Psychodynamic Approaches to Autism and Anxiety featuring Dr. Geoffrey Goodman and Dr. Mikle South.