Speaker: Jean Petrucelli, PhD

Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. is Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service since 1995, Training & Supervising Analyst, Teaching Faculty, Conference Chair of the Conference Advisory Board (CAB) and Founding Director of the EDCAS educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute in NYC.

She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Faculty at the Institute of Contemporary Psychology (ICP);  Associate editor for the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and editor of five books including, Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Routledge, 2015), which won the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) 2016 Edited Book award.

Dr. Petrucelli lectures nationally and internationally and is in private practice in New York City. 

Discussant: Rosemary Balsam, MD

Rosemary Balsam, MRCP, FRCPsych is a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School, a Training Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of London. She has a private practice in New Haven, Connecticut. She has written prize-winning papers and lectured nationally and internationally about gender issues, female development, the pregnant body, how the body is represented and theorized in analysis, and misogyny, among other topics. Her honors include being the National Psychoanalytic Woman Scholar for the American Psychoanalytic Association, and in 2018 she was the first woman in the U.S. to receive the Sigourney Award for psychoanalytic achievement.