2007 Catalog: Beyond Words and Time - Women Fight Cancer Through Art. Editor: Catalog

Cancer Stories: Creativity and Self Repair,
The Analytic Press, New Jersey, 1990/1994.

Art and Mourning -- Beyond Words and Time: In Progress

Krebs Kreativitat und Selbst-Heilung, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt, Germany, 1993. (Translation)

Praxis der klinischen Kunsttherapie (Practice of Clinical Art Therapy), Verlag Hans Huber, Bern Stuttgart, Toronoto, 1986.

May 2008
Art Exhibit: Transfer(ence)s by Carole Anne Wilson, New Center for Psychoanalysis.
Curator: Esther Dreifuss-Kattan

May 2007
Art Exhibit: Beyond Words and Time: Women Fight Cancer Through Art, New Center for Psychoanalysis. Curator: Esther Dreifuss-Kattan

May 8, 2007
UCLA Today Online
Cancer survivors' artworks express what they can't always say

May 2, 2007
ABC News
Art Therapy Helps Patients Cope With Cancer

UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Exhibit Features Works Created by Cancer Patients and Survivors in Art Therapy Class

April 29, 2007
LA Daily News
Survivors' Testimony is Beyond Words

March 20, 2006
LA Times
The Healing Canvas


March 8. 2006
Daily Bruin
Exhibiting a Creative Way to Heal


March 2, 2006
Daily Bruin
Patients find healing through art

May, 2005
Good Morning America, ABC-TV, 10:00 a.m.
Segment on Treating Pediatric Pain

February 28, 2005
Time Magazine
"Pain"

March 19, 2003
Newsweek
"Treating Pain"

 

Ferdinand Hodler and Valentine Gode-Darel, 1908-1915, From the Vertical of Life to the Horizontal of Death. In: The Body Image in Psychoanalysis and Art. Eds: Blum, Blum, Pazzagli. Nicomp L.E. Florence, Italy. 2007.

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan: Toldot: "Die Tauschung" pp.55-59, Ki Tissa: "Alle Kunst, die diesen Namen verdient, ist religios". pp:122=126, In: Kol Ischa, Juedische Frauen lessen die Tora, Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2007.

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, Paul Klee: Psychische Imprivissationen im Angesichts des Todes. In: Inren. Perspektiven der Kusttherapie. Ed. Dannecker, Nausner & Nausner Verlag, Graz, Wien, 2003.

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, "Before Breast Cancer -- The Healing Journey" in One in Eight--Women and Breast Cancer, Santa Monica College, 1994.

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, "Wissenschaftliches Interesse and der Kunst muss zu Kunsttherapeutischer Intervention fuhren" (Scientific Interest in the Arts has to lead to Art psychotherapeutic Intervention) in: Kunst-Therapie. Verlag Aestetik und Kommunikation, Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin, West Germany, Fall 1992.

Verlust and Trauerbeit in der Juedischen Tradition (Loss and Mourning Work in the Jewish Tradition) in: Der letzte Weg (The Last Way). Ed. I.M. Levinger, Verlag Bollag-Herzheimer, Basel, Switzerland, 1991.

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, I. Honsalek Blaschegg, F. Meerwein, "Angewandte Psychoanalyse in der medizinischen Klinik" (Clinical Psychoanalysis in the General Hospital Setting) in Psychoanalytische Kurztherapien, Ed. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 169-88, 1985.

Beck, Bernhard, Burgin, Dreifuss, Egli, Gervasi, Guex, Honsalek, Hurni, Radanow, Strauch, Wildbolg, Redaktion: Fritz Meerwein. "Das Erstgesprach auf der Abteilung fuer Onkologie" (The First Interview in the Dept. of Oncology), in Das Therapeutische Gesprach mit Krebstkranken. Ed. W. Brautigam, F. Meerwein, Verlag Hans Huber, Bern, Stuttgart, Toronto, 1985.

Esther Dreifuss, Fritz Meerwin, "Die Psychotherapie Sternbender - der Beitrag der Psychoanalyse" (Psycho-Therapy with the Dying - Contribution of Psychoanalysis) in Die Begleitung Sterbender, Theorie und Praxis der Thanatotherapie, Junfermann-Verlag, Paderborn, West Germany, pp. 259-277, 1983.

 

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, "Einige Gedanken zur Ubertragung and Gegenuebertragung in der Kunstpsychotherapie" (Some Thoughts on Transference and Countertransference in Artpsychotherapy), Forum der Kunsttherapie, Switzerland. Fall 1990.

Esther Dreifuss, Fritz Meerwein, "Das Doppelgaengermotiv" (The Motif of the Double in Psychotherapy with Leukemia Patients), Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse, Vol. 3, pp. 282-291, 1984.

Esther Dreifuss, "Verlust-und Trauerarbeit in der Judischen Tradition" (Loss and Mourning in the Jewish Tradition - A comparison), Schweizerische Arztezeitung, Vol. 64, Heft 46, pp. 1928-1935, 1983. Translated also into French: "Travail de perte et de deuildans la tradition juive" Schweizerische Arztezeitung, Vol. 66, Heft 33, pp. 1505-1511, 1985.

Esther Dreifuss, "Der Krebspatient und seine Familie - Erfahrungen aus der Klinik" (The Cancer patient & his Family - Clinical Experiences), Praxis, Schweizerische Kundschau fur Medizin, Vol. 71, Nr. 49, 1927-1934, 1982.

Esther Dreifuss, "Die psychotherapeutische Bedeutung der Kunstpsychotherapie in der Behandlung von Krebspatienten" (The Psychotherapeutic Significance of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Adult Cancer Patients), Schweizerische Rundschau fur Medizin, Praxis, Vol. 70, Nr. 22, pp. 1095-1102, 1981.

Esther Dreifuss, "Some Notes on the Relationship between Patient and Art Therapist", American Journal of Art Therapy, Vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 169-88, 1978.

 


2008


Lucy Daniels Foundation and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Paul Klee: Improvisations in the Shadow of Death.

2008


Lucy Daniels Foundation, NC Cancer and Art: Beyond Words and Time.

2008


University of Virginia. Sorensen Trust for the Study of British Object Relations.

Rene Magritte: Tracing the Lost Object. Trauma and Art.
2008


American Psychoanalytic Association Meetings, NY Eva Hesse's "Hang Up" (1966): A Transition: From the Edge of Loss to the Containment of Emptiness. A Psychoanalytic Exploration

2007


New Center for Psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychiatric Society.

Rene Magritte: Attempting the Impossible - Tracing the Lost Object.
2007


Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, MOCA Geffen: "Wack!" The Feminist Revolution

Eva Hesse's "Hang Up" (1960) A Transition From the Edge of Loss to the Containment of Emptiness

2007


New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology

Beyond Words and Time, Theoretical Considerations

2006


New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles

Rene Magritte: "Attempting the Impossible" - Tracing the Lost Mother

2005


New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles

Albert Einstein and Sons: Psychobiography, Emotional Intimacy and Creativity
     

2005


Third International Symposium Florence, Italy: The Body Image in Psychoanalysis and Art

Ferdinand Hodler: From the Vertical of Life to the Horizontal of Death

     
2004

The Healing Art Lectures Series UCLA, NPI
Art as Window to the Mind

       
2004

American Psychoanalytic Assoc. Meeting, NYC   Lucian Freud: The Permeable Membrane Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Skin and Flesh in his Later Works
       
2004


Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute

  Der Doppelganger: Alberto Giacometti -- In The Shadow Of Death Discussion
       
2003

Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute   A Room Of Ones Own Revisited: Discussant
       
2003


MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles   The Permeable Membrane: A Psychoanalytic Look at Lucien Freud's Later Paintings
       
2001


Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute

  Painting for Her Life Art and Holocaust, Gypsy Portrait in Auschwitz
       
2001


School Of The Art Institute of Chicago Dept. of Art Therapy Chicago, IL   Art, Loss and Mourning, Portraits of Three Artists
       
1999


American Psychological Association Division 39, Santa Monica, CA   Creativity and Self-Repair Trauma and the Healing Power of Art
       
1998

American Psychoanalytic Meeting New York City, NY   Psychoanalysis with a Screenwriter
       
1997

Public Forum Beverly Hills, CA   Assisted Dying: Panel
       
1997

Psychoanalytic Foundation Portland, OR   Lecture: Assisted Dying Controversy
       
1997


American Psychoanalytic Association Meetings, San Diego, CA   Panel: Assisted Dying

       
1996

American Psychoanalytic Association New York, NY   Discussion: Psychoanalysis with Creative Individuals
       
1995



American Psychological Association, Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Santa Monica, CA   Internal World Illustrated, Understanding Art within Psychoanalytic Treatment
       
1995


American Art Therapy Association Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA   Clinical and Theoretical Thoughts on Art Therapy with Cancer Patients
       
1995



Loyola Marymount University Dept. of Marital and Family Therapy and Art Therapy, Los Angeles, CA   Clinical and Theoretical Consideration of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Cancer Patients
       
1994



American Psychoanalytic Association Fall Meetings, New York, NY

  Paul Klee's Late Work -- Deadline and Its Relation to Creativity and the Oceanic Experience
       
       
       
       
       
       
       


artwork: Martin Gelber, hand colored paper, collage