Rosemary Balsam, MD, MRCP, FRCPsych Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Sandra Greer
The 2026 Fall Lecture Series theme is “Research on Aging and Women’s Health”.
Rosemary Balsam M.D. is a British doctor (Queen’s University, Belfast) and an American psychoanalyst. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of London, and a Training and Supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in private practice. She teaches psychotherapy at the Yale U. Dept of Student Mental Health. Her special interest is in female development, publishing and lecturing nationally and internationally especially about how the body is represented and theorized in analysis. She has prize winning papers on gender issues, mothers and daughters, “the vanished pregnant body” etc. and is on the editorial boards of PQ, Imago and was a book review editor for JAPA. Her honors include being the National Psychoanalytic Woman Scholar for APsaA, and she was the first woman in the US to receive the coveted Sigourney Award for psychoanalytic achievement.
Our distinguished lecturers are:
Wednesday October 7, Professor Joan Monin, Yale School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Wednesday October 14, Representing a major new interdisciplinary initiative at the Yale School of Nursing,
the Center for Aging Well, the following speakers will be:
Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, RN, FAAN; Amanda Swan, DNP, WHNP-BC, ANP, IFMCP and Heidi Gil, MA
Wednesday October 21, Professor Becca Levy, Yale School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Wednesday October 28, Rosemary Balsam MD, MRCP, FRCPsych (Yale School of Department of Psychiatry)
The fee for the Fall Lecture Series is $65, and members who wish (and are encouraged to bring a guest) to a specific lecture will pay and additional fee of $10.00. You may pay at the link below, at the door, or send your check, payable to YUWO to Sandra Greer,38 Fernwood Rd, Hamden, Ct 06517.
Payment Link: Fall 2026 Lecture Series Registration
The Lecture Series is the primary sponsor for the YUWO Scholarship Program, supporting women resuming their postsecondary education to pursue their professional goals. All proceeds from the Lecture Series go to the Scholarship Program.
DIRECTIONS TO THE WEST CAMPUS CONFERENCE CENTER:
If you are driving from North or East (New Haven) take I-95 South to exit 41 (Marsh Hill Rd). At the end of the exit ramp, take a left onto Marsh Hill Rd. At the next traffic light, take a left onto the West Campus Drive/I-95 Northbound entrance ramp. Stay in the right lane and check into the Welcome Center for directions to the Conference Center.
If you are driving from the South or West (New York) take exit 41 and go straight ahead at the exit ramp, across Marsh Hill Rd, onto the Northbound entrance ramp. Follow this to the fork and stay in the right lane and check in at the Welcome Center for directions to the Conference Center.
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