News
Letter to James Oestreich (music critic, New York Times, 1/28/10) on Medicine for Musicians , published on his blog site
Musicians' maladies can prevent professional and personal enjoyment in making musical melodies. It is my experience both as a former performing pianist (Juilliard graduate) who subsequently trained as a psychotherapist , the body often expresses emotions. The mind is one's most powerful instrument and should be taken seriously by those interested in helping our cultural ambassadors. Ideally, interdisciplinary collaboration occurs between psychologist, physician, and educators to assist musicians who can benefit from multiple ways of assessing, understanding, and treating their impediments to obtaining pleasure in performance. Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D., Ann Arbor Michigan
This same program will be presented at the Dexter Library
January 31, at 3 p.m
Julie Jaffee Nagel will give the Ticho Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in June, 2010 in Washington, D.C.. This lectureship was created on behalf of the Gertrude and Ernst Ticho Charitable Foundation and the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to recognize promising early to mid-career analysts. Dr. Nagel was cited for her work that combines music and psychoanalysis.
Presenter on Performance Anxiety at National Conference on Piano Pedagogy,July 2009, Chicago, Illinois
Chair of Discussion Group on Stage Fright: International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, August 2009, Chicago, Illinois.
ARTS, CULTURE, AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Psychoanalytic and Musical Perspectives on Shame in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor": New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute (paper and panel discussion), March 23-25, 2007.
Download a flyer for this event (lammermoor.pdf).
Read an article about this event.
See Photo