Monthly General Meeting
Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:30 pm at the First Universlist Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver. The church is on the notheast corner. Enter parking lot from Ash Street. We're meeting in the round (north) building. Meeting fee $3 for both members and guests. Come early and stay late to socialize.
Picasso: Mad or Bad?
Sheila Porter, Ph.D.
To both art historians and psychologists, accustomed to ferreting out the linkages between ‘the man and his art’, he constitutes the greatest puzzle of them all. Ah, Picasso! Loved and loathed, a lover and a hater … but of whom … and why?
With an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Sheila Porter worked as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist for over 30 years in Columbus, Ohio before moving to Denver in 2002 to be closer to her children and grandchildren and prepare for retirement. During those Ohio years, she maintained a private practice while continuing to do evaluations for the Criminal and Civil Courts. At the request of the Department of Mental Health, she was the treating psychologist for nine years for a fine artist who was the first individual found ‘Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity’ of three counts of rape as a result of Multiple Personality Disorder.
Blending both parts of her education and interests, she has been an international speaker for the psychiatric group “Creativity and Madness” since the 1980s, giving lectures on Ben Shahn, Miro, Frida Kahlo, Gauguin and others.
Now retired, she divides her time between her family, teaching classes for the Academy of Lifelong Learning where she also serves as Curriculum Chairperson, training mental health workers in Cambodia and a new venture, evaluating victims of torture who are applying for political asylum for Doctors of the World.
For more information, contact
Ed Schreiber, Programs Officer, 303-692-8535,
ed@schreiber.org
Your Programs Officer is very selective, but welcomes your suggestions for future programs, including presentations by members on their areas of interest or expertise, if they would be of interest to all of us.