A symposium on January 19th, 2011 at Slought Foundation beginning at 7pm, and presented as part of the "Freud, Franklin and Beyond" panel series co-sponsored by the Penn Department of Psychiatry and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, will explore how the treatment of celebrity patients can prompt a variety of concerns for both patient and practitioner.

Along with the ethical and privacy issues involved in studying well-known patients and their clinical care, there are a variety of potential effects of celebrity and notoriety on clinical mental health care. Matters of entitlement, maintenance of boundaries, and countertransference temptations are just a few of the issues that treatment of celebrities may bring to the fore.  The participants on this panel will examine these matters from a variety of disciplines that will include cultural, historical, and psychodynamic perspectives as they discuss the complex social, clinical, and media influences on the perception of celebrity patients. Speakers include:

* Arthur Caplan, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
* Max Cavitch, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
* Frederick Fisher, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
* Sharrona Pearl, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
* Katherine Sender, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
* Moderated by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Senior Curator for Discursive Projects, Slought Foundation

For more information about "The Wolf Man Paints!" please visit: http://slought.org/content/11461/