Celia Brickman is a noted expert on the intersection of psychoanalysis, religion, and race.
Celia Brickman is an author, scholar, and educator based in Chicago. In her work, Celia Brickman explores the boundaries of race and religion in the field of psychoanalysis. Celia Brickman received both her Master of Arts and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1989 and 2000, respectively.
In 1994, Celia Brickman joined The Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago. She began as a faculty and clinical staff member, became Co-Director of Education in 2005, and took the position of Director of Education in 2010. Celia Brickman oversees The Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago’s Education Program for postgraduate psychotherapists, which provides a clinical setting to help psychotherapists and counselors gain experience in the field.
In 2004, Celia Brickman was nominated for the Gradiva Award for Historical, Cultural and Literary Analysis by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Celia Brickman’s articles and reviews, featured in books and top journals in the fields of religious studies and psychoanalysis, include “Psychoanalysis and Judaism in Context” in Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought and “The Persistence of the Past: Framing Symbolic Loss and Religious Studies in the Context of Race” in Mourning Religion: Method, Meaning, and Identity in a Post-Modern World. She has also contributed articles to The American Psychoanalyst and The Journal of Religion. Celia Brickman’s 1991 book, Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis, received acclaim for shedding light on a little-explored area of psychoanalysis.
Celia Brickman is Director and Instructor of the Hyde Park Language Program. Additionally, she teaches a course in reading French, an intensive, translation-based, semester-long class for graduate students from the University of Chicago and other Chicago-area educational institutions. For years, Celia Brickman has helped students with little background in French to achieve a “high pass” on the University of Chicago’s graduate French exam. Celia Brickman will soon release a book, A Short Course in Reading French, which serves as the basis for the course, published by Columbia University Press.
Outside of her academic service, Celia Brickman conducts pro bono work for the Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture. The Marjorie Kovler Center helps survivors of torture to heal and build full lives through a variety of support services.
In 1994, Celia Brickman joined The Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago. She began as a faculty and clinical staff member, became Co-Director of Education in 2005, and took the position of Director of Education in 2010. Celia Brickman oversees The Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago’s Education Program for postgraduate psychotherapists, which provides a clinical setting to help psychotherapists and counselors gain experience in the field.
In 2004, Celia Brickman was nominated for the Gradiva Award for Historical, Cultural and Literary Analysis by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Celia Brickman’s articles and reviews, featured in books and top journals in the fields of religious studies and psychoanalysis, include “Psychoanalysis and Judaism in Context” in Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought and “The Persistence of the Past: Framing Symbolic Loss and Religious Studies in the Context of Race” in Mourning Religion: Method, Meaning, and Identity in a Post-Modern World. She has also contributed articles to The American Psychoanalyst and The Journal of Religion. Celia Brickman’s 1991 book, Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis, received acclaim for shedding light on a little-explored area of psychoanalysis.
Celia Brickman is Director and Instructor of the Hyde Park Language Program. Additionally, she teaches a course in reading French, an intensive, translation-based, semester-long class for graduate students from the University of Chicago and other Chicago-area educational institutions. For years, Celia Brickman has helped students with little background in French to achieve a “high pass” on the University of Chicago’s graduate French exam. Celia Brickman will soon release a book, A Short Course in Reading French, which serves as the basis for the course, published by Columbia University Press.
Outside of her academic service, Celia Brickman conducts pro bono work for the Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture. The Marjorie Kovler Center helps survivors of torture to heal and build full lives through a variety of support services.