Psychological Studies of Art and Artists

Upcoming Conference

Upcoming Conference

Creativity and Madness Returns to Santa Fe!

August 1-4, 2024

16 Hours of Continuing Education

The conference will be in person at the convention center and will be available virtually by Zoom.

We hope you will join us! More information will be posted soon!

None of the planners of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers.

Saint Francis Cathedral, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe Opera House

Thursday, August 3, 2023

8:30-9:30 AM Alice in Wonderland and Peter in Neverland - Alternate Realities as Journeys to Healing, Roy Rogosin, MA and Shahna Rogosin, MD

9:30-10:30 AM The Journey Toward Maturity, Barry M Panter, MD, Click here to watch a 60-second presentation preview

10:45 AM- 12:45 PM West Side Story: The Mind and Music of Leonard Bernstein, Richard Kogan, MD

Optional Workshop: 2:00-5:00 PM Healing the Self Through Self Portraits, Amy Stein, MFA, 3 Hours of Continuing Education, (sold out)

Friday, August 4, 2023

8:30-9:30 AM Psychedelics, Opening the Doors to New Methods of Treatment, Igor Moll, WMO & Adrienne Panter, PsyD, Click here to watch a 90-second presentation preview

9:30-10:30 AM Poetic Rhythms of Black Resiliency, Mary Gramling Barbee, Ph.D.

10:45-11:45 AM Abuse Dehumanizes, Creativity Restores: How Accessing Personal Imagery Helps Power Abuse Victims Heal Their Lives, Carrie Ishee, ATR, Click here to watch a 60-second presentation preview

11:45 AM-12:45 PM Niki de Saint Phalle: Trauma and the Path To Creativity, Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D.

Optional Workshop: 2:00-5:00 PM Ethics in Clinical Practice, Joyce Stamp Lilly, RN, JD, 3 Hours of Continuing Education, $65, Click here for a 90-second workshop preview

Saturday, August 5, 2023

8:30-9:30 AM Shifting Consciousness through Ceremony in North American Indigenous Traditions, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD & Barbara Mainguy, MA

9:30-10:30 AM The Transformation of Life Into Art in Opera, Henry Powell, MD

10:45-11:45 AM Home is Where Your Art Is: Love, Resilience and a Sense of Place, Kathline Colvin, Ph.D.

11:45 AM- 12:45 PM The Psychology of Humor: Is Laughter the Best Medicine?, Carol & Stephen Baird, MD, Click here to watch a two-minute presentation preview

Optional Workshop: 2:00-5:00 PM End Of Life Issues For The Survivors And The Deceased, Hanno Kirk, Ph.D., 3 Hours of Continuing Education, $60. Click here to watch a 60-second preview

Sunday, August 6, 2023

8:30-9:30 AM Marcel Marceau: Creativity and Courage in Times of Great Danger, Eleanor Hamilton, Ph.D. Click here to watch a 60-second presentation preview

9:30-10:30 AM Lou Andreas-Salomé: The First Feminist; Muse to Freud, Rilke, Nietzsche; Intellectual, Jon G. Jackson, MD, Click here to watch a two-minute presentation preview

10:45-11:45 AM Enhancing Creativity with Psychedelics, Courtney Olson, Mitchell Liester, MD, Click here to watch a 35-second presentation preview

11:45 AM-12:45 PM An Integrative Approach to Trauma Treatment for Women of Color Through Telehealth, Fanteema Barnes, LCSW, Click here to watch a 60-second presentation preview

The Conference will provide 16 Hours of Continuing Education and will include the following presentations.

Hotel Options

Inn of the Governors, Rooms available at $240/night including parking and breakfast. Please call 505 982-4333 to book

Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, Rooms available at $159/night including parking. Click on the name of the hotel to be directed to their website in order to book.

The Sage Hotel, Rooms available at $208/night. Does not include a mandatory $15/night Xperience Xclusives fee which includes breakfast, shuttle service to the Santa Fe Plaza, and parking. Click on the name of the hotel to be directed to their website in order to book.

The Drury Hotel, Rooms available at $299/night. Includes hot breakfast each day, evening drinks and snacks, and WiFi throughout the hotel. Click on the name of the hotel to be directed to their website and use Group Code 10046097 in order to book.

The Old Santa Fe Inn, Rooms available at $299/night. Click on the name of the hotel to be directed to their website. 888-545-8315

For travel information please call Paul at The Travel Station. 800-990-2282 or email trvlstation@hotmail.com

Scholarship Opportunities

Mary Lou Panter and Ronald Berz Scholarship

“You are changed by the people you love.”

We will provide round-trip transportation from anywhere in the United States, four nights accommodations in Santa Fe, and registration for the conference.

To apply, please submit a 2-4 page (double-spaced) essay about what this quote means to you: “You are changed by the people you love.”

Please email your essay to jdberz@sbcglobal.net before May 1, 2023.

This year we are also offering free registration in exchange for helping with the registration process during the conference. Please send us a short essay about yourself to be considered.

Thank you and good luck!

Enjoy The Following At The Santa Fe Opera

Tuesday, August 1, 2023, 8:00 pm - Tosca - Puccini

Wednesday, August 2, 2023, 8:00 pm - Orfeo - Monteverde

Thursday, August 3, 2023, 8:00 pm - Pelleas et Melisande - Debussy

Friday, August 4, 2023 8:00 pm - Rusalka - Dvorak

Saturday, August 5, 8:00 pm - The Flying Dutchman - Wagner

https://www.santafeopera.org/calendar/

Flower of Life II, 1925, 1918 by Georgia O'Keeffe

Please send us a message if you have any questions regarding the upcoming conference.

Testimonials

Testimonials

  • "Each time I attend Creativity & Madness Conferences, I come away feeling both professionally and humanly renewed. Know how deeply appreciative I am of all your efforts in creating these marvelous gatherings for us."

    -Susan Rosewell-Jackson, Ph.D

  • "This conference has reenergized my focus on abundant optimism in my practice. The conference is a safe gathering where professionals can laugh and cry about the walk of life and health care. The exploration of the struggles that the creative and the courage for resilience of us all is important."

    -Anne Newhouse

  • "The diversity of topics and presentations broaden knowledge and understanding in so many ways that what gets shared in my professional life will likely be as diversely shared as has been this extraordinary conference."

    -Barbara Chapman

  • “About two weeks out, it remains jarring to live in the Rim World while still being drenched by memories of the Canyon.  I have been extolling the virtues of this trip to everyone in my orbit and continue to experience a "flow glow." While Rim life must be attended to, it has been rejuvenating to recall moments of kindness, joy and camaraderie from the trip!”

    -Raj

  • "As always the most important impact of this conference is how it inspires me to delve more deeply, be more curious, and take more risks with my own creative projects!"

    -Claire Von Karls

  • "It was personally enhancing and the sense of intellectual stimulation and broadened horizons will impact my life and practice."

    -Ronald Levin

  • “I know of no other group/institute that shines the light of perception, gratitude and love in the universe the way AIMED does. It certainly changed my life in a way that was profound and centered…..and the truths I first saw in Van Gogh, Munch, Chagall (Barry, Joe Natterson et al) and others there have been steady and a “fall back” position for my PTSD through four wars we probably shouldn’t have been in..So great to share the journey with you guys!"

    Ronald E Smith, MD, Ph.D.

  • “Great conference! This is my 5th, and each one is better than the last (and the previous ones were all wonderful, too)! A unique blend of studies in artists, mental illness, and using creativity to bring about health and healing.”

    -David Bookbinder, Author, "The Art of Balance"

  • “Coming to the Conferences I have been touched by so many in the healing professions or artistic community who are wholeheartedly committed to the well-being of others and to the use of their gifts in the service of that well-being. I know that this has made me a better Counselor, better Spiritual Guide and better person. There is no way that what I pay to come to the Conference can cover what I have received. My offering to you and to the presenters who have given me so much is to aspire to their excellence and to the love they embody.”

    -Gail Meyer

  • “Creativity and Madness opened new ways for us to be create our own Art. The conferences taught us a way to look at the Souls and Psychology of people who must create, sometimes at great personal cost.”

    -Elizabeth & Clem Nagel, Ph.D. and MD

  • “I have attended many Creativity & Madness Conferences over the years. I get from them something that I can’t get anyplace else.”

    David Hill, Ph.D.

  • “Absolutely transformational..a week that went way beyond my expectations.”

    Deborah Wild

Previous Events and Gatherings

  • Charleston, South Carolina

  • Grand Canyon Rafting Trip & Continuing Education

  • Grand Canyon Rafting Trip & Continuing Education

  • Charleston, South Carolina

  • Paris

  • Australia

  • Australia

  • Creativity and Madness 40th Anniversary

  • Creativity and Madness 40th Anniversary

  • Australia

  • Budapest

  • Tokyo

  • Lisbon

  • Singapore

  • India

  • Israel

  • Vancouver

  • Banff, Canada

  • Amsterdam