33RD ANNUAL MELITTA AND OTTO SPERLING MEMORIAL LECTURE (PANY)
Rethinking Sublimation:  Case and Questions.
Lecturer:  Gilbert Rose, MD

An older patient's childhood portrait was physically present during therapy over the course of many months. As he became increasingly engaged with it emotionally, he recovered childhood affects and experienced positive character changes. His motoric empathy with the picture is assumed to have been an underlying factor. This leads to extrapolating an affecto-motor theory applicable to making and responding to nonverbal art. It centers on the significance of virtual motion in visual art and music and supplements the verbal emphasis of sublimation theory.

A graduate of Harvard College, Boston University School of Medicine, and the Downstate Psychoanalytic Institute of the State University of New York, Dr. Gilbert J. Rose served for many years on the faculties of Yale University Medical School and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a winner of the Sandor Lorand Essay Award, Psychoanalytic Association of New York, 1961, and The Founders Teaching Prize of The Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, 2002. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Life Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and a Member of the Gardiner Program for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale. He is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Rowayton, CT. In addition to many papers, Dr. Rose is the author of The Power of Form: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetic Form, 1980,[1992], Trauma and Mastery

in Life and Art, 1987,[1996], Necessary Illusion: Art As Witness (1996), and Between Couch and Piano: Neuroscience, Music, Art, Neuroscience, (2004).

"For at least two decades, Gilbert Rose has been the preeminent contributor to the psychoanalytic literature on aesthetics. He provides a convincing explanation of the power of artistic form to reach human psychological depths and correlates the emotional significance of the making and consumption of art with the requirements of human adaptation." John Gedo, M.D.