Appearances
Dr. Safer lectures frequently to both general and professional audiences on the “Taboo Topics” she writes about in her books: the experience of “normal” siblings of the disabled and dysfunctional, sibling strife in adulthood, alternatives to forgiveness, women who choose not to be mothers, and positive effects of losing a parent. She appears on television and radio, and contributes to many publications.
Upcoming Appearances
Events marked with an asterisk * are private professional presentations. All other events are open to a general public audience.
Past Appearances
* Siblings: The Forgotten Family Members
Keynote address, Annual Conference, New Jersey Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
* Sibling Strife in Later Life
Sibley Memorial Hospital Senior Association and Community Health
Washington, DC
Sibling Strife: When You and Your Sibling Cannot be Friends
92YTribeca
* Siblings: The Family Members Freud Forgot, Address to the Alumni Association
Ackerman Institute for the Family
Sibling Strife: When Adult Brothers and Sisters Cannot be Friends
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan
Siblings of the Facially Different, Invited Paper, National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction
NYU/Bellvue Hospitals
NYC
This Thing of Darkness: Damaged Siblings in the Unconscious, Invited Paper
Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association
Philadelphia, PA
The Emotional Life of Siblings of Chronically Ill Children, Pediatric Grand Rounds
New York University/Bellevue Hospitals
NYC
Healthy Siblings of Seriously Ill Children, Eugene Lehey Memorial Lecture
Primary Children's Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Death Benefits, Address to the Psychology Department faculty and students
Towson University
Towson, Maryland
The Normal One: The Inner life of Siblings of the Mentally and Physically Ill, Chair and Panelist
Division 39, APA
NYC
Good Mourning: Facilitating Death Benefits in Adult Orphans — Grand Rounds
New York Visiting Nurses Hospice
NYC
Good Mourning: Facilitating Death Benefits in Adult Orphans — Grand Rounds
Pain and Palliative Care Department
Metropolitan Hospital, NYC
Dreams Tell the Truth: Unlocking the Secrets of the Night- Noontime Lecture Series
92YTribeca
NYC
Death Benefits — “Taboo Topics” Lecture Series
92YTribeca
NYC
Must We Forgive?
Makor Center
NYC
What Dreams Mean
Makor Center
NYC
When You’re the Normal One
Makor Center
NYC
Must We Forgive? — A High Holiday Meditation
Makor Center
NYC
Must We Forgive? — Center For Religious Inquiry
St. Bartholomew's Church
NYC
Normal Siblings of the Disabled: Advice for Parents
Association for the Help of Retarded Children
NYC
Self-Acceptance, Keynote speaker — Life in Balance Symposium
Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, NY
Myth of the Superwoman: Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist — Life in Balance Symposium
Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, NY