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The annual Symposium on psychology and the arts is co-sponsored by the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Please check this site again during the summer when we will post details of the 2011 Symposium.

Family Myths/Family Stories
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

Sunday, April 11, 2010
12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Families are endlessly fascinating. Explore their complexity through the lenses of psychology, literature, and art. Psychoanalyst Bennett Simon speaks about mythology and family dynamics and the ways the past informs the present; best-selling author Alice Hoffman reads from The Story Sisters and other recent works and discusses families in her writing; MFA curator Erica Hirshler and educator Barbara Martin consider the ways we read family portraits, taking varied responses to Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit as their starting point.

Symposium Presenters

Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Alice Hoffman, Best-Selling Author

Barbara Martin, Alfond Curator of Education

Bennett Simon, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Pricing:
$40 Symposium General Admission
$35 for MFA members, BIP members, seniors, and students (students and members must have an ID)

Purchase tickets online at tickets.MFA.org or by calling 617-369-3306

To register for Continuing Education Credits, pay an additional $10 at the door.

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Continuing Education Credits:
Participants must attend the entire symposium (signing in and out) to receive credit.

Psychologists: This is co-sponsored by the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Institute maintains responsibility for this program. Participants receive 3.5 CE credits.

Social Workers and Mental Health Counselors: Application for 3.5 CE credits have been made to NASW and MMCEP/MaMHCA
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Parking and Public Transportation:
Paid parking is available in the garage on Museum Road. Pay for your parking at automated kiosks located in the lobby before you leave the museum. The parking fee for MFA members is $4 each half hour; $14 maximum for the day. Parking fee for non-members is $6 each half hour or $24 maximum for the day. To get to the museum by public transportation, take the MBTA Green Line E train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop, or an Orange Line train to the Ruggles stop.
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On View at the MFA: Museum admission is not required to attend the symposium or to visit the restaurants or shops. Admission is required to visit the galleries.

For information about how to enter the museum and to find out about exhibits that are open during MFA renovations, call the MFA at 617-267-9300 or visit www.mfa.org

Accessibility:The Museum is wheelchair accessible. There is universally accessible parking on the street, parking lot, and in the garage. Assistive listening devices are available. Please ask for this device at the box office.


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