January 15, 2025, 7:00 PM

🔹 The meeting with the authors will be led by Anna Sańczuk

🔹 Foyer of the New Theatre

🔹 Free admission

New book: “Gender in the Office. Conversations about Body, Gender, and Relationships” by Prof. Barbara Józefik, Katarzyna Sroczyńska, Publishing House Więź

Gender issues addressed responsibly, thoroughly, and with great sensitivity.

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What is happening between the genders? In response to this question, Professor Barbara Józefik provides an in-depth analysis, problematizing a number of fundamental issues, avoiding generalizations and shunning radicalism. At the same time, she does this personally and – as an experienced psychotherapist – referring to her own practice. The feminist perspective is situated within a historical, sociological, and cultural context. Thanks to the author's impressive erudition, the reader receives a profound description of “gender phenomena,” and an additional value of this extraordinary book is the encounter with philosophical and anthropological thought from Plato and St. Augustine to Judith Butler and Michel Foucault.

Prof. Bogdan de Barbaro

The book “Gender in the Office” should be read by anyone interested in humanity, its functioning and problems, as well as how to help in moments of psychological crisis. In this engaging interview, Professor Barbara Józefik, a respected psychologist and psychotherapist, presents a vision of humanity in a broad perspective of biological, social, and cultural conditions. The reflections on the body contained in the book are fascinating and extremely valuable for our self-development, as they reveal it as the foundation of our “self.” Prof. Barbara Józefik closely examines many issues, such as changing roles and attitudes of women, the currently very important issue of transgenderism, eating disorders, and the reception of therapeutic culture in society, always avoiding simplifications and reductionist approaches.

Prof. Irena Namysłowska

🔹 Barbara Józefik – professor, clinical psychologist specialist, certified psychotherapist and supervisor of psychotherapy of the Polish Psychiatric Association and the Polish Psychological Association, psychotherapist of the European Association for Psychotherapy. Long-time head of the Laboratory of Psychology and Systemic Psychotherapy at the Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents at Jagiellonian University Medical College and the Family Therapy Outpatient Clinic at the University Hospital in Kraków. Founder of the Context Foundation for Psychotherapy and Family Therapy in Kraków. Co-founder of the Scientific Section of Family Therapy of the PTP, member of international societies, including the American Family Therapy Academy and the European Family Therapy Association, organizer of numerous scientific conferences and workshops. Research and clinical interests: psychotherapy and family therapy, issues of eating disorders, gender issues in psychotherapy, cultural and familial contexts of identity construction. Author and co-author of over a hundred publications, including the monographs: 'Culture, Body, (Not) Eating. Therapy. A Narrative-Constructivist Perspective in Eating Disorders' (2014), 'Family Relationships in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa' (2006).

🔹 Katarzyna Sroczyńska – journalist and editor. For over 20 years associated with the editorial offices of newspapers and magazines, including “Wprost,” “Focus,” “Coaching,” and “Przekrój.” Appears as a guest author of psychological and popular science texts on the OKO.Press website and in the pages of “Więzi.” Co-founder and chair of the program council of the Media Forum Foundation. Co-created the Oral History Archive at the Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, conducted training for Polish journalists abroad and Polish language courses for refugees. Collaborates with organizations supporting victims of violence. Co-author, together with Prof. Agata Gąsiorowska, of the book “Money or Life. How Money Affects Our Behavior, Emotions, and Relationships” (2024).

🔹 Anna Sańczuk – journalist, art historian, author of podcasts and programs dedicated to culture. Collaborates with Vogue Polska magazine (culture section and podcasts: “How She Does It” and together with Katarzyna Kasia “Philosophy is for Girls”), “Newsweek” (Culture Zone), the editorial office of “Meetings with Monuments” and “Departure Hall” on TVP Kultura, as well as festivals, including Body/Mind, Big Book Festival.

🔹 Illustration of the series: Jarosław Danilenko