PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 2024 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern

Attend in person or online as follows:

In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues

Online via Zoom at:  https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09

Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION

Through the study of the philosophy of embodied cognition and the teachings of somatic therapies, we can open the experience of dissociative self-states in our patients and in ourselves.  As a musician and psychiatrist, Dr. Hopenwasser will describe her awakening to a new way of listening; transforming the passive knowing of information into the mindful awareness she names “dissociative attunement.”  Through clinical material and slides, she will describe the multi-dimensional, non-linear flow of information; both in present time and from generation to generation, highlighting the rhythm of musical encounter.

This meeting will explore the complex world we live in, filled with vibration and resonances we cannot hear but that can emerge through bi-directional rhythmic processes and oscillations in our bodies as resonating chambers.  Join us for a rich presentation and discussion of listening in the space between us.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Karen Hopenwasser, MD, graduated from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and specializes in psychiatry.  She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.  Dr. Hopenwasser has written about trauma and dissociation in the psychotherapeutic process and intergenerational transmission of trauma.  Some of her work is published in The Rhythm of Resilience:  A deep ecology of entangled relationality, J. Salberg and S. Grand (eds),  and The Wounds of History:  Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma,  Routledge.

Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors,  Artist Study Group