The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive

The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive: Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal Perspective

Monday-Friday, June 17th-21st, 2024

9:30AM-12:30PM daily

We are pleased to announce the return of the Institute’s unique annual program: The Summer Educational Intensive is being offered in person, at the Institute, in June, 2024.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM 

Five master clinicians offer their perspective on Interpersonal-Relational psychoanalysis from their area of expertise; they will illustrate technique and theory as applied to clinical material. This weeklong program offers three intensive hours each morning of clinical presentation, live supervision and group discussion followed by a Q and A with the audience.

All classes are in person at the Institute.  A welcome breakfast and  introduction to the Institute will be part of the first morning’s schedule; coffee and light refreshments are available daily. Afternoons and evenings are free for students to explore New York City or for locals to return to their work settings.

15 CEs are available for this program. For information about CE Credits click here.

The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, several museums, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.

THE SCHEDULE

Monday, June 17th     Pascal Sauvayre, PhD

On Not Knowing and Needing to Know

Dr. Sauvayre will explore the confrontation of the fundamental human drive to know with the unknowable object of psychoanalysis – the unconscious.  Dr. Sauvayre will explore this from the particular perspective of Interpersonal psychoanalysis and the interpersonal field.

Tuesday, June 18th       Jack Drescher, MD

A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity: An Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspective

Dr. Drescher offers detailed case material of a man in his 30s who was still questioning his sexual identity after a prior lengthy analysis.  In a uniquely Interpersonal style, he explores and then shares with the patient his own associations to the analytic material.  Dr. Drescher uses the case to illustrate how the therapeutic task of defining a sexual identity is often a complex, interpretative and interpersonal process.

Wednesday, June 19th      Ira Moses, PhD

The Role of Inquiry: A Workshop on “Detailed Listening”

Dr. Moses examines the role of Inquiry in supplementing the therapeutic tools of empathy and interpretation as a way to assist patients in becoming active participants in instead of passive recipients of their psychodynamic treatment. This is also a workshop on “detailed listening” to find openings in the patient’s narrative that help them engage in introspection, a particular challenge with once weekly patients. The use of Inquiry also maintains the  therapist’s curiosity about the patient.  As Sullivan cautioned,  “(We) should never forget that conclusions about the subjective experience of the patient can only result in an inference, never a fact”.

Thursday, June 20th       Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD

Race in Interpersonal Space

Dr. Stephens explores and applies insights from key Interpersonal thinkers such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Philip Bromberg, alongside the decolonial insights of Frantz Fanon, to expand participants’ thinking about race in the clinical space.

Friday, June 22nd        Jenny Kaufmann, PhD

Understanding the Developmental Force of Narcissism: Formative Trauma and Transference

The strength of the Interpersonal position is in helping narcissistic patients face the defensive and maladaptive aspects of their narcissism. Dr. Kaufmann supplements this Interpersonal emphasis with a background in Self Psychology/Self and Object Freudians that  underscores narcissism as reflecting a developmental force impacted  by formative trauma. She explores Steve Mitchell’s dialectic between narcissism as defense and narcissism as a developmental force. She also uses the work of Sheldon Bach to explore narcissistic transferences and mourn the effects of early relational trauma.

COSTS

Register now and take advantage of discounted early registration pricing, offered through May 14th, 2024:

Professionals – early registration $575. Regular pricing $700 starting May 15th.

Candidates & students – early registration $300. Regular pricing $375 starting May 15th.

Note: Refunds are given for requests made by Monday, June 3rd, two weeks prior to the course’s start date. From June 3rd and on, medical documentation will be required. 

ABOUT THE CLINICIANS

Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI. He studies, teaches, and writes at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. Among his most recent projects are the Routledge books, Culture, Politics, and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, edited with Roger Frie, and The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions in Psychoanalysis, edited with David Braucher. Dr. Sauvayre has a private practice in New York City.

Jack Drescher, MD, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the WAWI, is a recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his international work on gender and sexuality.  He is a member of the faculties of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Drescher is a Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the moderator of the Journal Club of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is author of “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man” (Routledge), and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.

To learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/

To read about his 2022 Sigourney Award: https://www.sigourneyaward.org/newsandevents/2022/11/15/jack-dreschers-work-wins-the-sigourney-award-2022

Ira Moses, PhD, ABPsa, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Former Director of Training and Former Director of Clinical Services at WAWI.  He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center; former Board Member and Faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance; Faculty, Intensive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program for Ukrainian speakers; and former member of the Board of Directors,  American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Moses has published articles on the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure; and the Analyst’s Resistance to Asking Questions. 

Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD, is a graduate of WAWI, as well faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy there. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, where she served as the dean of the humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences from 2017-2020. She is the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) where her signature initiative is “Black Bodies, Black Health”, a multi-pronged approach to incentivize engagement in interdisciplinary work in exploring structural racism in order to create equitable health outcomes. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press, 2005) and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014). She has published numerous articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality,  and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.

To learn more about Dr. Stephens’ work and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, go to: https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/

Jenny Kahn Kaufmann, PhD, is Director of Curriculum, and is a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI where she teaches “Comparative Conceptualizations and Treatment Approaches in Working with Narcissistic Patients”. Dr. Kaufmann is also an Editorial Board member of the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has co-written and presented numerous papers with Peter Kaufmann, including Emerging from the Shadows of Parental Narcissism; We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us; and A Battle Cry for our Moment: Revisiting the Two Analyses of Mr. Z.