An In Person Open House at the Institute
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8th
7:00-8:30 PM
Call Me By Your Name? Grappling with Erotic Transference and Countertransference
A Clinical Presentation with Supervision
with Candidate Ali Ahsan, MD
Supervised by Psychoanalyst Jack Drescher, MD
* Please note the following about attending this event: attendees must upload a photograph or a scan of their proof of an initial series of two vaccinations, or of one J&J vaccination plus a booster.
ABOUT THE EVENING
A Q&A will follow the presentation. The evening will also include a history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Director of Training, Seth Aronson, PsyD, Director of Training. Refreshments will be served.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
Ali Ahsan, MD, is a fourth year Candidate in the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training Program and is a psychiatrist at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Mount Sinai. He completed medical school in Pakistan where he is originally from, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital, graduating with honors. Dr. Ahsan decided to pursue analytic training at the William Alanson White Institute during that residency as he quickly realized that “human suffering and aspiration cannot be dealt with by prescribing medications alone, no matter how hard we try.”
Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.
Dr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He presently serves as a corresponding member on APA’s Council on Communications. Last year Dr. Drescher was recipient of the prestigious Sigourney Award for his ground-breaking work on gender and sexuality.
Dr. Drescher is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBT communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish and German. Dr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender and sexuality and has appeared on major news outlets in the Unites States and abroad.
