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SUMMARY:Loss\, Resilience and Survival: The Art of Storytelling with Ed Gavagan
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nLoss\, Resilience and Survival: the Art of Storytelling\nwith Ed Gavagan\nand Discussant Eric Dammann\nTHURSDAY\, MARCH 6\, 2025 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\n\nArt has the power to inspire\, evoke emotions\, and leave a lasting impact on people’s lives. But how do artists create works that make us feel and think deeply?  Our presenter\, Ed Gavagan\, uses storytelling to capture moments in time that create a narrative that speaks to the human experience and our shared humanity. He will share his process of surviving childhood and adult trauma\, and talk about the role that storytelling has played in his recovery.  As psychoanalysts\, we bear witness through listening deeply to extraordinary stories.\n\n \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nEd Gavagan is owner of Praxis\, a design/build firm that has built homes and furniture nationally and internationally including the MOTH headquarters in New York City. In addition to his participation in the documentary film Procession\, he has shared his stories with live audiences\, on the Moth Radio Hour\, on A&E’s Biography Channel\, and in TED talks.  His most recent show\, Loud Memory\, was performed off Broadway at Theatre 154 and will be performed in Ireland in the summer of 2025.  For more information\, visit:  https://themoth.org and processionfilm.com\n\n\nABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT\nEric Dammann\, PhD\, is Co-Director of the Artist Study Group at WAWI.  He has a psychotherapy and executive coaching private practice in Manhattan and serves on the Board of Sounds of Saving\, a non-profit agency that uses music to address mental health and suicide prevention.\n\n\nJoin us for this special presentation!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:Supporting  the Front Line: Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges
DESCRIPTION:A SPECIAL IN-PERSON EVENING AT THE INSTITUTE \nMARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN\, PhD\, Moderator/Presenter\nand\nCLARICE J. KESTENBAUM\, MD \nAVA SIEGLER\, PhD\nNECHAMA SORSCHER\npresent\nSupporting  the Front Line:  Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges\nWednesday Evening\, March 26th\, from 7:30-9:00pm\nThe William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street\, between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues\, on New York City’s Upper West Side.\n1.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain CEs are sent out to registrants via email\, prior to the event\, so be careful to register with your correct email address. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, you may request CE instructions after the event.\nThis presentation has been arranged in conjunction with the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.\n\nABOUT THIS EVENING\nDr. Nechama Sorscher has brought together a panel of experts in child development and psychology and will lead the discussion. Together they will examine the pointed needs of today’s children and adolescents\, given the prevailing social and academic challenges they face. How best to help our kids develop confidence and positive self esteem? Topics of assessment\, school intervention\, and parent guidance and therapy will be discussed.\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $30\nCandidates and Students $15\n  \nABOUT OUR PANEL\n\nCLARICE J. KESTENBAUM\, MD\, is Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatry\, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The former Director of Residency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia\, Dr. Kestenbaum is the recipient of an endowed professorship in education and training. She is past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)\, and of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP). Dr. Kestenbaum is also the co-founder of CARING at Columbia\, an organization that helps at-risk underserved children through the arts and literature. The recipient of numerous awards for her leadership and service\, Dr. Kestenbaum has a broad range of expertise and focuses on child development\, psychopathology and children at risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.\nDr. Kestenbaum continues to teach and supervise medical students\, general psychiatry residents\, and second-year residents in outpatient psychotherapy. She is a consultant to the Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE) at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Dr. Kestenbaum is a graduate of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in both general and child and adolescent psychoanalysis.\n\n\nMARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who writes\, teaches\, lectures\, and consults both nationally and internationally. She is the author of The Adolescent Journey (Jason Aronson\, 1996; reissued by Rowman and Littlefield\, 2004)\, and of numerous articles on clinical and developmental theory\, adolescence\, and various aspects of culture. Dr. Levy-Warren is past president of The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)\, a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)\, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in both the CFS and the IPA. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and a Clinical Consultant in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Levy-Warren has a clinical practice with adolescents and adults\, and a consulting practice with parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.\n\n\nAVA SIEGLER\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, who received her PhD from New York University. She has post-graduate training in adult\, adolescent\, child\, couples\, and family work. In addition to professional papers\, she has written three award-winning books for parents. Dr. Siegler worked as a forensic consultant for the New York State Supreme Court for over fifteen years\, and continues to serve as a Parent Coordinator for high-conflict parents. In 1991\, after serving as Dean of Training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health for over ten years\, she developed and directed the Institute for Child\, Adolescent & Family studies which provided specialty training for over 150 child and adolescent clinicians. Dr. Siegler currently supervises and maintains a private practice in Chelsea\, Manhattan.\n\n  \nNECHAMA SORSCHER\, PhD\, has been in private practice in New York City since 1993. With over 20 years of individual and group counseling experience\, her extensive expertise includes performing comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations and teaching and supervising doctoral candidates. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in 1992\, and further completed her postgraduate psychoanalytic training in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New York University in 2016. Dr. Sorscher continues to engage in ongoing supervision with Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum\, (who is one of our speakers this evening)\, a leading specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. As of late\, Dr. Sorscher is a published author\, with her first full book Assessment and Intervention with Children\, Adolescents\, and Adults with Neurocognitive Challenges: A Psychodynamic Perspective\, out now\, and with a second book coming out in 2025 entitled\, Your Neurodiverse Child: Howto Help Kids with Learning\, Attention\, and Neurocognitive Challenges Thrive.\n 
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