William Alanson White Institute

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, The And/Or of Gender – a Psychoanalytic Perspective
2024-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
OPENING EVENT
PATRICIA GHEROVICI, PhD
The And/Or of Gender – a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Moderated by TOM HENNES
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20th, 7:30-9:30pm
Presented in person, on location at the Institute
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.
Doors will open for this event at 7:00PM.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, a novel in which the protagonist changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, writer and activist Paul B. Preciado sends a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf in Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). Following the premise that the body is not a fixed entity but entails a process of embodiment, a becoming-body, this lecture takes as point of departure Preciado’s recent docu-fiction to explore how those analysands who exist beyond the so-called traditional gender norms as well as those who consider themselves non-binary or outside heterosexuality are helping us rethink gender. Thinking gender outside of the either/or of traditional binary opposition, one subverts the fixity of identitarian claims while reorienting psychoanalytic practice.
1.5 CE Credits are offered for this presentation. Attendees must sign the attendance sheet at the event in order to qualify for CE credit.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities.​ She is a trustee at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.
Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism, and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference. She co-authored with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize.) She edited with Manya Steinkoler Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t, as well as Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and most recently, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award for Best Edited Collection).

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Tom Hennes is one of the most sought after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice; Freedom Park in South Africa, a national memorial and museum in Pretoria. Hennes is in the midst of a 3-year consultation on human experience design in the planning of four new jails in the New York boroughs.
At Thinc, Tom Hennes has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. He has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet, France, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
THIS EVENT’S LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND REFERENCES:
Learning Objectives
1) Explore the process of learning and unlearn about gender as it emerges in the clinical practice.

2) Explain the difference between sex, gender, and sexual difference.
References:
Gherovici, Patricia (2023), “The Monsters within and the Monsters Without: Gender Dissidents and the Future of Psychoanalysis”, Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Gherovici, Patricia (2022), “Beyond Fear and Pity”, Psychoanalytic Review.
Gherovici, Patricia (2021), “Does the Father Need to be a Man? Trans* Embodiments and Parenthood” in Weissberg, Liliane Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family, Palgrave, Macmillan.
Gherovici, Patricia, and Steinkoler, Manya (2023), “Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*”, Routledge.

Can the Body Psychotherapies Integrate with Psychoanalysis?
2024-09-14 00:00 - 14:00
THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES
Scott Baum, PhD, ABPP; Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa; Lynne Jacobs, PhD; David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
CAN THE BODY PSYCHOTHERAPIES INTEGRATE WITH PSYCHOANALYSIS?
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th
12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern Time

This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups), you should request CE instructions after the event.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Until recently, there was little that the body psychotherapies and psychoanalysis had in common. In today’s changing world, efforts have been made to combine the best of both these disciplines. The members of this conversation panel offer different and exciting approaches to this subject.

ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

THE SPEAKERS
Scott Baum, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and bioenergetic therapist practicing in New York City. Currently he is on the faculties of the New York, Israel, and Swiss bioenergetic societies, and is an Adjunct Full Professor of Psychology in the PsyD program at Pace University. Dr. Baum has been involved in Reichian and related psychotherapeutic approaches since the 1960’s and has written extensively from a somatopsychic perspective about psychotherapy and related subjects.

Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa, is a board certified psychoanalyst with a full time private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is an IPA training and supervising psychoanalyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Selected publications include Painting Poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinking in A. Frosch (Ed.), Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain (2012), Psychic skin and narcissistic rage: Reflections on Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In. in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2012), From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis, D. Blue & C. Harrang (Eds.) (2016), River to rapids: Speaking to the body in terms the body can understand, in C. Harrang, D. Tillotson, & N. Winters (Eds.), Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021), and Possibility Clouds Arising from a Close Reading of Civitarese and Berrini’s On Using Bion’s Concepts of Point, Line, and Linking in the Analysis of a 6- Year-Old Child (2022).

Lynne Jacobs, PhD, has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She is also interested in what it means to practice as a white therapist in culturally diverse environments. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of PGI and faculty analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published two books (with Rich Hycner) as well as numerous articles in both gestalt and psychoanalytic journals.

David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP, is a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis and in Clinical Psychology. He is a Fellow at the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow at the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. He is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). His current faculty positions are Faculty and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP); co-founder, Chair, and faculty in the MIP Postgraduate Fellowship Program-West; and he is an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is former Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, and is former Adjunct Associate Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work. He has written about the interweaving of Somatic Experiencing into psychoanalytic treatment, and has presented extensively on this subject regionally, nationally and internationally. He is in private practice in Amherst, MA, where he provides individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and consultation for colleagues.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT

Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

Dreaming and Imagining: Space as Participant in Humanizing the Other
2024-09-05 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th from 1:30-3:00PM
TOM HENNES, INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED EXHIBITION DESIGNER
Dreaming and Imagining: Space as Participant in Humanizing the Other

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus AvenuesOnline via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER

Internationally renowned exhibition designer Tom Hennes will present an exploration of how space shapes human experience and human relating. Showing slides of his projects, he will share his singular approach of design from a relational perspective — both as a process of shaping, and as the tangible result long after the space is shaped. Our group can consider the influences of what is probable and possible in any space: in our homes, our consulting rooms, our museums, etc. The question we are left with: Is it possible for some people to transcend their environment?
Please join us to examine and share your experience of the space around you.
Tom Hennes is one of the most sought after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice; Freedom Park in South Africa, a national memorial and museum in Pretoria. Hennes is in the midst of a 3-year consultation on human experience design in the planning of four new jails in the New York boroughs.
At Thinc, Tom Hennes has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. He has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet, France, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
To read more about Thinc Design visit: https://www.thincdesign.com/
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

Sue Kolod and Tom Hennes on Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups
2024-06-29 10:00 - 11:30
Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups
with Sue Kolod, PhD and Tom Hennes
Moderated by Mary McRae, EdD
Hosted by Maria Nardone, PhD
Presented by The Technology and Global Learning Committee
SATURDAY, JUNE 29th, 2024
10:00-11:30AM/Eastern time
1.5 CE Credits are available for attending this event.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Toxic polarization is defined as a state of intense, chronic polarization marked by high levels of loyalty to a person’s in-group and contempt or even hate for out-groups. Toxic polarization limits our ability to humanize and engage with political opponents.
Toxic polarization is occurring all over the world, both within psychoanalysis and in the world at large. Fueled by social media, the pandemic and authoritarian governments, it has become a defining characteristic of our “zeitgeist.”
It has frequently been noted that psychoanalysis has much to offer to alleviate toxic polarization: We are trained to be good listeners, to be able to hold different and sometimes opposing thoughts in our minds at the same time, to listen to ourselves as we listen to others, to pay attention to our reactions, both conscious and unconscious and to forego judgement.
But this has not proven to be the case. Psychoanalysts, in group settings, are just as prone, if not more so, to splitting and projection as those in the general public. What is missing?
The presenters will outline their experiences working in small groups and describe the encounters and techniques that have worked as well as those that have not been successful in alleviating toxic polarization.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sue Kolod, PhD, is President-elect of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). She is a Supervising and Training Analyst and member of the Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and co-leads a study group on polarization called the Depolarization Project. Dr. Kolod is a Director-at-Large and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In January 2024 Dr. Kolod was a presenter on a 2 part webinar on toxic polarization hosted by the International Psychoanalytic Association entitled, Behind the Scenes of Toxic Polarization: Consequences of a Divided World, Parts 1 & 2.
Dr. Kolod’s webinar presentations can be viewed through these two links:
Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxt7bPc_5_c&t=155s
Part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2UA2w8HA4&t=78s

Tom Hennes is one of the most sought-after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, Mr. Hennes has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice. At Thinc he has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. Mr. Hennes has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions, including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet, France, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
Read about Thinc Design: https://www.thincdesign.com/

ABOUT THE MODERATOR & THE HOST
Mary B. McRae, Ed.D, today’s Moderator, is a counseling psychologist in private practice who does individual and group psychotherapy. She also does coaching and group facilitation to enhance more effective and productive functioning. She is a retired professor of Applied Psychology, New York University, where she taught for 27 years. Dr. McRae is the President of the William Alanson White Institute; a fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and a member of the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems.
Maria Nardone, PhD, the Host of this event and series, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Nardone is Co-Chair of American Psychoanalytic Association’s Social Issues Department and a North American Representative to the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Board of Directors. She is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. She is in private practice in New York City.

Learning Objectives of this presentation:

1. Participants will be able to define toxic polarization
2. Participants will begin to notice polarizing thoughts and feelings in themselves
3. Participants will be able to describe techniques that help alleviate polarization in small groups

The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive
2024-06-17 09:30
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
Case Presenter: David Jiang, MD
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
Case Presenter: Sarah Best, LCSW-R
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”
Case Presenter: Bevin Campbell, PsyD
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
Case Presenter: Stav Livne
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 21st Jenny Kaufmann, PhD
Understanding the Developmental Force of Narcissism: Formative Trauma and Transference
Case Presenter: Morteza Modares Gharavi, PhD
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.

Summer Educational Intensive:
Learning Objective

Monday June 17: Pascal Sauvayre, PhD
To explore the confrontation of the fundamental human drive to know with the unknowable object of psychoanalysis – the unconscious.

Tuesday June 18th: Jack Drescher, MD
To use case material 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

To examine 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.

Thursday June 20th Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD

To explore and apply 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 21st: Jenny Kaufmann, PhD

To explain Steve Mitchell’s dialectic between narcissism as defense and narcissism as a developmental force and use the work of Sheldon Bach to explore narcissistic transferences and mourn the effects of early relational trauma.

COSTS
Professionals – Regular pricing $700 starting May 21st.
Candidates & students – Regular pricing $375 starting May 21st.
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 and their PRESENTERS
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.
David Jiang, MD, is a trilingual academic community psychiatrist at the Harlem Health Center of Mount Sinai and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. In addition to working clinically with adults from a great diversity of backgrounds, he is an enthusiastic lecturer and supervisor of psychiatry residents, a presenter at national conferences, and has published several papers in the psychiatric peer-reviewed literature. His teaching centers on trauma-informed care, the neurobiology of trauma, and facilitating deep change in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is in his sixth year of training as a candidate in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute.

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
Sarah Best, LCSW-R, PC, is a psychotherapist specializing in reproductive mental health, mixed-race mother/daughter dyads, and the impact of childhood trauma on adult patients. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, Sarah provides supervision in multiple group practices. She teaches master’s level social work and mental health counseling students at NYU, where she earned her MSW as a merit scholar. She has completed intensive post-graduate training at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Sarah began studying at WAWI in 2018, completing both the online and in-person IPPP courses before completing the Adult Program in Psychoanalysis in May of 2024.

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.
Bevin Campbell, PsyD, is a New York and New Jersey licensed psychologist treating couples and individuals in her Brooklyn based psychotherapy practice. Dr. Campbell has a postgraduate certificate in Couple Therapy from Adelphi University and is an advanced candidate at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. She teaches in the graduate programs of NYU and Pace University and provides clinical supervision for graduate students at Pace. Dr. Campbell is a consultant with The Academy for Community Behavioral Health, a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health and the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where she designs and facilitates coursework on responding to grief and loss.

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/
Stav Livne, currently lives in Brooklyn, but she grew up in Israel and graduated from the Hebrew University with a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical and School Psychology. Stav continued her training at the William Alanson White Institute and graduated from the Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis in 2023. Her interests are in intergenerational patterns of trauma and dissociation.

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.
Morteza Modares Gharavi, PhD, was born and raised in Iran where he earned his degree in Clinical Psychology in 2007 from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. After working as an associate professor, he began training at the William Alanson White Institute online, in 2019, and then relocated to New York in 2021 while continuing his studies. Currently he is a fourth year Candidate in the Certificate Program for Psychoanalysis there, and he also serves as a psychologist at the Pratt Institute. Dr. Gharavi’s interests focus on culture, history, and collective social traumas. He has been an active member of the Freudian Group of Tehran since 2010.

LGBTQ Study Group - KATE BORNSTEIN
2024-06-12 20:30 - 22:00
Beyond Binaries: Navigating the Quantum Self

Wednesday, June, 12 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

On Zoom only. RSVP below
https://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/
Please note that the LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.

Description: Dive deep into the complexities of gender with Kate Bornstein’s revolutionary talk. Explore gender not just as a binary but also as a multi-dimensional experience, where biology meets the mind, spirit, and the very fabric of space-time. This presentation will challenge your perceptions, expand your understanding, and invite you to view gender identity through a radically inclusive lens.
For over thirty years, Kate Bornstein has been writing about non-binary gender in theory, fiction, and memoir. Kate’s books include three classic texts of postmodern gender theory, Gender Outlaw, My New Gender Workbook, and A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Her collected papers are archived and available for research at Brown University, alongside the archived papers of Kate’s partner in life and art, Barbara Carrellas

Please note:
– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2023-2024”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs
Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In Person Open House
2024-06-10 19:30 - 21:00
An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation and supervision
How Mentalization Helps an Adolescent Learn About Love, Anger and Growth
by Mayan Abecasis, LMSW
with Supervision by Jacqueline Ferraro, DMH
Monday, June 10, 2024
7:30-9:00PM
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023
The evening’s case presentation is about an an 18-year-old patient who presented with issues of anger, engaging in a series of risky behaviors during the last year of high school and first year of college.
Through mentalization of her relationships with her family, partner, as well as her therapist, the patient explored her relationships. In re-enactments in therapy and using her countertransference, the therapist supported the patient in learning to love herself and others, and to look at her behavior patterns. Both patient and clinician grew from the relationship-evolving treatment.
Faculty, graduates and current students will answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.
Mayan Abecasis, LMSW, is a second-year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. She graduated with a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and attended an Internship at Creedmore Psychiatric Center where she worked with young adult psychiatric patients. Since then, she has worked at a school-based psychotherapy program in Western Queens providing therapy to students and families. At the William Alanson White Institute, her first training in interpersonal/relational psychotherapy, she is feeling inspired and supported.
Jacqueline T. Ferraro, DMH, is Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (CAPTP). She is faculty, supervisor and Executive Committee member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) and also of the Eating Disorders and Addictions Program (EDCAS) at the Institute. Dr. Ferraro has years of experience working with adults, adolescents, children and families. She maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Treating Chronic Somatic Pain: Integrating Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
2024-06-07 10:00 - 12:00
with Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP
A 6-session online mini-course on Friday mornings, starting June 7th.
12 CEs are available upon completion of this course.
This series presentation has been arranged by the Institute’s Conference Advisory Board through the special efforts of Dr. Jean Petrucelli.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Somatic pain, a private subjective experience, lends itself readily to the psychoanalytic clinicians’ intervention. In this experiential and didactic course, therapists will learn how to intervene effectively with people in chronic pain, once a medical evaluation has ruled out structural and/or organic disease as the source.
Through discussions of contemporary research on the neuroscience of pain, analysts will learn how to utilize knowledge about neural plasticity in their clinical work. Clinical case material, both published and from ongoing treatments, will be used to illustrate how integration of Interpersonal/Relational principles with the neuroscience of pain encoding will expand the clinicians’ technical repertoire.

SERIES SCHEDULE
Classes will be held online, on Fridays, from 10:00AM-12Noon/Eastern time, on the following dates:
June 7, 14, 21, 28 and July 12 & 19

Notes about the Series:
Preparation for Class 1 will begin with an assignment on May 17th, emailed to students. Throughout the series, Dr. Anderson will provide all readings and links to materials for each class on the Friday before the next Friday class.
REQUIRED FOR THE COURSE:
Breaking Out of Pain: Living the Legacy of John E. Sarno, MD Leonard-Segal, A., Sherman, E., Feinblatt, A, and Anderson, F. S. (2023) Atmosphere Press.
Neuroplastic Transformation Workbook, Moskowitz, M. H., & Golden, M. D. (2013). Available as an eBook on the website of Marla Golden: https://www.integrativepain.com

THE CLASSES:
Class 1 FRIDAY, JUNE 7: Defining Somatic Pain as an Interpersonal/Relational Construction
Preparation for Class 1 begins with an assignment on May 17, 2024
Class 2 FRIDAY, JUNE 14: The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Development of Chronic Pain: Early Psychodynamic Contributions
Class 3 FRIDAY, JUNE 21: The Contribution of John E. Sarno, MD
Class 4 FRIDAY, JUNE 28: Further Elaborations of Sarno’s Contribution
Class 5 FRIDAY, JULY 12: The Neuroscience of Pain: Neuroplasticity
Class 6 FRIDAY, JULY 19: The Contributions of Physicians Influenced by John E. Sarno, MD

COSTS
PROFESSIONALS: Early Registration extended through May 17th, $675
Starting May 18th, Professionals $775
CANDIDATES & STUDENTS: Early Registration extended through May 17th, $400
Starting May 18th, Candidates & Students $500
Note: Refunds for the full amount of the series cost will be made for requests made by or before May 31st, one week in advance of the series start date.

ABOUT FRANCES SOMMER ANDERSON, PhD, SEP

Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP, a psychologist and psychoanalyst with advanced training in treating trauma, has specialized in treating chronic somatic pain since 1979. She is recognized internationally for her contributions to the psychoanalytic literature on treating chronic pain, expanding what she learned from John E. Sarno, MD and Arlene Feinblatt, PhD while working at Rusk Rehabilitation-NYU Langone Health.
With the late Lewis Aron, she co-edited Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998), the ground-breaking volume credited with bringing the body into relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. In 2008, she edited Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension, and in 2013, co-authored with Dr. Eric Sherman, Pathways to Pain Relief, also available in Spanish. She and Dr. Sherman teach courses on treating chronic pain for psychoanalysts. Breaking Out of Pain: Living the Legacy of John E. Sarno, MD, published in December 2023, was co-authored with Andrea Leonard-Segal, MD, Eric Sherman, PsyD, and Arlene Feinblatt, PhD.
Dr. Anderson was the invited lecturer in 2015 at London’s 22nd John Bowlby Memorial Conference, which honored the contributions of Dr. Sarno. Her paper, It Was Not Safe to Feel Angry: Disrupted Early Attachment and the Development of Chronic Pain in Later Life, was published in 2017. In 2016, she was the only clinician invited to present clinical case material at the American Psychosomatic Society’s research conference, Neuroscience of Pain: Early Life Adversity, Mechanisms and Treatment. In collaboration with cognitive neuroscientists Richard D. Lane, MD and Ryan Smith, PhD, she published a theoretical model to explain how physical pain can override emotional pain (2018).
To read more about Dr. Anderson, visit: drfransommeranderson.com
Also: pathwaystopainrelief.com and breakingoutofpain.com

Revolutionary Libido: Andreas Embiricos, Surrealist Poet and Psychoanalyst
2024-06-06 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, June 6th FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Revolutionary Libido: Andreas Embiricos, Surrealist Poet and Psychoanalyst
with Alexander Baron-Raiffe, PhD, LP
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=[REDACTED]

Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER
“I once more take the opportunity to express here my admiration and gratitude for André Breton and the other surrealists who, after Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalysts, have shed, in our age, the most illuminating light on the thick darkness that surrounds us. And so a new world opened up before me, like a sudden bursting into bloom of inexhaustible miracles, a world around me and in me that was unending and immeasurable, a truly magic world to which surrealism has given us once and for all the right keys.” (A. Embiricos, “Letter to Vivika” in Amour Amour, København & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003, p. 20 )
Our presenter, Dr. Alexander Baron-Raiffe, will describe the major challenges and satisfactions of translating the work of Andreas Embiricos (1901-1975), a unique figure in the history of both Psychoanalysis and Surrealism in Greece. Embiricos’ work as a psychoanalyst was inseparable from his artistic practice. Embiricos was personally close to André Breton, the founder of the Surrealist group, whose belief he shared: that Surrealism had the potential to effect revolutionary change on both the individual and the societal levels by bringing unconscious material to the surface through contact with the surrealist work of art. Embiricos brought the Surrealist faith to his clinical work through his vision of psychoanalysis as a revolutionary practice. He believed that Freudian psychoanalysts could serve the role of “revolutionary trainer” by liberating repressed libido on the level of the individual patient; at scale, this could affect transformational change at the societal level.
Join us for Dr. Baron-Raiffe’s reading of Embiricos’ poetry and his writings on psychoanalysis, and a discussion of their clinical resonance in our current socio-political climate.

Alexander Baron-Raiffe, PhD, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is an advanced candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society. He holds a doctorate in French Literature from Princeton University where he was also a fellow of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. He has held teaching positions at Princeton University, Fordham University, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New School.
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

Julianne Appel-Opper, Zeynep Catay, Ruella Frank, and Helena Vissing
2024-06-01 12:00 - 14:00
Julianne Appel-Opper, Zeynep Catay, PhD, Ruella Frank, PhD, and Helena Vissing, PsyD
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD, and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
HOW DOES EARLY DEVELOPMENT AFFECT THE EMBODIMENT OF THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER?

SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST
12 Noon – 2:00 PM/Eastern Daylight Time

A multi-view discussion followed by audience interaction. Presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. For CE Credit information, click here

ABOUT THIS EVENT
There can be little doubt that babies communicate with their caregivers through body–to–body interactions. However, there are many ways to understand how these early interactions affect the embodiment of the therapeutic exchange. Our speakers offer a variety of perspectives on the crucial importance of understanding the link between embodiment in early life and the treatment situation.
This event brings together clinicians who hold a variety of views on the subject. The four speakers will answer questions posed by our two Moderators, who are also Co-Directors of the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. After engaging in dialogue together, members of our online audience will be invited to join the discussion.

ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

COSTS
Professionals $45
Candidates and Students $25

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Julianne Appel-Opper is a psychologist, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer with 35 years of clinical experience. She offers online therapy and supervision internationally from her private practice in Berlin. Her approach of ‘Relational Living Body Psychotherapy’ focuses on inter-bodily communication and ways of developing embodied interventions. She has developed and offered international training programs since 2005 and has presented her work in articles, book chapters, interviews, invited seminars/webinars and lectures. Her publications include: English smiles, Italian shoulders and a German therapist (International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 2019), Relational Living Body Psychotherapy: From physical resonances to embodied interventions or experiments (USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, 2010), and Two living bodies online, which will be published in 2024. Julianne is an Editorial Board Member of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, a founding member of IG-FEST, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy. Her website is: www.thelivingbody.net

Zeynep Catay, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in New York City working with adults and children. She is also a Dance/Movement Therapist and practitioner of somatic experiencing method. She was a faculty member at the Psychology Department of Istanbul Bilgi University between the years of 2005 and 2019. Dr. Catay is currently a part-time instructor and clinical supervisor at the Clinical Psychology PhD program of the New School for Social Research. She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Attachment Research at the New School and is currently directing a study in collaboration with the Child Psychotherapy Process Research Lab at Istanbul Bilgi University on the therapist’s ability to coordinate nonverbal communication in child psychotherapy. Her current research and writing interests focus on nonverbal bodily dynamics and embodiment in psychotherapy and somatic countertransference. She is also a candidate at the NYU post-doctoral program for psychoanalysis.

Ruella Frank, PhD, is Founder and Director of the Center for Somatic Studies, faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and guest faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy. Ruella teaches throughout the United States, Europe, Eurasia, Mexico, South America and Canada. She is author of Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, (2001, GestaltPress, available in 4 languages), co-author of The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change (2010, Routledge Press, available in 3 languages), and author of The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy (2022, Routledge Press, available in 7 languages). Her video Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, is available in three languages. www.somaticstudies.com

Helena Vissing, PsyD, is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in California. She practices psychodynamic and trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is experienced as Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions including Reiss-Davis Graduate School, Antioch University, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. Her book on her somatic and psychodynamic model for the treatment of trauma in the Perinatal Period is titled, Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health (Routledge). Dr. Vissing has trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Saturday Center for Psychotherapy. She also hosts the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.
Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In person Open House
2024-05-15 19:30 - 21:00
An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation,
Secret, Love and Protection – stories from a 9-year-old girl
by Dan Liu, LCSW
Wednesday evening, May 15th from 7:30 – 9:00PM
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023

This presentation follows the therapy of Ava, a 9-year-old girl whose parents are going through a separation. Throughout the two years of treatment, Ava created numerous stories around the theme of secrets, with little figures. She and the therapist embarked on a journey to understand the possible hidden meanings behind the secrets.
Faculty, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dan Liu, LCSW, is currently in the second year of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. She is a graduate of the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training program and she is also faculty in its Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program.

LGBTQ Study Group - David Goldenberg, M.D.
2024-05-08 20:30 - 22:00
“Homophobia: A Symptom”

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Description: The authors’ thesis is that the pervasive prejudices that are homophobia and/or misogyny should alert us to significant underlying pathology in development, specifically in the resolution of ordinary or expectable developmentally normative narcissistic and relational wounds and conflicts. All gender development involves trauma. Structured forms of hatred—homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and the like–signify defenses against unresolved conflicts arising from trauma. We focus on two aspects of homophobia: (1) fear of one’s drive-based aggression projected into and seen as threats from a homosexual person, and (2) symptoms of unresolved developmental conflicts that encompass competitive strivings; a maladaptive defense against feelings associated with helplessness resulting from unmet developmental needs. These needs involve the ‘seeing and being seen’ dynamic, mirroring and parental reflection, necessary for the development of a coherent and flexibly stable sense of self and identity regarding gender, sexual attraction, aggression, and competition.
David Goldenberg: is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. He is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where he is on faculty. He is also on faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College where he teaches in the Brain and Behavior course and, also at Payne Whitney, where he supervises Psychiatry residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. At NYPSI he has taught various courses and served as Director in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and has held multiple administrative and educational positions, including co-teaching Freud’s Case Studies in the analytic training program. As an ongoing Adolescent Psychoanalysis Candidate, David co-teaches the Theoretical and Technical Aspects of Child Analysis in the tri-Institutional child and adolescent analytic training program; and is co-chair of the Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities. He is a member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he teaches a segment on mid-20th century ego psychology. He has written several book reviews for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; participated on panels on Psychoanalysis and the Digital Age; presented papers on digitally-mediated dating and intimacy. His latest publication is about homophobia and misogyny with a revision of psychodynamic theories of gender development.
For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs,

Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

CAROL GILLIGAN, PhD, NAOMI SNIDER, LLM, LP, and YAEL HALLAK with Discussant MICHELLE STEPHENS, PhD
2024-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS, the 2023-2024 Colloquium Series
The Colloquium Series 2023-2024 presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
Dissociation, Double Consciousness, and Doublethink: Where Freud Meets W.E.B. DuBois and George Orwell
CAROL GILLIGAN, PhD
NAOMI SNIDER, LLM, LP
YAEL HALLAK
DISCUSSANT: MICHELLE STEPHENS, PhD

ABOUT TODAY’S TALK
“…the splitting of consciousness which is so striking in the well-known classical cases under the form of “double conscience” is present to a rudimentary degree in every hysteria, and that a tendency to such a dissociation, and with it the emergence of abnormal states of consciousness (which we shall bring together under the term “hypnoid”) is the basic phenomenon of this neurosis” (Freud)
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” (DuBois)
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” (Orwell)
Three key thinkers of the 20th century — the respective fathers’ of psychoanalysis; pan-Africanism and modern dystopian fiction — writing across a five decade time span, happen upon the same discovery: the splitting of the conscious mind so that one can simultaneously know and not know. For one it is a psychic defense, the other a symptom of anti-black racism and the third an instrument of the state that is used to maintain confusion. The same phenomenon looked at from three different angles, when taken as a whole allows a new picture to emerge: the traumatic splitting of the mind as central to the maintenance of oppressive political systems. Bringing together the writing of Freud, DuBois and Orwell, Gilligan and Snider will sketch out an understanding of the psychological and social forces that inhibit and foster political resistance. With this understanding in mind, the psychoanalytic project of expanding and integrating awareness becomes not just a matter of clinical process, but political progress.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Attendees will be able to articulate the parallels between psychoanalytic theories of dissociation and Orwell’s concept of “Double think” and W.E.B. DuBois theory of “Double consciousness”
2. Attendees will integrate these concepts into a psycho-social theory of dissociation.

ABOUT CAROL GILLIGAN, PhD
Carol Gilligan is the author of In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution” and Why Does Patriarchy Persist? with Naomi Snider. As a member of the Harvard faculty, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development and held the university’s first chair in Gender Studies. As a University Professor at NYU, she started the Radical Listening Project. Her books include The Birth of Pleasure, Meeting at the Crossroads (with Lyn Mikel Brown), Kyra: a novel, Joining the Resistance, Darkness Now Visible (with David Richards), and most recently, In a Human Voice. In 1996 she was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Americans.
ABOUT NAOMI SNIDER, LLM, LP
Naomi Snider is a practicing psychoanalyst and graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology, where she currently serves as President of the Psychoanalytic Society. Her published works include the 2018 book, Why Does Patriarchy Persist?, co-authored with Carol Gilligan, and the co-edited volume (with Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen), Patriarchy and its Discontent: Psychoanalytic Perspective (2022). She is currently part of a research team from NYU’s Radical Listening Project that in collaboration with three girls’ schools, is taking up one of the most urgent challenges of girls’ education: how to help girls develop the skills they need to resist pressures to self-silence in the name of inclusion and success.
ABOUT YAEL HALLAK
Yael Hallak, a social psychologist, holds a postgraduate Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy certification from NYU and is currently pursuing her studies in the Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness graduate program. Yael is a published author and contributor to Ha’aretz. Currently, she is engaged in research examining the experiences of IDF spotters concerning the October 7 war, particularly highlighting the voices of young women who endured profound personal costs for silencing themselves, including the ultimate sacrifice—the loss of their lives.
ABOUT MICHELLE STEPHENS, PhD, LP
Michelle Stephens is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology and a practicing psychoanalyst. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, and the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ). Originally from Jamaica, West Indies, she graduated from Yale University with a PhD in American studies. 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). Recently she has published articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in such journals as JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.

A Woman I Once Knew with Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer
2024-05-02 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, MAY 2nd FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
A Woman I Once Knew with Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer
with Claire Basescu, Ph.D., Interlocutor

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=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER
Rosalind Fox Solomon, internationally acclaimed photographer and world traveler will present a slide overview of her remarkable 56 year career and then focus on the self-portraits and text from her new book, A Woman I Once Knew. Solomon explores the periodic depressions and euphoric experiences in other cultures that defined her extraordinary life and shaped her empathic approach to photography. Her presentation will demonstrate the rigorousness and sensitivity of self-examination which suggests the boundless possibilities of taking the self as subject.
While living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Rosalind Fox Solomon began a new life as a photographer at age 38. Studying with Lisette Model in the early 1970’s, she honed the photographic voice which would mark the prodigious half-century of work to follow.
Solomon’s photographs have been included in selected artist lectures, press and print, sound and motion and several exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art. She was awarded the International Center of Photography Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
Visit her website at: www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com

ABOUT OUR INTERLOCUTER
Claire Basescu, PhD, is a graduate, faculty member, and supervisor of psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute. She is currently teaching “Credo: My Psychoanalysis”, a writing workshop for its main Psychoanalytic program Candidates.
Join us for a memorable presentation and discussion of one artist’s lifetime of looking outward and inward!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors of The Artist Study Group

Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects
2024-04-05 12:00 - 13:30
with MARGARET CRASTNOPOL, PhD
A 4-part online mini-course for clinicians at all levels, to explore and recognize micro-traumatic functioning, while learning how to work with patients in resolving these patterns.
Held online on Fridays beginning April 5th.
6 CE credits are available upon completion

ABOUT THE COURSE
Certain subtle types of psychic injury, called “micro-trauma,” can mount up over time, eroding a person’s sense of well-being while distorting character development and interpersonal functioning. Dr. Crastnopol draws upon the theoretical framework offered in her book,  Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury (Routledge, 2015), and shares her most recent thinking along these lines. In this four-session online course, she focuses on and helps clinicians identify specific patterns of micro-traumatic functioning and their impacts as they play out in everyday life and in the analytic engagement itself.
Some examples of these patterns are “connoisseurship gone awry,” “uneasy intimacy,” “unkind cutting back,” and “psychic airbrushing.”  Participants will explore their own clinical experiences with micro- trauma and gain an understanding of how to identify and work to resolve such problematic patterns for those in their practice.

ABOUT MARGARET CRASTNOPOL, PhD
Margaret Crastnopol, PhD, is an Analyst of Candidates (“Training Analyst”), Consulting Analyst, and Faculty Member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Crastnopol is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and she also serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Having recently finished her tenure, she is a long-term former member of the executive committee and the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, (Routledge, 2015), and of numerous other published works. Dr. Crastnopol is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle, New York, Idaho, and elsewhere, working remotely and in person. She offers individual and group supervision or consultation for those in the United States and various locations abroad.

CLASS SCHEDULE
Held online on Fridays, from 12Noon-1:30PM/Eastern, on the following dates: April 5th, 12th, 26th & May 3rd.

COURSE COSTS:
Professionals: Early Registration $475, available now through March 15th. Starting March 16th, $550.
Candidates & students: $300
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the completion of this course, students will be able to:
I. Enumerate and describe certain specific mechanisms of toxic functioning, including “unkind cutting back,” “connoisseurship gone awry,” “little murders,” etc.
II. Identify signs within the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic relationship that such patterns are being replayed.
III. Articulate and implement various effective strategies for repairing micro-traumatic damage to the patient’s sense of well-being and self-worth.

Halloween Underground: New York Subway Portraits with Seymour Licht, MD
2024-04-04 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 4th FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Halloween Underground: New York Subway Portraits with Seymour Licht, MD

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=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER
Seymour Licht’s book, Halloween Underground transports the viewer into the realm of the uncanny and phantasmagoric. In his talk, Licht will present his 20-year odyssey of documenting costumed shapeshifters in the New York subway and highlight the themes of identity, liminality, communal ritual, and the boundary between life and death. Halloween Underground is his tribute to the creative, resourceful New Yorkers who on October 31st transform themselves and the mass transit system into an otherworldly spectacle.
A psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan and an award-winning photographer, Seymour Licht’s work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and the New York Post, among many other media outlets. He trained at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and studied photography at the International Center of Photography.

Please join us for this subterranean journey and discussion!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors of The Artist Study Group

LGBTQ Study Group - JOY LADIN, PHD
2024-04-03 20:30 - 22:00
Gender Identity is Just the Beginning:
Exploring the Creative Potential of Trans Perspectives and Experiences

Wednesday, April, 3 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Description: Trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people tend to spend a lot of time in and out of therapy figuring out our gender identities, how to live them, and how to defend ourselves against external and internalized challenges to living as who we are. This essential work can be so consuming that we and therapists who accompany us on our journeys may not consider the creative potential of trans experiences and perspectives beyond and between binary gender categories and the assumptions, ways of life, and worldviews based upon them – potential I have explored in many of my eleven collections of poetry. This talk will use a selection of those poems to demonstrate different ways to express trans experience and use the perspectives it opens to reimagine not just my personal gender identity but what it means, and what it can mean, to be human.
Joy Ladin, Ph.D., has long worked at the tangled intersection of literature and transgender identity, publishing a memoir of gender transition, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; a groundbreaking book-length work of trans theology, Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist, The Soul of the Stranger; and ten books of poetry, including Lambda Literary finalist Transmigration and Impersonation and National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna. Two new books, Once Out of Nature, essays on how gender is changing, and her eleventh collection of poems, Family, are forthcoming from Persea in 2024. Her writing has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Fellowship, among other honors. Her writing is available at joyladin.wordpress.com
For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs:

Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In person Open House
2024-03-13 19:30 - 21:00
An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation,
Am I Really Here? Psychotherapy with an Adolescent Boy
by Brooke Marlin, LCSW
Wednesday evening, March 13th
7:30-9:00 pm
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023

This presentation will follow the treatment of Michael, an adolescent male diagnosed with ADHD. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Michael has struggled with peer relationships, but has found refuge in the world of online gaming. During the treatment, the therapist, Michael, and Michael’s parents attempt to understand Michael’s gaming behavior from a range of perspectives. The therapist tracks her vacillation between a “frustrated state” and an “expansive state” towards Michael, and works to support the parents in stepping into an “expansive state” alongside her.
Faculty, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Brooke Marlin is an LCSW who runs a group practice in Astoria, Queens, focusing primarily on children, adolescents, and parents. She is currently a third-year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. Prior to training at White, Brooke completed the 2-year Trauma Program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, as well as a 1-year Combined Child and Adolescent Fellowship at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Child Trauma Program at the Silberman School of Social Work. She is trained in Level 1 of Internal Family Systems.

Healing From the Inside Out: The Art and Transformation of a Trauma Survivor with Deborah A. Sharpe, PhD
2024-03-07 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 7th FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Healing From the Inside Out: The Art and Transformation of a Trauma Survivor
with Deborah A. Sharpe, PhD

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=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Dr. Deborah Sharpe will present clinical material with slides of a trauma survivor’s vibrant images and discuss the alchemy within art and the therapeutic process: what works in art therapy and how it heals. Through the study of neurobiology and her research into the role of art in wellness, Dr. Sharpe will demonstrate a tapestry of self-expression, equity, lifelong learning and accountability. As a Soul Collage artist and printmaker, she will describe engaging her own losses as an art therapist and giving voice to the voiceless.
Please join us for this rich presentation and discussion of art therapy as a valuable interpersonal resource in our complex world.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Deborah A. Sharpe, Ph.D. graduated with a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from New York University and a PhD in Art Therapy Psychology at Dominican University of California in San Rafael, CA. Her dissertation topic was: The Course of COVID: How Has the Pandemic Changed the Ways Art Therapists Use Art in Their Therapeutic Practice. She is a Professor of Art Therapy in the Masters and Doctoral Programs at Dominican University of California and writes about the use of art in community-based treatment, mindfulness and reclaiming the voice through art-making.

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

LGBTQ Study Group - SIEN RIVERA, M.D.
2024-03-06 20:30 - 22:00
A Connected World: Playing With Identity Between the Virtual World and the Imagination

Wednesday, March, 6 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Description: This presentation will examine the use of virtual spaces as potential space in identity formation, through the lens of the theories of D. W. Winnicott, focusing on the worlds of video games specifically. A video game is not just its gameplay mechanics or genre. It is a text that contains language, characters, mythologies and mysteries to be explored and dissected. It is an aesthetic art that, through visuals and music, evokes universal emotions and human experiences. It is a performance art, wherein the player can toy with perspective and interact beyond the role of observer, retaining agency through their avatar. It is a shared vocabulary that can be a foundation to build community with others. These elements, either during the video game or even after the video game is turned off, can invoke the imagination to access the most important component of Winnicott’s definition of play: that play is built on the manipulation of exterior phenomena in service of an inner dream reality.
To demonstrate this point, this presentation will comprise two complementary case studies: a 17-year-old trans patient in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the presenter themselves, in interaction with this patient. For both the therapist and the patient, virtual spaces were integral to the safe expression of play, and in turn, an evolving relationship to trauma, the body, and gender identity.

Sien (pronounced, “Sheen”) Rivera, MD, is Assistant Program Director of the Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina General Psychiatry residency program, and Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. They received their medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed their general psychiatry residency and child adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina. They are co-chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality and they present nationally and internationally on topics related to gender, sexuality, and new technologies.

Please note:

– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2023-2024”.

– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.

– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs,

Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

OPEN HOUSE FOR THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING PROGRAM
2024-03-04 19:30 - 21:00
An In Person Open House at the Institute
for the Psychoanalytic Training Program
MONDAY, MARCH 4th
7:30-9:00 PM
20 WEST 74TH STREET BETWEEN CPW & COLUMBUS AVENUES, NYC
A Live Supervision of a Case presented by Nikol Alexander Floyd, PhD with Discussant Miri Abramis, PhD.
The evening will also include a brief history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Seth Aronson, PsyD, Director of Training.
Light refreshments will be served.

FRANCOISE DAVONE, HEATHER FERGUSON, STEVEN KNOBLAUCH, HENRY MARKMAN
2024-02-24 12:00 - 14:00
Francoise Davoine, PhD,
Heather Ferguson, LCSW,
Stephen Knoblauch, PhD,
Henry Markman, MD
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD, and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
How Are Trauma and Dissociation Embodied?
February 24th, 2024 from 12 Noon to 2:00PM/Eastern time
A multi-view discussion followed by audience interaction. Presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. For CE credit information, click here.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Although it is widely acknowledged that trauma and dissociation profoundly affect our bodies, answers to questions about just how this happens vary greatly. A clinician’s understanding of the effects of trauma and dissociation on the body has important implications for the healing process.
This event brings together several clinicians who hold a variety of views on the subject. The four speakers will answer questions posed by our two Moderators, who are also Co-Directors of the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. After engaging in dialogue together, members of our online audience will be invited to join the discussion.
ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Françoise Davoine, PhD, has completed studies in classical literature. She has a PhD in sociology and is a professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where, for 40 years, she has lead a weekly seminar with Jean Max Gaudillière entitled, Madness and the Social Link. She has been a psychoanalyst in a public psychiatric hospital, and also has provided outside consultations and kept a Paris-based private practice for 30 years. Dr. Davoine was a member of Lacan’s “Ecole Freudienne” until Lacan’s death in 1981. She is a member of ISPS founded in 1954 by Gaetano Benedetti; and is an Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center. Among her books is History beyond Trauma (Other Press with Max Gaudillière). Additionally, she has published many with Routledge, including Mother Folly, Fighting Melancholy: Don Quixote’s teaching; A Word to the Wise (on Don Quixote’s second book); Jean Max Gaudillière’s Seminars (2 volumes); Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature; Shandean Psychoanalysis: Tristram Shandy, Madness and Trauma; and Wittgenstein’s Folly.
Heather Ferguson, LCSW, is faculty and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and is on the faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis – Certificate in Trauma Studies, all in New York City. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR, she integrates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the use of an embodied focus in order to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has authored chapters in Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis (Eds, Harris, Kalb, and Klebanoff) and Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists, (Ed., Hagman). She is Co-Book Review Editor for Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context and a member of the Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC). She maintains a private practice in New York City.
Steven H. Knoblauch, PhD, is Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where he is a Clinical Consultant. He is also faculty and supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City. He is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000), Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity (2021), and coauthor with Beebe, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005). He often uses his cross-cultural experiences as a musician studying and playing jazz, Brazilian music, rock and blues in the US and abroad, with attention to rhythms and prosody, shaping social interactions to inform his clinical teaching, supervision and practice.
Henry Markman, MD, is a Training & Supervising Analyst and Co-chair of Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He is on the editorial board of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association . In 2021 he published the book, Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice (Routledge). Recent publications include: A Pragmatic Approach to Bion’s Late Work (JAPA 2015); Presence, Mourning, Beauty: Elements of Analytic Process (JAPA 2017); The Good, the Bad, The Ugly, and the Dead: A Typology of Analytic Fields (fort da 2018); Accompaniment in Jazz and Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalytic Dialogues 2020); Embodied Attunement and Participation (JAPA 2020); and One sided analysis is no longer possible: the relevance of “mutual analysis” in our current world (fort da 2021). He has appeared on the IPA podcast, Off the Couch, entitled An Analyst’s Journey to Authenticity and Presence, and the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Markman’s interests include modes of therapeutic action, embodied communication and the relevance of music in psychoanalysis, aesthetic experience, the emotional work of the analyst in the clinical encounter, and the emotional developmental of a therapist. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled Five Un-easy Pieces: five psychoanalytic articles that changed my mind, and a manuscript for beginning therapists, entitled Being an analytic therapist: conversations with therapists starting out. His clinical work and writing draws from Bion, Ferenczi, Balint, Winnicott, the American Relational Group, and Latin American field and link theorists. He is in private practice in Berkeley, where he consults and leads study groups.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.
Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

JANE HASSINGER, LCSW, DCSW and BILLIE PIVNICK, PhD with Discussant George Bermudez, PhD
2024-02-09 18:00 - 20:00
DISTURBING THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS, the 2023-2023 Colloquium Series
The Colloquium Series 2023-2024 presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
The 21st Century Psychoanalyst: Clinician, Community Member, and Relational Citizen
JANE HASSINGER, LCSW, DCSW
BILLIE PIVNICK, PhD
DISCUSSANT: GEORGE BERMUDEZ, PhD

ABOUT TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION
Psychological development and related mental health challenges unique to the 21st century call attention to the ways social, cultural, and political arrangements interlace with our psychic worlds and must become integral parts of our psychoanalytic endeavor (Cushman, 2015; Butler, 2022). Extending the pioneering work of WAWI’s Sullivan, Fromm, and Bromberg, we recognize the developmental significance of our participation in community life. We are each a part of an unconscious group matrix – dyad, group, family, institution – which influences the organization of psychic life (Foulkes, 1964; Tubert-Oklander, 2014). These networks constitute self-states or ‘groups-in-the-mind’ (Shapiro, 2020) and are significant though under theorized features of our internal worlds.
What we have called “the community turn” in psychoanalysis acknowledges that public participation in community life, for example, as neighbors and as citizens, constitutes an important aspect of adult development and contributes to the intersubjective experience of oneself as a generative citizen among citizens–what we have termed ‘relational citizenship’ (Hassinger & Pivnick, 2022; Pivnick & Hassinger; 2023). Evolving from the experience of taking up roles in groups, relational citizenship is an expression at both intrapsychic and interpersonal levels, of maturing capacities for intersubjective perspective taking and group relations outside the family (Shapiro & Carr 1991, 2017). This psychological work produces increased empathy for others, self-authorization, and the capacity for managing multiple group identiﬁcations necessary for mature participation as a citizen in community life.). These multiple group identiﬁcations complement the multiplicity of other internalized object relations (Bromberg 1998, 2011).
Broadening our framework to include the conscious and unconscious intersubjective field enables us to acknowledge and work within a dynamic, dialectical view of the self-in-context in which group and community life become legitimate features of the therapeutic enterprise. Based on their work as founders of the Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory, the presenters will discuss their concept of ‘relational citizenship,’ and how it links clinical and community practice.
2 CE credits are available for this event.
ABOUT JANE HASSINGER, LCSW, DCSW
Jane Hassinger is a Community and Group Psychoanalyst in Ann Arbor, Michigan who teaches at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalyst. With collaborator Billie Pivnick, PhD, she is co-leader of the William Alanson White Institute’s Committee on Public Mental and co-founder of the Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory (2014). In 2007, with collaborators Lisa Harris,MD and Lisa Martin, PhD, Jane also co-founded the Providers Share Program, a global research initiative and support intervention for abortion providers, now active in 57 countries. Her work is interdisciplinary and engages the intergenerational dynamics of psyche/social. Jane was on the University of Michigan faculty in Women’s Studies, Psychology and Social Work for 25 years, where she taught courses and conducted research on women’s health, gender-based violence, trauma, gender and work. She has co-authored numerous journal articles, including The Community Turn: Relational Citizenship in the Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory (IJAP, 2022), with Billie Pivnick. She is also co-author of Women on Purpose: Resilience and Creativity of the Founding Women of Phumani Paper, Desklink Publications, Johannesburg 2012.

ABOUT BILLIE PIVNICK, PhD
Billie Pivnick is a psychoanalytic psychologist in private practice in NYC, specializing intreating children and families suffering from traumatic loss and problems related to adoption. She is faculty/supervisor in the William Alanson White Institute Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Program and is Co-Chair of WAWI’s Committee on Public Mental Health, Co-Chair of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee of APA’s Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and is a co-host of the Couched podcast, which features conversations between analysts and influential cultural figures. Together with Jane Hassinger, she is also co-founder and co-leader of the Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory, a web-based seminar and project incubator for psychoanalytically-informed projects focused on innovative interdisciplinary responses to significant community problems. Additionally, Dr. Pivnick is Consulting Psychologist to Thinc Design, partnered with the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, Orlando’s OnePulse Foundation; and to the Parkside School in Manhattan. Author of some thirty professional articles, she was the winner of the SPPP’s 2015 Schillinger Memorial Essay Award for her essay, Spaces to Stand In: Applying Clinical Psychoanalysis to the Relational Design of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, and the IPTAR’s 1992 Stanley Berger Award for her contribution to psychoanalysis. Formerly head of the Graduate Dance Therapy Program at Pratt Institute, she is also faculty at Adelphi’s Derner Institute, the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and the New Directions Program in Psychoanalytic Writing at the Washington/Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is also an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

ABOUT GEORGE BERMUDEZ, PhD
Dr. George Bermudez is Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). He has developed pioneering scholarship and practice – an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis –exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. The author of The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018), and Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American xenophobia; whiteness and psychoanalysis; Black reparations; The LGBTQ unconscious in the Trumpian era; and the global unconscious in the time of pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.

Teleanalytic Practice for Communities in Times of Social Division and War with Caroline M. Sehon and Harold Kudler
2024-02-03 10:00
A New Online Series
Hatred, War, Displacement, and Exile: Personal Narratives and Theoretical Perspectives
Presented by The Technology and Global Learning Committee
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
10:00-11:30 AM/Eastern
TELEANALYTIC PRACTICE FOR COMMUNITIES IN TIMES OF SOCIAL DIVISION AND WAR
with Speakers CAROLINE M. SEHON, MD, FABP, and HAROLD KUDLER, MD
and Moderator Maria Nardone, PhD

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
This webinar shares lessons learned in the course of a global community outreach project in support of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts practicing under conditions of pandemic and conflict, including ongoing wars in Ukraine and Russia and between Israel and Hamas.
In describing the development and progress of their two-year International Town Hall program, Drs. Sehon and Kudler will share challenges faced in applying psychoanalytic principles to contain and process personal, national, international, and intergenerational dynamics which both drive group process and, on occasion, threaten to confound and overthrow it.

1.5 CE Credits are available

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Harold Kudler, MD, (Durham, NC, USA), is Associate Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and until recently, served as the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ national lead on mental health policy. An expert on psychological trauma, he writes and speaks internationally about its nature and intergenerational effects. Dr. Kudler co-chairs APsA’s Service Member and Veterans Initiative and is a member of its Committee on Psychoanalysis in the Community and its Social Issues Department.

Caroline Sehon, MD, FABP, (Bethesda, MD, USA), is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) where she is a supervising child and adult psychoanalyst in IPI’s Child Analytic Program and IPI’s International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training (IIPT) for which she was past chairperson. At the American Psychoanalytic Association, she is an Executive Committee Director and Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalysis in the Community and Member of its Social Issues Department. Author of articles and book chapters, Dr. Sehon is in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Maria Nardone, PhD, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Nardone is Co-Chair of American Psychoanalytic Association’s Social Issues Department and a North American Representative to the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Board of Directors. She is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. She is in private practice in New York City.

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants will be able to:

Describe the development of the International Town Hall project and its application of support for traumatized analytic colleagues working in a climate of war.

Give one example of the impact of the International Town Hall project on the clinicians, their families, and the patients under their care.

Embodied Ecology: Listening in the Space Between Us with Karen Hopenwasser, MD
2024-02-01 13:30 - 15:00
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=[REDACTED]
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

Lo que hay en el espacio entre tú y yo. Intersubjetividad: el uso de la experiencia co-construída entre paciente y analista
2024-01-27 10:00 - 12:00
What Lies in the Space Between You and I?
INTERSUBJECTIVITY: THE USE OF PATIENT AND ANALYST CO-CONSTRUCTED EXPERIENCE
A NEW ONLINE LECTURE SERIES FOR SPANISH-SPEAKING PRACTITIONERS, CANDIDATES AND STUDENTS with consecutive translation from English to Spanish.
UNA NUEVA SERIE DE CONFERENCIAS EN LÍNEA PARA PRACTICANTES, CANDIDATOS Y ESTUDIANTES DE HABLA ESPAÑOLA con traducción consecutiva del inglés al españo.

This series is presented in partnership with the IARPP/Mexico.
Esta serie se presenta en colaboración con el IARPP/Mexico.
Classes focus on expanding the analyst’s use of spontaneous subjectivity through associations, memories and mental images, and to help in better understanding the patient’s implicit experience.
Las clases se centran en ampliar el uso de la subjetividad espontánea del analista a través de asociaciones, recuerdos e imágenes mentales y en ayudar a comprender mejor la experiencia implícita del paciente.
Designed for clinicians and students who want to deepen their knowledge of Interpersonal and Relational thinking, while expanding their understanding of intersubjectivity in clinical practice.
Diseñado para profesionales y estudiantes que desean profundizar su conocimiento del pensamiento Interpersonal y Relacional, mientras amplían su comprensión de la intersubjetividad en la práctica clínica.
WEEKLY CLASSES MEET ON SATURDAYS OVER ZOOM FROM JANUARY 27TH – MARCH 30TH 2024
LAS CLASES SEMANALES SE LLEVAN A CABO LOS SÁBADOS POR ZOOM DEL 27 DE ENERO AL 30 DE MARZO DE 2024
Note that 19 Continuing Education Credits are available for Clinicians who are licensed in the USA and who complete the series. Please request and submit a CE form at the end of the series.
Tenga en cuenta que hay 19 créditos de educación continua disponibles para los clinicos que tienen licencia en los EE. UU. y que completan la serie. Solicite y envíe un formulario CE al final de la serie.
THE SEASON’S WEEKLY SCHEDULE/ HORARIO SEMANAL DE LA TEMPORADA:
Saturday Mornings at 10:00-12:00/Eastern Time,
9:00-11:00/CDMX,
Saturday Afternoon/Evenings: 16:00-18:00/Spain,
15:00-1700 PM/Portugal
* indicates change of time for Daylight Savings beginning March 16 2024:
11:00-13:00/Eastern. All others, please confirm the schedule based on your locale.
*indica un cambio debido el horario de verano a partir del 16 de marzo de 2024:
11:00-13:00/este. Favor de verificar cambios de horario en su localidad.
CLASS SCHEDULE, SPEAKERS and TOPICS/
HORARIO DE CLASES, PONENTES y TEMAS:

27 JANUARY 2024
ALEJANDRA PLAZA, PhD, Welcome/Bienvenida
HELEN QUINONES, PhD, Intersubjectivity – Filling in the Gaps of Dissociation
Intersubjetividad- Llenando en los espacios de la disociación

3 & 10 FEBRUARY
DONNEL STERN, PhD, Interpretation – Voice of the Field
“Interpretación- La voz del campo”- presentación de trabajo

17 FEBRUARY
ALEJANDRA PLAZA, PhD, Emotions: A Bridge Between the Implicit, the Dissociated and Self Agency
Emociones: Un Puente entre lo implícito, lo disociado y la agencia

24 FEBRUARY & 2 MARCH
SANDRA BUECHLER, PhD, The Therapist’s Self Care
El autocuidado del terapéuta

9 MARCH & 16 MARCH*
MARCELO RUBIN, PhD, Trauma and Resilience: a Developmental and Clinical Approach
Trauma y Resiliencia: Un Enfoque Clínico y de Desarrolo

23 MARCH*
GUDRUN OPITZ, PhD, The Collaborative and Integrative Approach of Interpersonal Dream Work
El enfoque colaborativo e integrador del trabajo interpersonal de los sueños

30 MARCH*
GUDRUN OPITZ, PhD, One Hour Group Exercise on Dreams HELEN QUINONES, PhD and ALEJANDRA PLAZA, PhD, Class Evaluation Feedback about the Series
Trabajando con un sueño, ejercicio grupal de una hora/Evaluación de las conferencias. Retroalimentación de los asistentes

FEES for the Series/CUOTA:
IARPP Members, $350 USD
Practitioners and Clinicians outside of the IARPP, $385 USD
Candidates and Students, $135 USD

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Sandra Buechler, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, (Analytic Press, 2004), Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives, (Routledge, 2008), which won the Gradiva Award, Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012), Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature, (Routledge, 2015) Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice, (IPBooks, 2017) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living, (Routledge, 2019) and Poetic Dialogues (IPBooks, 2021).
Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, PhD, is a psychologist from Universidad Intercontinental (UIC). She has a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from UNAM, a PhD in Psychoanalytic Research from IIPCS and a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis from UIC. Dr. Plaza has a private practice in Mexico City. She is the former President of IARPP Mexico and a co-founder of the chapter and the Mexican Society of Relational Psychoanalysts. Currently, she is on the Mexico Chapter’s Board of Directors. She was President of the Institute of Research in Clinical and Social Psychology and was coordinator of the Academic Board of the same Institute. She was a member of the Editorial Committee of Aletheia Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Together with Dr. Joan Coderch, she co-authored the book Emotion and Human Relations, Relational Psychoanalysis as a Social Therapeutic (2016). She has authored many articles and is co-author of other psychoanalytic books. Dr. Plaza has been professor at Universidad Intercontinental, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Universidad de las Américas y Universidad del Valle de México.
Gudrun Opitz, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, providing individual and group therapy and supervision. Her teaching and groups currently focus on dream work, and she is a Supervising Analyst at William Alanson’s White Psychoanalytic Institute. She specializes in treating relationship issues, personality disorders, addictions, eating disorders, and complicated grief.
Helen Quinones, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City. She is a Psychoanalytic Supervisor and faculty at William Alanson White Institute and is Clinical Consultant at New York University Postdoctoral Program. She has published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and in the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Society’s Espacio Psicanalitico. Dr.Quinones has been a Presenter at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association/Division 39, and the American Orthopsychiatry.
Marcelo Rubin, PhD, is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is the former Director of the Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and is currently on its faculty. He is the author of numerous articles and has presented often with a focus on culture and trauma. Dr. Rubin is a clinical consultant and private clinical supervisor, and he maintains a private practice in New York City.

Donnel Stern, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the Founder and Editor of a book series at Routledge, Psychoanalysis in a New Key, which has over 80 books in print. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters for 40 years and has co-edited four books and authored four others, the most recent of which is The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (Routledge, 2019). A fifth authored book, On Coming Into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Field, is in press. Dr. Stern is in private practice in New York City and has taught and lectured for many years in this country and abroad.
The William Alanson White Institute wishes to thank our partners at IARPP-Mexico.

KATHARINA ROTHE, PhD with Discussant Pascal Sauvayre, PhD
2024-01-12 12:00 - 14:00
DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS, the 2023-2024 Colloquium Series
The Colloquium Series 2023-2024 presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
Cultural Analysis Now! Urszenen of Money, Powerlessness, and Race
KATHARINA ROTHE, PhD
DISCUSSANT: PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD

ABOUT TODAY’S TALK
In recent years, even mainstream psychoanalysis in the Global North has begun to explicitly include the social and political realm into ways of thinking about the individual. But considering individual and intimate suffering as fundamentally and inextricably immersed in the societal realm is not new to psychoanalytic thinking, and the Frankfurt School has been working from this perspective since the 1930s. At the core of their project we find the idea of societal violence — namely, within the capitalistic economic structure — ‘entering’ the subject through interactions with its first others and shaping its drive structure from birth.
Alfred Lorenzer was a vitally important link between the Frankfurt School of Freudian-influenced social critique, and contemporary psychoanalysis. Writing in Germany post-war, and previously unavailable in English, Lorenzer provided radically political and socially engaged reformulations of Freud and the psychoanalytic project. In their book, Cultural Analysis Now! Katharina Rothe, Steffen Krüger and Dan Rosengart bring one of Lorenzer’s seminal texts to anglophone audiences as well four commentaries on the work. For this presentation Dr. Rothe will introduce Lorenzer’s key concepts, such as the scene and scenic understanding that have been employed to critically analyze what we may call the psychosocial or psycho-societal realm. She will discuss scenes around race, money and power in the consulting room in relation to Freud’s primal scenes (Urszenen), and she will then zoom in on the very link between social reality and psychic fantasy when presenting such clinical scenes through the lens of Alfred Lorenzer’s scenic understanding. Pascal Sauvayre is the Discussant.
ABOUT KATHARINE ROTHE, PhD
Katharina Rothe is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychosocial researcher. She is a graduate of psychoanalytic training at the W. A. White Institute in New York where she teaches the course Gender, Sex & Sexuality. She also teaches and supervises candidates at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Alongside maintaining a private practice in NYC, she is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis, qualitative methods in psychosocial research, sex and gender, anti-Semitism, racism and the aftermath of the Holocaust. She is on the editorial boards of the German journal Psychoanalyse. Texte zur Sozialforschung and of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Starting October 2023 she will also be teaching at the Sigmund Freud University in Berlin.
ABOUT PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD
Pascal Sauvayre is faculty and training analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He studies, teaches, and writes at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. A recent project includes editing, with Roger Frie, the book entitled ‘Culture, Politics, and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis’, published at Routledge. He has a private practice in New York City.
Learning Objectives for this program:
Attendees will be able to explain some of the central ideas of Alfred Lorenzer, such as the psychoanalytic method of “scenic understanding” and the in-depth hermeneutics of culture and society.
Attendees will learn how to construct clinical interpretations that integrate the personal and the social.

LGBTQ Study group w/ Willa N. France, J.D.
2024-01-10 20:30 - 22:00
LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with

Willa N. France, J.D.

Gender Identity as Fetish
Part 1: Creating a Gender—Clinical Material

Wednesday January 10, 2024
08:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Description:
Trauma infuses us, from our first beginnings. Jean Laplanche articulates our fundamental anthropological situation—the asymmetry of caregiver and infant; the barrage of messages addressed to us as infants and children—enigmatic, intromitted, introjected, translatable and untranslatable. And so our socialization begins. It is hard to imagine a more significant trauma than our family’s and civil and religious authorities’ assignment of our genders—based on a genital binary. We are authorized to inhabit the identities of but one half of humanity, the other foreclosed. It is, in the Western world at least, a Universal Gender Trauma. Binaries seem so natural; definitional categories that can become concrete, then reified, then essential for identity—a kind of bedrock of difference—serving both to express and defend who we are. Difference and disavowal are a familiar pair, the very foundation of fetishism. And when the anxiety of difference, of ambiguity, becomes overwhelming, the mere presence of a different other can feel like an assault calling for defensive measures, personal and social. Through a clinical example we will see how one transwoman navigated such traumas and came to create and inhabit her gender. At first an identity held tightly but over a number of years more loosely and lightly.

Speaker’s bio:
Transwoman Willa N. France (she/her/hers) began her physical transition in 2004 at the age of 55. Her early careers are in naval architecture and marine engineering and then law dating back to 1972. She has completed her fourth year candidacy in the William Alanson White Institute’s psychoanalytic training program, LQP tract, and will continue for another to complete patient hour requirements. Willa was born in Wisconsin to parents who raised mink. At an early age, her family moved several times throughout the west before settling on the Oregon coast, their livelihood always based on mink ranching. She has lived with her wife of almost 51 years, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, in East Harlem, New York for nearly 40 years. They have one son, a wonderful daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Willa has written poetry for many years and self-published a novel in verse in 2007 titled Incunabulum (ISBN 0741443759). Her transition story, Desiderium, remains, not surprisingly, a work in process.

Please note:
– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from “William Alanson White Institute” with the subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2023-2024”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recordeded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The WAWI LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs who wish you a Happy New Year.

Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

What Really Works? Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
2024-01-08 19:30 - 21:00
A unique online program for clinicians of all levels of experience, starting in January 2024.
Focused on expanding and deepening one’s experience of treating children and adolescents within an Interpersonal and Relational framework, the program is designed to enhance participants’ clinical skills and intellectual understanding of psychodynamic psychotherapy in practice.
Each month distinguished faculty members from the William Alanson White Institute will present on a variety of contemporary clinical topics and case material.
Classes are held monthly, online, on Monday evenings from 7:30-9:00 PM/Eastern time, starting January 2024 and running through December 2024 on the following dates:
January 8, 2024, February 12, March 11, April 8, May 13, June 10, (no class July or August) September 9, October 7, November 11, December 16
15 Continuing Education Credits are offered.
For complete information, class schedule and faculty listings, go to: https://wawhite.org/program/what-really-works-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-with-children-and-adolescents-2/

Ernesto Mujica on Mayan Portals into Parallel Realities, Windows into History, Fantasy & the Unconscious
2024-01-04 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4th, 2024 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Attend in person or online:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Mayan constructions of reality assume multiplicity of self and other, suggesting that there are portals to be explored between what we experience as material and spiritual reality. From the beginning of our psychoanalytic approach to the exploration of mental functioning, we have also been preoccupied with accessing the portals of exploration of multiple realities, primarily as represented by what we consider conscious and unconscious mental functioning. Our approach has emphasized dreams as a primary path of exploration, and we have expanded our sensitivity to such “portals” by attending to the nuances of dissociative states in our patients as well as in ourselves.
This meeting will explore how Mayan artists have represented and entered such explorations of self and other, time and space. Both historical and current Mayan art will be shown and discussed alongside current day clinical case material to draw parallels that seek to expand our exploration of dissociative experiences.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at the William Alanson White Institute, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is a supervisor of psychotherapy at WAWI, and at the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma, as well sociocultural factors in mental health, along with his strong interest in the arts. His previous talks for The Artists Study Group have included discussions of artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria), Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree, Canada), and Yayoi Kusama (Japan).
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group
