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SUMMARY:DEPTH THERAPY IN A QUICK-FIX WORLD WITH LINDA MICHAELS\, PsyD\, MBA
DESCRIPTION:The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients\, Our Practice and Ourselves\nLINDA MICHAELS\, PsyD\, MBA\nDEPTH THERAPY IN A QUICK-FIX WORLD\nwith Moderator Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\nFriday\, October 25th from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern\nAN ONLINE WEBINAR\n1.5 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, you should check your Trash and Spam folders. Still no link-letter by the business day prior to the event?  Email: e.rodman@wawhite.org  \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you. \nNOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.\n\nCost: $30 per person\n\n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nA presentation that will outline the forces and factors\, from within and without our field\, that are shaping the mental health landscape and contributing to the diminished understanding and appreciation of relational\, depth therapies. Misunderstandings among the public and policymakers about efficacy and “gold standard” treatments are common\, and new technology apps and companies are redefining what therapy is at scale. From the insurance industry\, to venture capital and private equity\, to the educational system training therapists and the fragmentation of our field\, there are many ways in which the work we do is threatened.\nThis presentation will outline factors that help therapists know what they can do to protect and advance their work. It will set the stage for the subsequent\, upcoming webinars in coming months.\n  \nABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES\nIn these last few years\, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics\, social justice\, the natural world\, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges\, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help\, what people are looking for in mental health treatment\, and how we can support and protect the work we do\, while making it more accessible to more people.\nPrevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged\, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public\, including marginalized communities\, towards a reduced set of options.\nMany of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education\, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.\nThis webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape\, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.\nRead about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n \nLinda Michaels\, PsyD\, MBA\, is a psychologist with a private practice in Chicago. She is Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)\, a grassroots nonprofit that advocates for therapies of depth\, insight and relationship. She is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\, and a fellow of the Lauder Institute Global MBA program. She is author and co-editor of Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation\, and has published\, presented\, and been interviewed by The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, NPR and other national media on the value of psychotherapy\, the therapeutic relationship and technology\, and the public narrative about therapy. Linda has a former career in business\, with over 15 years’ experience consulting to organizations in the US and Latin America.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nBevin 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. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live\, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.\n  \n  \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT\n1)    Describe the impacts of new technology companies and venture capital investment entering the mental health field\n2)    Describe how stakeholders\, such as insurers\, policymakers\, and the mental health professions\, have influenced evidence-based treatments and public opinion on therapy
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/depth-therapy-in-a-quick-fix-world/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Pick\, PhD\, Paranoid States: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Thought\, Conspiracy Theory\, and Political Life
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nDANIEL PICK\, PhD\nPARANOID STATES: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Thought\, Conspiracy Theory\, and Political Life\nwith Moderator David Thurn\, PhD\, LCSW-R\nFRIDAY EVENING\, NOVEMBER 1st\, 7:30-9:30pm\nPresented in person\, on location at the Institute\n20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\nSeating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come\, first serve basis.\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIt is a truism to say that today we live in a world of ultra-suspicion. But what is the appeal of that world? How has it arisen and where are we heading now? Why is every major news story shadowed by myriad conspiracy theories as well as claims and counter-claims about mass brainwashing?  In addressing these issues\, Daniel Pick’s will revisit classic psychoanalytic ideas about paranoia\, alongside famous historical works\, case studies and works of cinema. He will ask how far past theories and stories may help us make sense of the dark times we are living in now.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. Prior to the event an email is sent out with specific instructions about how to request your credits. To receive credit\, you must sign in at the event to confirm your attendance. (Late registrants should request instructions on the first business day after the event.) \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDaniel Pick\, PhD\, is a psychoanalyst and historian\, and recipient of the 2023 Sigourney Award. He was educated at Cambridge\, and taught for many years at London University. He is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society\, and professor emeritus at Birkbeck\, University of London. His books include Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder\, c. 1848-1918; War Machine: The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern Age; Svengali’s Web: he Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture; The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind; Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction; and most recently\, Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control. 2014-21\, From 2014 to 2021\, he ran a team-based project\, on behalf of the Wellcome Trust\, focusing on the history of hidden persuasion and brainwashing.\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nDavid Thurn\, PhD\, LCSW\,  is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and in New Jersey. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute\, where he taught the Freud course for many years\, as well as a course on psychoanalysis and literature. A former academic\, David has also taught at Cornell\, Vassar\, and Princeton on a wide range of courses in literature\, and courses addressing literature in interdisciplinary contexts.\n  \nEvent Learning Objectives\n\n\nTo explain key psychoanalytic ideas about paranoid states of mind\, as developed by Freud\, Klein and others.\n\n\nTo discuss about the history of endeavors to apply those psychoanalytic ideas to cultural\, social and political phenomena\, past and present.\n\n\nTo consider the opportunities and potential difficulties of applied psychoanalytic thought in historical inquiries.\n\n\nTo investigate how historians and cultural theorists have developed their ideas about the paranoid style’ in political thought\, and to compare and contrast past and present analyses of the popular appeal and political exploitation of conspiracy theory.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/daniel-pick-phd-paranoid-states-reflections-on-psychoanalytic-thought-conspiracy-theory-and-political-life/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group w/ JACK DRESCHER\, M.D.
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with \nJACK DRESCHER\, M.D. \n  \nAffirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: \nReflections on the Opposition \n  \nWednesday\, November 6\, 2024 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \n\n\n\n\non Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n\nDescription: The treatment of children and adolescents diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria (DSM-5-TR) or Gender Incongruence (ICD-11) has evoked both clinical and cultural controversies. This presentation begins with a brief history of gender diagnoses in the DSM and ICD followed by a history of clinical controversies in treating prepubescent gender dysphoric children. The paper then goes on to explore some attitudes and beliefs that underlie opposition to gender affirming care followed by ways in which the data on treating these patient populations is sometimes misinterpreted or even deliberately distorted. The paper concludes with an ethical issue raised by such attitudes\, beliefs and practices. \nJack Drescher\, M.D.\,is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. \nDr. Drescher trained at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst and serves as a member of its Board of Trustees. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Uni-versity and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. \nDr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association\, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He serves on APA’s Committee on Judicial Action. \nDr. Drescher served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process. He served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served on the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). \nDr. Drescher’s professional honors include: \n\nDr. Ivan Goldberg Outstanding Service Award\, New York County Psychiatric Society (2024)\nHaskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis\, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (2023)\nThe Mary S. Sigourney Award for International Work on Gender and Sexuality (2022)\nVisiting Professor\, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (2021)\nAmerican Psychiatric Association’s John Fryer Award (2018)\n\nDr. Drescher is Author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender\, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBTQ communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters as well. His publications have been translated into Italian\, Portuguese\, French\, Spanish\, Russian\, Arabic\, Finnish and German. \nDr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender and sexuality. \n\n\n\nPlease note: \n– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from \nThe William Alanson White Institute with subject line: \n“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”. \n– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded. \n– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair\, \nWilla N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net \n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/lgbtq-study-group-w-jack-drescher-m-d/
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SUMMARY:HUMANISM IN FROMM AND SHAKESPEARE WITH SANDRA BUECHLER\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS\nTHURSDAY\, NOVEMBER 7th from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nHumanism in Fromm and Shakespeare\nwith Sandra Buechler\, PhD\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Buechler will consider some humanistic concepts in Erich Fromm’s work and in the plays of William Shakespeare. By juxtaposing their lines\, she hopes to convey the timelessness of both\, suggesting that Fromm’s insights gain vividness in Shakespeare’s neighborhood\, and Shakespeare’s lines sharpen from being beside Fromm’s formulations. More specifically\, in juxtaposing Fromm’s words about life with Shakespeare’s similar expressions\, she suggests that some insights are for all time\, spanning eras and geography: they are human.\n\nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nSandra Buechler\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.  Her many books include Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (2008)\, which won the Gradiva award;  Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joy of a Clinical Career (2012); Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (2015); and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living\, (Routledge\, 2019).  Her most recent bookis Erich Fromm:  A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge\, 2025).\n\nJoin us for this special guest and her presentation and discussion of universal and timeless themes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:Joshua Durban\, FIPA\, Revisited: Home\, Homelessness\, and Nowhere-ness in Early Infancy - Part 1 of 2*
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nJOSHUA DURBAN\, FIPA\nREVISITED: HOME\, HOMELESSNESS\, AND NOWHERE-NESS IN EARLY INFANCY  (Part 1)\nwith Moderator Tammy Kaminer\, PhD\nWEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 4th\, 8:00-10:00PM\n*This is Part 1 of a two part event\nSeating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come\, first serve basis.\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe construction of a sense of home in early infancy is a complex achievement. It is intertwined throughout life with the child’s pursuit of a safe physio-mental coverage. This process will be described as an interaction between: (a) a safe dwelling in the body-as-mother (constitution); (b) the internalization of the mother-as-me (internal object space); and (c) the establishment of Oedipal triangular space\, which is responsible for the capacity to move between narcissism-as-a-home and the world-as-a-home.\nThe construction of a home as an interplay between these two elements is accompanied by distinct anxieties and unconscious fantasies. Disruption in the early process due to deficit\, internal object relations\, or environmental factors\, might lead to severe withdrawal\, mindlessness\, hatred\, violence\, and murderousness. A distinction will be made between these mental states of being-at-home\, homelessness\, and nowhere-ness based on the corresponding levels of early developmental and typical anxieties.\nHome and homelessness are seen as more developed states of object relating accompanied by some capacity for depressive feelings of loss\, mourning\, and longing. Nowhere-ness\, however\, stems from early states of anxiety-of-being and osmotic/diffuse anxieties\, which are characterised by confusion between self and object\, by a lack of orientation and of a sense of agency\, as well as by nameless grief\, nameless dread\, and devastation. The varieties of home\, homelessness\, and nowhere-ness will be discussed along with clinical material from the analytic treatment of a refugee child on the autistic spectrum and of his father. The role of psychoanalysis and of the psychoanalyst in promoting the creation of an internal home will be described in reference to technique.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJoshua Durban\, FIPA\, is training and supervising child and adult psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (IPA); and a research analyst and instructor at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. He is the founder and the clinical director of the Vista Autism Center (VAC) at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services (VDM) in Los Angeles\, which provides psychoanalytic treatment for infants\, toddlers\, adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum and their families. He is on the faculty of the School of Medicine\, Tel-Aviv University\, The Psychotherapy Program\, Post-Graduate Kleinian Studies and the Early Mental States track. He is the editor (together with Dr. Merav Roth) of the Hebrew edition of the collected works of Melanie Klein. He is a member of the IJPA international editorial board and of the IPA inter-committee for the prevention of child abuse. He has a private practice in Tel-Aviv and Los Angeles and specializes in the psychoanalysis of ASD and psychotic children\, adolescents and adults. He is currently also teaching and supervising in the UK\, Germany\, Australia and the USA. His research on autism\, trauma and early development has been published and translated internationally.\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nTammy Kaminer\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience in the treatment of children and adolescents\, parents\, couples\, and families. Dr. Kaminer is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent training program\, and part of the program’s faculty. Her previous experience includes providing psychotherapy\, neuropsychological testing\, and supervision in school and hospital settings. Dr. Kaminer is in full-time private practice in New York City.\n  \nEVENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES:\n\n\nDiscuss the origins of a sense of home in early infancy\n\n\nName two types of anxieties characteristic of neurodiverse infants\n\n\nDescribe the dynamics of early infantile trauma\n\n\nDemonstrate clinical work with post-traumatic autistic withdrawal
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/joshua-durban-phd-home-homelessness-and-nowhere-ness-in-early-infancy-part-1-of-2/
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SUMMARY:Joshua Durban\, FIPA\, Supervised Clinical Presentation - Part 2 of 2*
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\n\nJOSHUA DURBAN\, FIPA\nSupervised Clinical Presentation\nTHURSDAY\, DECEMBER 5th\, 11:45AM-1:00PM\n*This is Part 2 of a two-part event\n\nABOUT TODAY’S PRESENTATION\nA case will be discussed with a focus on new diagnostical and technical considerations gained from working with neurodiverse infants and adults. Dr. Tammy Kaminer will present and Dr. Durbam will supervise.\n1.25 CEs are available for attending this event. \nABOUT TODAY’S SUPERVISOR\nJoshua Durban\, FIPA\, is training and supervising child and adult psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (IPA); and a research analyst and instructor at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. He is the founder and the clinical director of the Vista Autism Center (VAC) at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services (VDM) in Los Angeles\, which provides psychoanalytic treatment for infants\, toddlers\, adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum and their families. He is on the faculty of the School of Medicine\, Tel-Aviv University\, The Psychotherapy Program\, Post-Graduate Kleinian Studies and the Early Mental States track. He is the editor (together with Dr. Merav Roth) of the Hebrew edition of the collected works of Melanie Klein. He is a member of the IJPA international editorial board and of the IPA inter-committee for the prevention of child abuse. He has a private practice in Tel-Aviv and Los Angeles and specializes in the psychoanalysis of ASD and psychotic children\, adolescents and adults. He is currently also teaching and supervising in the UK\, Germany\, Australia and the USA. His research on autism\, trauma and early development has been published and translated internationally.\n\nABOUT TODAY’S CASE PRESENTER\nTammy Kaminer\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience in the treatment of children and adolescents\, parents\, couples\, and families. Dr. Kaminer is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent training program\, and part of the program’s faculty. Her previous experience includes providing psychotherapy\, neuropsychological testing\, and supervision in school and hospital settings. Dr. Kaminer is in full-time private practice in New York City.\n  \nEVENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES:\n\nDiscuss the origins of a sense of home in early infancy\nName two types of anxieties characteristic of neurodiverse infants\nDescribe the dynamics of early infantile trauma\nDemonstrate clinical work with post-traumatic autistic withdrawal
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/joshua-durban-phd-supervised-clinical-presentation-part-2-of-2/
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SUMMARY:REVERSOS with Dr. Ernesto Mujica
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS \nTHURSDAY\, December 5th\, 2024 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nREVERSOS\nWITH ERNESTO MUJICA\, PhD\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Ernesto Mujica was inspired to share his experience following a visit in February 2024 to the Museo del Prado and seeing the exhibit\, “Reversos”.  According to him\, “There were two very unique aspects to this exhibit: one being that the curator is an artist himself – rather than an art historian – as would most typically be for an exhibit of this nature. The curator\, Miguel Angel Blanco\, noted that the museum had provided him with the “poetic license for subjectivity and imagination” to be an integral part of this project. The second unique feature was the focus on an exploration of the reverse side of paintings.”\nDr. Mujica was struck by the kindred spirit between the project of “Reversos” and our work as psychoanalysts\, a project entrenched in curiosity and fascination with the relationship between what is portrayed and what is hidden\, what is initially offered as ‘real’ and what has led to its creation\, its context and its history. Some of the topics to be discussed in his presentation concern the self-portrait of the artist as it is revealed by the back side of a painting and the ‘unseen’ as a field for experimentation and subjective expression.   Clinical vignettes will be discussed which highlight contrasts between how the therapist initially perceives and imagines the patient and what is consequently revealed.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI\, 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 as sociocultural factors in mental health\, with his strong interest in the arts.  His previous talks within the WAWI Artists Study Group have included discussions of artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria)\, Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree\, Canada)\, and Yayoi Kusama (Japan).\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors of the  Artist Study Group.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/reversos-with-dr-ernesto-mujica/
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SUMMARY:WHO IS DEPTH THERAPY SUITED FOR? Challenging the Myths and Stereotypes
DESCRIPTION:The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients\, Our Practice and Ourselves\nUSHA TUMMALA-NARRA\, PhD\nWHO IS DEPTH THERAPY SUITED FOR? CHALLENGING THE MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES\nwith Moderator Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\nFriday\, December 6th\, 2024 from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern\nAN ONLINE PRESENTATION\n1.5 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, check your Trash and Spam folders. If you still see no link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\nNOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.\n\nCost: $30 per person\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThis presentation will address myths and stereotypes of depth therapies – specifically psychodynamic psychotherapy\, with racial and ethnic minority clients. Dr. Tummala-Narra will delineate how these misperceptions contribute to racial disparities in access to appropriate mental health care. She will explore how the historical neglect of sociocultural issues in clinical theory shape contemporary notions of depth therapy and call attention to how psychodynamic concepts are critical for culturally informed interventions. She will present research and clinical case vignettes to illustrate how sociocultural oppression\, such as racism and xenophobia\, can be engaged in the therapeutic relationship.\n  \nABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES\nIn these last few years\, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics\, social justice\, the natural world\, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges\, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help\, what people are looking for in mental health treatment\, and how we can support and protect the work we do\, while making it more accessible to more people.\nPrevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged\, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public\, including marginalized communities\, towards a reduced set of options.\nMany of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education\, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.\nThis webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape\, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.\nRead about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n \nUsha Tummala-Narra\, PhD\, is a Professor of Counseling\, Developmental\, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration\, trauma\, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis\, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016)\, the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil\, Uncertainty\, and Resistance (2021)\, and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023)\, all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\n \nBevin 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. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live\, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/who-is-depth-therapy-suited-for-challenging-the-myths-and-stereotypes/
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SUMMARY:How are Sex and Gender Embodied in the Therapeutic  Relationship?
DESCRIPTION:THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES\nWilliam Cornell\, MA; Sarah Schoen\, PhD; Jack Foehl\, PhD; Stacy Berlin PsyD\,\nwith Moderators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nHOW ARE SEX AND GENDER EMBODIED IN THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP?\nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 7th\, 2024\nOnline from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.\n2 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, you should check your Trash and Spam folders. If you have not received your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nFrom the earliest beginnings of psychoanalysis\, perceptions of sex and gender have greatly influenced the therapeutic relationship.  Societal upheavals in our world along with the turn toward embodiment have led to significant changes in our understanding of these concepts. Our speakers examine sex and gender in contemporary clinical practice from a variety of perspectives.\n  \nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nSTACY BERLIN\, PsyD\, is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst in Studio City\, CA. She is on the Board of Directors for the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education\, a Guest Editor for the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, an Associate Editor for the journal Psychoanalysis Self and Context\, and an instructor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In her professional practice\, she takes an egalitarian and contextualist approach within a safe relational framework\, integrating creativity\, play\, and humor.\nWILLIAM CORNELL\, MA\, maintains an independent private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh\, PA.  He teaches internationally with a primary focus on working with somatic processes and sexuality.  He is a founding faculty member of the recently inaugurated Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies and is the author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers\, Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living\, Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and subjectivity in clinical practice\, At the Interface of Transactional Analysis\, Psychoanalysis\, and Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and clinical perspectives\, and Une Vie Pour Etre Soi.  He is a co-author and editor of Into TA: A comprehensive textbook\, which have been translated into several languages.  Bill has published numerous articles and book chapters\, many of which have been translated into French\, Italian\, German\, Portuguese\, and Chinese.  Bill edited and introduced books by James T. McLaughlin\, Warren Poland\, Wilma Bucci\, and Maurice Apprey.  An editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal for fifteen years\, he is now the Editor of the Routledge book series\, “Innovations in Transactional Analysis.”  Bill is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for Transactional Analysis Gold Medal\, in recognition of his writing.\nJACK FOEHL\, PhD\, is past-President of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute\, where he is Training and Supervising Analyst and is Supervisor and Faculty Member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Jack is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a past editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Jack’s recent publications include Playing with Winnicott: Squiggling Through Therapeutic Consultations; The Slap: Playing with Reality in Discussing Trauma in 2022\, and Lived Depth: A Phenomenology of Psychoanalytic Process and Identity in 2020. He integrates Merleau-Ponty’s work on the lived body into a framework for teaching and experiencing psychoanalytic process.\nSARAH SCHOEN\, PhD\, is Faculty\, Supervising\, and Training Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute\, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, and she teaches and writes about contemporary perspectives on gender\, narcissism\, and the clinical implications of the relational turn. She is co-editor\, with J. Petrucelli and N. Snider\, of Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2023). She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.\n\nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDORIS 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.\n \nJON 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.\nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired 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.\nA 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.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/how-are-sex-and-gender-embodied-in-the-therapeutic-relationship/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - LEXI KOREN
DESCRIPTION:LEXI KOREN \n\n\nThe Global Assault on Youth Gender-Affirming Care: \nHow Opponents Hijacked the Narrative \n\nWednesday\, December 11\, 2024 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \n\nOn Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/ \n\n  \nDescription: Over the past five years there has been an unprecedented assault on gender-affirming care for youth across the United States\, Canada\,Western Europe\, and Australia. This talk focuses on the international network of “Gender critical” feminists\, anti-affirming doctors and psychologists\, and the Christian right which have successfully hijacked the narrative around these treatments. It also focuses on how mainstream media in the US and abroad have bought into these narratives and how their coverage has been used to restrict care for this population. \n  \nSpeaker: Lexi Koren has worked in electoral politics and advocacy for over 14 years. She began researching and writing about the assault on youth gender-affirming care in 2022 after seeing the flood of disinformation on the topic and lack of adequate response. She published one of the first articles in the US that interviewed trans people in Sweden and Finland to understand why their countries were restricting trans health care. She writes media criticism of youth gender-affirming care coverage for FAIR\, and her recent piece on the Cass Review was one of the outlet’s top 10 articles of the year. She presented at the US Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH) conference in 2023 on the spread of disinformation about adolescent gender affirming care. \n  \n\n\nPlease note: \n\n  \n\nRegistrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from \nThe William Alanson White Institute with subject line: \n“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”. \nLGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded. \nWe are not able to provide CE credits at this time. \nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair\, \nWilla N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net
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SUMMARY:A Shimmering Landscape with Dodi Goldman\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS\nA Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life\nwith Dodi Goldman\, PhD\nThursday\, January 2nd from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nAcclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman will offer us an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration. Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we\nare not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens when we cannot do so? Dr. Goldman will present evocative visual images – a prehistoric figurine\, a Hindu lithograph\, an Italian etching\, an Inuit statue\, a painting by Magritte\, and more-for us to imagine together; revealing unexpected connections and novel insights into what enlivens experience to make the personal landscape shimmer.\n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDr. Dodi Goldman is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. His new book is The Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life and his previous books include In Search of the Real and A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Clinical Imagination\, which won the 2017 Gradiva Award for Best Book in Psychoanalysis.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-shimmering-landscape-with-dodi-goldman-phd/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - ADAM GAUBINGER\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ Study Group of the William Alanson White Institute invites you \nto a candidate case presentation by: \n  \nADAM GAUBINGER\, LCSW \nCompeting Regimes of Truth and the Construction of an “I”: \nPsychoanalysis\, Digital Media\, and Biomedicine in the Case of Jo \n  \nWednesday\, January 8\, 2025 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \n\n\n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease Note: Because this will be a presentation of case material\, attendance is limited to Division 1 and CAPTP candidates (current and graduates) and current Online IPPP and Online TOPP students. Please join the meeting 5 minutes before scheduled start time so as not to delay the meeting. The “waiting room” will be open beforehand \nDescription: This presentation explores the case of Jo\, a non-binary trans masculine person with chronic illnesses. It will think about the discordant discourses of selfhood and ways of relating to bodily experiences that Jo draws on as they build a more stable\, true feeling “I”: those in their family and early relationships; those from their engagement with the medical system; and those found in trans and disability communities on social media. These different ways of knowing seem to assist in Jo’s quest to live a survivable life and yet\, at other times\, constrain and defend against a more interpersonal\, psychoanalytic way of experiencing and knowing the self.  \n  \nAdam Gaubinger\, LCSW\, is a clinical social worker in private practice\, where he sees adults and teenagers. He graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 2017 and is a second-year psychoanalytic candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. His writing draws from queer critique and psychoanalysis to think about technology\, desire\, and processes of subject formation and disintegration.  \n\n\n\nPlease note: \n– Registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from \nThe William Alanson White Institute with subject line: \n“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”. \n– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded. \n– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair\, \nWilla N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/lgbtq-study-group-adam-gaubinger-lcsw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250113T193000
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SUMMARY:21st Century Children and Adolescents: Clinical Approaches
DESCRIPTION:A new program for professionals of all disciplines and levels of experience\, held online\, starting January 2025.\nEvery generation faces new challenges. Children born in the 21st century are clearly facing unique ones. Consider the events and issues affecting this generation:  September 11\, 2001\, ongoing\, multiple school shootings\, the pervasiveness of the internet and social media\, the expanded use of smart phones\, controversies and issues around nonbinary gender identification\, the MeToo\, Black Lives Matter\, Climate Justice and Trans movements; donor babies (assisted reproduction) and the COVID-19 pandemic – to name a few.\nAs clinicians we are aware that the sociopolitical\, cultural developments\, and traumatic events are shaping the emotional and social lives of the children and adolescents we treat. This program will focus on contemporary clinical topics related to today’s challenges.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n10 Classes\, presented online\, on the second Monday of each month from 7:30 to 9:00 pm\nClasses are held in 2025 on the following dates:\nJanuary  13\, February 10 \, March  10\, April  14\,  May 12\, June 9\, (no classes in July or August) September 8\, October 13\,  November  10\, December  8.\n15 CE CREDITS will be available upon completing this course.\n\nTUITION\nEarly Registration pricing: $475 (offered through 1/1/2025 )\nProfessionals\, starting 1/2/2025: $550\nStudents\, Candidates and current attendees of What Really Works: $400\n\nProgram Director: Wendy Panken\, LCSW\n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/21st-century-children-and-adolescents-clinical-approaches/
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SUMMARY:Nancy Kulish\, PhD\, A Case of Infantile Trauma and the Question of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nNANCY KULISH\, PhD\nA CASE OF INFANTILE TRAUMA AND THE QUESTION OF RESILIENCE \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 24th\, 2025 from 7:30-9:30pm\nAlice Sohn\, PhD\, Moderator\nPresented in person\, on location at the Institute\n20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\nSeating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come\, first serve basis.\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe author presents a case of early infantile trauma. Experiences of severe neglect during infancy came to life in this woman’s analysis through dramatic bodily experiences on the couch. The case touches upon technical and theoretical questions about the recovery and reconstruction of early\, non-verbal memories and how they arise within the transference/countertransference. Of particular interest are questions that the case raises about psychoanalytic ideas of development and resiliency in surviving early and continuing trauma\, given this woman’s high-level functioning in many areas of her life. The author draws upon Winnicott’s views on the infant’s share in “going-on-being” and argues for a more questioning approach to understanding how individuals overcome and transcend early trauma.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNancy Kulish\, PhD\, is Professor\, Department of Psychiatry\, Wayne State Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Psychology\, University of Detroit/Mercy. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she was past president and is a Training and Supervising Analyst. Currently she is on the Editorial Boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and serves on the IPA Steering Committee for Working Parties. She has published and presented on topics ranging from female sexuality\, gender\, transference/countertransference\, termination\, and supervision. With Deanna Holtzman\, she is the co-author of A Story of Her Own\, The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed (2008)\, and co-editor of The Clinical Problem of Masochism (2014). She is in private practice in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan.\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nAlice Sohn\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst\, and faculty at the William Alanson White Institute\, where she is also the Director of Training\, and is Book Review Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.\n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\n\nDiscuss how early bodily memories of infantile trauma may be expressed in the transference/countertransference in psychoanalysis\n\n\nEvaluate the factors that may contribute to resilience to early trauma.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/nancy-kulish-phd-a-case-of-infantile-trauma-and-the-question-of-resilience/
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SUMMARY:Poets\, Artists and Analysts: Insight into Action with Erica Ehrenberg
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS\nPoets\, Artists and Analysts: Insight into Action\nwith Erica Ehrenberg\nThursday\, February 6\, 2025 from 1:30-3:00Pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPoet and prose writer Erica Ehrenberg started writing poetry at a young age. As she pursued a life built around this work\, she felt it to be a process of self-definition — deeply influenced by\, but also in contrast to her parents’ careers as psychoanalysts. When she decided to pursue psychoanalytic training herself\, she discovered that being an artist and being a psychoanalyst fed each other and that the deeply creative\, expressive\, and relational links between the two were fundamental to her understanding of what it means to enact internal change in any context.\nFor this presentation she will be reading poems from her manuscript in progress\, which explores intimacy\, motherhood\, and the body.  She will also present excerpts from her paper\, On Not Knowing and the Relational Location of the Self\, where she asks what it means to work as a  psychoanalyst in the “generative unknown\,” and compares the work of poets and painters like Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Guston to Freud’s concept of the life instinct and to Winnicott’s “potential space.”\nErica Ehrenberg’s poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals including  The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, BOMB Magazine\, Slate\, The New Republic\, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet Series\, Poetry Daily\, Guernica\, The Bennington Review\, The Mississippi Review\, The Harvard Review\, The Common as well as The Paris Review Podcast. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford\, and a Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has taught creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies\, New York University\, Storm King Art Center\, and Fordham University. A recent graduate of The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) psychoanalytic training program\, Erica lives in New York City\, where she is establishing a private practice\, and teaches courses on the intersection of psychoanalysis\, art\, and literature.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/poets-artists-and-analysts-insight-into-action-with-erica-ehrenberg/
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SUMMARY:How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?
DESCRIPTION:THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES\nUdesh Anda\, PsyD\,  Fanny Brewster\, PhD\, MFA\,  Lynne Jacobs\, PhD\, and Guilaine Kinouani\nwith Moderators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nHow are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?\nSATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 22nd\, 2025\nOnline from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. \n2 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. \nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, you should check your Trash and Spam folders. If you have not received your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org  \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you. \n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAlthough therapists and patients have always lived in a world roiled by racism\, few psychoanalytic therapists have examined how racial differences affect the clinical situation. In the hope of bringing this important matter to the forefront of our attention\, this conversation focuses on the embodiment of blackness and whiteness within therapeutic contexts.\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\nTHE SPEAKERS\nUdesh Anda\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist\, a specialist in child and adolescent psychology\, and a clinical society psychologist. He has worked in both the public and private sectors for over 30 years. Using a psychodynamic perspective and approach\, he has worked as as clinical practitioner for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties for more than 10 years. Since he is originally from Sri Lanka\, he offers education and counselling on minority issues. His special interest is on variables that are often unspoken\, yet sensitive for the people of minority origin.\nFanny Brewster\, PhD\, MFA\, is a Jungian analyst and Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her analytical training at  the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst and Certified School Psychologist. She holds an M.F.A. degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.  Dr. Brewster is the author of several books\, including The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race\, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss\, African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows and Race and the Unconscious:  An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming.  (All Routledge) Dr. Brewster is the recipient of the Fay Lectures honorarium of 2023 from the C.G. Jung Society of Houston.\nLynne 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.\nGuilaine Kinouani is an award-winning writer\, psychologist\, group analyst\, and thinker. She is the founder of Race Reflections. She taught critical psychology\, social sciences and black studies at Syracuse before her PhD at Birkbeck. Her first book Living While Black (2021) exposes the impact of racism on black minds and bodies. Her second book\, White Minds (2023) is a psychosocial exploration of the quotidian workings of whiteness. In her upcoming co-edited collection: Creative Disruption: Psychosocial scholarship as praxis (2025)\, contributors explore power\, knowledge\, memory\, embodiment and the of potential of multidisciplinary approaches in fostering epistemic disruption. Guilaine’s thesis examines whiteness and the afterlives of colonialism and enslavement in the clinic using Afro-analytics\, a frame she is developing to rethink racial trauma\, inheritance\, transmission and associated issues of communication and embodiment within the black diaspora.\nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris 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.\n \nJon 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.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired 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.\nA 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.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment
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SUMMARY:Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In Person Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\nMonday\, February 24\, 2025\n7:30-9:00 PM\nFamilies and High Conflict Divorce: Working within a Psychoanalytic Framework\nwith Erin Cantor\, LCSW\, Lisa Dubinsky\, PsyD\, and Jacqueline Ferraro\, DMH\nJoin us at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues)\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTATION\nChildren during a high conflict divorce benefit from a combination of play\, arts and crafts\, and talk therapy. Their parents’ cooperation and engagement are crucial\, as with all child work\, but the relationship and legal issues make working with these parents complex.\n   \nOur presenters will discuss their work with children and parents at various stages of the separation/divorce process. ​ Describ​i​ng work with collateral professionals​ –including attorneys for the child and parent coordinators\, t​hey will address how these can be helpful but can also complicate treatment. ​I​mpacts on the clinician will also be addressed\, as countertransference feelings can be quite powerful.\nLight refreshments will be served following the presentation\nTHE PRESENTERS\nErin Cantor\, MA\, LCSW​\, is a child play therapist\, and adolescent\, adult and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She received post graduate training in Family Therapy from The Ackerman Institute and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) from Behavioral Tech. Entering her final year in the three year child and adolescent psychotherapy training program (CAPTP) at The William Alanson White Institute\, Erin is also completing her first year in the Anni Bergman Parent Infant Program (ABPIP) with Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)\, also in New York City\, where she lives\, works and occasionally writes with her family.\nLisa Dubinsky\, PsyD​\, is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (CAPTP). She is a faculty member and supervisor of CAPTP.  Lisa worked at the Jewish Board in the Early Childhood Program\, including developmental evaluations\, play therapy\, small group therapy\, and parent guidance.  She has worked for many years with children\, adolescents\, and adults\, and providing preschool consultation and parent workshops on topics relevant to young children.\nJacqueline Ferraro\, DMH\, is Executive Committee member\, faculty and supervisor in both the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) and in the Eating Disorders\, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS) at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Ferraro is in private practice in Manhattan working with children\, adolescents\, and adults.\n 
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House with Clinical Case Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Training Program In Person Open House\nWednesday\, February 26th from 7:30-9:00pm\nFollow Me\, I’ll Show You the Way: Trauma\, Twinship\, and Transference in an Analytic Training\nA Clinical Case Presentation and Discussion\nby BIAGIO MASTROPIERI\, PhD\, Candidate\nwith ERNESTO MUJICA\, PhD\, Case Discussant\nand TOMAS CASADO-FRANKEL\, LMFT\, Moderator\nThe 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\, Director of Admissions. Light refreshments will follow the presentation\, discussion and a Q&A.\nThe Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street\, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenues.\nBiagio Mastropieri\, PhD\, 2nd year Candidate in the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training Program\, has a private practice in New York City. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University and completed a pre-doctoral internship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospitals in New York. Dr. Mastropieri previously served as Program Director for Project Rising\, an outpatient treatment program at Montefiore Medical Center.\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, Psychotherapy  Supervisor at WAWI and Director of its Sexual Abuse Study Group & Service. He is also an Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, journal of the Institute and Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Mujica was past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis for the NYS Psychological Association and served on the Board of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychology (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association. He is also faculty of the Korean Institute of Clinical Psychoanalysis in Seoul\, and is a Facilitator at MenHealing.org.\nTomás Casado-Frankel\, LMFT\, WAWI Director of Outreach and Recruitment\, is a graduate of both its Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. He is co-author of Early Relational Trauma and the Development of Self\, published by Routledge in 2022.
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SUMMARY:EMPOWERING CLINICIANS: PRACTICAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
DESCRIPTION:The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients\, Our Practice and Ourselves\nJOE FELDMAN\, MBA\nKATE GALLAGHER\, PhD\nBRIAN HUFFORD\, ESQ\nEMPOWERING CLINICIANS: PRACTICAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT\nwith Moderator Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\nFriday\, February 28th from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern\nAN ONLINE WEBINAR\n1.5 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, you should check your Trash and Spam folders. Still no link-letter by the business day prior to the event?  Email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\nNOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.\n\nCost: $30 per person\n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nIn an ideal world\, everyone would have access to affordable\, quality health insurance. Clinicians would provide the care that’s needed\, and insurers would reliably process and pay claims. If problems arose\, laws\, regulations\, and litigation would ensure compliance and fairness and help protect patients and their treatment. After all\, health insurance benefits are designed to help people access the care they need to maintain their health and well-being without facing overwhelming obstacles and financial burdens.\nRegrettably\, this ideal system remains elusive. Disparities in insurance coverage\, especially for mental health\, routinely force people to choose between forgoing essential care or incurring massive out-of-pocket expenses. When it comes to therapies of depth\, insight and relationship\, obtaining appropriate insurance coverage may be especially difficult. For those already facing mental health and addiction issues\, navigating insurance denials and fighting for appropriate coverage can be a daunting prospect. When the system falls short\, advocacy by patients and clinicians may be required. Yet\, many clinicians feel equally disempowered and lost.\nThe purpose of this panel is to empower clinicians with the knowledge and resources needed to support patients in obtaining appropriate reimbursement for treatment. Drawing on their diverse professional backgrounds\, panelists will identify common barriers to care\, demystify the systemic factors underlying these barriers\, and provide practical resources – tools\, templates\, step-by-step instructions – to address them.\n\n\nABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES\nIn these last few years\, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics\, social justice\, the natural world\, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges\, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help\, what people are looking for in mental health treatment\, and how we can support and protect the work we do\, while making it more accessible to more people.\nPrevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged\, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public\, including marginalized communities\, towards a reduced set of options.\nMany of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education\, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.\nThis webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape\, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.\nRead about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) \n  \n\nABOUT THE PANELISTS\nKathryn (Kate) Gallagher\, PhD\, is a staff psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, and faculty member at the Austen Riggs Center. She is also in private practice in Stockbridge\, MA. In addition to her clinical practice\, Dr. Gallagher is committed to addressing human rights and health equity issues. This often takes the form of supporting patient and clinician efforts to obtain insurance coverage for medically necessary behavioral health care.\n  \n\n  \nJoe Feldman\, MBA\, is President and Founder of Cover My Mental Health. He began advocating for access to mental health care after overcoming denials for his daughter’s residential care\, including with a successful federal lawsuit. His advocacy work has included policy-driven discussions with legislators and regulators\, a board role with The Kennedy Forum Illinois\, presentations to parent groups\, and publication of actionable guidance such as a 2021 article in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice on medical necessity letters (including a letter template).\n  \n  \n\nBrian Hufford\, Esq\, a graduate of the Yale Law School\, is a Partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in New York City. Over the past two decades\, he has been an industry leader in challenging improper denials and underpayments by health insurance companies and claims administrators on behalf of providers\, provider associations\, and patients. His efforts include a national legal effort that is systematically challenging mental health discrimination by insurers. In his innovative and nationally recognized practice\, Mr. Hufford’s work has provided relief to tensof thousands of individuals who have been impacted by widespread mental health discrimination or other forms of improper coverage denials\, forced policy changes by insurers\, and significantly influenced health care law. These efforts have led to two of the largest recoveries ever obtained in ERISA-based health insurance class actions\, and to a collection of other precedent-setting decisions that have transformed the rights of patients and providers. Mr. Hufford led the team behind the landmark case Wit v. United Behavioral Health\, which has been recognized as one of the most important litigations addressing the legal rights of patients seeking appropriate coverage for their behavioral health services.\nMr. Hufford has received numerous honors and designations relating to his work\, including being honored with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) 2021 Rona and Ken Purdy Award for Distinguished Service for his sustained contributions to improving the lives of people who suffer from mental illness and their families. He has been awareded Law360’s “MVP” Award five times\, twice been named a Plaintiff’s Attorney “Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal\, and has been consistently recognized in industry rankings such as Benchmark Litigation and Super Lawyers. He is also a Board member of PsiAN\, in addition to many other leadership positions. Married to his wife\, Wendy\, another attorney\, Mr. Hufford is the proud father of eight children.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nBevin 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. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live\, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.
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SUMMARY:Donnel Stern\, PhD\, Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation\, Dissociative Enactment\, and the Social
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nDONNEL STERN\, PhD\nThinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation\, Dissociative Enactment\, and the Social\nFRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 28th\, 7:30-9:30PM\nwith Deborah Fraser\, PhD\, Moderator\nPresented in person\, on location at the Institute\n20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\nSeating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come\, first serve basis.\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis\, the author examines the relation of interpellation and enactment. Interpellation is a way of conceptualizing the creation of subjectivity via individual participation in the ideological tropes of power. Enactment is our psychoanalytic way of referring to unconscious participation in relatedness. In interpellation\, one person is “hailed” by another in a way that inducts the person so addressed\, without the awareness of either party\, into a relational pattern that includes both. The author argues that we can see the same process in dissociative enactment. Clinical process is illuminated by the recognition of the continuity of the social and the individual that is modeled by the relation of these two dissociative processes. New meaning–the formulation of unformulated experience–comes about unbidden\, sometimes slipping the traces of ideology. Paraphrasing an aphorism from Lacan: We think where we are not.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDonnel Stern\, PhD\, is Training and Supervising Analyst\, and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City; and Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant\, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is founder and editor of the Psychoanalysis in a New Key book series from Routledge\, which has 90 titles in print. He is former Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  He has published five books\, the most recent of which has just appeared\, On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field. He has also co-edited four books about the theory and practice of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Dr. Stern is in private practice in New York City.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nDeborah Fraser\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute\, where she is a member of the teaching faculty. She also serves on several key committees\, including the Council of Fellows\, the Training and Progression Committee\, and the Nominations and Elections Committee. In addition to her work at the Institute\, she maintains a full-time private practice in New York City.
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SUMMARY:Loss\, Resilience and Survival: The Art of Storytelling with Ed Gavagan
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nLoss\, Resilience and Survival: the Art of Storytelling\nwith Ed Gavagan\nand Discussant Eric Dammann\nTHURSDAY\, MARCH 6\, 2025 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\n\nArt has the power to inspire\, evoke emotions\, and leave a lasting impact on people’s lives. But how do artists create works that make us feel and think deeply?  Our presenter\, Ed Gavagan\, uses storytelling to capture moments in time that create a narrative that speaks to the human experience and our shared humanity. He will share his process of surviving childhood and adult trauma\, and talk about the role that storytelling has played in his recovery.  As psychoanalysts\, we bear witness through listening deeply to extraordinary stories.\n\n \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nEd Gavagan is owner of Praxis\, a design/build firm that has built homes and furniture nationally and internationally including the MOTH headquarters in New York City. In addition to his participation in the documentary film Procession\, he has shared his stories with live audiences\, on the Moth Radio Hour\, on A&E’s Biography Channel\, and in TED talks.  His most recent show\, Loud Memory\, was performed off Broadway at Theatre 154 and will be performed in Ireland in the summer of 2025.  For more information\, visit:  https://themoth.org and processionfilm.com\n\n\nABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT\nEric Dammann\, PhD\, is Co-Director of the Artist Study Group at WAWI.  He has a psychotherapy and executive coaching private practice in Manhattan and serves on the Board of Sounds of Saving\, a non-profit agency that uses music to address mental health and suicide prevention.\n\n\nJoin us for this special presentation!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:Supporting  the Front Line: Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges
DESCRIPTION:A SPECIAL IN-PERSON EVENING AT THE INSTITUTE \nMARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN\, PhD\, Moderator/Presenter\nand\nCLARICE J. KESTENBAUM\, MD \nAVA SIEGLER\, PhD\nNECHAMA SORSCHER\npresent\nSupporting  the Front Line:  Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges\nWednesday Evening\, March 26th\, from 7:30-9:00pm\nThe William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street\, between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues\, on New York City’s Upper West Side.\n1.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain CEs are sent out to registrants via email\, prior to the event\, so be careful to register with your correct email address. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, you may request CE instructions after the event.\nThis presentation has been arranged in conjunction with the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.\n\nABOUT THIS EVENING\nDr. Nechama Sorscher has brought together a panel of experts in child development and psychology and will lead the discussion. Together they will examine the pointed needs of today’s children and adolescents\, given the prevailing social and academic challenges they face. How best to help our kids develop confidence and positive self esteem? Topics of assessment\, school intervention\, and parent guidance and therapy will be discussed.\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $30\nCandidates and Students $15\n  \nABOUT OUR PANEL\n\nCLARICE J. KESTENBAUM\, MD\, is Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatry\, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The former Director of Residency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia\, Dr. Kestenbaum is the recipient of an endowed professorship in education and training. She is past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)\, and of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP). Dr. Kestenbaum is also the co-founder of CARING at Columbia\, an organization that helps at-risk underserved children through the arts and literature. The recipient of numerous awards for her leadership and service\, Dr. Kestenbaum has a broad range of expertise and focuses on child development\, psychopathology and children at risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.\nDr. Kestenbaum continues to teach and supervise medical students\, general psychiatry residents\, and second-year residents in outpatient psychotherapy. She is a consultant to the Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE) at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Dr. Kestenbaum is a graduate of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in both general and child and adolescent psychoanalysis.\n\n\nMARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who writes\, teaches\, lectures\, and consults both nationally and internationally. She is the author of The Adolescent Journey (Jason Aronson\, 1996; reissued by Rowman and Littlefield\, 2004)\, and of numerous articles on clinical and developmental theory\, adolescence\, and various aspects of culture. Dr. Levy-Warren is past president of The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)\, a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)\, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in both the CFS and the IPA. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and a Clinical Consultant in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Levy-Warren has a clinical practice with adolescents and adults\, and a consulting practice with parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.\n\n\nAVA SIEGLER\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, who received her PhD from New York University. She has post-graduate training in adult\, adolescent\, child\, couples\, and family work. In addition to professional papers\, she has written three award-winning books for parents. Dr. Siegler worked as a forensic consultant for the New York State Supreme Court for over fifteen years\, and continues to serve as a Parent Coordinator for high-conflict parents. In 1991\, after serving as Dean of Training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health for over ten years\, she developed and directed the Institute for Child\, Adolescent & Family studies which provided specialty training for over 150 child and adolescent clinicians. Dr. Siegler currently supervises and maintains a private practice in Chelsea\, Manhattan.\n\n  \nNECHAMA SORSCHER\, PhD\, has been in private practice in New York City since 1993. With over 20 years of individual and group counseling experience\, her extensive expertise includes performing comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations and teaching and supervising doctoral candidates. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in 1992\, and further completed her postgraduate psychoanalytic training in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New York University in 2016. Dr. Sorscher continues to engage in ongoing supervision with Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum\, (who is one of our speakers this evening)\, a leading specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. As of late\, Dr. Sorscher is a published author\, with her first full book Assessment and Intervention with Children\, Adolescents\, and Adults with Neurocognitive Challenges: A Psychodynamic Perspective\, out now\, and with a second book coming out in 2025 entitled\, Your Neurodiverse Child: Howto Help Kids with Learning\, Attention\, and Neurocognitive Challenges Thrive.\n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/supporting-the-front-line-helping-parents-and-teachers-improve-the-self-esteem-of-children-with-social-and-academic-challenges/
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SUMMARY:Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In Person Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\nWednesday\, April 2nd\, 2025 \n7:30-9:00pm\nFrom Playing to Playing With: the Evolution of the Imaginative Play of a Young Boy\nA Clinical Case Presentation by Camilla Xiao Yu\, MS\, LMHC\, LPC\nwith Supervisor Tomás Casado-Frankel\, LMFT\nJoin us at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues)\nLight refreshments will follow the presentation.\nABOUT THE PRESENTATION\nPlay can offer rich insights into a child’s internal world and is a great treatment modality to facilitate change and growth. In this case presentation\, Ms. Yu will share her experiences as a therapist working with a young boy for the first time. Through trial and error\, she navigates the patient’s curious developing psyche as well as her own unresolved issues. She will focus on exploring the evolving features of the patient’s imaginative play\, and its usefulness in ameliorating reported symptoms. The relational dynamic and counter-transferential impacts are explored and tentatively conceptualized.\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER AND THE SUPERVISOR\nCamilla Xiao Yu\, (she/they)\, MS LMHC LPC\, is a bilingual (English/Mandarin) psychotherapist and consultant\, and third-year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training program at the William Alanson White Institute. She is a Gestalt therapist trained in developmental somatic work and Reichian principles and is also a certified Imago Relational Therapist and Brainspotting practitioner. Her expertise lies in addressing relational\, intergenerational\, and cross-cultural trauma in the Asian and Asian immigrant communities. Beyond psychotherapy\, Ms. Yu is a certified Reiki master and studies Traditional Chinese Medicine.\nTomás Casado-Frankel\, LMFT\, is faculty and supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. He is a graduate of that program as well as the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Program. He is also a graduate of the Couple & Family Therapy program at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid\, Spain\, and holds a postgraduate diploma in Conflict & Dispute Resolution Studies from Trinity College in Dublin\, Ireland. He is the co-author of Early Relational Trauma and the Development of the Self (Routledge\, 2022)\, and is in private practice in New York City.
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SUMMARY:Everyday Alchemy: Transmutations of Art and Insight with Leslie Schultz
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nEveryday Alchemy:  Transmutations of Art and Insight\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Leslie Schultz\, MFA\, Poet\nand Discussant Sarah Stemp\, PhD\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 3rd\, 2025 from 1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nLeslie Schultz feels there are many ways of being an artist just as there are “self-states.”  She will explore with us how art-making has greatly enhanced her own sense of well-being on many levels — physical\, mental\, emotional\, social\, and spiritual — from early childhood on.  “Art is a fertile part of life. We encounter it and are affected — sometimes soothed or shaken and often changed — and then often we are moved to try our hand.”\nMs. Schultz will highlight the three stages of her intimate practice of poetry\, photography and quilting:  encountering and absorbing the art of others; being moved to make art herself\, and sharing that work with others in some informal or professional way. Discussant Dr. Sarah Stemp\, will elaborate on the alchemical shift in art-making\, the experience of psychotherapy for the patient and the capacity of the analyst to create with the patient.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeslie Schultz\, (Northfield\, Minnesota: www.winonamedia.net)\, has published six collections of poetry. Her most recent is Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making (Kelsay Books). Her poetry has appeared widely in such journals as Poet Lore\, Mezzo Cammin\, Midwest Quarterly\, Able Muse\, Naugatuck River Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, The Orchards Poetry Journal\, MockingHeart Review\, and Blue Unicorn. Twice nominated for Pushcart prizes\, she serves as a judge for the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. In addition to poems\, she publishes photographs\, essays\, and fiction.\nSarah Stemp\, PhD\, is a psychologist and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute where she teaches the class on the ending phase of psychoanalysis. She has also been studying and writing poetry for many years\, and has published a collection called Wellspring.\n\nJoin us for this special presentation! \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:Dominique Scarfone\, MD\, The Sexual Drive for Power. The Passion for Ever More.
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nDOMINIQUE SCARFONE\, MD\nTHE SEXUAL DRIVE FOR POWER. THE PASSION FOR EVER MORE.  \nwith Orshi Hunyady\, PhD\, Moderator\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 4th\, 7:30-9:30PM\nNOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW BEING PRESENTED ONLINE ONLY. It will not be held in-person as originally announced.\nLinks for online entry will be sent out prior to the event.\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn this paper\, the author explores what part is played by the human drives in the contemporary crises that assail humankind: global warming\, inequality\, racism\, rape and feminicide epidemics\, opioid crisis\, war and other forms of violence. Psychoanalysts usually refer to two classes of drives: erotic and aggressive. But in the face of the inextricable mixture of sex and violence\, one begins to wonder if we are not dealing with two sides of a single drive which we could call “a sexual drive for power” in which the sexual drive meets exacerbated narcissism. The Freudian roots of this sexual drive for power are explored and the notion is examined in relation with both individual and societal issues. The mechanism of allostasis is invoked as a possible central feature\, a link between the many aspects of the topics explored.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. In order to receive yours\, you must follow instructions on the link & information letter sent to your registration email address prior to the event. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDominique Scarfone\, MD\, is the 2024 Sigourney Award recipient\, honorary professor at the Université de Montréal\, member emeritus of the Montreal Psychoanalytic Society (French branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society\,) and honorary member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. He was an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis for several years\, recently retired from practice\, and continues teaching\, writing\, and presenting. He has published extensively\, authoring various books and contributing numerous book chapters\, as well as original papers in journals internationally. His most recent book is The Reality of the Message. Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (New York: The Unconscious in Translation\, 2023).\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nOrshi Hunyady\, PhD\, is a Training Psychoanalyst and faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Hunyady studies and writes about topics that highlight the link between psychoanalysis and social-societal phenomena. She has a full-time practice in New York City.
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SUMMARY:Inquiry as the Unique Aspect of Interpersonal Technique
DESCRIPTION:A new limited series offered online for clinicians at all levels\nInquiry as the Unique Aspect of Interpersonal Technique\nwith Ira Moses\, PhD\, ABPsa\nOffered online on four Wednesday mornings:\nApril 23 & 30 and May 7 & 14 from 9:00-10:30am/Eastern\nInquiry holds a unique position in Interpersonal psychoanalytic technique. This short program demonstrates through clinical vignettes how inquiry can be incorporated into psychodynamic work with patients. It is appropriate for therapists of all levels of experience and is presented online.\n  \nABOUT THE SERIES\nInquiry holds a unique position in psychoanalytic technique. Classical analysts dismissed it as a parameter beyond the accepted practices of interpretation and free association. More recently\, inquiry appears to conflict with intersubjective relational approaches that privilege inter-objectivity and unconscious communication. However\, this seminar will demonstrate that inquiry can be integrated with both schools of thought when viewed as a complex phenomenon with considerable variability. We will utilize participants’ case material to explore ways to demonstrate how inquiry can serve to elicit the patient’s expressive speech toward the aim of  articulating experiences that were previously repressed\, dissociated\, or unformulated.\nTopics discussed in this series will include:\nHow inquiry may be integrated in forming an alliance and developing a history\nThe grey area of inquiry vs intrusiveness\nRelationship of inquiry and free association\nInquiry across cultures\nCountertransference aspects of inquiry\nInquiry as a check on the analyst’s inferences and subjective assumptions\n\n\n  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nIra Moses\, PhD\, ABPsa\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst\, and is the former Director of Training and the former Director of Clinical Services at the William Alanson White Institute. He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and is Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center;  former Board Member and Faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance\, and is on the faculty of the Russian Intensive Psychodynamic Program. Dr. Moses is a Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA)\, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published articles on the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure; and The Analyst’s Resistance to Asking Questions.\n  \nSERIES COST:\n$350 for the series of four online Wednesday morning classes from 9:00-10:30am/Eastern\n6 CEs are offered\n\nIMPORTANT NOTES:\nRegistrants will receive their entry link to classes upon completing registration and payment.\nEntry links will also be sent out by email 1-3 days prior to the series’ first class – so enter your email address carefully! We are not responsible for links that don’t reach registrants whose email addresses are entered incorrectly. If you cannot find your link by the business day prior to the event\, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nInstructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. You must follow those instructions in order to receive the available CEs for this course.\n\nFor more information about this series\, contact: Karen G. Gennaro\, MD\, MBA at karenggennaro@aol.com and be sure to type “Inquiry Course” in the subject line of your email. \n 
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SUMMARY:CINEMANALYSIS with Anthony Drazan\, MFA
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nCINEMANALYSIS with Anthony Drazan\, MFA\nThursday\, May 1st\, 2025 from 1:30 to 3:00pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Drazan will explore his experience as a filmmaker and filmgoer\, and how those converge with his work as an analyst in training and an analysand. As an NYU graduate film student\, he was first introduced to the post-war cinema of the Italian neorealists and that of the genre-bending cinema of the French New Wave. Classical Hollywood narratives were “increasingly subordinated to time.” Encouraging the viewer to imbue images with associations\, memories\, interpretations\, and tapping into other\, less readily apparent aspects of themselves\, introspective cinema offered them experiences “in the how\, not the what.”\nHis first encounter with “the transcendental style”  of film was seeing Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring. He was genuinely moved by the story’s simplicity\, and the way it was told. It was “my experience watching\, my encounter with the film itself that had the most profound and lasting impact. It was meditative cinema\, the vase in the film’s final movement.”\nAs a Study Group\, we will consider Drazan’s questions:  What makes this style of film\, the time-image\, transcendental\, spiritual\, slow cinema so compelling?  What is the nature of its alchemy\, how does it manifest in psychoanalytic work\, why are we so moved?\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nTony Drazan received his MFA in Filmmaking from NYU in 1986.  He has worked for over 35 years writing\, directing\, and producing movies\, tv\, and original content. His many credits include award-winning movies Zebrahead and Hurlyburly.  He is a second year candidate in the Licensure Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute.\n  \nJoin us for this informal\, moving and reflective conversation!\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, Ph.D Co Directors\, Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:Gregory S. Rizzolo\, PhD\, The Significance of the Interpretant in the Field of Speech
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025\nPsychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nGREGORY S. RIZZOLO\, PhD\nTHE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTERPRETANT IN THE FIELD OF SPEECH\nFRIDAY\, MAY 9th\, 7:30-9:30PM\nwith Michael Rothman\, PhD\, Moderator\nSeating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come\, first serve basis.\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn his classic paper\, The function and the field of language and speech in psychoanalysis (1953)\, Lacan wrote that psychoanalysis had abandoned its original interest in speech. This concern\, which has animated the Lacanian tradition for nearly 75 years\, has found more recent expression in an empirically-oriented sector of American psychoanalysis. Litowitz (2011) argues that the turn to infant observation in America has led to an emphasis on visual-behavioral evidence over aural-oral data. The Lacanian tradition links the retreat from language with the rise of countertransference as a vehicle of insight in the Anglo-American schools. The danger\, as Fink (2010) emphasizes\, is that we might fall into “me-centered attention” instead of listening to language. There is\, however\, another way to think about countertransference\, one that suggests an alternative approach to speech\, grounded neither in Lacan\, nor in Saussure\, but in Charles Peirce’s theory of signs. The author argues that when we use the countertransference\, we are engaging a dynamic interpretant\, often an indexical icon\, to register the force and effect of a communication. Far from abandoning speech\, we find ourselves immersed in the work of signification. The author illustrates this approach through my reading of the recent case of Eliot (Busch\, 2014).\n1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nGregory S. Rizzolo\, PhD\, is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) and a faculty member at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. His work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology\, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child\, and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)\, among others. In 2017\, he received the JAPA Prize for the best paper of the year in the journal.  He is the author of The Critique of Regression (Routledge\, 2019).\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nMichael Rothman\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.  A graduate of the Psychoanalytic Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute\, he also completed a specialization in Couples and Family Therapy at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Rothman serves as co-Editor of the Book Review for Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he teaches psychoanalytic theory and is a clinical supervisor.
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SUMMARY:How is Madness Embodied in Psychoanalysis?
DESCRIPTION:THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES\nClaire Bien\, MEd\, Daniel Posner\, MD\, Louis Sass\, PhD\, Vincent Stephen\, PsyD\nwith Moderators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nHow is Madness Embodied in Psychoanalysis?\nSATURDAY\, MAY 17th\nOnline from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.\n\n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAlthough Freud doubted that psychotic patients could benefit from psychoanalysis\, he acknowledged that “suitable changes” in his method might “succeed in overcoming this contra indication.” From a variety of perspectives\, the four speakers in this conversation explore how a focus on the embodiment of madness represents a change in method that has brought about remarkable advances in the field.\n  \n\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n  \n\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox\, check your Trash and Spam folders. If you have not received your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\n  \n\nTHE SPEAKERS\nClaire Bien\, MEd\, is a research associate at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health; mental health advocate and educator; and author of a memoir\, Hearing Voices\, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head. She is a board member and immediate past president of the U.S. chapter of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US); as well as a board member of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN)-USA. Claire speaks widely about her experiences with psychosis and her understandings of the nature and processes of her recovery\, which was greatly helped by early exposure to psychoanalytically informed\, psychodynamic therapy. Her paper\, “My Body\, My Psyche\, My Self: An Empath’s Reflections on Being and Becoming in the World\,” will be published in 2025 as part of a special issue on Madness of the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, edited by Daniel Posner\, MD.\n\nDaniel S. Posner\, MD\, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai where he teaches and supervises psychiatry residents in psychodynamic therapy. His writing explores a range of topics through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis\, enactive phenomenology\, epistemic justice and infancy research. Dr. Posner has published work in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders\, Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, where he is an associate editor. He is also the co-host with Daniel Goldin of “The Conversation”– the podcast of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.\n\nLouis Sass\, PhD\, is Distinguished Professor\, Department of Clinical Psychology\, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology\, Rutgers University\, where he is also affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program and Center for Cognitive Science. Dr. Sass has published on phenomenological psychopathology\, psychoanalysis\, and the thought of Wittgenstein\, Heidegger\, Lacan\, and Foucault. He is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art\, Literature\, and Thought and of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein\, Schreber\, and the Schizophrenic Mind. A longtime fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities\, he has been a visiting professor in France\, Belgium\, Spain\, England\, Colombia\, and Mexico. Dr. Sass has received various awards; a revised edition of Madness and Modernism (Oxford University Press) was awarded the British Medical Association First Prize as best book in psychiatry for 2018.\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist working as a therapist and supervisor at the University Hospital in Tromsø\, North Norway. He specializes in psychotherapy for people struggling with complex trauma\, dissociation\, and serious relational difficulties. Dr. Stephen is a candidate at the Norwegian Character Analytical Institute in Olso\, a training institution for embodied psychoanalysis. He is interested in the therapeutic use of countertransference and has written on language\, embodiment\, suicide and authenticity. He is also a multi-disciplinary artist and musician\, who has written and performed in various works\, including several collaborations with dancer Mirte Bogaert.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris 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.\n  \n \nJon 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.\n\nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired 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.\nA 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.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment
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SUMMARY:IRREVERENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION:IRREVERENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS\nSATURDAY & SUNDAY  MAY 31 & JUNE 1 2025\nA DAY & A HALF\, LIVE ON LOCATION IN NYC and OFFERED ONLINE\nFEATURING 25 SPEAKERS\nPresented live at Constantino Hall\, Fordham University School of Law\, 150 West 62nd Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus Avenues)\, New York City\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nIrreverence (n).   ir⋅rev⋅er⋅ence\n\n\nAs regards blasphemy: an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideologies\, people\, or things\n\n\nAs regards subversion: a form of revealing hypocrisy\, protesting power\, and engaging transgression.\n\n\nAs regards comedy: a form of humor that challenges established norms\, traditions\, and authority through satire\, mockery\, or unexpected twists.\n\n\nAs regards psychoanalysis: all of the above.\n\n\n  \nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE\nSaturday\, May 31st 8:30am-5:15pm\, presentations begin at 9:00am.\nSunday\, June 1st 9:00am-1:30pm\, presentations begin at 9:15am.\nSaturday includes continental breakfast and coffee breaks with light snacks. There will be a break for lunch of 1 1/2 hours on Saturday.\nSunday includes continental breakfast and one coffee break with light snacks. \nRegistration for in-person attendance is now closed\, however registration for online attendance is still available. All speakers and discussions will be live-streamed in real time. \n\nCONFERENCE COSTS\nProfessionals: $375 \nCandidates and students – $185\nPlease Note:  Price includes entry for the entire conference\, with breakfast\, coffee service and snacks for our in-person attendees. There is no one-day rate. Registration cancellations and refunds will be made upon request through May 9th\, 2025. No refunds will be made after that date.\n10.25 CEs are available for attending this program. In order to qualify and receive a CE letter\, registrants must follow instructions that will be sent prior to and/or given out at the conference. \n  \n  \nDAILY SCHEDULE\, PANELS AND SPEAKERS\nSATURDAY\, MAY 31st\n8:30am Registration & Breakfast\n9:00-9:10am  \nWelcome: Jean Petrucelli\, PhD\, CEDS-S\, Chair of the Conference Advisory Committee (CAB)\n9:15-10:45am\nGetting Into Good Trouble: Race\, Sex\, and Enthusiasms\nPresenters: Dorothy Holmes\, PhD\, Sarah Schoen\, PhD\, Stephen Seligman\, DMH\, and Moderator Anton Hart\, PhD\nPsychoanalysis began as a subversive challenge to everyday thinking.  Although this has never entirely disappeared\, caution and conservativism have proliferated. Analysis has assimilated to its socio-cultural surrounds while remaining in tension with them.  From different vantage points\, this panel turns analytic inquiry onto ourselves:  How have we gone along with broader cultural biases about race\, sexuality\, and gender?  How do institutional and personal interests become stultifying and hegemonic\, rather than enlivening and expansive?  What are the best ways to integrate clinical and theoretical innovations and traditions\, while preserving vital psychoanalytic values?  How do we “decide” what should be dismantled or jettisoned\, and what should be retained?\nBREAK 10:45-11:00am\n11:00am-12:30pm\nBetween Two Points: Stretching Beyond Outside in and Inside Out as our Loyalties are Challenged\nOrna Guralnik\, PhD\, Susie Orbach\, PhD\, Jean Petrucelli\, PhD\, and Moderator Michael Becker\, PhD\nWe may be unaware of how grounded our interventions are in the beliefs we hold about ethics\, moral standing and our own goodness\, until those are ripped out from under us by events in the world highlighting how increasingly de-linked we are from experiences that will help us navigate the world as humans—from hunger to horror.  In the consulting room\, our loyalty to the experiences and utterances of our analysands – challenge us to examine our own beliefs\, identifications and loyalties to other ’shareholders’ of our psyche. In the space of the analytic relationship\, we hope to be able to think\, feel\, question\, and consider ideas that are often subversive\, irreverent and surprise us.  We do this within a frame – under strain – but which we hope can support our process.  How does this frame withstand the pressures – economic\, social and political which enter? From war to Ozempic\, social media prattle to fundamentalist modes of thought\, to interpersonal familial cruelties\, to the denial of appetite\, we –our frame and our bodies – are tested.\nLUNCH BREAK  12:30-2:00pm\n2:00-3:30pm\nAre Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity a False Dichotomy or an Inevitable Choice? \nPresenters: Amy Levy\, PsyD\, Todd Essig\, PhD\,  Fred Gioia\, MD\, and Moderator Cleonie White\, PhD\nThe AI revolution promises historically unprecedented advances. Some artificial intelligence agents already demonstrate utilitarian value by providing companionship\, aid\, and useful new information. But the psychoanalytic tradition has also always revered truth\, embodied minds\, human intimacy\, and the complexities of the unconscious. Unfortunately\, many AI revolutionaries are taking an irreverent\, dismissive approach to those fundamentals. This panel will consider the accelerating AI revolution from several psychoanalytic angles: what risks does AI pose to how we experience ourselves and each other? Why have we created AI? What human needs does it meet? In short\, what are we becoming and why? And\, most critically\, how might the psychoanalytic tradition positively influence the AI revolution because\, after all\, the future is not yet written?\nBREAK 3:30-3:45pm\n3:45-5:15pm\nApproach with Irreverence: Psychoanalysis\, Gender & Sexuality\nAnn D’Ercole\, PhD\, ABPP; Jack Drescher\, MD; Willa N. France\, JD; Jack Pula\, MD\, with Moderator Jack Drescher\, MD\nSexuality\, or at least Freud’s theories of libido and universal bisexuality\, was once central to psychoanalysis. Yet\, while Freud actively engaged with major sex researchers of his time\, today’s psychoanalytic mainstream has little or no engagement with modern sexology. In fact\, contemporary sexual science journals rarely refer to psychoanalytic theories of sexuality\, past or present. Nevertheless\, presentations of sexual and gender identities are changing\, obliging analysts to think in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forebears. These changes require analysts to be aware of limitations of their own theoretical traditions. For example\, how can one seriously address the state of psychoanalysis today when Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is required reading in most training institutes\, treating distinctions between “sexual object” and “sexual aim” as the greatest discovery since the invention of sliced bread? Can historical psychoanalytic theories about sexuality and gender help disentangle a burgeoning increase in today’s sexual and gender identities? Can metapsychological constructs proffered by contemporary analytic theorists of gender and sexuality provide answers? This panel does not aim to provide answers to the questions it raises but irreverently hopes to raise awareness of the field’s limitations\, past and present.\nSUNDAY\, JUNE 1st\n9:00-9:15am  Breakfast and Welcome\n9:15-10:45am\nDon’t talk to THOSE People! Does irreverence calm the waters or fuel the flames of toxic polarization?\nSue Kolod\, PhD\, Tom Hennes\, Suzannah Heschel\, PhD\, Tarek El-Ariss\, PhD\, and Moderator Mary B. McRae\, EdD\nToday’s divisive political climate has made the idea of talking to those on the “other side” an act of shocking irreverence if not traitorous betrayal. At the same time psychoanalysis has a long history of attempting to bridge what can feel like irreconcilable differences and splits\, as they appear in both individual and group dynamics. This panel will focus on how a psychoanalytic point of view can open up space that collapses under the weight of toxic polarization. In particular\, we will address the question of when a willingness to disregard normative constraints and pressures fuels polarization and when such irreverence can alleviate the destructive impact of us vs them dynamics. Rather than following the expectable\, and often appropriate\, tendency to avoid conversations that break down into attacks and opposition\, we explore what is possible when we are willing to place ourselves intentionally in the line of fire between polarized groups. This requires accepting the projections of group members and metabolizing them thereby (hopefully) challenging their rigidity and lessening their toxicity.\nBreak 10:45-11:00am \n11:00am-1:30pm\nIrreverence and Orthodoxy in Psychoanalysis\nPresenters: Adam Phillips\, PhD\, Avgi Saketopoulou\, PsyD\, Joel Whitebook\, PhD\,  and Moderator Velleda Ceccoli\, PhD\nFreud inaugurated psychoanalysis with a number of “irreverent” gestures that challenged the age’s humanistic self-understanding: child sexuality\, the amoral unconscious\, repression\, and so on. Yet many of Freud’s ideas subsequently hardened into a new “orthodoxy\,” defining both the psychoanalytic establishment and “deviations” from it. Nonetheless\, for this tradition to develop\, it seems that each generation must take up an attitude of irreverence towards the previous generation’s convictions and ideals. The panel will explore this dynamic\, asking: what is the place of irreverence in our intellectual history? What were the major turning points in this rolling self-critique? And what\, given today’s climate\, would now count as a properly “irreverent” intervention?\n  \nThe Conference Advisory Board [CAB] is:\nJean Petrucelli\, PhD\, Chair; Michael Becker\, PhD;  Jack Drescher\, MD.; Todd Essig\, PhD; Anton Hart\, PhD; Sue Kolod\, PhD; Sarah Schoen\, PhD; Naomi Snider\, LP; Cleonie White\, PhD.\n\n——-\nCONTINUING EDUCATION AND CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION\nFor Psychologists:\nThe William Alanson White Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor Continuing Education for Psychologists. 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