LGBTQ Study Group – SIEN RIVERA, M.D.

A Connected World: Playing With Identity Between the Virtual World and the Imagination   Wednesday, March, 6 2024 8:30 - 10:00 PM (EST) Description: This presentation will examine the use of virtual spaces as potential space in identity formation, through the lens of the theories of D. W. Winnicott, focusing on the worlds of video games […]

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In person Open House

An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation, Am I Really Here? Psychotherapy with an Adolescent Boy by Brooke Marlin, LCSW Wednesday evening, March 13th 7:30-9:00 pm 20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023 This presentation will follow the treatment of Michael, an adolescent male diagnosed […]

LGBTQ Study Group – JOY LADIN, PHD

Gender Identity is Just the Beginning: Exploring the Creative Potential of Trans Perspectives and Experiences    Wednesday, April, 3 2024 8:30 - 10:00 PM (EST) Description: Trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people tend to spend a lot of time in and out of therapy figuring out our gender identities, how to live them, and how to […]

Halloween Underground: New York Subway Portraits with Seymour Licht, MD

PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS THURSDAY, APRIL 4th FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern Halloween Underground: New York  Subway Portraits with Seymour Licht, MD Attend in person or online as follows: In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues Online via Zoom at: […]

Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects

with MARGARET CRASTNOPOL, PhD A 4-part online mini-course for clinicians at all levels, to explore and recognize micro-traumatic functioning, while learning how to work with patients in resolving these patterns. Held online on Fridays beginning April 5th. 6 CE credits are available upon completion   ABOUT THE COURSE Certain subtle types of psychic injury, called […]

A Woman I Once Knew with Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer

PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS THURSDAY, MAY 2nd FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern A Woman I Once Knew with Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer with Claire Basescu, Ph.D., Interlocutor   Attend in person or online as follows: In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & […]

CAROL GILLIGAN, PhD, NAOMI SNIDER, LLM, LP, and YAEL HALLAK with Discussant MICHELLE STEPHENS, PhD

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

LGBTQ Study Group – David Goldenberg, M.D.

“Homophobia: A Symptom”    Wednesday, May 8, 2024 8:30 - 10:00 PM (EST)   Description: The authors' thesis is that the pervasive prejudices that are homophobia and/or misogyny should alert us to significant underlying pathology in development, specifically in the resolution of ordinary or expectable developmentally normative narcissistic and relational wounds and conflicts. All gender development involves trauma. Structured […]

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In person Open House

An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation, Secret, Love and Protection – stories from a 9-year-old girl by Dan Liu, LCSW Wednesday evening, May 15th from 7:30 - 9:00PM 20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023   This presentation follows the therapy of Ava, a […]

Julianne Appel-Opper, Zeynep Catay, Ruella Frank, and Helena Vissing

Julianne Appel-Opper, Zeynep Catay, PhD, Ruella Frank, PhD, and Helena Vissing, PsyD with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD, and Jon Sletvold, PsyD HOW DOES EARLY DEVELOPMENT AFFECT THE EMBODIMENT OF THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER?   SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST 12 Noon - 2:00 PM/Eastern Daylight Time   A multi-view discussion followed by audience interaction. Presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich […]

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