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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 
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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.
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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.
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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.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/empowering-clinicians-practical-tools-to-support-mental-health-treatment/
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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. The William Alanson White Institute maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents.\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0004.\nFor Social Workers:\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0159.\nFor Licensed Psychoanalysts:\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0007.\nFor Physicians:\nThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the William Alanson White Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 10.25  [AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nIMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing\, marketing\, selling\, re-selling\, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.\n*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.\nFor Licensed Mental Health Counselors:\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0025.\nFor Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0019.\nFor Licensed Creative Arts Therapists:\nWilliam Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis and Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0011.
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LOCATION:Fordham University School of Law\, 150 West 62nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House on Wednesday\, June 4th
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, June 4\, 2025 from 7:30-9:00pm\nat the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street \n\n  \nLEARN ABOUT OUR UNIQUE PROGRAM FROM PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAM\nJoin us for a lively discussion about the training experience in the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute.\nA  panel of current candidates and recent graduates will share their training experiences and talk about the ways in which it has enhanced their work and self-confidence. All will be available to answer your questions about the training.\n\nJoin us! Light refreshments will be served.\n\nFaculty and Candidates will include:\nJennifer Kane\, LMSW\, is a graduate of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and is currently a third-year Candidate in the WAWI  Psychoanalytic Training Program.\nLiz Manus\, LCSW\, graduated in 2024 from the Child & Adolescent Training Program. She received her LCSW earlier this year and is currently transitioning into private practice.\nAmy Pacifici\, LCSW-R\, has been in private practice in NYC for over fifteen years\, specializing in work with children and adults who have acute trauma histories and with people with disabilities. A graduate of the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\, she is now a Clinical Supervisor and Faculty Instructor in the CAPT Program and she serves as an adjunct professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.\nStephanie Vanden Bos\, LCSW\, completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)\, where she is a supervisor and a training analyst. Since 2002\, working primarily with individual adults\, young adults and couples in private practice\, she saw a significant increase in referrals for teenagers and children during the pandemic\, and sought more advanced training.  She enrolled in the the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Program (CAPTP) at WAWI in September 2023.
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SUMMARY:The Rhythm of Life: Drumming and its Place in Human and Personal History
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\npresents\nThe Rhythm of Life: Drumming and its Place in Human and Personal History\nwith Eric Dammann\, PhD\, and James Polsky\, JD\, LP\nThursday\, June 5th\, 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\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nAs humans\, we are deeply and innately connected to rhythm.  Drs. Eric Dammann and James Polsky will explore the role of percussion through human history and its impact on their lives personally. They will share videos of their improvisational and embodied experience\, drumming in collaboration with fellow jazz and rock band members. The conversation will include a comparison of different styles of drumming – what is being expressed and what psychological needs are being met.\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nEric Dammann\, PhD\, is Co-Director of the Artist Study Group at the William Alanson White Institute. 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Polsky\, JD\, LP\,  is a graduate of the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Program and is a psychoanalyst in private practice. James founded the Jazz Standard club in New York City the 1990’s\, and is also the founder of Jazz Generation\, a non-profit organization that supports multiple weekly live jazz performances around the city. He is also a jazz drummer and plays in gigs around town with many wonderful musicians. \n\nJoin us for this very special event!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, Ph.D Co Directors\, Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - Pride Month
DESCRIPTION:Happy Pride to us all.  \nWe will not have a speaker for this month. Rather\, everyone is invited to a group chat to tell how they have managed these past months\, what their fears and hopes have been and are for the future.  \nThe meeting will not be held the first Wednesday\, but rather the second\, June 11\, 2025\, 8.30 – 10.00 pm. Come join us.  \nBest\,  \nWilla France \n  \n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n  \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
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SUMMARY:Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal-Relational Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 SUMMER EDUCATIONAL INTENSIVE\nMASTER CLINICIANS OF THE INTERPERSONAL-RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE\nMiri Abramis\, PhD\,  Sandra Buechler\, PhD\,  Jack Drescher\, MD\,  Anton Hart\, PhD\,  Jean Petrucelli\, PhD\, CEDS-S\nMonday-Friday\, June 23rd-27th\, 2025\n  \nWe are pleased to announce the 2025 Summer Educational Intensive\, offered in person\, on location at the Institute during June. This year offers a stellar line-up of five of the Institute’s most prominent Master Clinicians.\n  \nABOUT THE PROGRAM\nThis year the Institute is proud to present a program with five of its true Master Clinicians. Each offers expertise in a specific area. Their perspectives on the practice of Interpersonal-Relational psychoanalysis will illustrate technique and theory as applied to clinical material. Participants will attend three intensive hours each morning comprised of clinical case presentation\, live supervision\, group discussion\, and class Q&A.\nAll classes are held in person at the Institute. A welcome breakfast and introduction to the Institute will be part of the first morning’s schedule; coffee and light refreshments are available daily.\nThe format of the program offers class participants a unique vantage for observing and participating in clinical examination with direction and input from experts in the field. Afternoons and evenings are free for socializing and exploring New York City\, or for locals to return to their work settings.\n15 CEs are available for this program.\nThe William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue\, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\, several museums\, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.\n  \nTHE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM\nMONDAY\, JUNE 23rd\, 9:00am-12:30pm*\nSANDRA BUECHLER\, PhD\nThe Clinical Legacies of Sullivan and Fromm\nWhile both H.S. Sullivan and Erich Fromm emphasize the interpersonal nature of all human experience\, their clinical legacies differ some. Sullivan and Fromm are my Apollonian and Dionysian gods. That is\, Sullivan’s work guides me to approach treatment as occurring in phases\, while Fromm’s thinking infuses me with passion. One without the other would be incomplete. In this course I describe their influence\, with clinical illustrations.\nCase Presenter: Gal Katz\, PhD\n*Monday’s schedule includes a Welcome Breakfast and an introduction to the Institute\, starting at 9:00AM. \n\nTUESDAY\, JUNE 24th\, 9:30am-12:30pm   \nJACK DRESCHER\, MD\nFrom Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories\nThe study of human sexual and gender identities is changing\, obliging analysts to think about gender and sexualities in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forebears. These changes also require an awareness of the limitations imposed upon by their own theoretical traditions. Toward that end\, Dr. Drescher begins with a review of historical assumptions underlying the theory of bisexuality. Then\, introducing the role of categories and hierarchies in general\, he examines the particular clinical meaning of sexual hierarchies\, and a discussion of the meanings and uses of the term\, “natural.”  He concludes with a commentary on intersexuality as an example of both the social and surgical construction of gender.\nCase Presenter: Stephane Goldsand\, LP\, MBA\n\nWEDNESDAY\, JUNE 25th\, 9:30am-12:30pm   \nANTON HART\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\nThe Analyst’s Aspiration to be Radically Open to Patient Experience\, especially in Foreign Situations\nPracticing the dispositional stance of “radical openness” requires the analyst take to heart the analysand’s experience and formulations about the analyst. Dr. Hart will discuss this and the desired effect: creating a space for analytic self-discovery that may extend beyond the analyst’s tolerable awareness.\nCase Presenter: Sari Kessler\, PhD\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, JUNE 26th\, 9:30am-12:30pm\nMIRI ABRAMIS\, PhD\nListening with an Interpersonal Lens\nDespite our shared book learning on theory and technique\, each of us brings a unique subjectivity and instrument to analytic dialogue. Like our patients\, how we listen\, process\, and communicate word and deed are essential components of the ongoing conversation. In this workshop Dr. Abramis shares her Interpersonal perspective\, incorporating many of the varied influences that shape her thinking\, including the use of infant and child research in adult treatment\, the work of Edgar Levenson\, and an interest in comparative psychoanalysis. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss analytic listening following a detailed case presentation.\nCase Presenter: Sarah Best\, LCSW-R\n\nFRIDAY\, JUNE 27th\, 9:30am-12:30pm\nJEAN PETRUCELLI\, PhD\, CEDS-S\nThe Too-muchness and Not Enough-ness of Desire: What’s Food Got to Do with This?\nFor patients struggling with an eating disorder\, there is an unrelenting internal dialogue related to desire — the having or not wanting to want – and the consuming behavioral rituals that briefly quiet these tortuous thoughts and cause much suffering. Patients must triumph over these thoughts\, emotions\, compulsions\, and often\, the experience of denial\, in order to begin the road to recovery. From the Interpersonal perspective\, treating an ED involves the interplay between attending directly to the disorder and disengaging from the pull to do so.\nCase Presenter: Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\n  \n  \n\n\nPROGRAM PRICING\nTake advantage of our deeply discounted pricing\, available now:\nPROFESSIONALS $500\nCANDIDATES & STUDENTS $300\n  \nNote: Requests for refunds must be made before Monday\, June 9th\, which is two weeks prior to the course’s start date. From June 9th and on\, medical documentation will be required. \n  \n\n\nABOUT OUR MASTER CLINICIANS\nMiri Abramis\, PhD\, is Faculty\, Training and Supervising Analyst\, Emeritus Fellow at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She is currently teaching and writing about the work of Edgar Levenson. For many years she taught Child Development Research and Adult Treatment\, an ongoing area of interest. She is Director emeritus of the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (IPPP) at WAWI and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, the Institute’s academic journal. Dr. Abramis is in private practice in Manhattan\, specializing in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She supervises widely and is currently running a study group: Enhancing Attention to Clinical Process: Language theory of Edgar Levenson\, informed by contemporary research on infant development.\n\nSandra Buechler\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press\, 2004)\,  Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (Routledge\, 2008)\, which won the Gradiva award;  Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge\, 2012)\, Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge\, 2015)\, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IP Books\, 2017)\,  Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge\, 2019)\, Poetic Dialogues (IP Books\, 2021)\, and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge\, 2024).\n\nJack Drescher\, MD\, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and a Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Health. He is Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process. He is a Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association and moderator of the Journal Club of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Drescher is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge)\, and is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He was awarded the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his International Work on Gender and Sexuality.\nTo learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/\n\nAnton Hart\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\, is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality\, issues of racial\, sexual and other diversities\, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. Dr. Hart is a member of the group Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, and he also Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The New School for Social Research\, The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis\, Mt. Sinai Hospital\, New York Presbyterian Hospital\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program\, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Hart served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He is currently completing a book for Routledge entitled Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in psychoanalysis\, individual and couple psychotherapy\, psychotherapy supervision and consultation\, and organizational consultation in New York.\n\nJean Petrucelli\, PhD\, CEDS-S\, is a Training & Supervising Analyst\, Faculty\, Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders\, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS); Conference Advisory Board (CAB) Committee Chair; and Founding Director of the EDCAS one-year educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant for NYU’s Postdoctoral Program; Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; editor of six books\, and winner of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2016 Edited Book award for Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Petrucelli specializes in the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders and addictions. She presents nationally and internationally and maintains a private practice in New York City.\nShe can be reached at: drjmpetrucelli@gmail.com\n 
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SUMMARY:Hysterical Girl with Filmmaker/Documentarian Renee Silverman
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\npresents\nHYSTERICAL GIRL\, a discussion and examination of Kate Novack’s film with Filmmaker Renee Silverman \nand Discussant Ernesto Mujica\, PhD\nThursday\, September 11th\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/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\nSigmund Freud produced only one major case history of a female patient\, Dora\, a teenage sexual assault victim. In her 2020 film short\, Hysterical Girl\, director Kate Novack uses a compelling lens to imagine Dora as a female patient today.  It is this depiction that filmmaker/documentarian Renee Silverman presents in this examination and discussion\, at a time when we are witnessing a long wave of sexual harassment\, gender-based violence and sex trafficking.  \nWoven throughout the film is archival material – a cacophony of paintings\, photographs\, film clips\, news reels and advertisements that underscore the depth and breadth of a society that conspires to silence and shame survivors of sexual abuse. By reframing the narrative\, the film serves as a powerful indictment of not just this aspect of Freudian theory but of civilization itself. What emerges is a visceral portrait of the ways in which Freud’s theory of hysteria survives within our culture\, more than a hundred years later\, still silencing and shaming survivors of sexual abuse regardless of age or gender.  \nAfter screening the short film with the group\, filmmaker Renee Silverman and Dr. Ernesto Mujica will facilitate a discussion about the formalistic elements of the film and the visual representation of the social and oppressive factors that surround sexual violence today.\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe group is also invited to attend the Sexual Abuse Study Group meeting for a second discussion of the film and the case of Dora\, which will be held online on Thursday\, September 18th\, 1:30-3pm EST.\nTo view the film Hysterical Girl in advance\, go to:\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007026836/hysterical-girl.html\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nRenee Silverman\, Filmmaker/Documentarian\, is an award-winning American producer for German public television. Her recent credits include Wim Wenders: Desperado\, winner of the 2020 Rose d’Or at Cannes\, and It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story. She was archival producer on the Oscar nominated documentary RBG\, as well as HBO’s United Skates. With Peter Miller\, she directed and produced the award-winning docs Sosua: Make A Better World and Refugee Kids.  She is currently in production with Peter Miller on a new documentary\, Halloween Parade: A Tale of Two Villages\, with executive producer\, Sebastian Zimmermann (aka Seymour Licht).\n  \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI\, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of its journal\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is also Supervisor of psychotherapy there 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)\, Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and the Museo del Prado’s exhibit titled “Reversos.”
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nFirst Embodiment event of the New Season\n  \nUnderstanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange\nJack Foehl\, PhD\, Mark Freeman\, PhD\, Daniel Goldin\, MFT\, PsyD and Lynn Preston\, MA\, MS\, LP\nwith\nModerators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27th\nOnline from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nCan the narratives that organize psychoanalytic exchanges be conducted without words? The answer according to the presenters in this conversation is a resounding “yes!” They offer different perspectives on how both verbal and nonverbal communication in psychoanalysis takes narrative form.\nTogether they demonstrate the crucial importance of understanding the embodiment of narratives in therapeutic relationships.\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\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)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\n\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: Entry links for Zoom events are sent in two ways: (1) the entry link is sent on the Registration payment receipt delivered to your email INBOX; and (2) links are sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register just prior to the event’s start\, you will only receive the link on the payment receipt.\nFor those who do not see a link letter in their Inbox\, check Trash and Spam files. If you do not find your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, you may 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.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\n  \nTHE SPEAKERS\nJack Foehl\, PhD\nis 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. Dr. Foehl is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is a past editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His recent publications include\, Playing with Winnicott: Squiggling Through Therapeutic Consultations and 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.\n  \nMark Freeman\, PhD\nProfessor Emeritus of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross\, is currently Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. Author of numerous works\, including Rewriting the Self: History\, Memory\, Narrative; Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward; The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self; Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia\, and most recently\, Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology. He also serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series\, Explorations in Narrative Psychology.\nDr. Freeman says about his presentation for this event: For many of us\, recent history has brought in tow a barrage of disturbing\, mystifying\, and at times positively horrifying events and experiences. All of these are “metabolized” in some way. But how? More specifically\, how might we begin to tell the story of the ways in which the state of the world has entered into our own embodied being? In addressing these questions\, I will discuss the movement from past to present as well as from present to past. How can we begin to understand how a given event–the morning after the election of Donald Trump\, say\, is carried into the future? And how can we begin to understand how a given experience in the present–for instance a bout of despairing malaise–may have originated? In short: How does one determine what sorts of stories are to be told\, and what sorts of clues can the body provide?\n\nDaniel Goldin\, MFT\, PsyD\nserves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, Psychoanalysis: Self and context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Toward a Pragmatic Psychoanalysis: Bringing Nature\, Nurture and Culture Together again will be published by Routledge this year. He and Daniel Posner create and host the popular podcast “The Conversation\,” which confronts important issues of the day in a psychoanalytic vein.\nFor Dr. Goldin’s presentation\, he says: I will be describing two kinds of empathy\, one which is immediate and obviously embodied\, which I call perception empathy\, and another which expands from the first to wrap an intimate story around a patient’s situation\, which I am calling extended empathy. Empathy so conceived provides a long tether. The stories we put together with our patients sometimes reach into infancy\, sometimes into contemporary culture and politics\, but they inevitably return to the body\, to the feelings that started the excursion. Stories describe how we feel and change how we feel at the same time. It will be a pleasure to think together about this ordinary (but also extraordinary) aspect of our work.\n\nLynn Preston\, MA\, MS\, LP\nis a New York City-based relational psychoanalyst and supervisor. She is the founding director of the Community Empowerment Project and Help for Helpers\, an online covid-inspired international support group for therapists. She has written on the subjects of implicit experience and the use of the analyst’s subjectivity. She has a special interest in applying self-psychological principles to groups and communities.\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\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:\n1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the\nadvantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based\nlanguage for psychoanalysis.\n2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss\ncommunication that takes place in the silences between the words.
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD 
DESCRIPTION:NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD\nRefracted Time\, Gender\, and the Analyst’s Trans Becomings\nWednesday\, October 1 2025\n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)\nDescription: This presentation articulates the psychoanalytic concept of shattered temporality with gender. According to Freud\, the process of subject formation is the outcome of multiple post-hoc elucidations of one’s own experience in the framework of an intrapsychic logic. By contrast\, Jean Laplanche emphasizes the intersubjective dimension of afterwardsness\, which finds its ultimate raison d’être in the transference\, where the analysand discovers new meanings of his or her experience at different and deferred times thanks to the analyst’s meaningful interpretations\, thus promoting a novel subjectivizing process. Based on the Laplanchian framework and interdisciplinary thinking\, the author moves away from the traditional psychoanalytic conception of gender as a solipsistic construction and fixed identity. He instead argues that gender constitutes an intersubjective process and a “narrative identity” (Ricoeur) that is endlessly rewritten under the sway of afterwardsness and in constant relation to the other(s) (i.e.\, family\, peers\, society\, culture). Accordingly\, he proposes to establish transness as the epistemological paradigm of psychoanalytic temporality and becomingness. The speaker further understands the violent reactions of certain analysts towards trans analysands as a revival of the analyst’s own traumatic narrative of gender\, infantile sexuality\, and primary terrors of formlessness. Finally\, he illustrates how the working-through of the analyst’s countertransference agitations is likely to transform not only the analysand but also the analyst\, who undergoes multiple transitions\, detransitions\, and retransitions within the inter-psychic\, inter-temporal\, and inter-processual space of the analytic treatment. \n  \nNicolas Evzonas (PhD in Literature and PhD in Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis) is a Greek Cypriot Paris-based therapist in private practice. He is a candidate to the French Psychoanalytical Association (APF\, IPA) and Associate Professor with tenure in Clinical Psychology at the University of Paris. Nicolas has written numerous papers on clinical and applied psychoanalysis published in Greek\, English\, French\, Portuguese\, Spanish and Catalan peer-reviewed journals\, as well as essays on films\, theatre\, and literature. He is the author of the French book Devenirs trans de l’analyste [Trans Becomings of the Analyst]\, which is currently being translated in four European languages. He is also co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue on “Sexualities\, Gender\, Class\, and Race: A Psychoanalytic View from France” (2020) and editor of a double special issue of The Psychoanalytic Review on “Trans* Becomings and Countertransference” (2021 & 2022). His latest projects are a guest-edited French-based issue for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2023) on perversion and a forthcoming edited volume on Trauma and Sexuality (2026)\, which gathers together psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars from all over the world. \n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n  \nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/lgbtq-study-group-nicolas-evzonas-phd/
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SUMMARY:EBONI BOOTH\, Theatre\, Writing and Lived Experience
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nOPENING EVENING: a Special Presentation\nTHEATRE\, WRITING AND LIVED EXPERIENCE\nEBONI BOOTH\, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 3rd\, 2025\, 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nEboni Booth is a Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and actor in New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). As an actor\, she has appeared in theatre and film productions. Booth is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program\, resident playwright at New Dramatists\, and the recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award\, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting\, and a John Gassner award.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to the Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how theater understands the experience of individuals and their interaction.\n\n\nExplain how theatre explores the internal life of the lonely person and the implications for psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/eboni-booth-theatre-writing-and-lived-experience/
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SUMMARY:Halloween: Liminal Visions
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nwith The Sexual Abuse Study Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents \nHalloween: Liminal Visions \nwith Julie Marcuse\, PhD\nThursday\, October 9\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\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:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe book\, Halloween: Liminal Visions is about a personal journey. Dr. Julie Marcuse records what she sees in “objective” reality through a lens of “radical subjectivity.”\nMarcuse has used the documentation and interpretation of the manifest content of Halloween\, with its emphasis on chaos\, ambiguity\, dread and death to master her feelings in response to living through the decline and death of her husband Donald.\nSome of the photographs are surprising\, fun and beautiful\, while many are extremely disturbing. They attempt to link different domains of experience through color photographs with minimal manipulation. This book\, her 3rd\, is a testament to love\, loss and her own capacity for survival\, and it was intended to be a final gift to her husband. He died shortly before its completion.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJulie Marcuse\, PhD\, is a psychologist\, trauma specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where she continues to teach and supervise. She headed the Sexual Abuse Service there for 11 years\, learning about witnessing\, dissociation\, vicarious traumatization and multi-disciplinary approaches to healing. She is passionate about the arts\, from poetry to painting to music. She uses a platform called Blurb to self-publish her work.\n\nPlease join us for this presentation aligned with the commitment of the Artist Study Group to showcase the power of creating art to mitigate and master trauma.\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Artificial Intelligence and its Implications: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst\nELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 24th\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe AI therapist is rapidly becoming a dominant figure in the psychotherapeutic landscape\, embraced by the public and even more intriguingly by some clinicians—if not as a licensed therapist\, then as a companion\, a tool with which to better understand patients\, or a therapeutic ally. Professor Lunbeck suggests that the appeal of ChatGPT “therapists” is to be found\, in part\, in their resolution of a longstanding problem for the field:  the analyst’s personality\, which has long prompted attempts to standardize and mechanize practitioners in the interest of reliability\, replicability\, and the demands of science.  She suggests that Generative AI is the latest in a long series of innovations that not only achieves these goals but also does so in an improvisational and idiosyncratic register. Although observers routinely situate these new clinicians in therapy world’s CBT wing\, they come just as much from the heart of the psychoanalytic enterprise.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of psychoanalysis\, psychiatry\, and psychology\, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches popular courses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge\, Gender\, and Power in Modern America; with Bennett Simon; Family Romance\, Family Secrets; The Americanization of Narcissism; and four additional co-edited volumes. Lunbeck is an academic program graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, a co-chair of APsA’s University Forum\, and board member of PsiAN.  She is currently writing a book on the analyst’s self from Freud to AI.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLearning Objectives \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives this presentation:\n\n\nDiscuss the implications of AI for psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how AI works and how it may be used.\n\n\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elizabeth-lunbeck-artificial-intelligence-and-its-implications/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Benjamin Bernstein presents "What the Hell was That" - On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\n“What the Hell Was That?”: On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents\n Thursday\, October 30\, 2025\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Bernstein explores the therapeutic power and complexity of non-directive play therapy with adolescents. Drawing from vivid clinical vignettes and psychoanalytic theory\, he examines how activities that may appear unproductive — such as games\, humor\, or even sleep — can become profound vehicles for emotional regulation and relational growth when held within a responsive therapeutic frame. Through concepts such as Winnicott’s holding environment\, Bion’s containment\, and contemporary relational ideas about enactment and therapist subjectivity\, his talk highlights how play helps both adolescent and therapist to tolerate uncertainty\, engage symbolically\, and rediscover spontaneity in the therapeutic process.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fairfield County\, Connecticut\, as well as the adolescent psychologist at Silver Hill Hospital and founder of Redwood Psychology Group\, which specializes in depth-oriented therapy for adolescents\, families\, and parents. His work integrates psychoanalytic and relational approaches with a focus on play\, mentalization\, and the therapist’s use of self. Dr. Bernstein writes and teaches on adolescent development\, therapeutic play\, family therapy and the psychology of sports fandom. His work has been published by the American Psychological Association and his writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Time\, Axios and Psychology Today.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/dr-benjamin-bernstein-presents-what-the-hell-was-that-on-non-directive-play-therapy-with-adolescents/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group w/ Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:  \nToward a Horizon of Potential:\nLonging\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\nwith Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW \n  \nWednesday\, November 5 2025 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \nDescription: In this presentation Sam Guzzardi will share an abridged version of his paper “Toward a Horizon of Potential: Longing\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\,” which was awarded the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  The paper takes a close look at a brief encounter with a prospective patient who insists on knowing whether the prospective analyst is a “biological gay man” despite being told the analyst identifies as a “queer person.”  It wonders about how the notion of queerness may elicit forms of regulatory anxiety and regulatory violence. Borrowing from the work of Jill Gentile\, the feminine and the vaginal are taken up as organizing/disorganizing paradigms in both methodology and content; the paper also interrogates the rhetorical move of deploying the logics of biology in the prospective patient’s inquiry.  Ultimately\, the author leans on the notion of queer potentiality developed by José Esteban Muñoz to dream forward another\, more generative version of the interaction. \n\nSam Guzzardi\, LCSW is a New York City-based psychoanalyst trained at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, IPSS.  His written work on gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis has won numerous awards\, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and\, most recently\, the 2025 Tiresias Award of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  He is on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) and IPSS\, and is an Associate Editor at Psychoanalysis\, Self\, and Context and at Psychoanalytic Inquiry.  His clinical work focuses on questions of gender\, trauma\, development\, sexuality\, and loss. \n  \nPlease note: \n*Attendance is free\, but registration is required. \n**LGBTQ Study Group meetings are held on Zoom and they are not recorded. \n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD\, LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
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