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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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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.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/understanding-the-embodiment-of-narrative-in-the-therapeutic-exchange/
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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
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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.
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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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SUMMARY:Alice Jones\, MD\, Cadence of Vanishing
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCadence of Vanishing\nwith ALICE JONES\, MD\nThursday\, November 6\, 2025\n 1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\n\n\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\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPsychoanalyst and poet\, Dr. Alice Jones will read from her memoir\, Cadence of Vanishing\, weaving together love\, loss\, and the profound work of witnessing human trauma. With clinical precision and a poet’s heart\, Jones explores the delicate choreography between presence and absence that defines human connection.\nThe memoir follows Jones through four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive\, love\, and leave. She reveals how deep listening becomes its own form of love\, and how even in loss\, we discover what endures.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAlice Jones is a physician\, psychoanalyst\, open water swimmer\, and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, Verse\, and Best American Poetry.  She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, the NEA\, as well as other literary prizes.\nThomas Ogden\, author of What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations\, says about her:\n“Alice Jones’s Cadence of Vanishing is a meditative memoir in the form of diary entries in which many of the passages have the delicate feel of poetry. This is a penetrating exploration of the inner life of a poet through perceptive observations of the ordinary\, reminiscent of Lydia Davis. It is an experience to be savored”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease join us for this engaging presentation!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELLIOT JURIST\, Learning From Memoir
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nLEARNING FROM MEMOIR\nELLIOT JURIST\, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy\, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 14th\, 2025\, 7:30-9:00pm/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 PRESENTATION\nMemoirs are an unexplored and fruitful way to understand how patients experience therapy\, and in particular\, psychoanalysis.  Drawing from diverse sources\, Dr. Jurist argues that some memoirists see therapy as transformative; others regard it equivocally or even negatively. He also reflects on how beliefs about therapy have changed from the post-war era to the present. The memoirists whom he addresses are Lucy Freeman\, Rachel Reiland\, Alison Bechdel\, Melissa Febos\, Hua Hsu\, Stephanie Foo\, and Joan Peters.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElliot Jurist\, PhD\, PhD\, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York\, CUNY.  From 2004-2013\, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018\, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology\, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series\, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science\, from Guilford Publications\, and author of a book in the series\, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy\, from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian\, Chinese and Spanish\, and was named best theoretical book in 2019 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis).  He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy\, Culture and Agency (MIT Press\, 2000) and co-author with Peter Fonagy\, George Gergely and Mary Target of Affect Regulation\, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press\, 2002)\, the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes.  He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research\, Neuroscience\, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press\, 2008).  His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy.  In 2014\, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA\, and in 2024\, he was given the Leadership award from the same organization.  Recently\, he is co-author with Norka Malberg\, Jordan Bate and Mark Dangerfield of Working with Parents Across the Lifespan: A Mentalization-Informed Approach (APA Publications\, 2023).  Along with his wife and two children\, he lives with two ancient\, insubordinate dachshunds\, one of whom smiles.\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  \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\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION: \n\nDescribe the role of memoir for understanding human experience.\nExplain how memoir relates to self-reflection and psychoanalytic learning.
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SUMMARY:American Photographer Steve Giovinco presents Capturing Unguarded Moments
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCAPTURING UNGUARDED MOMENTS\nwith STEVE GIOVINCO\, MFA \nand TOM HENNES\, Discussant\n  \nTHURSDAY\, DECEMBER 4th 2025\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\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\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nAmerican photographer Steve Giovinco will present images from two photographic projects:  the endlessly mysterious nature of couples’ interactions from his series\, On the Edge of Somewhere; and evidence of epic but subtle changes in extremely remote areas around arctic Greenland captured in his long-exposure nighttime photographs. His use of long exposure photography in near-total darkness makes it impossible to see through the camera’s viewfinder\, and instead Giovinco “feels” the image\, in tuitively framing it in the dark.  His experience of the process can be meditative\, revelatory and… terrifying.\nInformed by his unconscious as well as a sense of history\, culture\, and the environment\, Giovinco’s work captures the immensity of human and natural spaces\, and feelings of loss and transition. Curious about interpersonal and environmental change\, his visual representations allow the viewer a deep\, unfolding\, and emotional experience.\nGiovinco’s inspirations are far reaching: the paintings of Frederick Church and the Hudson River School; the photographs of Eugène Atget\, Brassai; the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni\, the Scandinavian and German cinema\, movies his father would bring home as a child; Roman ruins and large\, abandoned industrial structures.\nIndeed\, in 1992 his need and vision led him to create an additional tool: a hand-held\, large-format (8×8″) camera. Steve Giovinco’s works are exhibited in fine arts museums around the world\, and are included in numerous private and public collections.\n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSteve Giovinco is a New York based photographer.  His work is in numerous public and private collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, and the California Museum of Photography. Exhibitions of his work include the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Contemporary Art Center\, Cincinnati; Winnipeg Art Gallery; White Columns\, New York; Sadler’s Wells\, London; Gyeongnam Art Museum\, Korea.  He was commissioned by one of the first blockchain art platforms\, Monegraph. Giovinco earned his MFA in photography from Yale University. As a Fulbright Fellow Alternate\, he received a Yaddo artist residency and numerous grants.\nABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT\nTom Hennes is founder of Thinc Design and is a member of the Institute’s  Board of Trustees. Believing in the implicit power of exhibition as a medium to engage society in important ways\, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with projects embedded in social and environmental justice.  Hennes has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design\, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet\, France\, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program\, and the University of Pretoria\, among many others.\n  \n  \nJoin us for what promises to be an evocative presentation and discussion\, with this very special guest.\nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:How Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nHow Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\,  Heather  Ferguson\, LCSW\,  Vincent Stephen\, PsyD\,  Nancy Winters\, MD\,FIPA\nwith\nModerators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 6th\, 2025\nOnline from 12Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\n“Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences.” \nSince Freud and Breuer pronounced this in 1895\, memory is still believed to play a crucial role in the bodily as well as psychological suffering of our patients. We now understand that memory is not only verbal (declarative) but is also nonverbal (implicit). Our speakers will share how they use body-based memory in every therapeutic encounter. \nComments by the speakers about their planned talks:\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD:\n\nTwo sentences that I will use in my conversation:\n“My delusion happens at the crossroad of my little story and the Great History.” — told by a patient.\n“The Body keeps the Score\,” Bessel Van der Kolk’s title\, as it embodies the premature knowledge of a catastrophic stoppage of time.\n\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW:\n\nAs Pierre Janet discovered\, traumatic memories are split off from conscious awareness and stored as sensory perceptions\, behavioral reenactments\, and symptoms. In my work with one patient\, the nonverbal iterations of traumatic memory and their sensorimotor traces infiltrated our therapeutic space\, guiding our attention to her body’s long-thwarted impulses.\n\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD:\n\nI will focus on dissociated memories that express themselves as movements and sensations in the therapeutic context\, and on embodied identification in the therapeutic relationship.\n\nNancy Winters\, MD\, FIPA:\n\nIn 1926 Freud observed: “There is much more continuity between intrauterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe.”  I extend this notion to the emergence of the primitive or infantile in later bodily phenomena. In several brief vignettes I discuss how embodied experience — in both patient and therapist (via somatic reverie) — can be recognized as registrations of early “remembered\,” yet unsymbolized and unmetabolized\, experience.\n\n\n  \nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\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.\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS:\nZoom entry links for this series are sent in two ways: (1) on the Registration payment receipt delivered directly to your email INBOX; and (2) manually sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register immediately before the event’s start\, you will receive the link only on the automatic payment receipt. \nIf you do not see a link letter in your Inbox\, you should check Trash and Spam files. 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  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\, has completed studies in classical literature. She has a PhD in sociology and is a professor a Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, where\, for 40 years\, she has lead a weekly seminar with Jean Max Gaudillière entitled “Madness and the Social Link.” She has been a psychoanalyst in a public psychiatric hospital and outdoor consultation\, as well as in private practice in Paris for 30 years. Dr. Davoine was a member of Lacan’s “Ecole Freudienne” until Lacan’s death in 1981. She is a member of ISPS founded in 1954 by Gaetano Benedetti\, and is an Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs Center. Her books include History beyond Trauma (Other Press with Max Gaudillière); and\, several published by Routledge: Mother Folly\, Fighting Melancholy: Don Quixote’s teaching: A Word to the Wise (on Don Quixote’s second book); Jean Max Gaudillière’s Seminars (2 volumes); Pandemics\, Wars\, Traumas and Literature; Shandean Psychoanalysis: Madness and traumas in Tristram Shandy and Wittgenstein’s Folly.\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW\, is a faculty member and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies\, and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR\, she incorporates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment\, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma\, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has chapters in“Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis” (edited by Harris\, Kalb\, and Klebanoff) and “Art\, Creativity\, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists” (edited by Hagman). She maintains a private practice in New York City.\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. He is a candidate at the Norwegian Character Analytical Institute in Olso\, a training institution for embodied psychoanalysis. Dr. Stephen 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 and has written and performed in various works\, including several collaborations with dancer Mirte Bogaert.\nNancy C. Winters\, MD\, FIPA\, is a training and supervising analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute\, the Northwestern Psychoanalysis Society and Institute\, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University. She serves on editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also co-editor and chapter author of the 2022 Gradiva award-winning Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021); Autoimmunity and its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness (IJP\, 2022)\, and A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary Perversion of Truth (in press\, American Journal of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Winters has a full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland\, OR.\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:Trauma and Healing through Symbolization with Betsy Hegeman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nTrauma and Healing through Symbolization \nwith Betsy Hegeman\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 8th 2026\n1:30-3pm/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\nDoes art help us move from dissociated pain\, shock\, horror or numbness to more grounded\, connected states? Can it help us get to a part of the conscious self where traumatic experience can be processed differently than just dissociation?\nBetsy Hegeman will describe clinical examples exploring these questions\, where the experience of making art helps patients move from their dissociated state to one of connection. As a group\, we will then consider how cultural traumatic or existential events\, like global warming\, are denied\, and how we might work to instead incorporate cultural experiences of connection.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBetsy Hegeman\, PhD\, is a faculty member and a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI\, where she co-taught a class on trauma with Richard Gartner and Sharon Kofman. She is also a faculty member at NYU Postdoc and is professor emerita of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she has taught for over fifty years. Dr. Hegeman has done field work in Puerto Rico and Colombia\, focusing on migration\, class structure\, gender and poverty. She lives in Massachusetts with her daughter and grandson.\n  \nPlease join us for this moving presentation and discussion.\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group\n 
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SUMMARY:From Room to Zoom and Beyond:  Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care  and Emerging Clinical Contexts
DESCRIPTION:From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts\nwith Todd Essig\, PhD\nAn Online Workshop for WAWI Graduates\, Faculty and Candidates\npresented by the WAWI Curriculum Committee\nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10th\, 2026\n10:00am-1:00pm/Eastern\n  \n3 CE credits are available for attending this workshop\n  \nABOUT THIS WORKSHOP\nThe recent IPA Code revisions affirm what many discovered through pandemic necessity: deep analytic work can happen on screens and speakers. But “can happen” is not the same as “happens in the same way.” Many now see that screen relations are similar enough to in-person work to sustain analysis\, yet different enough to require us to rethink aspects of our clinical stance and theoretical framework.\nThis workshop will explore those similarities and differences\, both psychologically and clinically: How do screen relations affect presence\, attention\, and the analytic frame? What happens to transference\, countertransference\, and reverie when we meet on screen? And\, most centrally\, how do we make the most of what’s unique about this context rather than in attending differences?\nThroughout\, we’ll strive to think together. Your questions\, concerns\, and clinical experiences are essential to this exploration. As broader context for our discussion\, we’ll also consider how the rapid emergence of AI relationships is already reshaping the technological landscape in which screen-based care now takes place.\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd Essig\, PhD\, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering in the creative uses of mental health technologies. In addition to his full time NYC-based clinical practice\, he publishes\, lectures\, and consults internationally on forming best practices in the use of technology to serve human purposes. His primary academic affiliations are Faculty and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. \nDr. Essig is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) where he served on the Task Force on Distance Training and on the Task Force on Training in Contemporary Times where he co-authored task force reports. As a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)\, he co-chaired the COVID-19 Response team. Recently\, in the current center of his non-clinical professional life\, he founded and is Co-Chair of APsA’s Council on Artificial Intelligence. He teaches and lectures at institutes and societies in the US and in Japan\, Canada and England. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVE INFORMATION\nBy completing this class:\n1. Attendees will be able to name the process by which online sessions operate similarly to in-person sessions\n2. Attendees will be able to list 2 of the 3 ways online sessions afford different experiences than in-person sessions\n3. Attendees will be able to name the three interactive contexts operating in the AI Age\n\nReferences:\nEssig\, T.\, & Russell\, G. I. (2021). A report from the field: Providing psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, 18(2)\, 157-177.\nLemma\, A. (2025). What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to “The phenomenology of teleanalysis” by Dr N. Zapien. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 363-374.\nZapien\, N. (2025). The phenomenology of teleanalysis: A research study of the experiences of analysts and candidates in training analyses in the US during 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 340-36
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SUMMARY:The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy:  An Artistic Expression of Understanding Attachment Theory and How I Apply  it to Clinical Work by Jill Leibowitz
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nJILL LEIBOWITZ\, PSYD\,\n“THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ITSY BITSY: AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND HOW I APPLY IT TO CLINICAL WORK”\nThursday\, January 22nd\, 2026\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\nIn describing this presentation\, Dr. Leibowitz says\, “I believe that open and playful communication between children and their grown-ups is a key component to fostering healthy development. Feeling a need to share this understanding with more of the adults in kids’ lives than I could reach in my private practice\, I wrote and published two children’s books that model reflection\, mentalization\, and open emotion communication. My goal was to help children and their grown-ups talk and reflect together about tough emotional moments and to normalize the full range of emotions we all experience — ideas that reflect\, from my perspective\, the important takeaways from Attachment Theory.\nThus\, through these books\, I am attempting to communicate my understanding of Attachment Theory and how I apply it to the everyday clinical and parent-guidance work I do. In this presentation\, I will read one of the books\, share my process of engaging playfully to create the books\, and talk about the Attachment Theory-related concepts that I hope the books illustrate.”\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJill Leibowitz\, PsyD\, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with children\, adolescents\, adults\, and families in her New York City private practice. She specializes in play therapy\, psychotherapy\, parenting support\, and parent-child work\, and she is a member of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Home Visiting Program. In addition to her clinical practice\, Dr. Leibowitz teaches and supervises graduate and post-graduate students at several New York universities and institutes. She is the author of The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy\, a children’s book series\, and has contributed to blogs\, podcasts\, and academic journals on topics related to children’s emotional development\, play and emotional literacy.\n  \nLearning Objectives:\n\n\nTo gain an appreciation for the central role of playful engagement in our clinical work and in development more generally.\n\n\nTo apply reflective\, open communication practices to everyday\, real-life scenarios that occur between children and their grown-ups.\n\n\nTo learn about one individual’s process of children’s book publishing and marketing.
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SUMMARY:BILL T. JONES\, On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nA Special In-Person and Live-Streamed Event at New York Live Arts* \nOn the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding\nBILL T. JONES\, Award-winning Artistic Director\, Choreographer\, Dancer\, Author\, and Co-Founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and of New York Live Arts\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 30th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\n* This event will be held in person at New York Live Arts\, 219 West 19th Street\, New York City. The venue will provide the link to its live stream.\nYou must register to attend. Please note that registration and charges for this event are being handled through the venue.\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nBill T. Jones is an artistic director and leading dancer\, choreographer\, director\, and writer. He is co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Manhattan and Artistic Director of New York Live Arts\, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing\, presenting and educating. Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles and on Broadway and for other theatrical venues. The recipient of numerous awards including two Tony Awards\, an Obie\, a MacArthur “Genius” Award and Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government\, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors\, and of the National Medal of Arts\, among a long list of others.\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 for most of the dates\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n\nNote that CEs are not available for this event.\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 choreography of movements conveys meaning and autobiography.\n\n\nExplain how mind and body inform dance and psychoanalytic treatment.\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Passing Through with Visual Artist Naomi Friedman and Discussant Stephen Friedman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS \nPASSING  THROUGH\nWITH NAOMI FRIEDMAN\, VISUAL ARTIST\nand Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, Discussant \nTHURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 5th 2026\n1:30-3:00pm/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 \n  \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPassing Through challenges one of the most persistent binaries of our time: the divide between public and private space.  Visual Artist Naomi Friedman interrogates how trans bodies\, experiences\, and rhythms disrupt these categories\, revealing their fragility and the violence required to maintain them.  With collage and paintings\, Friedman insists on the permeability of cultural categories and the instability of the narratives that sustain them.  \nWe will discuss figure and setting in the works\, and what components might complicate/disrupt those boundaries\, as well as other questions.  \n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNaomi Friedman\, non-binary\, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College in 2022 andl co-founded the Boyz With Apple Artist Collective LLC\,  https://www.boyzwithapple.com/about-the-boyz   Recent exhibitions include the Cannes Contemporary Art Biennale\, Art Basel Switzerland and a solo exhibition in Madrid.  Friedman teaches early-childhood art classes in Brooklyn.  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nStephen Friedman\, PhD\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where he is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and teaches a seminar on the clinical implications of the Interpersonal perspective\, race\, diversity and otherness in clinical work. He has a private practice in New York City.\nJoin us!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T193000
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SUMMARY:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, February 11\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nEnvy\, Greed\, and the Search for a Holding Environment: Working with Stealing and Lying in a Latency-Age Girl\nA Clinical Case Presentation by Dan Liu\, LCSW\nwith discussion led by Mara Heiman\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAccording to Melanie Klein\, envy is a primitive and fundamentally destructive affect\, whereas greed refers to the impulse toward excessive taking and possessing that is often driven by envy. Clinically\, behaviors such as lying and stealing can be understood as manifestations of both envy and greed – expressions of destructiveness\, anger\, and aggression that involve taking from others and depriving them of what they have. Yet these behaviors may also be seen as communications that seek a holding environment in which such intense feelings can be contained and transformed\, allowing movement toward the true self.\nMs. Liu will discuss a long-term treatment with a nine-year-old girl\, illustrating how envy and greed emerged in the clinical work and how the holding environment made it possible to recognize\, contain\, and work through these dynamics.\nJoin us for a rich presentation by a current candidate\,  demonstrating the culmination of a sophisticated learning process and the integration of clinical theory and technique.  It will be an opportunity for those interested in child and adolescent psychotherapy training to learn more about our program\, participate in a discussion\, and take part in a Q&A. Light refreshments will be available. \n\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nDan Liu is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Institute\, where she now serves as faculty in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. Ms. Liu earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University and has lived in New York City for the past 14 years\, where she maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Originally from Shenzhen\, a coastal city in southeastern China\, she brings a multicultural perspective to her clinical work. She speaks English\, Mandarin\, Cantonese\, and Japanese\, and works with individuals from diverse racial\, ethnic\, and social backgrounds.\nFOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM\, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SUNIL BHATIA\, Why DeColonization?
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nWHY DECOLONIZATION?\nSUNIL BHATIA\, Professor of Human Development and Cultural Psychology\, Connecticut College\nPlease note: This event has been cancelled.\n  \nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 20th from 7:30-9:00pm/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 OUR SPEAKER\nSunil Bhatia\, is an internationally recognized authority on culture and psychology and Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is at the forefront of studies on decolonization and author of such books as American Karma; Race\, Culture\, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization\, Social Justice\, and Indian Youth Identities; and Globalization and Culture: Narratives of Indian Youth from Call Centers to Chail Stalls (forthcoming Oxford U. Press) among others. Additionally\, he is a frequent lecturer and commentator on current events.\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  \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\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nExplore how decolonization matters for psychoanalytic practice.\n\n\nExplain what decolonization is and what its implications are.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T193000
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SUMMARY:The Psychoanalytic Training Program Special Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Psychoanalytic Training Program \nA SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE \nWEDNESDAY EVENING\, MARCH 4th\n7:30-9:30pm\nTHE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: \nA cohort of graduates reflects upon the influence of psychoanalytic training on personal and professional evolutions.\nWith David C. Banthin\, PhD\, Tomás Casado-Frankel\, LMFT-D\, LP\, John Eastman\, LCSW\, Dan Liu\, LCSW\, Mary Olsen\, LCSW\, Josh Yoselovsky\, LCSW\nHeld In Person at the Institute: 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue\n\n  \nABOUT THE EVENING\nA clinical case will be presented\, followed by discussion with our panel of graduates – who together went through the training program and have gone on to build their practices.\nAttendees will be invited to join the discussion for the experience of a cohort peer supervision\, and will be encouraged to ask questions about the case\, the program\, and our Institute. Light refreshments will be available.\nJoin us!\n  \nABOUT OUR PANELISTS\nDavid C. Banthin\, PhD\, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He earned his doctoral degree from the New School for Social Research and completed fellowships and postdoctoral certificates at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\, Mount Sinai/Mental Illness Research and Clinical Center at the Department of Veteran Affairs\, Behavioral Tech for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy\, and psychoanalytic training at WAWI. He has engaged in psychotherapy research in psychodynamic and behavioral treatment modalities for 15+ years with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and personality disorders. \nTomás Casado-Frankel\, MA\, LMFT-D\, LP\,  is the Director of Outreach and Recruitment\, a Supervisor of Psychotherapy\, and a graduate of both the WAWI 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. He is in private practice in NYC. \nDan Liu\, LCSW\,  is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Originally from Shenzhen\, China\, Dan brings a multicultural perspective to her work and provides therapy in English\, Mandarin and Cantonese. \nMary Olsen\, LCSW\,  worked at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in the Employee Assistance Program before completing her training at the William Alanson White Institute. Mary is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at WAWI and credits her psychoanalytic training for her seamless transition into full time private practice. Prior to earning her MSW\, she founded and ran a technology consulting practice.\n\nJosh Yoselovsky\, LCSW\,  completed his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in 2021\, and is on its faculty\, as well as that of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Josh is also an adjunct instructor at Fordham University’s Graduate School for Social Service. His academic and clinical interests focus on early Interpersonal thinking and literature\, as well as on the intersection of theater\, performance\, and psychoanalysis.
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