William Alanson White Institute

The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In Person Open House
2022-03-29 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
An In Person Open House at the Institute
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29th
8:00-9:30PM
Children, Depression & Family Dynamics: The Impact of Loss, Language & Love
A Clinical Presentation by Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R
Supervisor Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT

This presentation will follow the nine month treatment of a six-year-old girl over Zoom. Much of the work took place during her transition from Kindergarten to first grade. Feelings of loss, separation anxiety and family dynamics will be discussed.
Refreshments will be served after the presentation. CAPTP faculty, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER AND SUPERVISOR
Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R, is a bilingual psychotherapist in private practice in Bayside, NY. Prior to her work in private practice she worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and clinical director at an outpatient community mental health clinic in Queens. Michelle is a 3rd year student in the CAPTP program the Institute.
Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s CAPT Program as well as the Psychoanalytic Training Certificate Program. He is also a graduate of the Couples & Family Therapy Program at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain. He co-authored Managing the Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody (with Maria Nardone, PhD), a chapter in Appleseed’s online manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation (2017), and Las Lágrimas del Cambio: Trastorno del vínculo, acompañamiento terapéutico y re-vinculación (with Maria Eugenia Herrero Sotillo, MD; Triacastela, 2013), a book on attachment disorder and early relational trauma. He is a member of the William Alanson White Institute Center for Public Mental Health.

PGY IV Psychiatry Resident’s Elective
2023-01-04 14:30 - 15:30
The William Alanson White Institute announces
2023 PGY IV Psychiatry Resident’s Elective
Program Director and Course Instructor:
Suzanne Mallouk, M.D.
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
Course Description:
Introduction to Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This is a 5-week class on Wednesdays from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
1-4-23, 1-11-23, 1-18-23, 1-25-23, 2-1-23
Class will be held on zoom
Open to all interested PGY IV Psychiatry Residents across New York City
Instructor: Suzanne Mallouk, M.D. Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
s.mallouk@wawhite.org
917-792-0682
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
This is a five- week elective, starting in January, for PGY IV psychiatry residents, who are interested in learning about Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. The objectives of this elective are to provide a basis in working in a contemporary psychoanalytic way for psychiatrists and to provide a sample of study, to encourage further interest in our programs.
This elective consists of one didactic course a week and the option of attending our Institute Tuesday morning conference, which covers clinical cases, author presentations of books and articles, and a variety of other relevant topics, to the field of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis.
This elective is open to all PGY IV residents in New York City. It is held online.
Class Dates
01-04-23
Irwin Hirsch- The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity
Donnel B. Stern- Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: History and Current Status
01-11-23
Edgar Levenson- The Pursuit of the Particular
Allan Cooper- The Detailed Inquiry
01-18-23
Christopher Bonovitz- Locating Culture in the Psychic Field- Transference and Countertransference as Cultural Products
Kathleen Pogue White- Surviving Hate and Being Hated- Some Personal Thoughts About Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
01-25-23
Donnel B. Stern- Witnessing Across Time: Accessing the Present from the Past and the Past from the Present
Donnel B. Stern- Unformulated Experience, Dissociation and Nachtraglichkeit
02-01-23
Jessica Benjamin- Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness
Phillip Bromberg- Shadow and Substance: A Relational Perspective on Clinical Process

LGBTQ Study Group: Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women with JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP
2023-01-04 20:30 - 2023-01-25 22:30
LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with:
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP
Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women:
The Other Within
Wed. January 4, 2023
This paper explores how trauma (individual, cultural, and historical) experiences and gender stories of women behaving more like men become intermingled. Drawing upon stories of women in Jewish literature (Beruriah and Yentl), psychoanalytic theories of gender, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, I will unpack how women carry vulnerability and helplessness whereas men are seen as stronger and agentic. The author believes that gender performance and passing highlight how gender becomes enlisted as a mode of traumatic transmission and possibly one type of internal psychic reparative resolution to complex traumatic experiences.
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and a member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, (2017), both books won the Gradiva Award (2018). She has conceived of and co-edits a book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group. She is in private practice in Manhattan and online.
For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org

The Artist Study Group
2023-01-05 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
El Anatsui:
Giving voice to humanity’s struggles for survival
and interdependence through creative exploration
of our material remains
A VIRTUAL PRESENTATION BY
ERNEST MUJICA, PhD
Thursday, January 5, 2023,
online from 1:30-3pm
Dr. Mujica will review the work of Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui, whose large scale installations convey a deep appreciation of our impact on our environment and on one another. His work transforms the concrete remains of everyday, often discarded objects, into abstract conceptualizations of mutuality and interdependence. He also creatively explores the experiential and aesthetic transformations that are interwoven within the complex fabric of community and migration, as well as consumerism and slavery.
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI, and is also an Associate Editor of the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is a Supervisor of psychotherapy at WAWI, and at the doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College, Columbia University and CUNY. He is a facilitator for retreat programs offered through MenHealing.org
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD
Artist Study Group Co-Directors

Adolescent Upheaval: Contemporary Clinical Issues in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Adolescents
2023-01-09 19:30 - 21:30
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Today’s adolescents are experiencing unprecedented amounts of emotional turmoil. In addition to the expected crises that accompany growing up, kids have experienced isolation during the pandemic, mass shootings in schools, social unrest after the murder of George Floyd, ongoing challenges to equal rights, and the raised temperature of our social discourse. More than ever, adolescents need help in processing the complicated social environment and their personal experiences and feelings.
The William Alanson White Institute is offering a timely and unique program for clinicians of all levels of experience, starting in January 2023. The program is focused on expanding and deepening one’s experience of working with adolescents within an Interpersonal and Relational framework. Each month a different distinguished senior faculty will present on a variety of contemporary clinical topics and case material. The program is designed to enhance participants clinical skills and intellectual understanding of psychodynamic psychotherapy with adolescents.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Classes meet online, via Zoom, for one Monday of each month for ten months, between January-December, 2023. No classes in July & August.
The schedule is as follows:
7:30-9:00PM/Eastern time
January 9, February 13, March 13, April 10, May 8, June 12, September 11, October 9, November 13, December 11

Tuition*
Early Registration for Professionals, through 11/20/22: $450
Professionals, cost starting 12/1/22: $550
Students, Candidates and current attendees of What Really Works: $400
* Payment plan available
15 Continuing Education Credits are offered.

Eligible Participants
Psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, creative art therapists, marriage and family counselors, and nurse practitioners.

Steering Committee
Jacqueline Ferraro, D.M.H., Lisa Dubinsky, Psy.D., Susan Fabrick, L.C.S.W., Daniel Gensler, Ph.D., Robert Gaines, Ph.D., Mara Heiman, L.C.S.W., Stacey Nathan-Virga, Ph.D., Wendy Panken, L.C.S.W., Susan Rose, Ph.D., Marcelo Rubin, Ph.D.
Co-Directors, this program: Wendy Panken, L.C.S.W. and Stacey Nathan-Virga, Ph.D.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS AND FACULTY
Class 1 January 9, 2023 Robert Gaines, Ph.D. and Wendy Panken, LCSW
I’m Not a Child Anymore: A Developmental Interpersonal Approach to the Transition to Adolescence
Robert Gaines, Ph.D. obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from New York University and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from William Alanson White Institute. He is a Supervising Analyst, Past Fellow, and faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute. He is also Co-Founder, Former Director, Current Director of Curriculum, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Gaines is also a faculty member and Supervisor of the Child and Adolescent Program at Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is an Executive Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. He is the author of articles and book chapters on various aspects of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Dr. Gaines is in private practice in NYC and Westchester.
Wendy J. Panken, L.C.S.W is a graduate of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program of the William Alanson White Institute and member of its Executive Committee and faculty. She has been studying psychoanalysis in private study groups and supervision for many years. Her special interests include adolescence and the relationship between the personal biographies of psychoanalysts and their theories and the relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in NYC.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will become familiar with the basic concepts of interpersonal developmental theory.
2. Participants will understand the differences between classical developmental conceptions of adolescent development and interpersonal conceptions of adolescent development.
3. Participants will understand how interpersonal concepts of adolescent development can be applied to individual psychotherapy with adolescents.

Class 2 February 13, 2023 Seth Aronson, Ph.D.
Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll – What’s Lost and What’s Gained in Adolescence
Seth Aronson, Psy.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, Director of Training, Fellow at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), where he has also served as Director of Curriculum. He is on the teaching faculty of the psychoanalytic and child psychotherapy training programs at WAWI. At Long Island University’s doctoral program, he teaches child and adolescent psychopathology and psychotherapy. He has facilitated process groups for rabbinical students at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah for 18 years. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Beyond these formal roles, he has also presented and taught in many venues around the world, including Japan and Israel and has led a study program for mental health professionals and clergy for seven years. Dr. Aronson has written extensively on a variety of topics in the field, with a focus on issues pertaining to children and adolescents, and ethical, practical, and emotional concerns of those in clinical roles. Together with Craig Haen, he is co-editor of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy (Routledge, 2017). He is in private practice in New York City.

Learning Objectives
1) Participants will be able to name three developmental tasks of adolescence
2) Participants will describe two experiences of necessary losses in adolescence
3) Participants will be able to describe two theoretical understandings of adolescence

Class 3 March 13, 2023 Pascal Sauvayre, Ph.D.
I am Not Your Son: The function of Negation and Negativity in Adolescence

Pascal Sauvayre, Ph.D. is faculty, supervising and training psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute, New York. He studies and writes on the disciplinary boundaries of psychoanalysis, and he has a private practice in New York City.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will appreciate the significance of adolescence as the culmination or fulcrum of the traumatic antecedents into a developmental arrest, as well as the historical and creative momentum of negation in the life cycle.
2. Participants will learn how, according to André Green, the concept of negation is foundational to psychoanalytic theorizing throughout its history.
3. Participants will understand the distinction between the creative potential of negation and its pathological vicissitudes, which are referred to as negativism.

Class 4 April 10, 2023 Daniel Gensler, Ph.D.
Electronic Communication: A Challenge for Adolescent Psychotherapists in the 21st Century
Daniel Gensler, Ph.D. is Director of Training and of the Externship at the Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute as well as training and supervising analyst at William Alanson White Institute. He is co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy (2002) and has published many articles and chapters in the professional literature. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice doing psychotherapy, supervision, and psychoeducational testing.
Learning Objectives
1) Participants will be able to describe benefits and drawbacks in the use of social media in adolescence.
2) Participants will realize ways they can use social media in remote and in-person psychotherapy.

Class 5 May 8, 2023 Jack Drescher, M.D.
Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents

Jack Drescher, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Drescher served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process (2022 publication). He served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served on the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). Dr Drescher has received several professional honors and His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish, and German.
Learning Objectives
1) Identify three current, differing treatment approaches for children with Gender Dysphoria in Childhood
2) Describe the controversies in the wider culture regarding the treatment of gender dysphoric children and adolescents and how they affect clinical practice and research
3) Prepare for appropriate treatments, consultations and referrals of children and adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
4) Critique and revise binary thinking about gender and gender identity
5) Compare diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5-TR gender diagnoses with those of ICD-11
Class 6 June 12, 2023 Carol Valentin, Ph.D. & Wendy Panken, L.C.S.W.
Race, Identity, and Social Unrest for Adolescents
Carol Valentin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a graduate of the Division 1 Psychoanalytic Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. She graduated from the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology from the City University of New York in 1984 and became the Clinical Director of the Sheltering Arms Therapeutic Nursery in Harlem where she continued the legacy of Dr. Margaret Lawrence, one of the first African American psychoanalysts in New York City. The nursery served children ages three to five who exhibited the behavioral manifestations of psychological, physical, and sexual trauma. Since the closing of the nursery in 2019 Dr. Valentin now treats young adults and adults in her private practice in Princeton, New Jersey, and New York City. She is a co-founder of the Race & Psychoanalysis Study Group at the William Alanson White Institute and was a member of its Center for Public Mental Health. She has supervised doctoral level psychologists, clinical social workers, caseworkers and educational staff at both private and public institutions.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will understand several conceptual models for racism and the concept of intergenerational transmission of the trauma of slavery
2.Participants will become familiar with the particular form the denial of American slavery takes, the phantom form.
3. Participants will appreciate the necessity of collective mourning for recognition and healing of the collective trauma of slavery.
No Summer Classes in July and August

Class 7 September 11, 2023 Jacqueline Ferraro, Ph.D.
Self-Injury: Adolescent Solution to Psychic Pain
Jacqueline Ferraro, D.M.H. is Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute, faculty and supervisor; Executives Committee member, faculty and supervisor in the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS), the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Ferraro is in private practice in Manhattan.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define and differentiate non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) from suicidality in adolescents.
2. Participants will be able to describe variables central to non-suicidal self-injury, including the roles of emotional dysregulation and self-derogation.
3. Participants will identify NSSI as a communication through the body and learn ways to facilitate emotion regulation and deal with negative internal states, through interpersonal exchanges, developing a language for emotions, and using countertransferential experiences in the clinical work with adolescents.

Class 8 October 9, 2023 Joseph Mikulka, L.C.S.W.-R
Sex and Technology: An Interpersonal Perspective on Sexual Development in the Technological Age
Joseph (JT) Mikulka, LCSW-R is a soon-to-be graduate of William Alanson White Institute’s Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis and a graduate of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. JT graduated from Hunter College School of Social Work and has published and presented his work on play therapy, working with severe pathology, severe trauma, adoption, gender transition, and on helping kids recover from war and armed conflict. JT is on the faculty at NIP and the William Alanson White Institute. JT is also an associate editor of the Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and President Elect of Section II, Children and Adolescents, of Division 39. He is in private practice in New York City.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will be able to identify multiple ways that technology is being used by teens to express aspects of sexual development and sexual and interpersonal relatedness.
2. Participants will be able to identify how new technologies are used by adolescents to manage interpersonal anxieties.
3. Participants will learn new skills in using the detailed inquiry to assess for safe use of technology for sex and dating and help teens navigate these difficult interpersonal tasks.

Class 9 November 13, 2023 Lisa Dubinsky, Psy.D.
The Struggles of Parenting Adolescents

Lisa Dubinsky, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist, with a special interest in early childhood and children on the autism spectrum. She is a consultant with mainstream preschools and works with children of all ages, parents, and adults in psychotherapy. She is a supervisor and faculty member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute.
Learning Objectives
1.Participants will have a better understanding of the conflicts that parents experience
while raising and caring for adolescents, as well as the stresses on the couple and
siblings.
2. Participants will develop skills for helping parents gain perspective on their teens’
emotional needs and then be better equipped to make sound decisions about
limits and consequences.
3. Participants will learn how to use their countertransference reactions in their work with
parents of adolescents.

Class 10 December 11, 2023 Philip Rosenbaum. Ph.D.
Existential Issues for Adolescent College Students and Interpersonal psychotherapy
Philip J. Rosenbaum, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, supervising psychoanalyst, and the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at Haverford College. He received his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute. His interests are in studying the commonalities between contemporary interpersonal analytic practice and cultural psychology, particularly as it is connected to field theory and understanding meaning making processes as they occur in and are constituted by social and interpersonal situations. He is the co-author of the recently published book: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents: College student development and treatment. He is the former editor of the Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. Additionally, he has published in Culture & Psychology; Theory & Psychology; and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Philadelphia, PA and his website is www.philiprosenbaumphd.com
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will be able to describe aspects of three existential-relational foundations of experience: experience is never complete, individuals are co-constituted within and through others and cultural processes, and development is never linear: we move continuously through the different
positions.
2. Participants will be able to describe four developmental positions: Contiguous, Paranoid-Schizoid, Depressive, and Transcendent.
3. Participants will be able to apply an existential-relational model towards various challenging aspects of adolescent becoming: including destructive processes (i.e. suicidal thinking) but also more general experiences of suffering.
Continuing Education Information:
For Psychologists:
The 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.
William 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.
For Social Workers:
William 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.
For Licensed Psychoanalysts:
William 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.
For Mental Health Counselors:
William 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
For Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:
William 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.
For Licensed Creative Arts Therapists:
William 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.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Continuing Education Credits:
CE/CME credits are calculated on a credit per course hour basis.

Colloquium 2022-2023 series
2023-01-13 20:00 - 21:30
A LIVE STREAMED WEBINAR SERIES
PERRIN ELISHA, PhD, PC
Challenging Mind/Body Dualism:
Towards Embodied Practice
with Eating-Disordered Patients
Discussant SARAH SCHOEN, PhD

Friday, January 13th, 2023 from 8:00-9:30PM/Eastern
All of this year’s series is held at the posted date and time, during Eastern Daylight or Eastern standard time.

ABOUT THE EVENING
My research has illustrated how the early views of mind/body dualism shaped the foundational ideas of depth psychology. Further, the bias towards a dualistic view of the mind and body, while dismissed by more contemporary psychoanalytic metapsychology and practice, still remains in our language and implicit assumptions. Building on the research in my book, The Body in Psychoanalysis, I will use two case studies in long term psychoanalytic work to illustrate the sensibility of a holistic view of the mind/body matrix in clinical practice. Both of these cases are patients who presented with eating disorders as their primary concern. I will illustrate, through these two clinical journeys, how I attempted to participate as an embodied analyst informed by a non-dualistic view of my patients’ eating disorder symptoms and psychological experience to inform the clinical work. This case work attempts to be a clinical illustration of a metapsychology which reaches beyond a hierarchical view in which the mind is supposed to arise out of the body, towards a circular model of mind/body integration. These case studies illustrate how an embodied psychoanalysis is necessary to support authentic, gratifying emotional transformation rather than a simple intellectual understanding of one’s symptoms.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Perrin Elisha, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst with a specialty area in psychosomatics, eating disorders and relationship issues. She has published The Conscious Body, A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Therapy, a work exploring the mind-body relationship in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has taught graduate and post graduate psychotherapy students in the areas of psychosomatics and eating disorders and helped found the Los Angeles Eating Disorders Study Center, which trained licensed therapists to become effective in the treatment of eating disorders. Her passion is clinical work, and Dr. Elisha is most effective helping people overcome barriers to healthy relationships and finding the care, closeness, and satisfaction available in life. She founded Relationships ReWired, which offers psychoanalytically based psychoeducational courses for people wishing to navigate intimate relationships with wisdom, skill and discernment.

ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Sarah Schoen, PhD, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in the I-H track, and Faculty, Supervising, and Training Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she teaches and writes about contemporary perspectives on gender, narcissism, and the clinical implications of the relational turn. Her recent edited volume (with co-editors Jean Petrucelli and Naomi Snider), Patriarchy and its Discontent: Psychoanalytic Perspectives is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2022 as part of the Routledge Series, Psychoanalysis in a New Key. Most recently, Dr. Schoen has been presenting a new paper exploring the patient’s experience of the analyst’s physicality. She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.

Confronting Racism, Discrimination and Othering: Perspectives from Around the World
2023-01-15 10:00 - 11:30
This series is online from 10:00AM-11:30AM/Eastern time unless otherwise noted.
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Note that no CE or CEU credits are available for this series.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Essam Daod, MD, Mental Health Expert

Dr. Daod is a trained psychiatrist and psychotherapist who provides emergency mental health interventions to displaced children and their families so they can transform their trauma into a source of growth. He grew up in Israel in a small Arab Palestinian village in Galilee. In 2015, he flew to Greece for what became a humanitarian rescue mission, where he co-founded Humanity Crew and has been working with refugees ever since. Currently, he is an avid refugee mental health practitioner and researcher. Dr. Daod has spoken at countless conferences and media outlets worldwide, advocating for the importance of mental health support for child refugees and people in crises. In 2018, he became a TED Fellow and a WHO mental health expert team member. In 2021, his work was featured in the docu-series, “The Me You Can’t See” produced by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry for Apple T.V.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Gurmeet Kanwal, MD
Dr. Kanwal is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is Past-President of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society and an Editorial Board Member and Fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Editorial Board Member, Psychoanalytic Discourse. Dr. Kanwal is co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of the books, Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections (Karnac, 2017) and Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). His papers have been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Neuropsychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Review, and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. In addition to teaching in the U.S., he has lectured on psychoanalysis in India and Iran.

ABOUT THE HOST
Maria Nardone, PhD, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of The powerful and covert role of culture in gender discrimination and inequality, published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2018). She is co-director of the Social Issues Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Nardone is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Nardone is an expert witness in Immigration matters including Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture; Hardship (e.g. I-601, I-601A, Cancellation of Removal); Rehabilitation (212c, 212h, 212i) and U Visa. With Tomás Casado Frankel, co-authored Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody, a chapter in Appleseed’s online Manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation. She was guest speaker for the Princeton Alumni Corp series on Trauma in the Immigration Community. A graduate of the Tavistock Institute, Dr. Nardone is an executive coach and advanced organizational consultant. She has lectured in numerous academic institutions in Europe and the US. Her chapter Executive Coaching as an Organizational Intervention, was published in English and Italian in Mind-ful Consulting (Karnac, 2009, 2014). Dr. Nardone is on the Board of Give Something Back International, a non-profit that provides education for children in Southeast Asia and Haiti. She is also on the board of Moving for Life, a nonprofit providing free dance exercise classes for people affected by cancer, and for older adults.

EL CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS LATINOAMERICANAS 2023 / THE LATIN AMERICAN LECTURE SERIES
2023-01-25 19:30 - 21:00
Diseñado para profesionales, candidatos y estudiantes de habla hispana en todo México y América Latina que desean ampliar su conocimiento del psicoanálisis interpersonal y sus conceptos clave.
Designed for Spanish-speaking practitioners, candidates and students throughout Mexico and Latin America who want to expand their knowledge of Interpersonal psychoanalysis and its key concepts.
Las conferencias se centraron en pensadores interpersonales de primera y segunda generación que han influido en el desarrollo de cada presentador como psicoanalista en esta tradición. Se hará hincapié en la aplicación clínica.
Lectures will center around first and second generation Interpersonal thinkers who have influenced each presenter’s development as a psychoanalyst in this tradition. Emphasis will be on clinical application.

Todas las conferencias se presentan a través de Zoom con traducción en vivo.
MIÉRCOLES POR LA NOCHE, 7:30-9:00PM/ CDMX y 8:30-10:00PM/ EST
All lectures are presented via Zoom with live translation.
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, 7:30-9:00PM/ CDMX and 8:30-10:00PM/ Eastern time

TARIFAS para la serie / Fees for the series (pagadero en dólares Americanos):
Miembros de la IARPP / Members of IARPP:
$185/USD
Profesionales y Psicoterapeutas fuera de la IARPP / Outside IARPP Practitioners:
$225/USD
Candidatos y estudiantes / Candidates and students:
$75/USD

HORARIO DE CONFERENCIAS / LECTURE SCHEDULE

25 de enero de 2023
ALEJANDRA PLAZA, PhD
Bienvenidos / Welcome
HELEN QUINONES, PhD
Principios Generales del Psicoanálisis Interpersonal
General Principles of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

1 y 8 de febrero
IRA MOSES, PhD
Las contribuciones teóricas y clínicas del Dr. Harry Stack Sullivan
The Theoretical and Clinical Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan, MD

15 y 22 de febrero
SANDRA BUECHLER, PhD
Inspiración de Fromm sobre la esperanza, la curiosidad, la voluntad y el propósito del Clínico
Fromm’s Inspiration of the Clinician’s Hope, Curiosity, Courage and Purpose

1 y 8 de marzo *
IRWIN HIRSCH, PhD
Reconocimiento de la subjetividad del analista: Contribuciones de Edgar Levenson y de la Psiquiatría Interpersonal, Supervisión en vivo.
Recognition of the Analyst’s Subjectivity: Contributions of Edgar Levenson and Interpersonal Psychiatry
Live, online Supervision
* Tenga en cuenta el cambio de hora solo para esta conferencia: 7:00-8:30 p. m./CDMX y 8:00-9:30 p. m./EST
* Note time change for this lecture only: 7:00-8:30PM/CDMX or 8:00-9:30PM/Eastern

15 de marzo
HELEN QUINONES, PhD
Philip Bromberg: Estando en los espacios. La experiencia intersubjetiva del paciente y el analista
Philip Bromberg: Standing in the Spaces – The Intersubjective Experience of Patient and Analyst

22 de marzo
JACK DRESCHER, MD
La búsqueda de identidad del hombre bisexual: Una perspectiva interpersonal
A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity: An Interpersonal Perspective

29 de marzo
CANDELA BONACCORSO, PsyD
El analista encarnado
The Embodied Analyst
ALEJANDRA PLAZA, PhD y HELEN QUINONES, PhD
Cierre / Closing Statements
Descarga el folleto del programa en español / Download the Program brochure in Spanish
Descargue el folleto del programa en inglés / Download the Program brochure in English

BOOK PARTY FOR ROGER FRIE & PASCAL SAUVAYRE
2023-02-01 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for an on-site evening gathering with the editors and friends, to celebrate the publication of their heralded new book. With Opening Remarks by Sandra Buechler and Donnel Stern.

LGBTQ STUDY GROUP w/ DANIEL POLYAK, LP, MA
2023-02-01 20:30 - 22:00
LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with:
DANIEL POLYAK, LP, MA
Feeling Comfy in Gender: Investigating Gender Anxiety in Psychoanalytic Training
Wed. Feb 1, 2023
8:30 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Gender anxieties exist in psychoanalytic training environments. This is not controversial. But these anxieties are typically unthought and unaddressed. Given these realities, how does a psychoanalyst find their way to working analytically with transness? Daniel Polyak will explore this question through the discussion of case material and the transphobic anxieties that can arise when this material is presented in the context of psychoanalytic training.
Daniel Polyak, LP, MA is a New York City based psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. He also teaches in the Women and Gender Studies program at Hunter College. He has published and presented on a range of topics including the intersections of queer theory and psychoanalytic practice, the clinical relevance of cisgender, and the implications of psychoanalytic practice in a neoliberal context. He is the author, most recently, of a chapter called “On Growing Up: A Cautionary Tale for Psychoanalysts” in the edited volume The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (2022).
For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org

The Artist Study Group
2023-02-02 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts presents Relational Public Art: Solidarity, Tourism, Witnessing and Transforming Spaces in Occupied Palestine and Israel with Susan Greene, PhD
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 1:30-3pm
An Online Presentation
Join us via zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
In this presentation, Dr. Greene will reflect on two community mural projects produced with Art Forces, an art/activism organization she founded and directs. The first project took place from 2004-2011 with the Aamer family, Palestinians who live in Mas’ha village in the West Bank. The Aamers live surrounded on four sides by the wall Israel has erected across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Aamers invited Greene, international artists/activists, and Jewish Israeli solidarity activists to work with them to paint a mural on the 24-foot wall they see when looking out of their front door. The second ongoing project, entitled “I Witness Silwan,” is located in Silwan, East Jerusalem. Large-scale images of the eyes of local, national, and international leaders, artists, writers, philosophers, and more are being installed on the hillside, visible from miles away, including from Israeli tourist sites. Dr. Greene’s interrogation includes: In what ways have the murals changed or shifted the psychology of spaces; what is solidarity in this context of military occupation; how do the murals challenge dominant ideology and heritage tourism in East Jerusalem; and what are some of the dynamics of creativity and coping with trauma.
We look forward to an enriching study group discussion!
Susan Greene, Ph.D., is the director of US based Art Forces. She is an interdisciplinary artist and clinical psychologist. Her practice traverses cultural arenas including video, new media, public art and murals. Greene’s work focuses on the psychologies of space, intersections of trauma, creativity, memory, resilience and resistance. Specifically, she is concerned with the ways in which architecture and tourism reinforce and reimagine borders, migrations, environmental and racial justice and decolonization. She has a private practice in Bay Area, CA.
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, Ph.D.,
Artist Study Group Co-Directors

Psychoanalytic Training Open House
2023-02-06 07:00 - 20:30
The Psychoanalytic Training Program
Virtual Open House
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6th, 2023
from 7:00-8:30pm/Eastern time

Join us for a Call and Response to
Dr. Kathy Pogue White’s seminal paper,
Surviving Hating & Being Hated:
Some Personal Thoughts about Racism
from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
with SHERI-ANN COWIE, PhD and ANNA VITALE, PhD

The evening will also include a history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Director of Training, Seth Aronson, PsyD, Director of Training.
A Q&A will follow the presentation.
Note that entry links to this online evening will be sent out a few days prior to the date. Please enter your email address carefully when filling out the registration form.
To download a copy of the paper, Surviving Hating and Being Hated by Kathy Pogue White, PhD, click here..
ABOUT THE PAPER’S AUTHOR AND OUR DISCUSSANTS
Kathy Pogue White, PhD

Kathleen Pogue White, PhD, is Principal, Pogue White Consultancy, LLC, and is a psychoanalyst who applies the profession’s core knowledge and skills in her multi-sectored work in organizational consulting, executive coaching and leadership development. Her organizational development work is carried out in teams designed to focus on balancing the dynamics experienced in the workplace with awareness and understanding in order to achieve individual, team and business objectives. Dr. White’s practice is based in Manhattan. Her paper that is the basis for tonight’s discussion, was originally published in the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2002, and is just as relevant and important today as it was then.
Sheri-Ann Cowie, PhD

Sheri-Ann Cowie, PhD, offers dynamic psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and groups. She works as an adjunct professor at New York University teaching Counseling Skills and Group Dynamics. She uses the Tavistock and group relations framework in her work in organizational consulting, coaching, and leadership development that focuses on the relationship between anxiety and authority, leadership, and organizational behavior. She is a third-year candidate at the William Alanson White Institute, a Fellow at the Yale University School of Management, and the 2024-2026 Director for Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems Group Relations Residential Conference.

Anna Vitale, Ph.D.

Anna Vitale, PhD, is a poet, writer, editor, and candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Detroit Detroit, Our Rimbaud Mask, Different Worlds and Unknown Pleasures. Anna Vitale earned a PhD in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in Writing from Bard College. She has taught writing at the Bard Microcollege in the Brooklyn Public Library and at numerous universities in New York and Detroit. In addition, she has hosted freeform radio programs in Ann Arbor and the Hudson Valley. Dr. Vitale lives with her family in the Hudson Valley, the sacred homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people.

For additional information or questions, please contact:
Cynthia Field, PhD, Director of Outreach & Recruitment
at c.field@wawhite.org or 917-328-2979

Center for Public Mental Health presents Kenneth Barish
2023-02-07 11:45 - 13:00
The Center for Public Mental Health
Invites You to
Why We Disagree:
And How Can We Come Closer Together
by
Kenneth Barish, PhD
presented via Zoom
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2023
11:45AM-1:00PM/Eastern

About the talk:
Respectful and constructive dialogue is vanishing from American political life. There is perhaps no more urgent question for American society today than how we can listen and talk with each other constructively, with less hostility and contempt.
In this talk, Dr. Barish will offer answers to three questions: (1) What is the essence of conservative and liberal political opinions? (2) Why do we become conservative or liberal? (3) How can we talk together in a more productive way? He will present an understanding of liberal and conservative political ideologies, drawing not only from politics but also from liberalism and conservatism in other spheres of life – in science, religion, and language.
Dr. Barish will then describe principles of constructive dialogue and reasoned debate among people who disagree. He will show how opposing groups, motivated and inspired by different concerns, may still share common goals; how we can listen and talk with each other with greater charity and humility; how extremism can be avoided; how ideology can be changed into pragmatism; and, when we continue to disagree, when we firmly believe that our opponents are wrong, how we can discuss our differences with at least a modicum of understanding and respect.
Kenneth Barish, PhD, is on the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University and Visiting Professor, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, China.
Ken is the author of How To Be A Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change (W. W. Norton, 2018) and Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Solving Family Problems (Oxford University Press, 2012). Pride and Joy is winner of the 2013 International Book Award and the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award.
In addition to his teaching and clinical practice, Ken plays jazz trumpet.

The Embodied Psychoanalyst: Focusing Within Colloquium 2022-2023 series
2023-02-10 20:00 - 21:30
No Body, Never Mind: Conceptions, Preconceptions, and Misconceptions about Body-Mind
GURMEET KANWAL, MD
Discussant ROGER FRIE, PsyD

Friday, February 10th from 8:00-9:30PM/Eastern
All events in this webinar series are live-streamed and take place in Eastern Daylight or Eastern Standard time.
ABOUT THIS EVENING’S TALK
Psychoanalytic inquiry of the body started before psychoanalysis, with Charcot. In that sense, psychosomatics is the progenitor of psychoanalysis. Freud then shifted his focus more and more to the intra-psychic. Is psychoanalysis suffering from the Streetlight Effect? Conceptions of Body and Mind have changed in Western cultures over time, and the speed of that change has only been accelerating. The Body is held differently in Mind, and Mind is constructed differently in Body, in different cultures. Our culturally determined Mind constructs a view of our Body while remaining ignorant, selectively inattentive, or unconscious of many realities of our Body. How can we understand the culturally/politically/historically determined relational space between Body and Mind? How might a better understanding of Body, and its relationship to Mind contribute to psychoanalytic work? In this talk Dr. Kanwal will explore some disparate but interconnected ideas about the Body-Mind Complex.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is a past President of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society and an Editorial Board Member and Fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Editorial Board Member of Psychoanalytic Discourse. Dr. Kanwal is co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of the books, Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections (Karnac, 2017) and Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). His papers have been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Neuropsychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Review, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. In addition to teaching in the U.S., Dr. Kanwal has lectured on psychoanalysis in India and he is on Faculty at HamAva Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Tehran, Iran.

ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Roger Frie, PsyD, is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Associate Member of the Columbia University Seminar on Culture Memory and Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. He lectures widely on themes of cultural memory, historical trauma and ethical responsibility. Dr. Frie is an award-winning author, has published many books, and is co-editor most recently of Culture, Gender and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries.

To view the entire schedule for this year’s series, click here

The Psychoanalytic Training Program In Person Open House
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:30 | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
An In Person Open House at the Institute
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8th
7:00-8:30 PM
Call Me By Your Name? Grappling with Erotic Transference and Countertransference
A Clinical Presentation with Supervision
with Candidate Ali Ahsan, MD
Supervised by Psychoanalyst Jack Drescher, MD

* Please note the following about attending this event: attendees must upload a photograph or a scan of their proof of an initial series of two vaccinations, or of one J&J vaccination plus a booster.

ABOUT THE EVENING
A Q&A will follow the presentation. The evening will also include a history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Director of Training, Seth Aronson, PsyD, Director of Training. Refreshments will be served.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
Ali Ahsan, MD, is a fourth year Candidate in the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training Program and is a psychiatrist at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Mount Sinai. He completed medical school in Pakistan where he is originally from, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital, graduating with honors. Dr. Ahsan decided to pursue analytic training at the William Alanson White Institute during that residency as he quickly realized that “human suffering and aspiration cannot be dealt with by prescribing medications alone, no matter how hard we try.”

Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.
Dr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He presently serves as a corresponding member on APA’s Council on Communications. Last year Dr. Drescher was recipient of the prestigious Sigourney Award for his ground-breaking work on gender and sexuality.
Dr. Drescher is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBT communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish and German. Dr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender and sexuality and has appeared on major news outlets in the Unites States and abroad.

Confronting Racism, Discrimination & Othering
2023-03-11 10:00 - 11:30
Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain
A Presentation by
PADRAIC X. SCLANLAN, PhD
with MICHELLE STEPHENS, PhD, Moderator

This event has been rescheduled from February 4th. If you already registered and still want to attend on the new date of March 11th, you don’t need to do anything: we will honor all previously registered attendees. Entry links will be sent out 1-3 days prior to the event.
Series talks are online from 10:00-11:30AM/Eastern time unless noted otherwise.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Padraic X. Scanlan is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Industrial Relations and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale, 2017), and Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain(Robinson, 2020). He is writing The Irish Question, a history of labour in the era of the Irish Great Famine, to be published by Robinson (UK) and Basic Books (USA and Canada).
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Michelle Stephens is a psychoanalyst, a Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, and the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ). Originally from Jamaica, West Indies, she graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in American studies. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press, 2005) and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014). Recently she has published articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in such journals as JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
ABOUT THE HOST
Maria Nardone, PhD, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of The powerful and covert role of culture in gender discrimination and inequality, published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2018). She is co-director of the Social Issues Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Nardone is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Nardone is an expert witness in Immigration matters including Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture; Hardship (e.g. I-601, I-601A, Cancellation of Removal); Rehabilitation (212c, 212h, 212i) and U Visa. With Tomás Casado Frankel, co-authored Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody, a chapter in Appleseed’s online Manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation. She was guest speaker for the Princeton Alumni Corp series on Trauma in the Immigration Community. A graduate of the Tavistock Institute, Dr. Nardone is an executive coach and advanced organizational consultant. She has lectured in numerous academic institutions in Europe and the US. Her chapter Executive Coaching as an Organizational Intervention, was published in English and Italian in Mind-ful Consulting (Karnac, 2009, 2014). Dr. Nardone is on the Board of Give Something Back International, a non-profit that provides education for children in Southeast Asia and Haiti. She is also on the board of Moving for Life, a nonprofit providing free dance exercise classes for people affected by cancer, and for older adults.

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The Embodied Psychoanalyst: Focusing Within, Colloquium Series 2022-2023
2023-03-17 20:00 - 22:00
Digging up the Body: Lucy in the Session with Pictograms
PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD, ORSHI HUNYADY, PhD, and VERA OSIPYAN, LCSW
FRIDAY, MARCH 17th from 8:00-10:00PM
Part of the live streamed webinar series. All events are held in Eastern Standard or Daylight time.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
‘Lucy’ was the name of an excavated skeleton; it was theorized to be the missing link between Homosapiens and their evolutionary predecessor, the ape. The archeological work, one of Freud’s pivotal metaphors, that (re)’discovered’ her, allowed the modern human to recognize his connection to the forgotten animal in him. In a similar vein, we propose to devote our efforts to the archeological work to rediscover the body in psychoanalysis. The body needs to be rediscovered because it has, for the most part, been forgotten and buried in our field, in preference for the more formulated and developed linguistic media at the heart of the ‘talking cure’. But, witness this colloquium series, there has been a concerted effort to pull together disparate but brilliant attempts to bring it to light, both in theory and in practice.
We will use the work of Petra Aulagnier, and her concept of the pictogram, assisted by the work of the philosopher Laszlo Tengelyi, and his concept of the wild region of experience, to help us theorize the missing links between the body and the psyche, and their elusive but key presence in clinical experience.
It is in the terrain of ‘unformulated experience’ (to use a phrase with which many of us may be more familiar) that the archeological efforts are directed to find ‘shreds of experience’ (Tengelyi) that have remained unattended, unformulated, and buried. ‘Unformulated’ should not be mistaken as undifferentiated and non-differentiable. It is as if this terrain “were an indefinite, but very greatly abundant, luminous switchboard; and the pattern of light which would show on the switchboard in a discrete experience is the basic prototaxic experience itself” (Sullivan). We think that the “patterns of light” Sullivan speaks of are a way to understand Aulagnier’s “pictogram”, something that has a proto organization, an organization that can become a symbol, but that cannot yet enter the realm of the symbolic (just as the common definition of pictogram has it).
If we take Aulagnier’s distinctions between the primal, the primary, and secondary process (going from the soma to the psyche) – and bring them into correspondence with Sullivan’s prototaxic, parataxic, syntaxic experience, then the pictogram would be revealed as the (missing) link between the prototaxic and the parataxic. The pictogram comes into existence in interaction with the mother; it is the infant’s first ( body) attempt at representation, a response to the excitation engendered by the enigma of the mother’s psyche. In this sense, at the beginning there is only the infant’s body and the mother’s psyche. The infant’s psyche – and his body as his – does not pre-exist the relationship with the mother, it is given birth through that exchange. (This approach is different from the Bionian mother’s “pre-digesting experience” for the baby; it is closer to an interpersonal formulation). An erogenous zone becomes a ‘zone’ neither from stimulation from the inside, nor imposed from the outside, but emerges in the interaction. This phenomenon, uncanny when revealed in clinical work, is the foundation for the elaboration of new meanings rooted in shreds of unattended experience.
If the fundamental psychoanalytic endeavor is framed as the inclusion of the excluded, to attend to the unattended (Tengelyi uses the compelling phrase ‘an ethic of alterity’), we can then see that the attempt to refind the body is fundamentally psychoanalytic. But, in line with archeological digs, there is no direct route to the body, just as there is no direct route to the unconscious – drilling for oil it is not. Indeed, the intrusive and violent aspects of an oil drill would destroy the very object of our search. The work of archeology is painstaking, delicate, and incremental, and while it certainly disturbs the buried, and while it cannot reveal the artifacts in their original state, it respects the elusiveness of its object. And in the same vein, we insist that what could be referred to as ‘the opacity of the body’ must be respected, which means any approach that claims to ‘unlock’ the mysteries of the body must be looked upon with much suspicion, not only theoretically but also in clinical practice as well.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, is faculty and training analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He studies and writes at the interdisciplinary borders of psychoanalysis. A recent project is the co-edited volume, with Roger Frie, of Culture, Politics, and Race in the Makings of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis published at Routledge in 2022. In addition to the above entitled paper to be co-presented for this event, among his current projects are the translation of Jean Laplanche’s Problématiques V: The Tub: The Transcendence of the Transference, to be published at The Unconscious in Translation, editing the English translation of Tomas Casado’s Early Relational Trauma and the Development of the Self, to be published at Routledge, as well as work on the question of the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Dr. Sauvayre has a private practice in New York City.
Orshi Hunyady, PhD, is a supervising analyst and faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she 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.
Vera Osipyan, LCSW, is originally from the Republic of Georgia. She holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the Tbilisi State University and an MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work. She is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute, and is currently in full-time private practice in New York City.
To see the entire Colloquium series schedule for 2022-2023, click here

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In-Person Open House
2023-03-29 20:00 - 21:30 | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
This in-person Open House for the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program will include a clinical presentation with supervision.
Children, Depression & Family Dynamics: The Impact of Loss, Language & Love
Clinical Presentation by Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R with Supervisor Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT.
The presentation will follow the nine month treatment over Zoom of a six-year-old girl. Much of the work took place during her transition from Kindergarten to first grade. Feelings of loss, separation anxiety and family dynamics will be discussed.
Refreshments will be served following the Presentation. CAPTP faculty, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.
Please note that in order to attend this event, our registration requires that you confirm your Covid vaccination/booster status.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER AND SUPERVISOR
Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R, is a bilingual psychotherapist in private practice in Bayside, NY. Prior to her work in private practice she worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and clinical director at an outpatient community mental health clinic in Queens. Michelle is a 3rd year student in the CAPTP program the Institute.
Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s CAPT Program as well as the Psychoanalytic Training Certificate Program. He is also a graduate of the Couples & Family Therapy Program at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, and a Higher Diploma in Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies from Trinity College Dublin. He co-authored Managing the Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody (with Maria Nardone, PhD), a chapter in Appleseed’s online manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation (2017), and he is also the co-author of Early Relational Trauma and the Development of the Self: A Model of Therapeutic Accompaniment (Routledge, 2022). He is a member of the William Alanson White Center for Public Mental Health.

Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer and Not Yet
2023-03-31 16:30 - 18:30
A 3-part Conference starting with a virtual panel on the evening of March 31st and continuing with two full days on Saturday & Sunday, April 1st & 2nd featuring keynotes by Adam Phillips and Claudia Rankine, and over 30 panelists.
FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, 5:30-7:30 PM/Eastern Daylight
This evening is an online-only event.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1st and SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM/Eastern Daylight*
Weekend days may be selected for attendance in person on location OR online
* A limited number of on location places are available. Because of cautionary limits for in-person attendance, Saturday & Sunday are now offered online. Once location limits are met, only online attendance will be offered.
Location address: Constantino Hall, Fordham University, 150 West 62nd Street, New York City
Boxed Lunch and beverages are included for the conference’s Saturday & Sunday on-location attendees.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Entry links for online attendance will be sent prior to the event to the email address supplied during registration.
Please note that the Institute is not responsible for attendees’ Internet connection or reception.
CE/CME credits are available for paid registrants, only.

You may register and attend Friday evening only, OR register for the entire Conference including Friday evening

Registration rates:
Attend the entire conference (includes Friday evening online AND Saturday & Sunday – in person OR online):
$375/professional or $175/student or candidate
OR
Purchase and attend ONLY the Friday evening virtual event:
$50/professional or $20/student or candidate

ABOUT THE ONLINE VIRTUAL EVENING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, 2023 from 5:30-7:30PM/Eastern
Capture the Invisible: The Liminal Space in Photography
Moderator: Maria Nardone, Ph.D.
Panelists: Grace Aneiza Ali, Anton Hart, Ph.D. and Maggie Taylor
Liminality is as much a state of the human mind as it is a particular place. Artists in general, and photographers in particular, enter a liminal state when they create. From this creative state of mind, the photographer looks in from the outside and out from within, in the creation of their images. Psychoanalysts work similarly in a state in tune with their own thoughts and feelings while listening to their patients. During this session our photographers will share images of their work while discussing their perspective on liminality with our psychoanalysts.

SCHEDULE & DETAILS FOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY
SATURDAY, APRIL 1st, 2023
Introduction: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.
9:00- 9:10am

Keynote: Adam Phillips
9:15 – 10:30am
Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Coffee Break 10:30-10:45am

PANEL I
10:45-12:15pm
Transitionality, Illusion, and Play: Invitations and Foreclosures
Moderator: Jill Gentile, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sarah Schoen, Ph.D., Stephen Seligman, DMH, Don Troise, LCSW
Play is increasingly understood as an essential aspect of human development and psychotherapeutic action. Cultures can be more or less supportive of this transitional area, with its potentials for imaginative connection with ourselves, in relationships with others, as well as in the broader social surround. With that as a point of departure, these papers will take up how people do or do not find their way into this realm—in psychoanalysis, in the world outside the consulting room, and in the ways these locations intersect.

LUNCH 12:15-1:00pm

PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
Embodied Liminality: Betwixt and Between as we cross Thresholds
Moderator: Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA
Velleda Ceccoli, Ph.D.; Susie Orbach, Ph.D.; Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., FABP, CEDS-S
If we think of liminality as an ambiguous, transitional space that constitutes a form of generative embodiment, where power and powerlessness, separateness and communion ebb and flow with possibility, then perhaps we can begin to question what happens when such forms of embodiment are challenged? Is it possible to re-inscribe how we engage with one another on a “bodily level?” Are we then in a better place to challenge the body as the site of difference and embodiment acts as one of the constitutive forces that shapes subjectivities? As psychoanalysts, we can play in the liminal, co-creating opportunities to rehearse, shape, and deconstruct what is embodied and experienced. However, what happens when this space is crushed by political realities that threaten to govern and define our bodies and re-construct us through a cultural and social lens that confines possibilities and choice?

BREAK: 2:30-2:45pm

PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Queering the Gaze: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality
Moderator: Cynthia Chalker, LCSW
Panelists: Kirsten Lenz,Ph.D.; Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.; Mx. Mar Kidvai Padilla, MSEd, LMSW
What are the challenges to the perception and understanding within psychoanalysis of what may appear to be a complex swirl of sexualities and gender identities? Queer moves beyond the binary to create a fresh perspective. This panel will seek to “queer” the psychoanalytic lens by deconstructing and de-centering cis-heteropatriachial constructs of identity, gender, and sexuality.

BREAK 4:15-4:30pm
PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Is This Really Happening?
Struggling to Stay Alive While Facing Illness, Disappearance, and Death
Moderator: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D.
Panelists: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D., Ph.D.; Ruth Livingston, Ph.D.; Anna DeForest, MD
Discussant: Susan Kolod, Ph.D.
This panel will focus on the emotional and psychological conflicts faced by individuals dealing with terminal or life-altering illness. These include living somewhere between aliveness and deadness, between old and new forms of being, between facing and denying heart-wrenching realities. Panelists will speak to the perspectives of the various players involved–patients, caregivers, and doctors. How can we foster resilience in such situations? What does it take to stay alive and present to the moment? To cherish rather than squander the remaining moments? These and other questions will be taken up.

SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd 2023
Welcome: Dr. Jean Petrucelli
Keynote: Claudia Rankine
9:00-10:15am
The Power In Powerlessness: Or, How Do We Live, Knowing the Limits That Exist in Our Ability to Negotiate Change?

Coffee Break 10:15-10:30am

PANEL I
10:30-12:00pm
Between Promise and Devastation: Poetic Forms in Psychoanalysis and Human Experience
Moderator: Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.; Forrest Hamer, Ph.D.; Anna Vitale, LP; Cleonie White, Ph.D.
Poetry uses language, as well as rhythm and prosody in order to create new and heightened experience. Poetic forms can initiate a loss of the illusion of consensual reality. There is the possibility of upending conventional cultural norms and messages. This creates space for new individual meaning as well as opportunities to share experience in a novel form. This panel explores how psychoanalysis attunes to poetic forms, including metaphor, within the dyad, and explores how such forms invite the analysand into liminal spaces where the self can be discovered and transformed.

LUNCH: 12:00-1:00pm

PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
The Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Moderator: Max Belkin, Ph.D.
Panelists: Rhona Kaplan, LCSW-R, Hannah Pocock, LCSW, Michelle Stephens, Ph.D., Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.
Black feminist theory examines the intersection between different forms of oppression. This panel will discuss the ways in which the intersectional approach to understanding the interplay between race and gender that is rooted in Black feminism can enrich the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, somatically informed psychotherapy with trauma survivors, and group psychotherapy.

BREAK 2:30-2:45pm

PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Living in the Liminal Space, an AAPI Experience
Moderator: Sophia Cai
Panelists: Karen Chuck, JD, LCSW-R; Milan Patel, MD; Arun Venugopal
Asians in America exist in a middle state; “privileged” due to proximity to whiteness and the label of “model minority,” while simultaneously construed as “foreign” and not fully American. Growing up as an AAPI person in America requires existing in the paradox of privilege and negation, which has deep clinical implications. Clinical work with AAIP clients must be contextualized by the complex social and historical forces that shape their lived experience.

BREAK 4:15-4:30

PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Transcendental and the Uncanny: The Liminality of Death Itself
Co-Moderators: Rande Brown, LCSW and Naomi Snider, LLM, LP
Panelists: Alexis Tomarken, Ph.D, Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, Leanne Domash, Ph.D.
Freud’s materialistic understanding of death as the end of human consciousness (1915) continues to be treated as axiomatic within psychoanalytic theory and practice. From this perspective, belief in an afterlife is reduced to magical thinking. In what ways does this orthodoxy foreclose deeper exploration with patients of the nature of being and non-being and the spaces in between? Contemporary psychoanalysis has become more open to the “extraordinary” and uncanny ways in which minds meet in defiance of traditional boundaries of space and time. Yet, remarkably little has been said about how such experiences might shape our relationship to death and the deceased. Against this backdrop of silence and silencing, panelists will explore expanded understandings of consciousness and their impact on psychoanalytic encounters with death, loss, and the vagaries of living.
*****
Download the Program brochure for the conference, here.

About CE/CME Credits for this conference
2 CE or CME Credits are available for attending Friday evening, alone. To receive your credits, follow the instructions you receive in the entry link letter which will be sent to the email address you register with, prior to this event.
19 CE or CME Credits are available to you for attending the entire conference. To receive those, follow the instructions you receive in the letter you receive with your entry link or the instruction sheet distributed on location.
For Learning Objectives and References for this Conference, click here
*****
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION
For Psychologists:
The 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.
William 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.
For Social Workers:
William 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.
For Licensed Psychoanalysts:
William 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.
For Physicians:
This 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.”
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 7 [AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT 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.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
For Licensed Mental Health Counselors:
William 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.
For Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:
William 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.
For Licensed Creative Arts Therapists:
William 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.

Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer and Not Yet
2023-04-01 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-04-02 08:00 - 17:00
A 3-part Conference starting with a virtual panel on the evening of March 31st and continuing with two full days on Saturday & Sunday, April 1st & 2nd featuring keynotes by Adam Phillips and Claudia Rankine, and over 30 panelists.
FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, 5:30-7:30 PM/Eastern Daylight
This evening is an online-only event.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1st and SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM/Eastern Daylight *
Weekend days may be selected for attendance in person on location OR online
* A limited number of on location places are available. Because of cautionary limits for in-person attendance, Saturday & Sunday are now offered online. Once location limits are met, only online attendance will be offered.
Location address: Constantino Hall, Fordham University, 150 West 62nd Street, New York City
Boxed Lunch and beverages are included for the conference’s Saturday & Sunday on-location attendees.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Entry links for online attendance will be sent prior to the event to the email address supplied during registration.
Please note that the Institute is not responsible for attendees’ Internet connection or reception.
CE/CME credits are available for paid registrants, only.

You may register and attend Friday evening only, OR register for the entire Conference including Friday evening.

Registration rates:
Attend the entire conference (includes Friday evening online AND Saturday & Sunday – in person OR online):
$375/professional or $175/student or candidate
OR
Purchase and attend ONLY the Friday evening virtual event:
$50/professional or $20/student or candidate

ABOUT THE ONLINE VIRTUAL EVENING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, 2023 from 5:30-7:30PM/Eastern
Capture the Invisible: The Liminal Space in Photography
Moderator: Maria Nardone, Ph.D.
Panelists: Grace Aneiza Ali, Anton Hart, Ph.D. and Maggie Taylor
Liminality is as much a state of the human mind as it is a particular place. Artists in general, and photographers in particular, enter a liminal state when they create. From this creative state of mind, the photographer looks in from the outside and out from within, in the creation of their images. Psychoanalysts work similarly in a state in tune with their own thoughts and feelings while listening to their patients. During this session our photographers will share images of their work while discussing their perspective on liminality with our psychoanalysts.

SCHEDULE & DETAILS FOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY
SATURDAY, APRIL 1st, 2023
Introduction: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.
9:00- 9:10am

Keynote: Adam Phillips
9:15 – 10:30am
Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Coffee Break 10:30-10:45am

PANEL I
10:45-12:15pm
Transitionality, Illusion, and Play: Invitations and Foreclosures
Moderator: Jill Gentile, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sarah Schoen, Ph.D., Stephen Seligman, DMH, Don Troise, LCSW
Play is increasingly understood as an essential aspect of human development and psychotherapeutic action. Cultures can be more or less supportive of this transitional area, with its potentials for imaginative connection with ourselves, in relationships with others, as well as in the broader social surround. With that as a point of departure, these papers will take up how people do or do not find their way into this realm—in psychoanalysis, in the world outside the consulting room, and in the ways these locations intersect.

LUNCH 12:15-1:00pm

PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
Embodied Liminality: Betwixt and Between as we cross Thresholds
Moderator: Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA
Velleda Ceccoli, Ph.D.; Susie Orbach, Ph.D.; Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., FABP, CEDS-S
If we think of liminality as an ambiguous, transitional space that constitutes a form of generative embodiment, where power and powerlessness, separateness and communion ebb and flow with possibility, then perhaps we can begin to question what happens when such forms of embodiment are challenged? Is it possible to re-inscribe how we engage with one another on a “bodily level?” Are we then in a better place to challenge the body as the site of difference and embodiment acts as one of the constitutive forces that shapes subjectivities? As psychoanalysts, we can play in the liminal, co-creating opportunities to rehearse, shape, and deconstruct what is embodied and experienced. However, what happens when this space is crushed by political realities that threaten to govern and define our bodies and re-construct us through a cultural and social lens that confines possibilities and choice?

BREAK: 2:30-2:45pm

PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Queering the Gaze: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality
Moderator: Cynthia Chalker, LCSW
Panelists: Kirsten Lenz,Ph.D.; Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.; Mx. Mar Kidvai Padilla, MSEd, LMSW
What are the challenges to the perception and understanding within psychoanalysis of what may appear to be a complex swirl of sexualities and gender identities? Queer moves beyond the binary to create a fresh perspective. This panel will seek to “queer” the psychoanalytic lens by deconstructing and de-centering cis-heteropatriachial constructs of identity, gender, and sexuality.

BREAK 4:15-4:30pm
PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Is This Really Happening?
Struggling to Stay Alive While Facing Illness, Disappearance, and Death
Moderator: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D.
Panelists: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D., Ph.D.; Ruth Livingston, Ph.D.; Anna DeForest, MD
Discussant: Susan Kolod, Ph.D.
This panel will focus on the emotional and psychological conflicts faced by individuals dealing with terminal or life-altering illness. These include living somewhere between aliveness and deadness, between old and new forms of being, between facing and denying heart-wrenching realities. Panelists will speak to the perspectives of the various players involved–patients, caregivers, and doctors. How can we foster resilience in such situations? What does it take to stay alive and present to the moment? To cherish rather than squander the remaining moments? These and other questions will be taken up.

SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd 2023
Welcome: Dr. Jean Petrucelli
Keynote: Claudia Rankine
9:00-10:15am
The Power In Powerlessness: Or, How Do We Live, Knowing the Limits That Exist in Our Ability to Negotiate Change?

Coffee Break 10:15-10:30am

PANEL I
10:30-12:00pm
Between Promise and Devastation: Poetic Forms in Psychoanalysis and Human Experience
Moderator: Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.; Forrest Hamer, Ph.D.; Anna Vitale, LP; Cleonie White, Ph.D.
Poetry uses language, as well as rhythm and prosody in order to create new and heightened experience. Poetic forms can initiate a loss of the illusion of consensual reality. There is the possibility of upending conventional cultural norms and messages. This creates space for new individual meaning as well as opportunities to share experience in a novel form. This panel explores how psychoanalysis attunes to poetic forms, including metaphor, within the dyad, and explores how such forms invite the analysand into liminal spaces where the self can be discovered and transformed.

LUNCH: 12:00-1:00pm

PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
The Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Moderator: Max Belkin, Ph.D.
Panelists: Rhona Kaplan, LCSW-R, Hannah Pocock, LCSW, Michelle Stephens, Ph.D., Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.
Black feminist theory examines the intersection between different forms of oppression. This panel will discuss the ways in which the intersectional approach to understanding the interplay between race and gender that is rooted in Black feminism can enrich the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, somatically informed psychotherapy with trauma survivors, and group psychotherapy.

BREAK 2:30-2:45pm

PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Living in the Liminal Space, an AAPI Experience
Moderator: Sophia Cai
Panelists: Karen Chuck, JD, LCSW-R; Milan Patel, MD; Arun Venugopal
Asians in America exist in a middle state; “privileged” due to proximity to whiteness and the label of “model minority,” while simultaneously construed as “foreign” and not fully American. Growing up as an AAPI person in America requires existing in the paradox of privilege and negation, which has deep clinical implications. Clinical work with AAIP clients must be contextualized by the complex social and historical forces that shape their lived experience.

BREAK 4:15-4:30

PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Transcendental and the Uncanny: The Liminality of Death Itself
Co-Moderators: Rande Brown, LCSW and Naomi Snider, LLM, LP
Panelists: Alexis Tomarken, Ph.D, Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, Leanne Domash, Ph.D.
Freud’s materialistic understanding of death as the end of human consciousness (1915) continues to be treated as axiomatic within psychoanalytic theory and practice. From this perspective, belief in an afterlife is reduced to magical thinking. In what ways does this orthodoxy foreclose deeper exploration with patients of the nature of being and non-being and the spaces in between? Contemporary psychoanalysis has become more open to the “extraordinary” and uncanny ways in which minds meet in defiance of traditional boundaries of space and time. Yet, remarkably little has been said about how such experiences might shape our relationship to death and the deceased. Against this backdrop of silence and silencing, panelists will explore expanded understandings of consciousness and their impact on psychoanalytic encounters with death, loss, and the vagaries of living.
*****
Download the Program brochure for the conference, here.

About CE/CME Credits for this conference
2 CE or CME Credits are available for attending Friday evening, alone. To receive your credits, follow the instructions you receive in the entry link letter which will be sent to the email address you register with, prior to this event.
19 CE or CME Credits are available to you for attending the entire conference. To receive those, follow the instructions you receive in the letter you receive with your entry link or the instruction sheet distributed on location.
For Learning Objectives and References for this Conference, click here
*****
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION
For Psychologists:
The 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.
William 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.
For Social Workers:
William 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.
For Licensed Psychoanalysts:
William 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.
For Physicians:
This 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.”
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 7 [AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT 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.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
For Licensed Mental Health Counselors:
William 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.
For Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:
William 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.
For Licensed Creative Arts Therapists:
William 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.

Secondary Dominance: A Kaleidoscopic Visual Journey
2023-04-06 13:30 - 15:00
A film by Sarah Small and Wade McCullum
This presentation and discussion is a collaboration of The Artist Study Group for People in the Arts at WAWI and the Sexual Abuse Study Group & Service.
Currently in pre-release, the new feature-length film concerns sexual trauma. The two study groups have planned the presentation and two discussions which will take place virtually on Zoom, over two dates:
Thursday, April 6, 2023 from 1:30-3:00pm/Eastern and Thursday, April 20th.
You must RSVP to receive the Private Preview screening film link. Email fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THE EVENTS
Sarah Small and Wade McCollum will discuss their feature film, Secondary Dominance, as a hybrid biographical expression/auto-fiction documentary/long-form music video that explores trauma’s cellular imprint from a place where art and science intersect. In the film, a neuroscientist invites an artist to speak at a medical conference on PTSD, trauma, and the brain. During her talk, she reads a letter she wrote to her childhood sexual abuser, igniting a dance-and-music-centric journey into her psychological landscape, illustrating the nonlinearity of memory and transformation. A central topic of this discussion will include the complexity of being an Artist-Survivor and the challenges of representing cognitive, emotional and sensory experiences relating to trauma through the sound and visual artistic medium of film.
Study Group participants should view the film in advance of the April 6rh meeting. Please RSVP the email address above to receive the Private-Workshop-Preview screening link to view the film.
The second discussion meeting for this film will be hosted by the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service on Thursday, April 20th. During this meeting we will expand further on our discussion of sexual abuse trauma and its representation through the performance and sensory experiences evoked by this film.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Sarah Small is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer, filmmaker, and photographer. She comes from a family of writers, psychoanalysts, a lutenist / composer mother, and a pianist / composer father. Small spent her childhood playing cello, concocting gibberish languages, dancing, and performing in musicals written by her mother. She became enraptured by photography when she was 13 yo, and in 2001 graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BA in photography. Small’s Balkan vocal trio, Black Sea Hotel has toured and taught throughout the US and Scandinavia.
Wade McCollum is a Broadway, West End and TV actor, filmmaker, singer, composer, writer, director, inventor, and is co-founder of Neural Positive, a neuroscience tech company. McCollum used the almost 2 year break in live performance (2019-2020) to pursue a graduate degree in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Be it in theater, on screen, in boardrooms, classrooms, or laboratories, McCollum’s life breathes with the interplay of art and science.
This event has been arranged by Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, Artist Study Group Co-Directors.

LGBTQ Study Group with S.J. Langer, LCSW-R
2023-04-12 20:30 - 22:00
Everything is psychosomatic: Embodied learning, communication, and accommodation in psychoanalysis
S.J. Langer, LCSW-R

Wed. April 12, 2023
8:30 – 10:00 pm (EST)
We are never only a psyche – it is the psyche/soma that makes the subject. Our minds and bodies are always learning, constantly unfinished and continuously communicating within us. Embodiment is how we process information. Neuropsychoanalysis is beginning to provide us with a bridge between the concrete of neuroscience and the theories of psychoanalysis. This talk will encircle concepts from Neuropsychoanalysis and embodiment literature and focus on how we harness them clinically in work with our trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse patients. Clinical and theoretical considerations connected to gender exploration, trans sex, and trans phantoms will be explored as well as case examples.
S.J. Langer is a writer and psychotherapist in New York City. He is in private practice where he also provides clinical supervision and WPATH GEI SOC7 Certified Mentorship. He is on faculty at School of Visual Arts in both the MPS Art Therapy and Humanities & Sciences departments. Along with psychotherapy, his research lab studies embodiment and trans phantoms. He is also part of the Faculty of Psychology for the Diploma in Psychotherapy and Mental Health in Sexual Diversity of Gender and Relationships at Universidad Diego Portales – Centre for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (Centro de Estudios en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia – CEPPS) in Santiago, Chile. One of his articles, Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors, was the co-winner of the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He is included in the edited volumes Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities and Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapy. His first book Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2020.

For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org

THE EMBODIED PSYCHOANALYST: FOCUSING WITHIN, COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2022-2023
2023-04-14 12:00 - 14:00
The Memory of the Body: A Theoretical Justification of Corporal Interventions in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
SUSANA FERNANDEZ De La VEGA GONZALEZ, PsyD
Discussant ERNESTO MUJICA, PhD
Friday, April 14th from 12Noon-2:00PM/Eastern
Part of the live streamed webinar series. All events are held in Eastern Standard or Daylight time.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
There are many psychotherapeutic proposals that offer corporal interventions to deal with psychic suffering, some of them lacking a solid theoretical foundation. On the other hand, different authors accept the presence of archaic experiences that maintain their influence throughout life and are inaccessible to the word. When verbal intervention is insufficient, it is necessary to reflect on the limits of therapeutic action: attention to somatic dialogue, questioning of the touch taboo or the integration of body techniques that evoke sensory and primordial emotional experiences. The meaning of the body within the psychoanalysis field, according to a range of authors such as Freud, Reich, Bion, Winnicott, Anzieu or relational psychoanalysis theorists, will be reviewed in search of a conceptual foundation for body techniques.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Susana Fernández de la Vega Gonzalez, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist who currently works in a Public Mental Health Day Hospital in Salamanca (Spain), performing group therapy, individual psychotherapy and body techniques with patients with severe mental disorders. She has previously worked in Madrid, Toledo, Valladolid, and Rome as a clinical psychologist, with adult and child patients, and in different resources of the public mental health network. She also worked in the care of those affected by the March 11 attacks in Madrid. She carries out teaching tasks at the Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca.
On the other hand, she has worked with companies of experience theater or sensory theater such as Teatro de los Sentidos (Theater of the Senses) of Barcelona and Teatro en el Aire (Theater in the Air) of Madrid. She is currently developing her own theatrical project with La Estancia Doble, and is a teacher in the Posgraduate of Lenguaje Sensorial y Poética del Juego of the Universidad de Girona.
Her interests revolve around the relationship between psychotherapy and play, the memory of the body and psychotherapy, the application of bodily techniques in a therapeutic context and the bodily correlates of trauma.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, is a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute, where he is an associate editor of the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is also a supervisor of psychotherapy at the Doctoral Programs in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College/Columbia University and at the City University of New York. In 2010, Dr. Mujica was President of the Division of Psychoanalysis for the New York State Psychological Association and he has served on the Board of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.
To view the entire schedule for this year’s series, click here

Open House for the Psychoanalytic Training Program
2023-04-17 19:00 - 20:30 | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
An In Person Open House at the Institute
20 West 74th Street between CPW & Columbus Avenues, NYC
MONDAY, APRIL 17 from 7:00-8:30PM
Entering the Chambered Nautilus: Dissociation and Trauma in a New Analysis
A Clinical Presentation with Supervision
with Michael Thompson, PhD, Candidate
and Supervision by Ernesto Mujica, PhD

ABOUT THE EVENING
A Q&A will follow the presentation. The evening will also include a history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Director of Training, Seth Aronson, PsyD, Director of Training. Refreshments will be served.
Please note that attendees will be asked to confirm their vaccination & booster status when registering to attend.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Michael Thompson, PhD, is a third year Candidate in the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training Program (LQP) and a Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University.
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, is Director of the William Alanson White Institute’s Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service. He is also an Associate Editor of the Institute’s flagship journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at WAWI, and at the doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and CUNY. He is a facilitator for retreat programs offered through MenHealing.org.

A Celebration of Ann D'Ercole and the publication of her two-volume biography of Clara M. Thompson
2023-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
A celebration of Ann D’Ercole and the publication of her two volume biography of Clara M. Thompson. As one of the Institute’s founders and its first Director, Thompson was a foundational voice in the formulation of Interpersonal psychoanalysis.
Join us at the Institute on Wednesday evening, April 26th, from 7:30-9:00pm.
Ann D’Ercole’s two volumes are Clara M. Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening: An American Psychoanalyst (1893-1933) and Clara M. Thompson’s Professional Evolution and Legacy: An American Psychoanalyst (1933-1958). They are included in the Routledge series, Psychoanalysis in a New Key, created by Donnel B. Stern who will speak at the celebration. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Edgar Levenson will also join us remotely to make comments.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to attend

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann D’Ercole is a Clinical Associate professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is both teaching faculty and supervisor. She is also a distinguished visiting faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and recipient of the APA, Division 39, Sexualities and Gender Identities Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Sexualities and Gender Identities in Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City.

The Artist Study Group
2023-05-04 13:30 - 15:00
An online monthly meeting of diverse creative presentations from the greater psychoanalytic community.
Thursday, May 4th from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
GOOD GRIEF
An Artistic Offering by Alison Feit, PhD

PLEASE RSVP TO ATTEND THIS EVENT: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Artist Study Group Co-Directors
After you RSVP to the email address above, use the following link to join the event via Zoom:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

ABOUT THIS EVENT AND PRESENTER
The project is a companion to the journey-book of the same name, rooted both in the Freudian and the Foucauldian, as a step-by-step assessment of moments in time when suffering overwhelms. Rather than viewing grief in Kubler-Ross’ linear fashion, Feit’s Good Grief suggests a narrative frame of loosely connected circuits which we live through, around and with, circling and repeating in fits and starts, never returning quite to the place where we started: a maturing mourning, a good grief.
Alison Feit, PhD is on the faculty of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute as well as the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. She is a member of the Artist Group and the Sexual Abuse Group of William Alanson White Institute in NYC. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Atlanta, but for 20 years much of her time and her heart have been in Ethiopia with the displaced persons of the Beta Israel Jewish community.
Feit’s beliefs as to the catalytic power of the psychoanalytic lens have informed her work with executives, entrepreneurs and artists in conflict negotiation, business disputes, and political stalemates. She has two upcoming co-created shows in New York City: the first, Good Grief, is a physical and visual exploration of a trajectory of mourning. A second show entitled Framed symbolically utilizes psychoanalytic concepts in an experiential, aesthetic experience housed in a traditional gallery space.
Her most recent co-edited book The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project, Feeling Secure: A Guidebook for LGBTQIA+ Persons, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield later this year.

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Virtual Open House
2023-05-18 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for an Online Open House for the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
A panel of graduates and current Candidates will discuss their training experiences in the Program, led by Lisa Dubinsky, PsyD, a member of the CAPTP faculty, who will moderate and lead the Q&A following the presentations.
The panel will include: Joseph T. Mikulka, LCSW-R, Yasmin Mohabbat, MD, Joyce Rosenthal, LCSW and Benjamin Stern, LCSW.
The Open House will be held online via Zoom on Thursday, May 18th, 2023 from 7:30-9:00PM/Eastern.
Please RSVP to attend. Note that entry links will be sent shortly before the date of the event – type your email address carefully.

ABOUT OUR HOST & MODERATOR:
Lisa Dubinsky, PsyD, is Director of Recruitment & Admissions, and Faculty and Supervisor of the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the Institute, where she is also co-Director of The Parent Education & Guidance Center. Dr. Dubinsky has been working with children, teens and families for many years, and is a preschool and elementary/middle school consultant. She has a private practice in Manhattan.
ABOUT OUR PANEL:
Joseph T. Mikulka, LCSW-R, is a graduate Hunter College School of Social Work, and the William Alanson White Institute’s Program in Psychoanalysis and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. He is faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the William Alanson White Institute. He has published and presented his work on play therapy, working with severe pathology, adoption, and gender transition, and on helping kids recover from war and armed conflict. JT is an associate editor for the journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and President of the board of Section II (Children and Adolescents) of Division 39. He is in private practice in New York City, where is he working on writing a children’s book.
Yasmin Mohabbat, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. Mohabbat is faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, attending psychiatrist at The New School and in private practice in Manhattan where she works with children, adolescents, and families. She is a 3rd year student at CAPTP.
Joyce Rosenthal, LCSW, has been practicing in various settings for over 30 years. For the past 15 years she has worked at a private school providing in-school therapy for students K-12, during which time she also added private patients to her work. This year she decided to part ways with the school and focus her time on her private practice. She sees individuals of all ages as well as families. Six years ago she began her journey with the William Alanson White Institute and is happy to speak about that experience.
Benjamin Stern, LCSW, is a clinical social worker working with young children, adolescents, and adults in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Graduating from the Columbia School of Social Work in 2010 with a degree in Clinical Social Work in Schools, Ben went on to work in the New York City school system, working in elementary, middle, and high schools. There he had the opportunity to provide therapy to students and their families, supervise social work interns, run nonprofit programming, and serve on school leadership teams. Ben transitioned to private practice four years ago and is a recent graduate of the CAPTP program at the William Alanson White Institute.

Confronting Racism, Discrimination and Othering: Perspectives from Around the World
2023-05-28 10:00 - 11:30
SUNDAY, MAY 28 from 10-11:30AM/Eastern
M. Fakhry Davids, special guest Speaker
with Moderator Anton Hart, PhD
An Online Series with speakers from around the world.
Racism: Internal and Institutional
The model of internal racism holds that our in-group identity is internalized via a specific psychic pathway, which institutionalizes in the mind a binary us-them split. This runs in parallel to the pathways by which our self-concept and our gender identity develop. However, this fact remains unrecognized in mainstream psychoanalysis, which results in our internal racism largely evading analysis. Its us-them split thus remains, and is mapped onto racialized categories in the external world. This involvement on our part is consciously disavowed since it comes into conflict with our consciously held liberal beliefs; it thus finds its way into the racism that is embedded in the group unconscious of institutions in the outside world. I will briefly describe the theoretical aspects of the model of internal racism, using clinical examples, and explore institutional racism by reference to anti-black racism in London’s Metropolitan Police force.

About the Speaker
M. Fakhry Davids is an Honorary Consultant Psychologist at the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, UK. He is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society; Honorary Associate Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London; and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis (2022-2023), Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a member of the Holmes Commission for Racial Equity in American Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference.
About the Moderator
Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA, is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He lectures and consults nationally and internationally. 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. He is a member of the group Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and also co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The Manhattan Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality. Dr. Hart is in the process of completing a book for Routledge entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.
About the Host
Maria Nardone, PhD, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of The powerful and covert role of culture in gender discrimination and inequality, published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2018). She is co-director of the Social Issues Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Nardone is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Nardone is an expert witness in Immigration matters including Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture; Hardship (e.g. I-601, I-601A, Cancellation of Removal); Rehabilitation (212c, 212h, 212i) and U Visa. With Tomás Casado Frankel, co-authored Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody, a chapter in Appleseed’s online Manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation. She was guest speaker for the Princeton Alumni Corp series on Trauma in the Immigration Community. A graduate of the Tavistock Institute, Dr. Nardone is an executive coach and advanced organizational consultant. She has lectured in numerous academic institutions in Europe and the US. Her chapter Executive Coaching as an Organizational Intervention, was published in English and Italian in Mind-ful Consulting (Karnac, 2009, 2014). Dr. Nardone is on the Board of Give Something Back International, a non-profit that provides education for children in Southeast Asia and Haiti. She is also on the board of Moving for Life, a nonprofit providing free dance exercise classes for people affected by cancer, and for older adults.
Special thanks to Dr. Karen Gennaro for helping to organize this event.
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Note that no CE or CEU credits are available for this series.

The Artist Study Group presents My Life in Prose and Poetry with Arnold Richards, MD
2023-06-01 13:30 - 15:00
An online monthly meeting of diverse creative presentations from the greater psychoanalytic community.
Thursday, June 1st, 2023, 1:30-3:00pm/Eastern time
My Life in Prose and Poetry with Arnold Richards, MD
Arnold Richards’ personal writing reflects his life beginning with his family roots and losses in Eastern Europe, his Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn in the 1930’s and his analytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Daniel Benveniste, PhD, describes Richards’ career of literary, professorial, editorial and political activism as lived by a “psychoanalytic guerrilla warrior.” He has worked creatively in the trenches offering psychotherapy behind prison walls; offering crisis counseling for 9/11 survivors; and as a pioneer in the People’s Republic of China, providing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. We look forward to his presentation and a discussion with this dynamic innovator, integrator and critical thinker.
Join us via zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Arnold Richards, MD, was Editor of JAPA from 1994-2003. Prior to that he was Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and an honorary member of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. He published a series of five volumes of his selected papers, Volume I: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Volume 3: The Psychoanalyst at Work, Volume 4: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst, and Volume 5: The World of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts. He is also writing a memoir, Unorthodox: My Life in Psychoanalysis, and he has co-edited four books. Dr. Richards is the publisher of internationalpsychoanalysis.net
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are the Artist Study Group Co-Directors
