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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - Pride Month
DESCRIPTION:Happy Pride to us all.  \nWe will not have a speaker for this month. Rather\, everyone is invited to a group chat to tell how they have managed these past months\, what their fears and hopes have been and are for the future.  \nThe meeting will not be held the first Wednesday\, but rather the second\, June 11\, 2025\, 8.30 – 10.00 pm. Come join us.  \nBest\,  \nWilla France \n  \n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nPlease note: \n– Registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from \nThe William Alanson White Institute with subject line: \n“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”. \n– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded. \n– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair\, \nWilla N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net
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SUMMARY:Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal-Relational Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 SUMMER EDUCATIONAL INTENSIVE\nMASTER CLINICIANS OF THE INTERPERSONAL-RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE\nMiri Abramis\, PhD\,  Sandra Buechler\, PhD\,  Jack Drescher\, MD\,  Anton Hart\, PhD\,  Jean Petrucelli\, PhD\, CEDS-S\nMonday-Friday\, June 23rd-27th\, 2025\n  \nWe are pleased to announce the 2025 Summer Educational Intensive\, offered in person\, on location at the Institute during June. This year offers a stellar line-up of five of the Institute’s most prominent Master Clinicians.\n  \nABOUT THE PROGRAM\nThis year the Institute is proud to present a program with five of its true Master Clinicians. Each offers expertise in a specific area. Their perspectives on the practice of Interpersonal-Relational psychoanalysis will illustrate technique and theory as applied to clinical material. Participants will attend three intensive hours each morning comprised of clinical case presentation\, live supervision\, group discussion\, and class Q&A.\nAll classes are held in person at the Institute. A welcome breakfast and introduction to the Institute will be part of the first morning’s schedule; coffee and light refreshments are available daily.\nThe format of the program offers class participants a unique vantage for observing and participating in clinical examination with direction and input from experts in the field. Afternoons and evenings are free for socializing and exploring New York City\, or for locals to return to their work settings.\n15 CEs are available for this program.\nThe William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue\, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\, several museums\, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.\n  \nTHE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM\nMONDAY\, JUNE 23rd\, 9:00am-12:30pm*\nSANDRA BUECHLER\, PhD\nThe Clinical Legacies of Sullivan and Fromm\nWhile both H.S. Sullivan and Erich Fromm emphasize the interpersonal nature of all human experience\, their clinical legacies differ some. Sullivan and Fromm are my Apollonian and Dionysian gods. That is\, Sullivan’s work guides me to approach treatment as occurring in phases\, while Fromm’s thinking infuses me with passion. One without the other would be incomplete. In this course I describe their influence\, with clinical illustrations.\nCase Presenter: Gal Katz\, PhD\n*Monday’s schedule includes a Welcome Breakfast and an introduction to the Institute\, starting at 9:00AM. \n\nTUESDAY\, JUNE 24th\, 9:30am-12:30pm   \nJACK DRESCHER\, MD\nFrom Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories\nThe study of human sexual and gender identities is changing\, obliging analysts to think about gender and sexualities in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forebears. These changes also require an awareness of the limitations imposed upon by their own theoretical traditions. Toward that end\, Dr. Drescher begins with a review of historical assumptions underlying the theory of bisexuality. Then\, introducing the role of categories and hierarchies in general\, he examines the particular clinical meaning of sexual hierarchies\, and a discussion of the meanings and uses of the term\, “natural.”  He concludes with a commentary on intersexuality as an example of both the social and surgical construction of gender.\nCase Presenter: Stephane Goldsand\, LP\, MBA\n\nWEDNESDAY\, JUNE 25th\, 9:30am-12:30pm   \nANTON HART\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\nThe Analyst’s Aspiration to be Radically Open to Patient Experience\, especially in Foreign Situations\nPracticing the dispositional stance of “radical openness” requires the analyst take to heart the analysand’s experience and formulations about the analyst. Dr. Hart will discuss this and the desired effect: creating a space for analytic self-discovery that may extend beyond the analyst’s tolerable awareness.\nCase Presenter: Sari Kessler\, PhD\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, JUNE 26th\, 9:30am-12:30pm\nMIRI ABRAMIS\, PhD\nListening with an Interpersonal Lens\nDespite our shared book learning on theory and technique\, each of us brings a unique subjectivity and instrument to analytic dialogue. Like our patients\, how we listen\, process\, and communicate word and deed are essential components of the ongoing conversation. In this workshop Dr. Abramis shares her Interpersonal perspective\, incorporating many of the varied influences that shape her thinking\, including the use of infant and child research in adult treatment\, the work of Edgar Levenson\, and an interest in comparative psychoanalysis. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss analytic listening following a detailed case presentation.\nCase Presenter: Sarah Best\, LCSW-R\n\nFRIDAY\, JUNE 27th\, 9:30am-12:30pm\nJEAN PETRUCELLI\, PhD\, CEDS-S\nThe Too-muchness and Not Enough-ness of Desire: What’s Food Got to Do with This?\nFor patients struggling with an eating disorder\, there is an unrelenting internal dialogue related to desire — the having or not wanting to want – and the consuming behavioral rituals that briefly quiet these tortuous thoughts and cause much suffering. Patients must triumph over these thoughts\, emotions\, compulsions\, and often\, the experience of denial\, in order to begin the road to recovery. From the Interpersonal perspective\, treating an ED involves the interplay between attending directly to the disorder and disengaging from the pull to do so.\nCase Presenter: Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\n  \n  \n\n\nPROGRAM PRICING\nTake advantage of our deeply discounted pricing\, available now:\nPROFESSIONALS $500\nCANDIDATES & STUDENTS $300\n  \nNote: Requests for refunds must be made before Monday\, June 9th\, which is two weeks prior to the course’s start date. From June 9th and on\, medical documentation will be required. \n  \n\n\nABOUT OUR MASTER CLINICIANS\nMiri Abramis\, PhD\, is Faculty\, Training and Supervising Analyst\, Emeritus Fellow at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She is currently teaching and writing about the work of Edgar Levenson. For many years she taught Child Development Research and Adult Treatment\, an ongoing area of interest. She is Director emeritus of the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (IPPP) at WAWI and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, the Institute’s academic journal. Dr. Abramis is in private practice in Manhattan\, specializing in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She supervises widely and is currently running a study group: Enhancing Attention to Clinical Process: Language theory of Edgar Levenson\, informed by contemporary research on infant development.\n\nSandra Buechler\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press\, 2004)\,  Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (Routledge\, 2008)\, which won the Gradiva award;  Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge\, 2012)\, Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge\, 2015)\, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IP Books\, 2017)\,  Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge\, 2019)\, Poetic Dialogues (IP Books\, 2021)\, and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge\, 2024).\n\nJack Drescher\, MD\, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and a Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Health. He is Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process. He is a Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association and moderator of the Journal Club of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Drescher is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge)\, and is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He was awarded the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his International Work on Gender and Sexuality.\nTo learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/\n\nAnton Hart\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\, is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality\, issues of racial\, sexual and other diversities\, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. Dr. Hart is a member of the group Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, and he also Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The New School for Social Research\, The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis\, Mt. Sinai Hospital\, New York Presbyterian Hospital\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program\, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Hart served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He is currently completing a book for Routledge entitled Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in psychoanalysis\, individual and couple psychotherapy\, psychotherapy supervision and consultation\, and organizational consultation in New York.\n\nJean Petrucelli\, PhD\, CEDS-S\, is a Training & Supervising Analyst\, Faculty\, Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders\, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS); Conference Advisory Board (CAB) Committee Chair; and Founding Director of the EDCAS one-year educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant for NYU’s Postdoctoral Program; Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; editor of six books\, and winner of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2016 Edited Book award for Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Petrucelli specializes in the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders and addictions. She presents nationally and internationally and maintains a private practice in New York City.\nShe can be reached at: drjmpetrucelli@gmail.com\n 
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SUMMARY:Hysterical Girl with Filmmaker/Documentarian Renee Silverman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nHYSTERICAL GIRL\, a discussion and examination of Kate Novack’s film with Filmmaker Renee Silverman \nand Discussant Ernesto Mujica\, PhD\nThursday\, September 11th\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nSigmund Freud produced only one major case history of a female patient\, Dora\, a teenage sexual assault victim. In her 2020 film short\, Hysterical Girl\, director Kate Novack uses a compelling lens to imagine Dora as a female patient today.  It is this depiction that filmmaker/documentarian Renee Silverman presents in this examination and discussion\, at a time when we are witnessing a long wave of sexual harassment\, gender-based violence and sex trafficking.  \nWoven throughout the film is archival material – a cacophony of paintings\, photographs\, film clips\, news reels and advertisements that underscore the depth and breadth of a society that conspires to silence and shame survivors of sexual abuse. By reframing the narrative\, the film serves as a powerful indictment of not just this aspect of Freudian theory but of civilization itself. What emerges is a visceral portrait of the ways in which Freud’s theory of hysteria survives within our culture\, more than a hundred years later\, still silencing and shaming survivors of sexual abuse regardless of age or gender.  \nAfter screening the short film with the group\, filmmaker Renee Silverman and Dr. Ernesto Mujica will facilitate a discussion about the formalistic elements of the film and the visual representation of the social and oppressive factors that surround sexual violence today.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe group is also invited to attend the Sexual Abuse Study Group meeting for a second discussion of the film and the case of Dora\, which will be held online on Thursday\, September 18th\, 1:30-3pm EST.\nTo view the film Hysterical Girl in advance\, go to:\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007026836/hysterical-girl.html\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nRenee Silverman\, Filmmaker/Documentarian\, is an award-winning American producer for German public television. Her recent credits include Wim Wenders: Desperado\, winner of the 2020 Rose d’Or at Cannes\, and It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story. She was archival producer on the Oscar nominated documentary RBG\, as well as HBO’s United Skates. With Peter Miller\, she directed and produced the award-winning docs Sosua: Make A Better World and Refugee Kids.  She is currently in production with Peter Miller on a new documentary\, Halloween Parade: A Tale of Two Villages\, with executive producer\, Sebastian Zimmermann (aka Seymour Licht).\n  \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI\, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of its journal\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is also Supervisor of psychotherapy there and at the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College\, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma\, as well as sociocultural factors in mental health with his strong interest in the Arts. His previous talks within the WAWI Artists Study Group have included discussions of artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria)\, Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree\, Canada)\, Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and the Museo del Prado’s exhibit titled “Reversos.”
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nFirst Embodiment event of the New Season\n  \nUnderstanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange\nJack Foehl\, PhD\, Mark Freeman\, PhD\, Daniel Goldin\, MFT\, PsyD and Lynn Preston\, MA\, MS\, LP\nwith\nModerators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27th\nOnline from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nCan the narratives that organize psychoanalytic exchanges be conducted without words? The answer according to the presenters in this conversation is a resounding “yes!” They offer different perspectives on how both verbal and nonverbal communication in psychoanalysis takes narrative form.\nTogether they demonstrate the crucial importance of understanding the embodiment of narratives in therapeutic relationships.\n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\n\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: Entry links for Zoom events are sent in two ways: (1) the entry link is sent on the Registration payment receipt delivered to your email INBOX; and (2) links are sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register just prior to the event’s start\, you will only receive the link on the payment receipt.\nFor those who do not see a link letter in their Inbox\, check Trash and Spam files. If you do not find your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, you may email: e.rodman@wawhite.org\nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\n  \nTHE SPEAKERS\nJack Foehl\, PhD\nis Past President of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute\, where he is Training and Supervising Analyst and is Supervisor and faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Foehl is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is a past editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His recent publications include\, Playing with Winnicott: Squiggling Through Therapeutic Consultations and The Slap: Playing with Reality in Discussing Trauma in 2022\, and Lived Depth: A Phenomenology of Psychoanalytic Process and Identity in 2020. He integrates Merleau-Ponty’s work on the lived body into a framework for teaching and experiencing psychoanalytic process.\n  \nMark Freeman\, PhD\nProfessor Emeritus of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross\, is currently Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. Author of numerous works\, including Rewriting the Self: History\, Memory\, Narrative; Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward; The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self; Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia\, and most recently\, Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology. He also serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series\, Explorations in Narrative Psychology.\nDr. Freeman says about his presentation for this event: For many of us\, recent history has brought in tow a barrage of disturbing\, mystifying\, and at times positively horrifying events and experiences. All of these are “metabolized” in some way. But how? More specifically\, how might we begin to tell the story of the ways in which the state of the world has entered into our own embodied being? In addressing these questions\, I will discuss the movement from past to present as well as from present to past. How can we begin to understand how a given event–the morning after the election of Donald Trump\, say\, is carried into the future? And how can we begin to understand how a given experience in the present–for instance a bout of despairing malaise–may have originated? In short: How does one determine what sorts of stories are to be told\, and what sorts of clues can the body provide?\n\nDaniel Goldin\, MFT\, PsyD\nserves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, Psychoanalysis: Self and context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Toward a Pragmatic Psychoanalysis: Bringing Nature\, Nurture and Culture Together again will be published by Routledge this year. He and Daniel Posner create and host the popular podcast “The Conversation\,” which confronts important issues of the day in a psychoanalytic vein.\nFor Dr. Goldin’s presentation\, he says: I will be describing two kinds of empathy\, one which is immediate and obviously embodied\, which I call perception empathy\, and another which expands from the first to wrap an intimate story around a patient’s situation\, which I am calling extended empathy. Empathy so conceived provides a long tether. The stories we put together with our patients sometimes reach into infancy\, sometimes into contemporary culture and politics\, but they inevitably return to the body\, to the feelings that started the excursion. Stories describe how we feel and change how we feel at the same time. It will be a pleasure to think together about this ordinary (but also extraordinary) aspect of our work.\n\nLynn Preston\, MA\, MS\, LP\nis a New York City-based relational psychoanalyst and supervisor. She is the founding director of the Community Empowerment Project and Help for Helpers\, an online covid-inspired international support group for therapists. She has written on the subjects of implicit experience and the use of the analyst’s subjectivity. She has a special interest in applying self-psychological principles to groups and communities.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.\n  \n \nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\,  is founding board director and faculty member of the  Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book\, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:\n1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the\nadvantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based\nlanguage for psychoanalysis.\n2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss\ncommunication that takes place in the silences between the words.
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD 
DESCRIPTION:NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD\nRefracted Time\, Gender\, and the Analyst’s Trans Becomings\nWednesday\, October 1 2025\n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)\nDescription: This presentation articulates the psychoanalytic concept of shattered temporality with gender. According to Freud\, the process of subject formation is the outcome of multiple post-hoc elucidations of one’s own experience in the framework of an intrapsychic logic. By contrast\, Jean Laplanche emphasizes the intersubjective dimension of afterwardsness\, which finds its ultimate raison d’être in the transference\, where the analysand discovers new meanings of his or her experience at different and deferred times thanks to the analyst’s meaningful interpretations\, thus promoting a novel subjectivizing process. Based on the Laplanchian framework and interdisciplinary thinking\, the author moves away from the traditional psychoanalytic conception of gender as a solipsistic construction and fixed identity. He instead argues that gender constitutes an intersubjective process and a “narrative identity” (Ricoeur) that is endlessly rewritten under the sway of afterwardsness and in constant relation to the other(s) (i.e.\, family\, peers\, society\, culture). Accordingly\, he proposes to establish transness as the epistemological paradigm of psychoanalytic temporality and becomingness. The speaker further understands the violent reactions of certain analysts towards trans analysands as a revival of the analyst’s own traumatic narrative of gender\, infantile sexuality\, and primary terrors of formlessness. Finally\, he illustrates how the working-through of the analyst’s countertransference agitations is likely to transform not only the analysand but also the analyst\, who undergoes multiple transitions\, detransitions\, and retransitions within the inter-psychic\, inter-temporal\, and inter-processual space of the analytic treatment. \n  \nNicolas Evzonas (PhD in Literature and PhD in Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis) is a Greek Cypriot Paris-based therapist in private practice. He is a candidate to the French Psychoanalytical Association (APF\, IPA) and Associate Professor with tenure in Clinical Psychology at the University of Paris. Nicolas has written numerous papers on clinical and applied psychoanalysis published in Greek\, English\, French\, Portuguese\, Spanish and Catalan peer-reviewed journals\, as well as essays on films\, theatre\, and literature. He is the author of the French book Devenirs trans de l’analyste [Trans Becomings of the Analyst]\, which is currently being translated in four European languages. He is also co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue on “Sexualities\, Gender\, Class\, and Race: A Psychoanalytic View from France” (2020) and editor of a double special issue of The Psychoanalytic Review on “Trans* Becomings and Countertransference” (2021 & 2022). His latest projects are a guest-edited French-based issue for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2023) on perversion and a forthcoming edited volume on Trauma and Sexuality (2026)\, which gathers together psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars from all over the world. \n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n  \nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
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SUMMARY:EBONI BOOTH\, Theatre\, Writing and Lived Experience
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nOPENING EVENING: a Special Presentation\nTHEATRE\, WRITING AND LIVED EXPERIENCE\nEBONI BOOTH\, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 3rd\, 2025\, 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nEboni Booth is a Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and actor in New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). As an actor\, she has appeared in theatre and film productions. Booth is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program\, resident playwright at New Dramatists\, and the recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award\, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting\, and a John Gassner award.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to the Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how theater understands the experience of individuals and their interaction.\n\n\nExplain how theatre explores the internal life of the lonely person and the implications for psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/eboni-booth-theatre-writing-and-lived-experience/
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SUMMARY:Halloween: Liminal Visions
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nwith The Sexual Abuse Study Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents \nHalloween: Liminal Visions \nwith Julie Marcuse\, PhD\nThursday\, October 9\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe book\, Halloween: Liminal Visions is about a personal journey. Dr. Julie Marcuse records what she sees in “objective” reality through a lens of “radical subjectivity.”\nMarcuse has used the documentation and interpretation of the manifest content of Halloween\, with its emphasis on chaos\, ambiguity\, dread and death to master her feelings in response to living through the decline and death of her husband Donald.\nSome of the photographs are surprising\, fun and beautiful\, while many are extremely disturbing. They attempt to link different domains of experience through color photographs with minimal manipulation. This book\, her 3rd\, is a testament to love\, loss and her own capacity for survival\, and it was intended to be a final gift to her husband. He died shortly before its completion.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJulie Marcuse\, PhD\, is a psychologist\, trauma specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where she continues to teach and supervise. She headed the Sexual Abuse Service there for 11 years\, learning about witnessing\, dissociation\, vicarious traumatization and multi-disciplinary approaches to healing. She is passionate about the arts\, from poetry to painting to music. She uses a platform called Blurb to self-publish her work.\n\nPlease join us for this presentation aligned with the commitment of the Artist Study Group to showcase the power of creating art to mitigate and master trauma.\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Artificial Intelligence and its Implications: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst\nELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 24th\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe AI therapist is rapidly becoming a dominant figure in the psychotherapeutic landscape\, embraced by the public and even more intriguingly by some clinicians—if not as a licensed therapist\, then as a companion\, a tool with which to better understand patients\, or a therapeutic ally. Professor Lunbeck suggests that the appeal of ChatGPT “therapists” is to be found\, in part\, in their resolution of a longstanding problem for the field:  the analyst’s personality\, which has long prompted attempts to standardize and mechanize practitioners in the interest of reliability\, replicability\, and the demands of science.  She suggests that Generative AI is the latest in a long series of innovations that not only achieves these goals but also does so in an improvisational and idiosyncratic register. Although observers routinely situate these new clinicians in therapy world’s CBT wing\, they come just as much from the heart of the psychoanalytic enterprise.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of psychoanalysis\, psychiatry\, and psychology\, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches popular courses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge\, Gender\, and Power in Modern America; with Bennett Simon; Family Romance\, Family Secrets; The Americanization of Narcissism; and four additional co-edited volumes. Lunbeck is an academic program graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, a co-chair of APsA’s University Forum\, and board member of PsiAN.  She is currently writing a book on the analyst’s self from Freud to AI.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLearning Objectives \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives this presentation:\n\n\nDiscuss the implications of AI for psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how AI works and how it may be used.\n\n\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elizabeth-lunbeck-artificial-intelligence-and-its-implications/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Benjamin Bernstein presents "What the Hell was That" - On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\n“What the Hell Was That?”: On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents\n Thursday\, October 30\, 2025\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Bernstein explores the therapeutic power and complexity of non-directive play therapy with adolescents. Drawing from vivid clinical vignettes and psychoanalytic theory\, he examines how activities that may appear unproductive — such as games\, humor\, or even sleep — can become profound vehicles for emotional regulation and relational growth when held within a responsive therapeutic frame. Through concepts such as Winnicott’s holding environment\, Bion’s containment\, and contemporary relational ideas about enactment and therapist subjectivity\, his talk highlights how play helps both adolescent and therapist to tolerate uncertainty\, engage symbolically\, and rediscover spontaneity in the therapeutic process.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fairfield County\, Connecticut\, as well as the adolescent psychologist at Silver Hill Hospital and founder of Redwood Psychology Group\, which specializes in depth-oriented therapy for adolescents\, families\, and parents. His work integrates psychoanalytic and relational approaches with a focus on play\, mentalization\, and the therapist’s use of self. Dr. Bernstein writes and teaches on adolescent development\, therapeutic play\, family therapy and the psychology of sports fandom. His work has been published by the American Psychological Association and his writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Time\, Axios and Psychology Today.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/dr-benjamin-bernstein-presents-what-the-hell-was-that-on-non-directive-play-therapy-with-adolescents/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group w/ Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:  \nToward a Horizon of Potential:\nLonging\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\nwith Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW \n  \nWednesday\, November 5 2025 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \nDescription: In this presentation Sam Guzzardi will share an abridged version of his paper “Toward a Horizon of Potential: Longing\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\,” which was awarded the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  The paper takes a close look at a brief encounter with a prospective patient who insists on knowing whether the prospective analyst is a “biological gay man” despite being told the analyst identifies as a “queer person.”  It wonders about how the notion of queerness may elicit forms of regulatory anxiety and regulatory violence. Borrowing from the work of Jill Gentile\, the feminine and the vaginal are taken up as organizing/disorganizing paradigms in both methodology and content; the paper also interrogates the rhetorical move of deploying the logics of biology in the prospective patient’s inquiry.  Ultimately\, the author leans on the notion of queer potentiality developed by José Esteban Muñoz to dream forward another\, more generative version of the interaction. \n\nSam Guzzardi\, LCSW is a New York City-based psychoanalyst trained at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, IPSS.  His written work on gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis has won numerous awards\, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and\, most recently\, the 2025 Tiresias Award of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  He is on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) and IPSS\, and is an Associate Editor at Psychoanalysis\, Self\, and Context and at Psychoanalytic Inquiry.  His clinical work focuses on questions of gender\, trauma\, development\, sexuality\, and loss. \n  \nPlease note: \n*Attendance is free\, but registration is required. \n**LGBTQ Study Group meetings are held on Zoom and they are not recorded. \n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD\, LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
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SUMMARY:Alice Jones\, MD\, Cadence of Vanishing
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCadence of Vanishing\nwith ALICE JONES\, MD\nThursday\, November 6\, 2025\n 1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\n\n\n\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPsychoanalyst and poet\, Dr. Alice Jones will read from her memoir\, Cadence of Vanishing\, weaving together love\, loss\, and the profound work of witnessing human trauma. With clinical precision and a poet’s heart\, Jones explores the delicate choreography between presence and absence that defines human connection.\nThe memoir follows Jones through four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive\, love\, and leave. She reveals how deep listening becomes its own form of love\, and how even in loss\, we discover what endures.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAlice Jones is a physician\, psychoanalyst\, open water swimmer\, and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, Verse\, and Best American Poetry.  She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, the NEA\, as well as other literary prizes.\nThomas Ogden\, author of What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations\, says about her:\n“Alice Jones’s Cadence of Vanishing is a meditative memoir in the form of diary entries in which many of the passages have the delicate feel of poetry. This is a penetrating exploration of the inner life of a poet through perceptive observations of the ordinary\, reminiscent of Lydia Davis. It is an experience to be savored”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease join us for this engaging presentation!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELLIOT JURIST\, Learning From Memoir
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nLEARNING FROM MEMOIR\nELLIOT JURIST\, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy\, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 14th\, 2025\, 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nMemoirs are an unexplored and fruitful way to understand how patients experience therapy\, and in particular\, psychoanalysis.  Drawing from diverse sources\, Dr. Jurist argues that some memoirists see therapy as transformative; others regard it equivocally or even negatively. He also reflects on how beliefs about therapy have changed from the post-war era to the present. The memoirists whom he addresses are Lucy Freeman\, Rachel Reiland\, Alison Bechdel\, Melissa Febos\, Hua Hsu\, Stephanie Foo\, and Joan Peters.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElliot Jurist\, PhD\, PhD\, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York\, CUNY.  From 2004-2013\, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018\, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology\, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series\, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science\, from Guilford Publications\, and author of a book in the series\, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy\, from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian\, Chinese and Spanish\, and was named best theoretical book in 2019 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis).  He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy\, Culture and Agency (MIT Press\, 2000) and co-author with Peter Fonagy\, George Gergely and Mary Target of Affect Regulation\, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press\, 2002)\, the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes.  He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research\, Neuroscience\, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press\, 2008).  His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy.  In 2014\, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA\, and in 2024\, he was given the Leadership award from the same organization.  Recently\, he is co-author with Norka Malberg\, Jordan Bate and Mark Dangerfield of Working with Parents Across the Lifespan: A Mentalization-Informed Approach (APA Publications\, 2023).  Along with his wife and two children\, he lives with two ancient\, insubordinate dachshunds\, one of whom smiles.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series: \n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION: \n\nDescribe the role of memoir for understanding human experience.\nExplain how memoir relates to self-reflection and psychoanalytic learning.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elliot-jurist-learning-from-memoir/
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