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SUMMARY:American Photographer Steve Giovinco presents Capturing Unguarded Moments
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCAPTURING UNGUARDED MOMENTS\nwith STEVE GIOVINCO\, MFA \nand TOM HENNES\, Discussant\n  \nTHURSDAY\, DECEMBER 4th 2025\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\n\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nAmerican photographer Steve Giovinco will present images from two photographic projects:  the endlessly mysterious nature of couples’ interactions from his series\, On the Edge of Somewhere; and evidence of epic but subtle changes in extremely remote areas around arctic Greenland captured in his long-exposure nighttime photographs. His use of long exposure photography in near-total darkness makes it impossible to see through the camera’s viewfinder\, and instead Giovinco “feels” the image\, in tuitively framing it in the dark.  His experience of the process can be meditative\, revelatory and… terrifying.\nInformed by his unconscious as well as a sense of history\, culture\, and the environment\, Giovinco’s work captures the immensity of human and natural spaces\, and feelings of loss and transition. Curious about interpersonal and environmental change\, his visual representations allow the viewer a deep\, unfolding\, and emotional experience.\nGiovinco’s inspirations are far reaching: the paintings of Frederick Church and the Hudson River School; the photographs of Eugène Atget\, Brassai; the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni\, the Scandinavian and German cinema\, movies his father would bring home as a child; Roman ruins and large\, abandoned industrial structures.\nIndeed\, in 1992 his need and vision led him to create an additional tool: a hand-held\, large-format (8×8″) camera. Steve Giovinco’s works are exhibited in fine arts museums around the world\, and are included in numerous private and public collections.\n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSteve Giovinco is a New York based photographer.  His work is in numerous public and private collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, and the California Museum of Photography. Exhibitions of his work include the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Contemporary Art Center\, Cincinnati; Winnipeg Art Gallery; White Columns\, New York; Sadler’s Wells\, London; Gyeongnam Art Museum\, Korea.  He was commissioned by one of the first blockchain art platforms\, Monegraph. Giovinco earned his MFA in photography from Yale University. As a Fulbright Fellow Alternate\, he received a Yaddo artist residency and numerous grants.\nABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT\nTom Hennes is founder of Thinc Design and is a member of the Institute’s  Board of Trustees. Believing in the implicit power of exhibition as a medium to engage society in important ways\, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with projects embedded in social and environmental justice.  Hennes has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design\, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet\, France\, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program\, and the University of Pretoria\, among many others.\n  \n  \nJoin us for what promises to be an evocative presentation and discussion\, with this very special guest.\nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:How Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nHow Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\,  Heather  Ferguson\, LCSW\,  Vincent Stephen\, PsyD\,  Nancy Winters\, MD\,FIPA\nwith\nModerators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 6th\, 2025\nOnline from 12Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\n“Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences.” \nSince Freud and Breuer pronounced this in 1895\, memory is still believed to play a crucial role in the bodily as well as psychological suffering of our patients. We now understand that memory is not only verbal (declarative) but is also nonverbal (implicit). Our speakers will share how they use body-based memory in every therapeutic encounter. \nComments by the speakers about their planned talks:\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD:\n\nTwo sentences that I will use in my conversation:\n“My delusion happens at the crossroad of my little story and the Great History.” — told by a patient.\n“The Body keeps the Score\,” Bessel Van der Kolk’s title\, as it embodies the premature knowledge of a catastrophic stoppage of time.\n\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW:\n\nAs Pierre Janet discovered\, traumatic memories are split off from conscious awareness and stored as sensory perceptions\, behavioral reenactments\, and symptoms. In my work with one patient\, the nonverbal iterations of traumatic memory and their sensorimotor traces infiltrated our therapeutic space\, guiding our attention to her body’s long-thwarted impulses.\n\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD:\n\nI will focus on dissociated memories that express themselves as movements and sensations in the therapeutic context\, and on embodied identification in the therapeutic relationship.\n\nNancy Winters\, MD\, FIPA:\n\nIn 1926 Freud observed: “There is much more continuity between intrauterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe.”  I extend this notion to the emergence of the primitive or infantile in later bodily phenomena. In several brief vignettes I discuss how embodied experience — in both patient and therapist (via somatic reverie) — can be recognized as registrations of early “remembered\,” yet unsymbolized and unmetabolized\, experience.\n\n\n  \nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS:\nZoom entry links for this series are sent in two ways: (1) on the Registration payment receipt delivered directly to your email INBOX; and (2) manually sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register immediately before the event’s start\, you will receive the link only on the automatic payment receipt. \nIf you do not see a link letter in your Inbox\, you should check Trash and Spam files. The Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\, has completed studies in classical literature. She has a PhD in sociology and is a professor a Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, where\, for 40 years\, she has lead a weekly seminar with Jean Max Gaudillière entitled “Madness and the Social Link.” She has been a psychoanalyst in a public psychiatric hospital and outdoor consultation\, as well as in private practice in Paris for 30 years. Dr. Davoine was a member of Lacan’s “Ecole Freudienne” until Lacan’s death in 1981. She is a member of ISPS founded in 1954 by Gaetano Benedetti\, and is an Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs Center. Her books include History beyond Trauma (Other Press with Max Gaudillière); and\, several published by Routledge: Mother Folly\, Fighting Melancholy: Don Quixote’s teaching: A Word to the Wise (on Don Quixote’s second book); Jean Max Gaudillière’s Seminars (2 volumes); Pandemics\, Wars\, Traumas and Literature; Shandean Psychoanalysis: Madness and traumas in Tristram Shandy and Wittgenstein’s Folly.\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW\, is a faculty member and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies\, and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR\, she incorporates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment\, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma\, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has chapters in“Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis” (edited by Harris\, Kalb\, and Klebanoff) and “Art\, Creativity\, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists” (edited by Hagman). She maintains a private practice in New York City.\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist working as a therapist and supervisor at the University Hospital in Tromsø\, North Norway. He specializes in psychotherapy for people struggling with complex trauma\, dissociation\, and serious relational difficulties. He is a candidate at the Norwegian Character Analytical Institute in Olso\, a training institution for embodied psychoanalysis. Dr. Stephen is interested in the therapeutic use of countertransference and has written on language\, embodiment\, suicide and authenticity. He is also a multi-disciplinary artist and musician and has written and performed in various works\, including several collaborations with dancer Mirte Bogaert.\nNancy C. Winters\, MD\, FIPA\, is a training and supervising analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute\, the Northwestern Psychoanalysis Society and Institute\, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University. She serves on editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also co-editor and chapter author of the 2022 Gradiva award-winning Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021); Autoimmunity and its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness (IJP\, 2022)\, and A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary Perversion of Truth (in press\, American Journal of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Winters has a full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland\, OR.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.\n  \n \nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\,  is founding board director and faculty member of the  Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book\, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:\n1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the\nadvantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based\nlanguage for psychoanalysis.\n2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss\ncommunication that takes place in the silences between the words.
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SUMMARY:Trauma and Healing through Symbolization with Betsy Hegeman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nTrauma and Healing through Symbolization \nwith Betsy Hegeman\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 8th 2026\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDoes art help us move from dissociated pain\, shock\, horror or numbness to more grounded\, connected states? Can it help us get to a part of the conscious self where traumatic experience can be processed differently than just dissociation?\nBetsy Hegeman will describe clinical examples exploring these questions\, where the experience of making art helps patients move from their dissociated state to one of connection. As a group\, we will then consider how cultural traumatic or existential events\, like global warming\, are denied\, and how we might work to instead incorporate cultural experiences of connection.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBetsy Hegeman\, PhD\, is a faculty member and a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI\, where she co-taught a class on trauma with Richard Gartner and Sharon Kofman. She is also a faculty member at NYU Postdoc and is professor emerita of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she has taught for over fifty years. Dr. Hegeman has done field work in Puerto Rico and Colombia\, focusing on migration\, class structure\, gender and poverty. She lives in Massachusetts with her daughter and grandson.\n  \nPlease join us for this moving presentation and discussion.\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group\n 
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SUMMARY:From Room to Zoom and Beyond:  Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care  and Emerging Clinical Contexts
DESCRIPTION:From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts\nwith Todd Essig\, PhD\nAn Online Workshop for WAWI Graduates\, Faculty and Candidates\npresented by the WAWI Curriculum Committee\nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10th\, 2026\n10:00am-1:00pm/Eastern\n  \n3 CE credits are available for attending this workshop\n  \nABOUT THIS WORKSHOP\nThe recent IPA Code revisions affirm what many discovered through pandemic necessity: deep analytic work can happen on screens and speakers. But “can happen” is not the same as “happens in the same way.” Many now see that screen relations are similar enough to in-person work to sustain analysis\, yet different enough to require us to rethink aspects of our clinical stance and theoretical framework.\nThis workshop will explore those similarities and differences\, both psychologically and clinically: How do screen relations affect presence\, attention\, and the analytic frame? What happens to transference\, countertransference\, and reverie when we meet on screen? And\, most centrally\, how do we make the most of what’s unique about this context rather than in attending differences?\nThroughout\, we’ll strive to think together. Your questions\, concerns\, and clinical experiences are essential to this exploration. As broader context for our discussion\, we’ll also consider how the rapid emergence of AI relationships is already reshaping the technological landscape in which screen-based care now takes place.\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd Essig\, PhD\, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering in the creative uses of mental health technologies. In addition to his full time NYC-based clinical practice\, he publishes\, lectures\, and consults internationally on forming best practices in the use of technology to serve human purposes. His primary academic affiliations are Faculty and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. \nDr. Essig is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) where he served on the Task Force on Distance Training and on the Task Force on Training in Contemporary Times where he co-authored task force reports. As a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)\, he co-chaired the COVID-19 Response team. Recently\, in the current center of his non-clinical professional life\, he founded and is Co-Chair of APsA’s Council on Artificial Intelligence. He teaches and lectures at institutes and societies in the US and in Japan\, Canada and England. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVE INFORMATION\nBy completing this class:\n1. Attendees will be able to name the process by which online sessions operate similarly to in-person sessions\n2. Attendees will be able to list 2 of the 3 ways online sessions afford different experiences than in-person sessions\n3. Attendees will be able to name the three interactive contexts operating in the AI Age\n\nReferences:\nEssig\, T.\, & Russell\, G. I. (2021). A report from the field: Providing psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, 18(2)\, 157-177.\nLemma\, A. (2025). What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to “The phenomenology of teleanalysis” by Dr N. Zapien. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 363-374.\nZapien\, N. (2025). The phenomenology of teleanalysis: A research study of the experiences of analysts and candidates in training analyses in the US during 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 340-36
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SUMMARY:The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy:  An Artistic Expression of Understanding Attachment Theory and How I Apply  it to Clinical Work by Jill Leibowitz
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nJILL LEIBOWITZ\, PSYD\,\n“THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ITSY BITSY: AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND HOW I APPLY IT TO CLINICAL WORK”\nThursday\, January 22nd\, 2026\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09 \n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn describing this presentation\, Dr. Leibowitz says\, “I believe that open and playful communication between children and their grown-ups is a key component to fostering healthy development. Feeling a need to share this understanding with more of the adults in kids’ lives than I could reach in my private practice\, I wrote and published two children’s books that model reflection\, mentalization\, and open emotion communication. My goal was to help children and their grown-ups talk and reflect together about tough emotional moments and to normalize the full range of emotions we all experience — ideas that reflect\, from my perspective\, the important takeaways from Attachment Theory.\nThus\, through these books\, I am attempting to communicate my understanding of Attachment Theory and how I apply it to the everyday clinical and parent-guidance work I do. In this presentation\, I will read one of the books\, share my process of engaging playfully to create the books\, and talk about the Attachment Theory-related concepts that I hope the books illustrate.”\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJill Leibowitz\, PsyD\, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with children\, adolescents\, adults\, and families in her New York City private practice. She specializes in play therapy\, psychotherapy\, parenting support\, and parent-child work\, and she is a member of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Home Visiting Program. In addition to her clinical practice\, Dr. Leibowitz teaches and supervises graduate and post-graduate students at several New York universities and institutes. She is the author of The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy\, a children’s book series\, and has contributed to blogs\, podcasts\, and academic journals on topics related to children’s emotional development\, play and emotional literacy.\n  \nLearning Objectives:\n\n\nTo gain an appreciation for the central role of playful engagement in our clinical work and in development more generally.\n\n\nTo apply reflective\, open communication practices to everyday\, real-life scenarios that occur between children and their grown-ups.\n\n\nTo learn about one individual’s process of children’s book publishing and marketing.
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SUMMARY:BILL T. JONES\, On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nA Special In-Person and Live-Streamed Event at New York Live Arts* \nOn the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding\nBILL T. JONES\, Award-winning Artistic Director\, Choreographer\, Dancer\, Author\, and Co-Founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and of New York Live Arts\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 30th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\n* This event will be held in person at New York Live Arts\, 219 West 19th Street\, New York City. The venue will provide the link to its live stream.\nYou must register to attend. Please note that registration and charges for this event are being handled through the venue.\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nBill T. Jones is an artistic director and leading dancer\, choreographer\, director\, and writer. He is co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Manhattan and Artistic Director of New York Live Arts\, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing\, presenting and educating. Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles and on Broadway and for other theatrical venues. The recipient of numerous awards including two Tony Awards\, an Obie\, a MacArthur “Genius” Award and Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government\, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors\, and of the National Medal of Arts\, among a long list of others.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream for most of the dates\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n\nNote that CEs are not available for this event.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how choreography of movements conveys meaning and autobiography.\n\n\nExplain how mind and body inform dance and psychoanalytic treatment.\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Passing Through with Visual Artist Naomi Friedman and Discussant Stephen Friedman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS \nPASSING  THROUGH\nWITH NAOMI FRIEDMAN\, VISUAL ARTIST\nand Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, Discussant \nTHURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 5th 2026\n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n  \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPassing Through challenges one of the most persistent binaries of our time: the divide between public and private space.  Visual Artist Naomi Friedman interrogates how trans bodies\, experiences\, and rhythms disrupt these categories\, revealing their fragility and the violence required to maintain them.  With collage and paintings\, Friedman insists on the permeability of cultural categories and the instability of the narratives that sustain them.  \nWe will discuss figure and setting in the works\, and what components might complicate/disrupt those boundaries\, as well as other questions.  \n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNaomi Friedman\, non-binary\, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College in 2022 andl co-founded the Boyz With Apple Artist Collective LLC\,  https://www.boyzwithapple.com/about-the-boyz   Recent exhibitions include the Cannes Contemporary Art Biennale\, Art Basel Switzerland and a solo exhibition in Madrid.  Friedman teaches early-childhood art classes in Brooklyn.  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nStephen Friedman\, PhD\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where he is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and teaches a seminar on the clinical implications of the Interpersonal perspective\, race\, diversity and otherness in clinical work. He has a private practice in New York City.\nJoin us!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, February 11\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nEnvy\, Greed\, and the Search for a Holding Environment: Working with Stealing and Lying in a Latency-Age Girl\nA Clinical Case Presentation by Dan Liu\, LCSW\nwith discussion led by Mara Heiman\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAccording to Melanie Klein\, envy is a primitive and fundamentally destructive affect\, whereas greed refers to the impulse toward excessive taking and possessing that is often driven by envy. Clinically\, behaviors such as lying and stealing can be understood as manifestations of both envy and greed – expressions of destructiveness\, anger\, and aggression that involve taking from others and depriving them of what they have. Yet these behaviors may also be seen as communications that seek a holding environment in which such intense feelings can be contained and transformed\, allowing movement toward the true self.\nMs. Liu will discuss a long-term treatment with a nine-year-old girl\, illustrating how envy and greed emerged in the clinical work and how the holding environment made it possible to recognize\, contain\, and work through these dynamics.\nJoin us for a rich presentation by a current candidate\,  demonstrating the culmination of a sophisticated learning process and the integration of clinical theory and technique.  It will be an opportunity for those interested in child and adolescent psychotherapy training to learn more about our program\, participate in a discussion\, and take part in a Q&A. Light refreshments will be available. \n\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nDan Liu is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Institute\, where she now serves as faculty in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. Ms. Liu earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University and has lived in New York City for the past 14 years\, where she maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Originally from Shenzhen\, a coastal city in southeastern China\, she brings a multicultural perspective to her clinical work. She speaks English\, Mandarin\, Cantonese\, and Japanese\, and works with individuals from diverse racial\, ethnic\, and social backgrounds.\nFOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM\, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com
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