William Alanson White Institute

Center for Public Mental Health presents Kenneth Barish
2023-02-07 11:45 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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

LGBTQ Study Group with Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW
2023-06-14 20:30 - 22:00
JUNE PRIDE MEETING
Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW
Queering psychoanalytic practice series:
“Tiresias’ staff and the White Phallus, working psychoanalytically with our own prejudices”

Wed. June 14, 2023
8:30 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Description:
In this presentation Dr. Posadas will discuss parts of his experiences working with LGBTQ+ and racialized communities for over 25 years. What does queering psychoanalytic practice actually looks like when utilizing classical Freudian concepts such as neutrality, abstinence and the phallus? We will discuss ways of supporting psychoanalytic practice with insights from critical race theory, anti-black racism studies, indigenous feminist theory, and holocaust studies that can provide the clinician with tools to deliver a more helpful approach when working with queer, queer and racialized LGBTQ+ people and other gender diverse people from psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches.

Presenter:
Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW, FIPA is Chief Clinical Officer of The House of Purpose, a consulting firm that develops psychoanalytically informed programs and interventions to support organizations’ mental and emotional. He is a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Psychologist (MEX). He currently operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Posadas is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA, where he developed the IPA’s sexual and gender strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe, North American and Latin America, and the creation of the first IPA Tiresias award.
His research is in prejudices impacting the clinician when working psychoanalytically with LGBTQ+ and racialised peoples and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma. He has worked in the HIV sector for over 27 years. Dr. Posadas served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award for his work with underserved and marginalized populations, and the Social Worker of the year for Toronto in 2022.
For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org

IN PERSON OPEN HOUSE FOR THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM
2023-06-15 19:30 - 21:00 | The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
Join us at the Institute for an in-person Open House for the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, including a clinical presentation with live supervision.
Third-year candidate Yael Barak, MSW, MPS, will present a case about her work in psychodynamic play and art therapy, The 6-Part Story Method: Using Art in Psychodynamic Play Therapy. John Mathews, PhD, will supervise. The evening will be led and moderated by CAPTP faculty Lisa Dubinsky, PsyD. A Q&A will follow the presentation. Light refreshments will be served.
The evening will be held at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City, from 7:30-9:00PM.
Please RSVP to attend.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Yael Barak, MSW, MPS, holds two Masters Degrees, one in social work from Tel Aviv University, and one in art therapy from The School of Visual Arts. She works for Urban Resource Institute as a middle school counselor in their Relationships Abuse Prevention Program. Additionally, Yael has worked with adolescents for the past ten years in various settings. She is a third year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute.
ABOUT THE SUPERVISOR:
John Mathews, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who practices practical-relational psychotherapy and specializes in work with children and adolescents. He received an Associate’s Degree from the University of Florida, a Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard College and his Master’s and PhD degrees in Clinical Psychology from New York University. Dr. Mathews completed an externship at Bellevue Hospital’s Pediatric Resource Center and his internship in Clinical Psychology at St. Luke’s Hospital. For over twenty-five years he has worked with children, adolescents and adults in his private practice, as well as supervising graduate students in child and adolescent psychotherapy practice at Teacher’s College, City University, and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. In addition, Dr. Mathews teaches in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at William Alanson White Institute and supervises candidates in the program.
ABOUT THE 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.

The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
2023-09-07 01:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group presents
Photographer Terry Frishman, MBA
Pareidolia 2.2: Awakening Our Unconscious

Underwater (2023)
Source: Window
Elements: Glass, Window Soap, Reflections
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
from 1:30-3PM EST
Join us in person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street
or via zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

The Artist Study Group presents an immersion into a stimulating Rorschach-like experience of mindfully seeing our everyday, overlooked world through Pareidolia 2.2. Engaging our conscious and unconscious, this approach finds deeper meaning in random textures and patterns that go beyond seeing faces or animals in cloud formations. It can be applied in our offices and shift habitual perspectives.
By seeing the world through a Rorschach lens, photographer Terry Frishman discovers fantastical figures and otherworldly landscapes from accidental patterns and inanimate textures. Tree bark, swirling water and wet asphalt reveal found imagery and visual narrative poems beyond the surface or objects themselves.
Her body of work explores how perspective and imagination can broaden our observations and understanding of the transformations we are living through. She investigates how we might view urban elements and decay while considering broader themes of visibility, recognition and the relationship between seeing and knowing. Where our gaze skims and sometimes ignores, Terry’s photos crop to unmask the invisible. We look forward to a lively discussion on how being present and aware through Pareidolia 2.2 can engage our patients, inspire emotional responses and shift how we see.
As well as being a gallery-represented photographer, Terry Frishman (MBA, Columbia University, Art History BA, Smith College) is an art business consultant, educator and on the Board of the American Society for Media Photographers in NY. She helps clients move forward by defining their “why,” setting goals, strategizing and identifying opportunities. This year, her artwork will have been exhibited in Barcelona, Brooklyn, Hastings-on-the-Hudson, Molena (GA), Stamford and Philadelphia. You can learn more about her art on her website TerryFrishman.com. Feel free to reach out to Terry@TerryFrishman.com about potential partnerships, if you’re not able to attend in September.
To attend this event, please RSVP by emailing: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD are Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group.

GOHAR HOMAYOUNPOUR, PsyD with Discussant ISHEH BECK, PsyD
2023-09-15 12:00 - 13:45
Disturbing the Sleep of the World: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS. the 2023-2024 Colloquium Series
The 2023-2024 COLLOQUIUM SERIES OPENING EVENT, presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
Resurrecting the Erotic: Towards an Ethics of Life through “the” Subversive Feminist Revolt of Our Times in Iran
GOHAR HOMAYOUNPOUR, PsyD
DISCUSSANT: ISHEH BECK, PsyD

ABOUT TODAY’S TALK
In this talk, Gohar Homayounpour will attempt to compose a triptych overview of her three texts written since September 16th, 2022, following the radical feminine uprising in Iran. Her wish is to elaborate the resurrection of the erotic, a resurrection which has been at the very core of this subversive feminist revolt, of a birth of a new feminine epic hero, towards an ethics of life and its conditions.

The Birth of a New Female Epic Hero

A Revolt Against the Death Penalty

Abracadabra: on the poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran

“I believe that what we are observing in Iran is one of the most significant and subversive feminist movements of our times, one which I would go as far as to call a fourth wave feminism. We are observing the return of the repressed female body that refuses to be covered symbolically, and that says: face up to the fetishistic/phobic cause of your desire, and look at me, in my ordinariness, in my hunger for an ethics of woman, life, and freedom.”

ABOUT GOHAR HOMAYOUNPOUR, PsyD
Dr. Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and Gradiva award-winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Italian Psychoanalytical society, and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is founder and past president. She is also a member of the scientific board at the Freud museum in Vienna, and of the IPA group, Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Homayounpour has published numerous psychoanalytic articles and essays. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT) won the Gradiva award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge).

ABOUT ISHEB BECK, PsyD
Dr. Isheh Beck works as a psychologist in private practice in Philadelphia and is in psychoanalytic training at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Her clinical and written work centers on experiences of female embodiment, mother-daughter relationships and biculturalism.

Vivian Silvera, MFA, presented by The Artist Study Group
2023-10-05 13:30 - 15:00
See Memory: On enriching self-narrative
VIVIANE SILVERA, MFA
A film and discussion held in person at the Institute and live, online, presented by The Artist Study Group.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 2023
from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Join us in person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street
or via zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

The Artist Study Group presents a screening and discussion of See Memory, a 15-minute animated film made from 30,000 hand-painted images about the mind.
Through the film’s visual and narrative journey, artist, director and narrator Viviane Silvera explores the dynamics and subtleties of the imagination, remembering, trauma, emotional experience and therapeutic presence. The film gives voice to the experience of story-telling; understanding disrupted, fragmented, repetitive, or retrieved memories through a unifying lens of art and science.
Having rigorously trained in the visual and plastic arts, Silvera has exhibited her work internationally and nationally. Her documentary, See Memory premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival and since its release has screened at the Helix Center, The Friedman Brain Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She graduated with a BS in Political Science and Psychology from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Arts, Silvera is the founder of On Art, which makes New York’s intimate art world accessible through public and private tours. She is currently at work on a film series, Feel Memory, which combines hand painted animation with live action, archival and first-person narrationto tell the stories of people who are trapped by traumatic memory and freed by imagination.
We look forward to a lively discussion of the film’s evocative multi-sensory portrait of the conscious and unconscious mind in a language that is saturated with visual and auditory images, metaphor and poetry.
Note that if you plan to attend either in person or via Zoom, you should RSVP to: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, The Artist Study Group

Sam Guzzardi, LCSW - LGBTQ Study Group
2023-10-11 20:30 - 22:00
For many of us, an empathic stance towards our patients forms the foundation of how we practice. This paper problematizes the typical psychoanalytic conceptualization of empathy as requiring the analyst to find something in themselves that resonates with the patient’s experience. Self-reference, it is argued, is both a limiting and potentially colonizing stance towards the patient’s otherness. Leaning on learnings from queer theory, Black studies, French philosophy, and the Black American theater, this paper argues for a revised empathy anchored in the concept of passibility rather than self-reference.
Sam Guzzardi, LCSW is a member and graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has a diverse practice where he is curious about questions of queerness, identity, development, and trauma, and has recently published papers in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. His 2022 publication “The Only Fag Around: Twinship in Gay Childhood,” which details his attempt to integrate Kohutian and Freudian principles in the treatment of a gay man, was the winner of the Ralph E Roughton Paper Award. Sam’s scholarship often revolves around his interest in comparative psychoanalysis and in placing psychoanalytic theory in dialogue with ideas from other traditions, including disciplines such as queer theory, post-colonial studies, performance studies and literature.

For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

ELIZABETH ANN DANTO, PhD and DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PsyD with DISCUSSANT: PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD
2023-10-13 12:00 - 14:00
DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS
The Colloquium Series 2023-2024, presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
The Fundamental Radicalism of Psychoanalysis from Freud to Fanon
ELIZABETH ANN DANTO, PhD
and DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PsyD
DISCUSSANT: PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD

About Dr. Danto’s Presentation: Class, Conscious and Unconscious
“In your private political opinions you might be a Bolshevist,” Ernest Jones wrote to Sigmund Freud in 1926, “but you would not help the spread of Y to announce it.” Freud’s modernist views on social justice and the right to mental health care had triggered Jones’s discomfort. Today, despite ample evidence that the free psychoanalytic clinics of Europe in the 1920s and 30s did enact Freud’s views, Jones’ concerns continue to underlie the cultural tenacity of his class-based narrative.

About Dr. Gaztambide’s Presentation: Racial Capitalism as Psychoanalysis’ Unconscious Underside: Clinical Lessons from Freud, Du Bois, and Fanon
Cedric Robinson coined the term “racial capitalism” to underscore the racial underpinnings of capitalism today, drawing on the insights of the Black Radical Tradition before and after W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking work. Little known is Du Bois’ engagement with psychoanalysis, and how his and Freud’s theorizing on race and class present an undertheorized parallelism on how the unconscious is formed within social location. This presentation will draw on the “missed encounter” between psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition encapsulated in Frantz Fanon’s work, revealing to us not only a theory of race and class, but its application in contemporary clinical practice.

ABOUT ELIZABETH ANN DANTO, PhD
Elizabeth Ann Danto is professor emeritus, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dr. Danto is a writer and international lecturer on the history of psychoanalysis as a marker of urban culture. Her book Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938 (Columbia University Press), won the Gradiva Award and the Goethe Prize. Other books include Historical Research (Oxford University Press) and the co-edited Freud/Tiffany – Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School'” (Routledge – History of Psychoanalysis series).
ABOUT DANIEL GAZTAMBIDE, PsyD
Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is assistant professor of clinical practice in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where he also directs the Frantz Fanon Lab for Intersectional Psychology. He is the author of the book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. Dr. Gaztambide is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is a member of the Puerto Rican Poetry Troupe, the Titere Poets.
ABOUT PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD
Pascal Sauvayre is faculty and training analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He studies, teaches, and writes at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. A recent project includes editing, with Roger Frie, the book entitled ‘Culture, Politics, and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis’, published at Routledge. He has a private practice in New York City.

Testimonies During Wartime: Lessons from Listeing to Extremity - A Ukrainian lecture
2023-10-28 09:00 - 11:00
Testimonies During Wartime: Lessons from Listening to Extremity
Свідчення під час війни: уроки вислуховування екстремального
Stevan Weine, MD
presented in Ukrainian by the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Mental Health Professionals from Ukraine
ABOUT THE TALK
Testimony rests on a therapeutic ambition: If I tell my story, I may remake not only myself, but others too and perhaps even the larger public. Testimony is an imperfect balancing of the individual and the social, the local and the universal, the private and the public, but it just might be good enough. Testimony’s seeming ability to “fuse” or create a shortcut between the private and public worlds, combined with its considerable redemptive promise, have given it a unique therapeutic and social power. We will consider lessons from the testimonies of survivors of war and political violence in the 20th century, including from Bosnia-Herzogovina, and how they might inform the giving and receiving of testimonies involving those living through the war in Ukraine.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stevan Weine, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois Chicago, where he is also Director of Global Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health. For 30 years he has been conducting research both with refugees and migrants in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and violence prevention. This work has resulted in more than 130 publications and three books: When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1999); Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (2006), and; Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (2023) .
Про лекцію
Свідчення базується на терапевтичних амбіціях: якщо я розповім свою історію, я можу переробити не лише себе, але й інших і, можливо, навіть широку громадськість. Свідчення — це недосконалий, але наскільки можливо хороший баланс між індивідуальним і суспільним, локальним і універсальним, приватним і публічним. Очевидна здатність Свідчення «поєднувати», або створювати зв’язок між приватним і публічним світом, разом з його значущою обіцянкою викуплення, надала йому унікальної терапевтичної та соціальної сили. Ми розглянемо уроки зі свідчень людей, які пережили війну та політичне насильство у 20-му столітті, в тому числі з Боснії та Герцоговини, і те, як вони можуть вплинути на надання та отримання свідчень за участю тих, хто пережив війну в Україні.
Про спікера
Стівен Вайн, доктор медичних наук, є професором психіатрії в Медичному коледжі Іллінойського університету в Чикаго, де він також є директором з глобальної медицини та директором Центру глобального здоров’я. Протягом 30 років він проводить дослідження з біженцями та мігрантами як в США, так і в постконфліктних країнах, зосереджуючись на фізичному і психічному здоров’ї та запобіганні насильству. Результатом цієї роботи стало понад 130 публікацій і три книги: When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1999); Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (2006), and; Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (2023).

LGBTQ STUDY GROUP with Jack Drescher, MD
2023-11-01 20:30 - 22:00
Description: The history of psychoanalytic theorizing about homosexuality is more than a century old and has undergone numerous revisions. Early on, psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality could be reasonably characterized as hostile. The presentation begins with Freud’s early views on homosexuality within the cultural context of his times. It then reviews later pathologizing psychoanalytic theories as well as the research of sexologists which ultimately led to the 1973 decision of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Today the contributions of openly lesbian and gay analysts have shifted psychoanalytic focus on homosexuality from discussions of “why gay?” to the more clinically relevant question of “how gay?” This presentation shows how the history of psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality illustrates how psychological theories cannot be divorced from the political, cultural, and personal contexts in which they are formulated. Drescher, J. (2008). A history of homosexuality and organized psychoanalysis. J. American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry, 36(3):443-460.

Jack Drescher, MD is Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. Dr. Drescher, a recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for International Work in Gender and Sexuality, served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised the gender diagnoses in WHO’s 2019 revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served as Section Editor of the chapter on Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR). He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Faculty Member, Columbia University’s Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, Clinical Supervisor and Adjunct Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute. He is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health and serves on editorial boards of many academic journals. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish, and German. His website is www.jackdreschermd.net.
For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs
Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

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Anastasios Gaitanidis, PhD, Hearing Other Voices: The Ear as the Eye of Invisible Suffering
2023-11-02 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
presents
Anastasios Gaitanidis, PhD
Hearing Other Voices: The Ear as the Eye
of Invisible Suffering
Attend in person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street or attend online via zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In this presentation, Dr. Gaitanidis proposes an aesthetics of alterity that critiques an attitude which privileges orderly sensibilities that blind us to the horrors of social violence and exclusion. Instead, he contends, psychoanalysis must foster ethical receptivity to hearing dissonant cries and marginalized voices excluded by current ideologies.
This radical openness requires relinquishing our consulting room’s sensuous insulation and permits marginalized voices to permeate the analytic space. This infiltrative hearing counters the traditional psychoanalytic tendency to isolate and insulate. It foregrounds suffering that is rendered invisible, dismantling ideological barriers. Dr. Gaitanidis will illuminate this radical aesthetic attitude through art’s power to express the unspeakable. He profoundly draws on the definition of art as “intentionless intention”; hovering in the gap between meaning and meaninglessness, art conveys unbearable affect beyond language.
Crucially, he argues this gap is also where analysis unfolds. The analyst must tune into the timbre and rhythm of experience, not just interpret meaning. This attunement reclaims damaged aliveness that trauma forecloses. Art and analysis alike embrace life’s entirety from horror to love. Accepting our painful brokenness through such attunement is vital for becoming fully alive. By presenting a number of clinical vignettes relevant to this topic, he would like to chart a vision of aesthetics awakened to exclusion and suffering. His hope is that this radical aesthetics will infuse sealed spaces with transformative solidarity.
Dr. Anastasios Gaitanidis is a relational psychoanalyst in private practice working in London, UK. In addition to his clinical work as a psychoanalyst, he has held appointments as a senior lecturer and director of studies and provided clinical and research supervision to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and counseling psychologists at the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Regent’s University London and University of Roehampton. He currently holds the position of Visiting Professor for the professional doctorate in counseling psychology at Regent’s University London. Dr. Gaitanidis is also the Theory Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (EJPC) and he has authored and published a substantial body of academic work including journal articles and edited books over the years, with a recent book, The Sublime in Everyday Life.
Please RSVP to attend this event, either in person or virtually. Email to: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors, The Artist Study Group

ALEXANDER STILLE, MS, RICHARD WAUGAMAN, MD with Discussant Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD
2023-11-10 12:00 - 14:00
DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS, the 2023-2024 Colloquium series
The Colloquium Series 2023-2024, presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
Utopian Dreams, the Promise & the Peril: From the Sullivanians to Chestnut Lodge and Sheppard Pratt
ALEXANDER STILLE, MS
RICHARD WAUGAMAN, MD
DISCUSSANT: ROGER FRIE, PhD, PsyD

ABOUT ALEXANDER STILLE’S TALK
The Sullivan Institute was something of a scandal in New York’s psychoanalytic circles: a polygamous community in which therapists and patients lived together in large group apartments on the Upper West Side. It all came apart in the late 1980’s amid lawsuits and salacious revelations of widespread therapeutic abuse which resulted in several of its leading therapists losing their professional licenses.
However, it is worth considering this black sheep’s place in the family album of New York’s psychoanalytic institutes. Its founders were, in fact, a breakaway faction from the William Alanson White Institute even if Sullivan had been dead for several years when they started an institute in his name in 1957. They were political radicals who believed that psychoanalysis had great revolutionary potential but that mainstream psychiatry had chosen to be a pillar of the established order. In their view, Sullivan’s ideas – the notion that people grew from contact with other people; that they continued growing in adulthood – offered, in their view, an alternative. Sullivan had achieved notable results treating patients with schizophrenia with group community living. Why not give this opportunity to all patients who might grow by living with each other? Sullivan had identified the “self-system” as the psyche’s way of internalizing and maintaining an unhappy status quo but Pearce and Newton felt that Sullivan had not followed through on what they saw as the logical implications of Sullivan’s ideas: that the family, as the keeper of the self-system, needed to be abandoned; that monogamous marriage, another pillar of the established order, needed to be knocked down. In the broader political and social context in the mid-1950’s, they saw personal liberation as a fundamental aspect of wider social revolution. They believed that psychoanalysis involved putting people in touch with the “underground” of their instinctual life, which had been buried by the condition of family and society and that the therapist was essentially the ally of “guerilla fighter” that lived inside of each of us and yearned for real growth and experience. Clearly, these metaphors draw on the political context of the times — the Communist revolutions in China, Algeria and Cuba. As they wrote in “Conditions of Human Growth,” “Successful analysis involves becoming accustomed to revolution.” As one former therapist in the group said: “We asked all the right questions and got all the wrong answers.”

ABOUT ALEXANDER STILLE, MS
Alexander Stille is the author of six books of nonfiction including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian-Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic; The Future of the Past; The Sack of Rome, about Silvio Berlusconi; a family memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace. HIs latest is The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune. He has written for a wide range of publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine. He has also been since 2004 a professor of international journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
ABOUT RICHARD WAUGAMAN, MD
Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Emeritus at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Half of his 200-plus publications are on Shake-speare. His two ebooks are Newly Discovered works by “William Shake-Speare,” a.k.a. Edward de Vere and It’s Time to Re-Vere the Works of “William Shake-Speare”: A Psychoanalyst Reads the Works of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. He has two websites: http://www.oxfreudian.com; and http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/waugamar/. The full texts of his non-clinical publications are accessible on the latter website.
ABOUT ROGER FRIE, PhD, PsyD
Roger Frie is 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He is a graduate and faculty member of the William Alanson White Institute, Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at Kyoto University in 2022 and DAAD Visiting Professor in Berlin in 2021. He writes and lectures widely on the themes of historical trauma, memory and social responsibility. His newest book, to be published this year with Oxford University Press, is called Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm and the Holocaust and his most recent edited book, with Pascal Sauvayre, is Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries. He is author of, among other books, Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (OUP, 2017).

WILLIAM CORNELL, ROGER FRIE, LYNNE JACOBS, NANCY WINTERS
2023-11-18 12:00 - 14:00
WILLIAM CORNELL, MA,
ROGER FRIE, PhD, PsyD,
LYNNE JACOBS, PhD
NANCY WINTERS, MD, FIPA
with MODERATORS DORIS BROTHERS, PhD and JON SLETVOLD, PsyD
What is Embodiment in Clinical Practice?
Saturday, November 18th from 12Noon to 2:00PM/Eastern time
A multi-view discussion followed by audience interaction. Presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. For CE credit information, click here.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Humans are fundamentally embodied. While clinicians starting with Freud have either explicitly or implicitly endorsed this idea, there is no agreement about just what embodiment means in clinical practice. There is much to be learned from the many perspectives on embodiment that have recently been advanced. This event brings together several clinicians who hold a variety of different views on the subject. The four speakers will answer questions posed by two Moderators, who are also Co-Directors of the Wilheim Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. After they engage in dialogue, members of the online audience will be invited to join the discussion.
ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired 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.
A 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.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
WILLIAM CORNELL, MA, maintains an independent private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, PA. He teaches internationally with a primary focus on working with somatic processes and sexuality. He is a founding faculty member of the recently inaugurated Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies and is the author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers, Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living, Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and subjectivity in clinical practice, At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, and Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and clinical perspectives, and Une Vie Pour Etre Soi. He is a co-author and editor of Into TA: A comprehensive textbook, which have been translated into several languages. Bill has published numerous articles and book chapters, many of which have been translated into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Chinese. Bill edited and introduced books by James T. McLaughlin, Warren Poland, Wilma Bucci, and Maurice Apprey. An editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal for fifteen years, he is now the Editor of the Routledge book series, “Innovations in Transactional Analysis.” Bill is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for Transactional Analysis Gold Medal, in recognition of his writing.
ROGER FRIE, PhD, PsyD, is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and the 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He was the 2022 Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at Kyoto University and 2021 DAAD Visiting Professor at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. He writes and lectures widely on the themes of historical trauma, memory and social responsibility. His newest book, to be published this year with Oxford University Press, is called Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust and his most recent edited book (with Pascal Sauvayre) is Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries. Among his other books are Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (OUP, 2017).
LYNNE JACOBS, PhD, has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She is also interested in what it means to practice as a white therapist in culturally diverse environments. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, Dr. Jacobs is a co-founder of PGI and faculty analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published two books (with Rich Hycner) as well as numerous articles in both gestalt and psychoanalytic journals.
NANCY C. WINTERS, MD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and the Northwestern Psychoanalysis Society and Institute, and 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. Recent publications include: 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 the Lie”: the Contemporary Perversion of Truth (in press, American Journal of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Winters is in full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland, OR.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
DORIS 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.
JON 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. Dr. Sletvold is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, the Gradiva Award-winning book of 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers, is entitled 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 in New York.
