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SUMMARY:EBONI BOOTH\, Theatre\, Writing and Lived Experience
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nOPENING EVENING: a Special Presentation\nTHEATRE\, WRITING AND LIVED EXPERIENCE\nEBONI BOOTH\, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 3rd\, 2025\, 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nEboni Booth is a Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and actor in New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). As an actor\, she has appeared in theatre and film productions. Booth is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program\, resident playwright at New Dramatists\, and the recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award\, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting\, and a John Gassner award.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to the Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how theater understands the experience of individuals and their interaction.\n\n\nExplain how theatre explores the internal life of the lonely person and the implications for psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/eboni-booth-theatre-writing-and-lived-experience/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T013000
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SUMMARY:Halloween: Liminal Visions
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nwith The Sexual Abuse Study Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents \nHalloween: Liminal Visions \nwith Julie Marcuse\, PhD\nThursday\, October 9\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe book\, Halloween: Liminal Visions is about a personal journey. Dr. Julie Marcuse records what she sees in “objective” reality through a lens of “radical subjectivity.”\nMarcuse has used the documentation and interpretation of the manifest content of Halloween\, with its emphasis on chaos\, ambiguity\, dread and death to master her feelings in response to living through the decline and death of her husband Donald.\nSome of the photographs are surprising\, fun and beautiful\, while many are extremely disturbing. They attempt to link different domains of experience through color photographs with minimal manipulation. This book\, her 3rd\, is a testament to love\, loss and her own capacity for survival\, and it was intended to be a final gift to her husband. He died shortly before its completion.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJulie Marcuse\, PhD\, is a psychologist\, trauma specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where she continues to teach and supervise. She headed the Sexual Abuse Service there for 11 years\, learning about witnessing\, dissociation\, vicarious traumatization and multi-disciplinary approaches to healing. She is passionate about the arts\, from poetry to painting to music. She uses a platform called Blurb to self-publish her work.\n\nPlease join us for this presentation aligned with the commitment of the Artist Study Group to showcase the power of creating art to mitigate and master trauma.\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Artificial Intelligence and its Implications: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst\nELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 24th\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe AI therapist is rapidly becoming a dominant figure in the psychotherapeutic landscape\, embraced by the public and even more intriguingly by some clinicians—if not as a licensed therapist\, then as a companion\, a tool with which to better understand patients\, or a therapeutic ally. Professor Lunbeck suggests that the appeal of ChatGPT “therapists” is to be found\, in part\, in their resolution of a longstanding problem for the field:  the analyst’s personality\, which has long prompted attempts to standardize and mechanize practitioners in the interest of reliability\, replicability\, and the demands of science.  She suggests that Generative AI is the latest in a long series of innovations that not only achieves these goals but also does so in an improvisational and idiosyncratic register. Although observers routinely situate these new clinicians in therapy world’s CBT wing\, they come just as much from the heart of the psychoanalytic enterprise.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of psychoanalysis\, psychiatry\, and psychology\, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches popular courses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge\, Gender\, and Power in Modern America; with Bennett Simon; Family Romance\, Family Secrets; The Americanization of Narcissism; and four additional co-edited volumes. Lunbeck is an academic program graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, a co-chair of APsA’s University Forum\, and board member of PsiAN.  She is currently writing a book on the analyst’s self from Freud to AI.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLearning Objectives \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives this presentation:\n\n\nDiscuss the implications of AI for psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how AI works and how it may be used.\n\n\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elizabeth-lunbeck-artificial-intelligence-and-its-implications/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Benjamin Bernstein presents "What the Hell was That" - On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\n“What the Hell Was That?”: On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents\n Thursday\, October 30\, 2025\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Bernstein explores the therapeutic power and complexity of non-directive play therapy with adolescents. Drawing from vivid clinical vignettes and psychoanalytic theory\, he examines how activities that may appear unproductive — such as games\, humor\, or even sleep — can become profound vehicles for emotional regulation and relational growth when held within a responsive therapeutic frame. Through concepts such as Winnicott’s holding environment\, Bion’s containment\, and contemporary relational ideas about enactment and therapist subjectivity\, his talk highlights how play helps both adolescent and therapist to tolerate uncertainty\, engage symbolically\, and rediscover spontaneity in the therapeutic process.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fairfield County\, Connecticut\, as well as the adolescent psychologist at Silver Hill Hospital and founder of Redwood Psychology Group\, which specializes in depth-oriented therapy for adolescents\, families\, and parents. His work integrates psychoanalytic and relational approaches with a focus on play\, mentalization\, and the therapist’s use of self. Dr. Bernstein writes and teaches on adolescent development\, therapeutic play\, family therapy and the psychology of sports fandom. His work has been published by the American Psychological Association and his writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Time\, Axios and Psychology Today.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/dr-benjamin-bernstein-presents-what-the-hell-was-that-on-non-directive-play-therapy-with-adolescents/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group w/ Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:  \nToward a Horizon of Potential:\nLonging\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\nwith Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW \n  \nWednesday\, November 5 2025 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \nDescription: In this presentation Sam Guzzardi will share an abridged version of his paper “Toward a Horizon of Potential: Longing\, Phobia\, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond\,” which was awarded the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  The paper takes a close look at a brief encounter with a prospective patient who insists on knowing whether the prospective analyst is a “biological gay man” despite being told the analyst identifies as a “queer person.”  It wonders about how the notion of queerness may elicit forms of regulatory anxiety and regulatory violence. Borrowing from the work of Jill Gentile\, the feminine and the vaginal are taken up as organizing/disorganizing paradigms in both methodology and content; the paper also interrogates the rhetorical move of deploying the logics of biology in the prospective patient’s inquiry.  Ultimately\, the author leans on the notion of queer potentiality developed by José Esteban Muñoz to dream forward another\, more generative version of the interaction. \n\nSam Guzzardi\, LCSW is a New York City-based psychoanalyst trained at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, IPSS.  His written work on gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis has won numerous awards\, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and\, most recently\, the 2025 Tiresias Award of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  He is on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) and IPSS\, and is an Associate Editor at Psychoanalysis\, Self\, and Context and at Psychoanalytic Inquiry.  His clinical work focuses on questions of gender\, trauma\, development\, sexuality\, and loss. \n  \nPlease note: \n*Attendance is free\, but registration is required. \n**LGBTQ Study Group meetings are held on Zoom and they are not recorded. \n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD\, LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
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SUMMARY:Alice Jones\, MD\, Cadence of Vanishing
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCadence of Vanishing\nwith ALICE JONES\, MD\nThursday\, November 6\, 2025\n 1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\n\n\n\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPsychoanalyst and poet\, Dr. Alice Jones will read from her memoir\, Cadence of Vanishing\, weaving together love\, loss\, and the profound work of witnessing human trauma. With clinical precision and a poet’s heart\, Jones explores the delicate choreography between presence and absence that defines human connection.\nThe memoir follows Jones through four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive\, love\, and leave. She reveals how deep listening becomes its own form of love\, and how even in loss\, we discover what endures.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAlice Jones is a physician\, psychoanalyst\, open water swimmer\, and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, Verse\, and Best American Poetry.  She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, the NEA\, as well as other literary prizes.\nThomas Ogden\, author of What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations\, says about her:\n“Alice Jones’s Cadence of Vanishing is a meditative memoir in the form of diary entries in which many of the passages have the delicate feel of poetry. This is a penetrating exploration of the inner life of a poet through perceptive observations of the ordinary\, reminiscent of Lydia Davis. It is an experience to be savored”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease join us for this engaging presentation!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELLIOT JURIST\, Learning From Memoir
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nLEARNING FROM MEMOIR\nELLIOT JURIST\, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy\, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 14th\, 2025\, 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nMemoirs are an unexplored and fruitful way to understand how patients experience therapy\, and in particular\, psychoanalysis.  Drawing from diverse sources\, Dr. Jurist argues that some memoirists see therapy as transformative; others regard it equivocally or even negatively. He also reflects on how beliefs about therapy have changed from the post-war era to the present. The memoirists whom he addresses are Lucy Freeman\, Rachel Reiland\, Alison Bechdel\, Melissa Febos\, Hua Hsu\, Stephanie Foo\, and Joan Peters.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElliot Jurist\, PhD\, PhD\, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York\, CUNY.  From 2004-2013\, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018\, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology\, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series\, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science\, from Guilford Publications\, and author of a book in the series\, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy\, from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian\, Chinese and Spanish\, and was named best theoretical book in 2019 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis).  He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy\, Culture and Agency (MIT Press\, 2000) and co-author with Peter Fonagy\, George Gergely and Mary Target of Affect Regulation\, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press\, 2002)\, the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes.  He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research\, Neuroscience\, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press\, 2008).  His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy.  In 2014\, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA\, and in 2024\, he was given the Leadership award from the same organization.  Recently\, he is co-author with Norka Malberg\, Jordan Bate and Mark Dangerfield of Working with Parents Across the Lifespan: A Mentalization-Informed Approach (APA Publications\, 2023).  Along with his wife and two children\, he lives with two ancient\, insubordinate dachshunds\, one of whom smiles.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series: \n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION: \n\nDescribe the role of memoir for understanding human experience.\nExplain how memoir relates to self-reflection and psychoanalytic learning.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elliot-jurist-learning-from-memoir/
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SUMMARY:American Photographer Steve Giovinco presents Capturing Unguarded Moments
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nCAPTURING UNGUARDED MOMENTS\nwith STEVE GIOVINCO\, MFA \nand TOM HENNES\, Discussant\n  \nTHURSDAY\, DECEMBER 4th 2025\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\n\n\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nAmerican photographer Steve Giovinco will present images from two photographic projects:  the endlessly mysterious nature of couples’ interactions from his series\, On the Edge of Somewhere; and evidence of epic but subtle changes in extremely remote areas around arctic Greenland captured in his long-exposure nighttime photographs. His use of long exposure photography in near-total darkness makes it impossible to see through the camera’s viewfinder\, and instead Giovinco “feels” the image\, in tuitively framing it in the dark.  His experience of the process can be meditative\, revelatory and… terrifying.\nInformed by his unconscious as well as a sense of history\, culture\, and the environment\, Giovinco’s work captures the immensity of human and natural spaces\, and feelings of loss and transition. Curious about interpersonal and environmental change\, his visual representations allow the viewer a deep\, unfolding\, and emotional experience.\nGiovinco’s inspirations are far reaching: the paintings of Frederick Church and the Hudson River School; the photographs of Eugène Atget\, Brassai; the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni\, the Scandinavian and German cinema\, movies his father would bring home as a child; Roman ruins and large\, abandoned industrial structures.\nIndeed\, in 1992 his need and vision led him to create an additional tool: a hand-held\, large-format (8×8″) camera. Steve Giovinco’s works are exhibited in fine arts museums around the world\, and are included in numerous private and public collections.\n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSteve Giovinco is a New York based photographer.  His work is in numerous public and private collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, and the California Museum of Photography. Exhibitions of his work include the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Contemporary Art Center\, Cincinnati; Winnipeg Art Gallery; White Columns\, New York; Sadler’s Wells\, London; Gyeongnam Art Museum\, Korea.  He was commissioned by one of the first blockchain art platforms\, Monegraph. Giovinco earned his MFA in photography from Yale University. As a Fulbright Fellow Alternate\, he received a Yaddo artist residency and numerous grants.\nABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT\nTom Hennes is founder of Thinc Design and is a member of the Institute’s  Board of Trustees. Believing in the implicit power of exhibition as a medium to engage society in important ways\, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with projects embedded in social and environmental justice.  Hennes has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design\, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet\, France\, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program\, and the University of Pretoria\, among many others.\n  \n  \nJoin us for what promises to be an evocative presentation and discussion\, with this very special guest.\nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:How Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nHow Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\,  Heather  Ferguson\, LCSW\,  Vincent Stephen\, PsyD\,  Nancy Winters\, MD\,FIPA\nwith\nModerators Doris Brothers\, PhD and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 6th\, 2025\nOnline from 12Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\n“Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences.” \nSince Freud and Breuer pronounced this in 1895\, memory is still believed to play a crucial role in the bodily as well as psychological suffering of our patients. We now understand that memory is not only verbal (declarative) but is also nonverbal (implicit). Our speakers will share how they use body-based memory in every therapeutic encounter. \nComments by the speakers about their planned talks:\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD:\n\nTwo sentences that I will use in my conversation:\n“My delusion happens at the crossroad of my little story and the Great History.” — told by a patient.\n“The Body keeps the Score\,” Bessel Van der Kolk’s title\, as it embodies the premature knowledge of a catastrophic stoppage of time.\n\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW:\n\nAs Pierre Janet discovered\, traumatic memories are split off from conscious awareness and stored as sensory perceptions\, behavioral reenactments\, and symptoms. In my work with one patient\, the nonverbal iterations of traumatic memory and their sensorimotor traces infiltrated our therapeutic space\, guiding our attention to her body’s long-thwarted impulses.\n\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD:\n\nI will focus on dissociated memories that express themselves as movements and sensations in the therapeutic context\, and on embodied identification in the therapeutic relationship.\n\nNancy Winters\, MD\, FIPA:\n\nIn 1926 Freud observed: “There is much more continuity between intrauterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe.”  I extend this notion to the emergence of the primitive or infantile in later bodily phenomena. In several brief vignettes I discuss how embodied experience — in both patient and therapist (via somatic reverie) — can be recognized as registrations of early “remembered\,” yet unsymbolized and unmetabolized\, experience.\n\n\n  \nCOSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS:\nZoom entry links for this series are sent in two ways: (1) on the Registration payment receipt delivered directly to your email INBOX; and (2) manually sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register immediately before the event’s start\, you will receive the link only on the automatic payment receipt. \nIf you do not see a link letter in your Inbox\, you should check Trash and Spam files. The Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\nFor general CE Credit information\, click here\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\nFrançoise Davoine\, PhD\, has completed studies in classical literature. She has a PhD in sociology and is a professor a Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, where\, for 40 years\, she has lead a weekly seminar with Jean Max Gaudillière entitled “Madness and the Social Link.” She has been a psychoanalyst in a public psychiatric hospital and outdoor consultation\, as well as in private practice in Paris for 30 years. Dr. Davoine was a member of Lacan’s “Ecole Freudienne” until Lacan’s death in 1981. She is a member of ISPS founded in 1954 by Gaetano Benedetti\, and is an Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs Center. Her books include History beyond Trauma (Other Press with Max Gaudillière); and\, several published by Routledge: Mother Folly\, Fighting Melancholy: Don Quixote’s teaching: A Word to the Wise (on Don Quixote’s second book); Jean Max Gaudillière’s Seminars (2 volumes); Pandemics\, Wars\, Traumas and Literature; Shandean Psychoanalysis: Madness and traumas in Tristram Shandy and Wittgenstein’s Folly.\nHeather Ferguson\, LCSW\, is a faculty member and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies\, and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR\, she incorporates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment\, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma\, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has chapters in“Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis” (edited by Harris\, Kalb\, and Klebanoff) and “Art\, Creativity\, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists” (edited by Hagman). She maintains a private practice in New York City.\nVincent Stephen\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist working as a therapist and supervisor at the University Hospital in Tromsø\, North Norway. He specializes in psychotherapy for people struggling with complex trauma\, dissociation\, and serious relational difficulties. He is a candidate at the Norwegian Character Analytical Institute in Olso\, a training institution for embodied psychoanalysis. Dr. Stephen is interested in the therapeutic use of countertransference and has written on language\, embodiment\, suicide and authenticity. He is also a multi-disciplinary artist and musician and has written and performed in various works\, including several collaborations with dancer Mirte Bogaert.\nNancy C. Winters\, MD\, FIPA\, is a training and supervising analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute\, the Northwestern Psychoanalysis Society and Institute\, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University. She serves on editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also co-editor and chapter author of the 2022 Gradiva award-winning Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021); Autoimmunity and its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness (IJP\, 2022)\, and A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary Perversion of Truth (in press\, American Journal of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Winters has a full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland\, OR.\n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.\n  \n \nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\,  is founding board director and faculty member of the  Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book\, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:\n1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the\nadvantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based\nlanguage for psychoanalysis.\n2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss\ncommunication that takes place in the silences between the words.
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SUMMARY:Trauma and Healing through Symbolization with Betsy Hegeman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nTrauma and Healing through Symbolization \nwith Betsy Hegeman\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 8th 2026\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDoes art help us move from dissociated pain\, shock\, horror or numbness to more grounded\, connected states? Can it help us get to a part of the conscious self where traumatic experience can be processed differently than just dissociation?\nBetsy Hegeman will describe clinical examples exploring these questions\, where the experience of making art helps patients move from their dissociated state to one of connection. As a group\, we will then consider how cultural traumatic or existential events\, like global warming\, are denied\, and how we might work to instead incorporate cultural experiences of connection.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBetsy Hegeman\, PhD\, is a faculty member and a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI\, where she co-taught a class on trauma with Richard Gartner and Sharon Kofman. She is also a faculty member at NYU Postdoc and is professor emerita of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she has taught for over fifty years. Dr. Hegeman has done field work in Puerto Rico and Colombia\, focusing on migration\, class structure\, gender and poverty. She lives in Massachusetts with her daughter and grandson.\n  \nPlease join us for this moving presentation and discussion.\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group\n 
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SUMMARY:From Room to Zoom and Beyond:  Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care  and Emerging Clinical Contexts
DESCRIPTION:From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts\nwith Todd Essig\, PhD\nAn Online Workshop for WAWI Graduates\, Faculty and Candidates\npresented by the WAWI Curriculum Committee\nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10th\, 2026\n10:00am-1:00pm/Eastern\n  \n3 CE credits are available for attending this workshop\n  \nABOUT THIS WORKSHOP\nThe recent IPA Code revisions affirm what many discovered through pandemic necessity: deep analytic work can happen on screens and speakers. But “can happen” is not the same as “happens in the same way.” Many now see that screen relations are similar enough to in-person work to sustain analysis\, yet different enough to require us to rethink aspects of our clinical stance and theoretical framework.\nThis workshop will explore those similarities and differences\, both psychologically and clinically: How do screen relations affect presence\, attention\, and the analytic frame? What happens to transference\, countertransference\, and reverie when we meet on screen? And\, most centrally\, how do we make the most of what’s unique about this context rather than in attending differences?\nThroughout\, we’ll strive to think together. Your questions\, concerns\, and clinical experiences are essential to this exploration. As broader context for our discussion\, we’ll also consider how the rapid emergence of AI relationships is already reshaping the technological landscape in which screen-based care now takes place.\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd Essig\, PhD\, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering in the creative uses of mental health technologies. In addition to his full time NYC-based clinical practice\, he publishes\, lectures\, and consults internationally on forming best practices in the use of technology to serve human purposes. His primary academic affiliations are Faculty and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. \nDr. Essig is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) where he served on the Task Force on Distance Training and on the Task Force on Training in Contemporary Times where he co-authored task force reports. As a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)\, he co-chaired the COVID-19 Response team. Recently\, in the current center of his non-clinical professional life\, he founded and is Co-Chair of APsA’s Council on Artificial Intelligence. He teaches and lectures at institutes and societies in the US and in Japan\, Canada and England. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVE INFORMATION\nBy completing this class:\n1. Attendees will be able to name the process by which online sessions operate similarly to in-person sessions\n2. Attendees will be able to list 2 of the 3 ways online sessions afford different experiences than in-person sessions\n3. Attendees will be able to name the three interactive contexts operating in the AI Age\n\nReferences:\nEssig\, T.\, & Russell\, G. I. (2021). A report from the field: Providing psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, 18(2)\, 157-177.\nLemma\, A. (2025). What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to “The phenomenology of teleanalysis” by Dr N. Zapien. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 363-374.\nZapien\, N. (2025). The phenomenology of teleanalysis: A research study of the experiences of analysts and candidates in training analyses in the US during 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 106(2)\, 340-36
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SUMMARY:The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy:  An Artistic Expression of Understanding Attachment Theory and How I Apply  it to Clinical Work by Jill Leibowitz
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nJILL LEIBOWITZ\, PSYD\,\n“THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ITSY BITSY: AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND HOW I APPLY IT TO CLINICAL WORK”\nThursday\, January 22nd\, 2026\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09 \n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn describing this presentation\, Dr. Leibowitz says\, “I believe that open and playful communication between children and their grown-ups is a key component to fostering healthy development. Feeling a need to share this understanding with more of the adults in kids’ lives than I could reach in my private practice\, I wrote and published two children’s books that model reflection\, mentalization\, and open emotion communication. My goal was to help children and their grown-ups talk and reflect together about tough emotional moments and to normalize the full range of emotions we all experience — ideas that reflect\, from my perspective\, the important takeaways from Attachment Theory.\nThus\, through these books\, I am attempting to communicate my understanding of Attachment Theory and how I apply it to the everyday clinical and parent-guidance work I do. In this presentation\, I will read one of the books\, share my process of engaging playfully to create the books\, and talk about the Attachment Theory-related concepts that I hope the books illustrate.”\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJill Leibowitz\, PsyD\, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with children\, adolescents\, adults\, and families in her New York City private practice. She specializes in play therapy\, psychotherapy\, parenting support\, and parent-child work\, and she is a member of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Home Visiting Program. In addition to her clinical practice\, Dr. Leibowitz teaches and supervises graduate and post-graduate students at several New York universities and institutes. She is the author of The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy\, a children’s book series\, and has contributed to blogs\, podcasts\, and academic journals on topics related to children’s emotional development\, play and emotional literacy.\n  \nLearning Objectives:\n\n\nTo gain an appreciation for the central role of playful engagement in our clinical work and in development more generally.\n\n\nTo apply reflective\, open communication practices to everyday\, real-life scenarios that occur between children and their grown-ups.\n\n\nTo learn about one individual’s process of children’s book publishing and marketing.
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SUMMARY:BILL T. JONES\, On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nA Special In-Person and Live-Streamed Event at New York Live Arts* \nOn the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding\nBILL T. JONES\, Award-winning Artistic Director\, Choreographer\, Dancer\, Author\, and Co-Founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and of New York Live Arts\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 30th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\n* This event will be held in person at New York Live Arts\, 219 West 19th Street\, New York City. The venue will provide the link to its live stream.\nYou must register to attend. Please note that registration and charges for this event are being handled through the venue.\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nBill T. Jones is an artistic director and leading dancer\, choreographer\, director\, and writer. He is co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Manhattan and Artistic Director of New York Live Arts\, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing\, presenting and educating. Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles and on Broadway and for other theatrical venues. The recipient of numerous awards including two Tony Awards\, an Obie\, a MacArthur “Genius” Award and Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government\, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors\, and of the National Medal of Arts\, among a long list of others.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream for most of the dates\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n\nNote that CEs are not available for this event.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how choreography of movements conveys meaning and autobiography.\n\n\nExplain how mind and body inform dance and psychoanalytic treatment.\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Passing Through with Visual Artist Naomi Friedman and Discussant Stephen Friedman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS \nPASSING  THROUGH\nWITH NAOMI FRIEDMAN\, VISUAL ARTIST\nand Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, Discussant \nTHURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 5th 2026\n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n  \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nPassing Through challenges one of the most persistent binaries of our time: the divide between public and private space.  Visual Artist Naomi Friedman interrogates how trans bodies\, experiences\, and rhythms disrupt these categories\, revealing their fragility and the violence required to maintain them.  With collage and paintings\, Friedman insists on the permeability of cultural categories and the instability of the narratives that sustain them.  \nWe will discuss figure and setting in the works\, and what components might complicate/disrupt those boundaries\, as well as other questions.  \n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNaomi Friedman\, non-binary\, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College in 2022 andl co-founded the Boyz With Apple Artist Collective LLC\,  https://www.boyzwithapple.com/about-the-boyz   Recent exhibitions include the Cannes Contemporary Art Biennale\, Art Basel Switzerland and a solo exhibition in Madrid.  Friedman teaches early-childhood art classes in Brooklyn.  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nStephen Friedman\, PhD\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where he is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and teaches a seminar on the clinical implications of the Interpersonal perspective\, race\, diversity and otherness in clinical work. He has a private practice in New York City.\nJoin us!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, February 11\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nEnvy\, Greed\, and the Search for a Holding Environment: Working with Stealing and Lying in a Latency-Age Girl\nA Clinical Case Presentation by Dan Liu\, LCSW\nwith discussion led by Mara Heiman\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAccording to Melanie Klein\, envy is a primitive and fundamentally destructive affect\, whereas greed refers to the impulse toward excessive taking and possessing that is often driven by envy. Clinically\, behaviors such as lying and stealing can be understood as manifestations of both envy and greed – expressions of destructiveness\, anger\, and aggression that involve taking from others and depriving them of what they have. Yet these behaviors may also be seen as communications that seek a holding environment in which such intense feelings can be contained and transformed\, allowing movement toward the true self.\nMs. Liu will discuss a long-term treatment with a nine-year-old girl\, illustrating how envy and greed emerged in the clinical work and how the holding environment made it possible to recognize\, contain\, and work through these dynamics.\nJoin us for a rich presentation by a current candidate\,  demonstrating the culmination of a sophisticated learning process and the integration of clinical theory and technique.  It will be an opportunity for those interested in child and adolescent psychotherapy training to learn more about our program\, participate in a discussion\, and take part in a Q&A. Light refreshments will be available. \n\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nDan Liu is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Institute\, where she now serves as faculty in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. Ms. Liu earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University and has lived in New York City for the past 14 years\, where she maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Originally from Shenzhen\, a coastal city in southeastern China\, she brings a multicultural perspective to her clinical work. She speaks English\, Mandarin\, Cantonese\, and Japanese\, and works with individuals from diverse racial\, ethnic\, and social backgrounds.\nFOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM\, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SUNIL BHATIA\, Why DeColonization?
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nWHY DECOLONIZATION?\nSUNIL BHATIA\, Professor of Human Development and Cultural Psychology\, Connecticut College\nPlease note: This event has been cancelled.\n  \nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 20th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nSunil Bhatia\, is an internationally recognized authority on culture and psychology and Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is at the forefront of studies on decolonization and author of such books as American Karma; Race\, Culture\, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization\, Social Justice\, and Indian Youth Identities; and Globalization and Culture: Narratives of Indian Youth from Call Centers to Chail Stalls (forthcoming Oxford U. Press) among others. Additionally\, he is a frequent lecturer and commentator on current events.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nExplore how decolonization matters for psychoanalytic practice.\n\n\nExplain what decolonization is and what its implications are.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/sunil-bhatia-why-decolonization/
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SUMMARY:The Psychoanalytic Training Program Special Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Psychoanalytic Training Program \nA SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE \nWEDNESDAY EVENING\, MARCH 4th\n7:30-9:30pm\nTHE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: \nA cohort of graduates reflects upon the influence of psychoanalytic training on personal and professional evolutions.\nWith David C. Banthin\, PhD\, Tomás Casado-Frankel\, LMFT-D\, LP\, John Eastman\, LCSW\, Dan Liu\, LCSW\, Mary Olsen\, LCSW\, Josh Yoselovsky\, LCSW\nHeld In Person at the Institute: 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue\n\n  \nABOUT THE EVENING\nA clinical case will be presented\, followed by discussion with our panel of graduates – who together went through the training program and have gone on to build their practices.\nAttendees will be invited to join the discussion for the experience of a cohort peer supervision\, and will be encouraged to ask questions about the case\, the program\, and our Institute. Light refreshments will be available.\nJoin us!\n  \nABOUT OUR PANELISTS\nDavid C. Banthin\, PhD\, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He earned his doctoral degree from the New School for Social Research and completed fellowships and postdoctoral certificates at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\, Mount Sinai/Mental Illness Research and Clinical Center at the Department of Veteran Affairs\, Behavioral Tech for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy\, and psychoanalytic training at WAWI. He has engaged in psychotherapy research in psychodynamic and behavioral treatment modalities for 15+ years with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and personality disorders. \nTomás Casado-Frankel\, MA\, LMFT-D\, LP\,  is the Director of Outreach and Recruitment\, a Supervisor of Psychotherapy\, and a graduate of both the WAWI Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. He is co-author of Early Relational Trauma and the Development of Self\, published by Routledge in 2022. He is in private practice in NYC. \nDan Liu\, LCSW\,  is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Originally from Shenzhen\, China\, Dan brings a multicultural perspective to her work and provides therapy in English\, Mandarin and Cantonese. \nMary Olsen\, LCSW\,  worked at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in the Employee Assistance Program before completing her training at the William Alanson White Institute. Mary is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at WAWI and credits her psychoanalytic training for her seamless transition into full time private practice. Prior to earning her MSW\, she founded and ran a technology consulting practice.\n\nJosh Yoselovsky\, LCSW\,  completed his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in 2021\, and is on its faculty\, as well as that of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Josh is also an adjunct instructor at Fordham University’s Graduate School for Social Service. His academic and clinical interests focus on early Interpersonal thinking and literature\, as well as on the intersection of theater\, performance\, and psychoanalysis.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-psychoanalytic-training-program-special-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics of the Encounter: Psychoanalysis in Chaotic Times
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nAesthetics of the Encounter: Psychoanalysis in Chaotic Times\nwith Gabriela Goldstein\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, MARCH 5\, 2026\, 1:30-3pm/Eastern time\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:  https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n  \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nIn response to this time of radical political polarization\, Gabriela Goldstein offers us an exploration of aesthetic experience as a transformative event; an unexpected encounter with works of art that may lead to a state of poetic estrangement\, promoting a possible reorganization of its subject’s psychic economy. In this presentation\, she will share slides and vignettes that demonstrate the experience of this state of estrangement\, reflecting upon the encounter between the subject and the other or Other;between analyst and patient and in the framework provided by the analytical situation. In her new book\, Art and Psychoanalysis:  Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement (Routledge\, 2026)\, she considers how the metapsychology of aesthetic experience and its research contribute to a clinical understanding of processes of deficient symbolization.  \n\n\nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nGabriela Goldstein\, PhD\, is a training analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association and FEPAL. She is also the former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and currently serves as a Latin American member of the IPA Board (2025-2027).  Dr. Goldstein has authored several books and has received distinctions in psychoanalytic literature and the Arts. She is also an architect and visual artist\, with exhibitions in Argentina\, Europe\, and the United States. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. For further information about her work\, visit her website:  gabrielagoldstein.com.ar\n\nJoin us for a fascinating and timely presentation!\nRSVP to fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/aesthetics-of-the-encounter-psychoanalysis-in-chaotic-times/
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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, March 11th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nAdolescence in the Manosphere: the Psychodynamic Treatment of an Isolated 16 Year Old Boy\nA CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION by Stephanie Vanden Bos\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe presentation will follow the treatment of an isolated adolescent boy struggling with intense affect and unmet relational needs as he works to consolidate a stable sense of identity. Struggling at the crossroads of a chaotic childhood and uncertain adulthood\, he is wrecked with anxiety and rage about his pervasive sense of invisibility and helplessness. He seeks advice in online communities that offer simplified\, prescriptive narratives about gender and power\, and which promise clarity\, status and a sense of dignity. The work we do together aims to support development of a more cohesive and enlivened sense of self — one that can tolerate ambivalence\, integrate anger\, and enhance his capacity for connection within the therapeutic relationship.\nJoin us for an insightful presentation given by a candidate in the Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. There will be opportunity to ask questions and join in discussion\, as well as to learn about our unique program and about the Institute. Light refreshments will be available.\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nStephanie Vanden Bos\, LCSW\, is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute.  She completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in 2007\, where she is now a training analyst and supervisor. She has also trained in several different trauma treatments including EMDR\, AEDP\, Sensorimotor Training and Somatic Experiencing. She has been in private practice in New York City for the past 25 years.\n  \n\n\nFOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM\, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-child-adolescent-psychotherapy-training-program-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic  Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects
DESCRIPTION:Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects\nwith Margaret Crastnopol\, PhD\nA 3-part mini-course for clinicians at all levels\, to explore and recognize micro-traumatic functioning\, while learning how to work with patients in resolving these patterns.\nHeld online on three Fridays\, starting March 13th\n4.5 CE credits are available\n  \nABOUT THE SERIES\nSubtle types of psychic injury\, called “micro-trauma” can mount up over time\, eroding a person’s sense of well-being while distorting character development and interpersonal functioning. In her book\,  Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury (Routledge\, 2015)\, Dr. Crastnopol draws upon the theoretical framework for these events\, and shares her recent thinking about them. For this three-session\, online course\, she focuses on and helps clinicians identify specific patterns of micro-traumatic functioning and their impacts\, as they play out in everyday life and in the analytic engagement itself.\nParticipants will explore their own clinical experiences with micro-trauma and gain an understanding of how to identify and work to resolve such problematic patterns for patients.\nA list of required and optional reading will be sent to registrants.\n\nABOUT MARGARET CRASTNOPOL\, PhD\nMargaret Crastnopol\, PhD\, is an Analyst of Candidates (“Training Analyst”)\,  Consulting Analyst\, and Faculty Member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Crastnopol is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, and she also serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Having recently finished her tenure\, she is a long-term former member of the executive committee and the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury\, (Routledge\, 2015)\, and of numerous other published works. Dr. Crastnopol is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle\, New York\, Idaho\, and elsewhere\, working remotely and in person.  She offers individual and group supervision or consultation for those in the United States and various locations abroad.\n\nCLASS SCHEDULE\nHeld online on Fridays\, from 12Noon-1:30PM/Eastern\, on March 13\, 20\, 27\n\nCOURSE COSTS:\nProfessionals: $400 \nCandidates and students: $250\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nBy the completion of this course\, students will be able to:\n\n\nEnumerate and describe certain specific mechanisms of toxic functioning\, including “unkind cutting back\,” “connoisseurship gone awry\,” “little murders\,” etc.\n\n\nIdentify signs within the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic relationship that such patterns are being replayed.\n\n\nArticulate and implement various effective strategies for repairing micro-traumatic damage to the patient’s sense of well-being and self-worth.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/micro-traumatic-experience-therapeutic-approaches-to-healing-cumulative-toxic-effects-2/
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SUMMARY:MARK FREEMAN on Self as Story: Narrative Knowing\, Narrative Unknowing\, and the Mystery of Selfhood
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nSelf as Story: Narrative Knowing\, Narrative Unknowing\, and the Mystery of Selfhood\nMARK FREEMAN\, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics\, Society and Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, MARCH 13th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nA core premise of this presentation is that narrative is central to the process of both self-understanding and self-formation: through looking backward over the past\, one may discern patterns\, connections\, and themes and craft a story — and a self\, accordingly.\nBut how does one tell such a story\, and what sort of story might it be? The challenge is large. Although there is much about the self that can be known\, there is also much that remains unknown\, and perhaps\, unknowable. Not the least is that our existence is permeated by what is other — first and foremost\, by other people\, but also by the larger social\, cultural\, and political world\, within which our lives take shape\, often in ways unbeknownst to us. This doesn’t mean that seeking self-understanding is futile. Rather\, it means that narrative knowing must be supplemented by narrative unknowing\, and in turn that science must be supplemented by art when engaging in the process. By proceeding in this way\, we may be better poised to both fathom and narrate the deepest sources of selfhood in all of their radiant obscurity.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nMark Freeman\, PhD\, is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. Award-winning author of numerous works\, including Rewriting the Self: History\, Memory\, Narrative (1993)\, Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (2010)\, The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (2014)\, Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia (2021)\, and\, most recently\, Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (2024)\, he also serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series\, Explorations in Narrative Psychology.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series: \n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION: \n\nDescribe the implications of narrative for psychoanalytic practice.\nDescribe the role of narrative in developing self-awareness.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/mark-freeman-narrative-lived-and-told/
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SUMMARY:Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck with MET Curator Dita Amory
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nMET Curator Dita Amory\, MA  \nSeeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck\nwith Discussant Ernesto Mujica\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, April 2\, 2026\, 1:30-3pm Eastern time/In-person and Online \nJoin us in-person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street\nor online at: at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nFinnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck’s first solo show which has been a featured exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, is suffused with a melancholic quietude\, while possessing an unexpected spirit of strength. MET Curator Dita Amory will introduce the artist to us\, showing her modernist language of the brush and pivotal passages of her life. Ms. Amory’s slide presentation glimpses Schjerfbeck’s isolation and interiority through the artist’s intimate use of light\, space\, and volume.\nDiscussant Ernesto Mujica will examine how Schjerfbeck’s vision became increasingly subjective over time\, revealing a more intimate experience of the subject\, a process that he finds evocative of the therapist’s initial perception of the patient and what is gradually revealed during their work together.\nFor those who can visit the exhibit in advance\, it is at the MET through April 5\, 2026.\n\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTERS\nDita Amory\, MA\, is the Robert Lehman Curator in Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her numerous exhibitions include Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (2009); Madame Cezanne (2014-15); Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (2017-18); Felix Vollotton (2019-20); Vertigo of Color:  Matisse\, Derain\, and the Origins of Fauvism (2023).  She is a trustee of the Robert Lehman Foundation and serves on several non-profit Boards.\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI\, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of the institute’s journal\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is a supervisor of psychotherapy at the Institute\, and also in the doctoral program of Clinical Psychology of Teachers College\, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma\, as well sociocultural factors in mental health\, with his strong interest in the arts. Dr. Mujica has previously spoken at the Artists Study Group including discussions about artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria)\, Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree\, Canada)\, Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and Reversos\, El Prado exhibition\, (Madrid\, Spain).\n\n\nJoin us for this discussion\, looking at the nuances of artistic evolution!\nRSVP to:  fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\, the Artist Study Group
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/seeing-silence-the-paintings-of-helene-schjerfbeck-with-met-curator-dita-amory/
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SUMMARY:Acting Out: a New Online Mini-Series with Ira Moses
DESCRIPTION:ACTING OUT AND THE THERAPIST’S SUPEREGO CONFLICTS\nwith \nIRA MOSES\, PhD\, ABPsa\nA new online mini-series for experienced and new clinicians\n4 Wednesday evenings in April \nfrom 8:00-9:15pm/Eastern\n5 CEs are available\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nOften out of fear of shaming the patient\, being perceived as “judgmental\,” or worrying that the patient may drop out of treatment\, therapists may stumble — or avoid entirely — the opportunity to engage patients in analyzing their provocative or self-defeating behaviors. Therapists may\, perhaps unwittingly\, selectively ignore these behaviors\, thereby risking their inevitable escalation.\nSuch behaviors can range from extreme acts such as unprotected sex\, substance abuse\, or compulsive internet use\, to subtler forms of acting out\, such as habitual lateness to appointments or difficulties with paying bills and spending. Through participants’ case material\, Dr. Moses will take us though an exploration of how inquiry and free association can help mobilize reluctant therapists to assist patients in translating action into words.\n  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nIra Moses\, PhD\, ABPsa\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst\, former Director of Training\, and former Director of Clinical Services at the William Alanson White Institute\, where he currently teaches a seminar that functions as the alternative pathway to becoming a Supervising Analyst\, as well as teaching in the Institute’s Ukrainian online Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (the UKR-IPPP). He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and is Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center;  and also is Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute.  Dr. Moses was a former Board Member and faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. He has published many articles\, including the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure\, The Analyst’s Resistance to Asking Questions\, and recently\, Wrestling with Reductionism is Racial and Cultural Discourse.\n  \nCLASS SCHEDULE\nHeld online on Wednesday evenings from 8:00pm-9:15pm/Eastern\non April 8\, 15\, 22 & 29\n\nCOURSE COSTS\nProfessionals $325\nCandidates and students $225\n  \n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-new-online-mini-series/
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SUMMARY:MARIANNE HIRSCH\, Epiphanies of Repair: Memory Art and Practice
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nEPIPHANIES OF REPAIR: MEMORY ART AND PRACTICE\nMARIANNE HIRSCH\, William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender\, Columbia University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 10th\, from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern — please note this is a revised date\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nHow can we imagine repair at this moment of continuing war and genocide\, of violence\, political neglect and injustice?\nThis talk will place psychoanalytic theories of reparation into conversation with works by contemporary memorial artists like Kara Walker and Doris Salcedo. With destruction as a necessary ground of repair\, their works dislodge entrenched embodied responses to traumatic remembrance\, thus re-imagining the past and remembering its unrealized possibilities. Memory art\, Hirsch will suggest\, can become a transformative practice of communal repair and a platform of social solidarity.\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nMarianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations\, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. She is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)\, the co-edited volumes Women Mobilizing Memory (2019) and Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular  Photography (2020)\, and\, co-authored with Leo Spitzer\, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference(2020).  Currently a fellow at the Getty Research Institute she is working on a book about the reparative potentials of memory from which this talk is drawn.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nDescribe the ways in which memory can have a reparative effect.\n\n\nExplain the relationship of reparative memory to trauma and psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/marianne-hirsch-reparative-memory/
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SUMMARY:A Memorial and Tribute to Edgar Levenson
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Ed: A Memorial and Tribute to Edgar Levenson\nSunday\, April 12th\, 2026\n1:00-3:30pm\nat the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\nand offered online (entry links will be sent out prior to the date)\n  \nJoin family\, friends and colleagues including \nCorey Levenson along with \nMiri Abramis\, Seth Aronson\, Judith Brisman\,\nSandra Buechler\, Ann D’Ercole\, Jack Drescher\, \nJack Foehl\, Jay Greenberg\, Anton Hart\, Irwin Hirsch\, \nHarriette Kaley\, Sue Kolod\, Spyros D. Orfanos\, \nSue Shapiro\, Alan Slomowitz\, Donnel Stern \nand Jean Petrucelli\, host\nRSVP required: please let us know if you are coming and how you will attend\nRefreshments to follow the program.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-memorial-and-tribute-to-edgar-levenson/
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SUMMARY:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opening Event April 17th
DESCRIPTION:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opening Event April 17th\nHosted by The Harry Stack Sullivan Society and the Antiracism Action Working Group\nSexuality as Bedrock to Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Reading Freud through Fanon amidst Inequality and Genocide (and why sex is on your patient’s mind too)\nPresented by DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE\, PsyD\, assistant professor of psychology at Queens College and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 17\, 2026\, 7:00-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York\, NY 10023 and via live stream online\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTATION\nFreud’s conceptualization of sexuality has become outdated and irrelevant in contemporary psychoanalysis — or so they say. Despite reports of Freud’s “death\,” the relevance of his ideas return again and again not only in the clinic but in how we understand our contemporary malaise\, from the complexity of our interpersonal relationships to the inequality\, war\, and genocide we witness in our news feeds and in our streets. Drawing on a decolonial lens informed by the work of Frantz Fanon\, this presentation re-reads Freud to better understand the centrality of sexuality in systems of oppression\, from the militarized violence faced by people of color\, immigrants\, and LGBTQ people domestically\, to the war and genocide visited upon racialized peoples globally. Given Fanon’s work not just as a revolutionary but a practicing psychoanalytic clinician\, this theory of sexuality will be brought back to the intimacy of the consulting room to reveal the relevance of thinking about sexuality in routine clinical practice. Drawing on contemporary thinkers like Avgi Saketopoulou and Dominique Scarfone\, decolonial feminists like Maria Lugones and Ochy Curiel\, it will be shown that although interpersonal dynamics and societal oppression are “not all about sex\,” they all have a “sexual lining.” Central to this sexual lining is the way constructions of threat and vulnerability are intimately bound up with pleasure and pain\, both fearing and desiring the other—and the other’s gratuitous suffering and death. Clinical illustrations will be used to make the theoretical come alive in the realities of day-to-day practice.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDaniel José Gaztambide\, PsyD\, is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College\, where he is the director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology\, and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of the books\, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology\, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch\, which received a 2024 Gradiva Award for Best Book. He is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship\, a Miranda Family Fellowship\, and the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education’s Outstanding Psychoanalytic Educator Award. Lastly\, he is the recipient of a presidential citation for his service as part of the American Psychological Association’s Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism\, Discrimination\, and Hate.\n  \nABOUT THE SERIES\nThe Not-Me Speaker Series is a new offering from the Institute’s psychoanalytic training program candidates who make up the Harry Stack Sullivan Society\, who hope to foster constructive dialogues around difficult and potentially polarizing topics relevant to the contemporary practice of psychoanalysis. The series was conceived as a direct response to the bevy of candidates\, past and present\, who have been eagerly searching for an arena in which to address the challenges and diverse community needs of their patients.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Harry Stack Sullivan Society.
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SUMMARY:How do Analysts Understand  the Embodiment of Fascist Experience?
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nWITH MODERATOR-HOSTS \nDORIS BROTHERS\, PhD\, and JON SLETVOLD\, PsyD\nHow do Analysts Understand the Embodiment of Fascist Experience?\nA panel discussion with\nJessica Benjamin\, PhD\,  Sue Grand\, PhD\, Daniel Posner\, MD\, and Doris Brothers\, PhD\, & Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, APRIL 25th\nOnline from 12 Noon-2:00pm/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe rise of fascist movements all over the globe has infiltrated our therapeutic relationships.\nIn the belief that understanding the embodied experience of fascism helps us confront this frightening development\, participants in this conversation provide a variety of perspectives.\n\n  \nEVENT COSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: Entry links for Zoom events are sent in two ways: (1) the entry link is sent on the Registration payment receipt delivered to your email INBOX; and (2) links are sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register just prior to the event’s start\, you will only receive the link on the payment receipt.\nFor those who do not see a link letter in their Inbox\, check Trash and Spam files. If you do not find your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, you may email: e.rodman@wawhite.org\nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\n\nTHE GUEST PANELISTS\nJessica Benjamin\, PhD\, is best known for her books The Bonds of Love (1988)\, which brought a feminist intersubjective perspective into the psychoanalytic field\, and for Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness (2004)\, which provided the basis for her recent Beyond Doer and done To: Recognition Theory\,\nIntersubjectivity and the Third (2018). The last emphasizes the importance of acknowledgment in therapeutic interaction and in relation to trauma\, including collective historical trauma. Additionally\, she is the author of Like Subjects\, Love Objects (1995); and Shadow of the Other (1998). Dr. Benjamin has been one of the leaders in the relational movement in psychoanalysis since its inception. She teaches and supervises at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center which she is a co-founded. She initiated and co-directed a project for acknowledgment between Israeli and Palestinian mental health professionals during the period 2003-2011. Recently she has written on the psychological aspects of domination and destructiveness manifest in the current social world and is currently exploring the interconnections between affect regulation theory and recognition theory.\nSue Grand\, PhD\, is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; faculty\, the Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis; faculty\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; visiting scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective and The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude. She is the co-author of Trans-generational Transmission: A Contemporary Perspective\, and has co-edited multiple books on trans-generational transmission and on relational theory. Dr. Grand teaches in Ukraine and in Israel. She is on the boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalysis\, Culture and Society. Her area of interest is political/social/psychic violence and trauma. She maintains a private practice in New York City and in Teaneck New Jersey.\nDaniel Posner\, MD\, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the faculty at the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. His writing explores a range of topics through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis\, enactive phenomenology\, epistemic justice and infancy research. He has published work in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders\, Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, where he is an associate editor. He is also the co-host\, with Daniel Goldin\, of The Conversation\, the podcast of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is currently writing a book on Daniel N. Stern for Routledge.\nADDITIONAL PANELISTS and SERIES MODERATORS\, THE CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\,  is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has served on the executive and advisory boards and council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP).  Dr. Brothers has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as five books. Her forthcoming book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled\, Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. Earlier books include\, A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES written with Jon Sletvold\, Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.\n\nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the authorof The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote\, From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His forthcoming book\, written with Doris Brothers\, is Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. His last book\, also written with Doris Brothers\, is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and he co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n 
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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, April 29th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nNot Fully Formed:  Using Modeling Clay and Slime-making in Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with a 7-year-old Girl\nA CLINICAL CAST PRESENTATION by Erin Cantor\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nA fascinating and insightful case presentation describing the play therapy with a seven-year-old girl\, that took place over a two-year period. Ms. Cantor describes her patient’s tenacious use of utilitarian molding clay and slime in creating evocative sculptures\, allowing a greater psychological containment during a devastating\, high-conflict custody battle between her parents. \nAttendees will be encouraged to participate with questions\, take part in discussion\, and learn about our unique program.\nJoin us!\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nErin Cantor\, LCSW\, is a graduate of the Institute’s three-year Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP). She is a social worker\, symbolic play therapist for children\, an adolescent talk therapist\, and  a clinical writer.  She lives and works in New York City.\n  \nFor questions about the program\, contact Lisa Dubinsky\, CAPTP Director:  ldubinskypsy@gmail.com\n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-child-adolescent-psychotherapy-training-program-open-house-2/
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SUMMARY:SUNIL BHATIA\, Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering Global Marginalized Knowledges
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nToward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering Global Marginalized Knowledges\nSUNIL BHATIA\, PhD\, Professor of Human Development and Cultural Psychology\, Connecticut College\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, MAY 8th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nDr. Bhatia grapples with a fundamental question: how do we imagine and build futures in psychology that are genuinely grounded in Indigenous cultures\, peoples\, places\, and lands — futures no longer entangled in the logic of colonialism and coloniality? He offers a rich\, place-sensitive map of decolonial scholarship that has taken shape within psychology over the last decade.\nSpeaking to the experiences of the majority world\, and to communities whose lives remain marginalized in postcolonial and settler-colonial nations\, he draws upon his 25 years of work in cultural and decolonial psychology\, to address the question: Why decolonize psychology?\nIn particular\, the presentation is organized around five thematic threads\, each distinct yet deeply interconnected\, all oriented toward retrieving and reclaiming knowledges that have been suppressed or sidelined: 1) the discipline’s colonial history and its ongoing colonial present; 2)  transnational expressions of decoloniality that move past the oversimplified Global North/South divide;  3) the entanglements of race\, racism\, and colonial domination with psychology; 4) alternatives to individualism that center community\, relational agency\, and collective liberation; 5)  Indigenous psychologies and settler colonialism\, with particular attention to the reclamation of land\, culture\, spirituality\, and ecology. Dr. Bhatia’s presentation invites the audience toward fundamental rethinking of psychological theory and practice\, pointing toward decolonial futures built on justice\, relational ways of being\, and the revival of epistemologies long silenced.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nSunil Bhatia\, PhD\, is an internationally recognized authority on culture and psychology and Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is at the forefront of studies on decolonization and author of such books as American Karma; Race\, Culture\, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization\, Social Justice\, and Indian Youth Identities; and Globalization and Culture: Narratives of Indian Youth from Call Centers to Chail Stalls (forthcoming Oxford U. Press) among others. Additionally\, he is a frequent lecturer and commentator on current events.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nExplore how decolonization matters for psychoanalytic practice.\n\n\nExplain what decolonization is and what its implications are.\n\n\n\n\nRelated Events\n\nColloquium 2025-2026
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