LGBTQ Study Group - KATE BORNSTEIN
2024-06-12 20:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Beyond Binaries: Navigating the Quantum Self

Wednesday, June, 12 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

On Zoom only. RSVP below
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Please note that the LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.

Description: Dive deep into the complexities of gender with Kate Bornstein’s revolutionary talk. Explore gender not just as a binary but also as a multi-dimensional experience, where biology meets the mind, spirit, and the very fabric of space-time. This presentation will challenge your perceptions, expand your understanding, and invite you to view gender identity through a radically inclusive lens.
For over thirty years, Kate Bornstein has been writing about non-binary gender in theory, fiction, and memoir. Kate’s books include three classic texts of postmodern gender theory, Gender Outlaw, My New Gender Workbook, and A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Her collected papers are archived and available for research at Brown University, alongside the archived papers of Kate’s partner in life and art, Barbara Carrellas

Please note:
– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2023-2024”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs
Esin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org
Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive
2024-06-17 09:30
The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive: Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal Perspective
Monday-Friday, June 17th-21st, 2024
9:30AM-12:30PM daily
We are pleased to announce the return of the Institute’s unique annual program: The Summer Educational Intensive is being offered in person, at the Institute, in June, 2024.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Five master clinicians offer their perspective on Interpersonal-Relational psychoanalysis from their area of expertise; they will illustrate technique and theory as applied to clinical material. This weeklong program offers three intensive hours each morning of clinical presentation, live supervision and group discussion followed by a Q and A with the audience.
All classes are in person at the Institute. A welcome breakfast and introduction to the Institute will be part of the first morning’s schedule; coffee and light refreshments are available daily. Afternoons and evenings are free for students to explore New York City or for locals to return to their work settings.
15 CEs are available for this program. For information about CE Credits click here.
The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, several museums, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.

THE SCHEDULE
Monday, June 17th Pascal Sauvayre, PhD
On Not Knowing and Needing to Know
Case Presenter: David Jiang, MD
Dr. Sauvayre will explore the confrontation of the fundamental human drive to know with the unknowable object of psychoanalysis – the unconscious. Dr. Sauvayre will explore this from the particular perspective of Interpersonal psychoanalysis and the interpersonal field.

Tuesday, June 18th Jack Drescher, MD
A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity: An Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspective
Case Presenter: Sarah Best, LCSW-R
Dr. Drescher offers detailed case material of a man in his 30s who was still questioning his sexual identity after a prior lengthy analysis. In a uniquely Interpersonal style, he explores and then shares with the patient his own associations to the analytic material. Dr. Drescher uses the case to illustrate how the therapeutic task of defining a sexual identity is often a complex, interpretative and interpersonal process.

Wednesday, June 19th Ira Moses, PhD
The Role of Inquiry: A Workshop on “Detailed Listening”
Case Presenter: Bevin Campbell, PsyD
Dr. Moses examines the role of Inquiry in supplementing the therapeutic tools of empathy and interpretation as a way to assist patients in becoming active participants in instead of passive recipients of their psychodynamic treatment. This is also a workshop on “detailed listening” to find openings in the patient’s narrative that help them engage in introspection, a particular challenge with once weekly patients. The use of Inquiry also maintains the therapist’s curiosity about the patient. As Sullivan cautioned, “(We) should never forget that conclusions about the subjective experience of the patient can only result in an inference, never a fact”.

Thursday, June 20th Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD
Race in Interpersonal Space
Case Presenter: Stav Livne
Dr. Stephens explores and applies insights from key Interpersonal thinkers such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Philip Bromberg, alongside the decolonial insights of Frantz Fanon, to expand participants’ thinking about race in the clinical space.

Friday, June 21st Jenny Kaufmann, PhD
Understanding the Developmental Force of Narcissism: Formative Trauma and Transference
Case Presenter: Morteza Modares Gharavi, PhD
The strength of the Interpersonal position is in helping narcissistic patients face the defensive and maladaptive aspects of their narcissism. Dr. Kaufmann supplements this Interpersonal emphasis with a background in Self Psychology/Self and Object Freudians that underscores narcissism as reflecting a developmental force impacted by formative trauma. She explores Steve Mitchell’s dialectic between narcissism as defense and narcissism as a developmental force. She also uses the work of Sheldon Bach to explore narcissistic transferences and mourn the effects of early relational trauma.

Summer Educational Intensive:
Learning Objective

Monday June 17: Pascal Sauvayre, PhD
To explore the confrontation of the fundamental human drive to know with the unknowable object of psychoanalysis – the unconscious.

Tuesday June 18th: Jack Drescher, MD
To use case material to illustrate how the therapeutic task of defining a sexual identity is often a complex, interpretative and interpersonal process.

Wednesday June 19th : Ira Moses, PhD

To examine the role of Inquiry in supplementing the therapeutic tools of empathy and interpretation as a way to assist patients in becoming active participants in instead of passive recipients of their psychodynamic treatment.

Thursday June 20th Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD

To explore and apply insights from key Interpersonal thinkers such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Philip Bromberg, alongside the decolonial insights of Frantz Fanon, to expand participants’ thinking about race in the clinical space

Friday June 21st: Jenny Kaufmann, PhD

To explain Steve Mitchell’s dialectic between narcissism as defense and narcissism as a developmental force and use the work of Sheldon Bach to explore narcissistic transferences and mourn the effects of early relational trauma.

COSTS
Professionals – Regular pricing $700 starting May 21st.
Candidates & students – Regular pricing $375 starting May 21st.
Note: Refunds are given for requests made by Monday, June 3rd, two weeks prior to the course’s start date. From June 3rd and on, medical documentation will be required.

ABOUT THE CLINICIANS and their PRESENTERS
Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI. He studies, teaches, and writes at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. Among his most recent projects are the Routledge books, Culture, Politics, and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, edited with Roger Frie, and The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions in Psychoanalysis, edited with David Braucher. Dr. Sauvayre has a private practice in New York City.
David Jiang, MD, is a trilingual academic community psychiatrist at the Harlem Health Center of Mount Sinai and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. In addition to working clinically with adults from a great diversity of backgrounds, he is an enthusiastic lecturer and supervisor of psychiatry residents, a presenter at national conferences, and has published several papers in the psychiatric peer-reviewed literature. His teaching centers on trauma-informed care, the neurobiology of trauma, and facilitating deep change in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is in his sixth year of training as a candidate in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute.

Jack Drescher, MD, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the WAWI, is a recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his international work on gender and sexuality. He is a member of the faculties of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Drescher is a Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the moderator of the Journal Club of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is author of “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man” (Routledge), and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.
To learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/
To read about his 2022 Sigourney Award: https://www.sigourneyaward.org/newsandevents/2022/11/15/jack-dreschers-work-wins-the-sigourney-award-2022
Sarah Best, LCSW-R, PC, is a psychotherapist specializing in reproductive mental health, mixed-race mother/daughter dyads, and the impact of childhood trauma on adult patients. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, Sarah provides supervision in multiple group practices. She teaches master’s level social work and mental health counseling students at NYU, where she earned her MSW as a merit scholar. She has completed intensive post-graduate training at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Sarah began studying at WAWI in 2018, completing both the online and in-person IPPP courses before completing the Adult Program in Psychoanalysis in May of 2024.

Ira Moses, PhD, ABPsa, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Former Director of Training and Former Director of Clinical Services at WAWI. He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center; former Board Member and Faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance; Faculty, Intensive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program for Ukrainian speakers; and former member of the Board of Directors, American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Moses has published articles on the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure; and the Analyst’s Resistance to Asking Questions.
Bevin Campbell, PsyD, is a New York and New Jersey licensed psychologist treating couples and individuals in her Brooklyn based psychotherapy practice. Dr. Campbell has a postgraduate certificate in Couple Therapy from Adelphi University and is an advanced candidate at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. She teaches in the graduate programs of NYU and Pace University and provides clinical supervision for graduate students at Pace. Dr. Campbell is a consultant with The Academy for Community Behavioral Health, a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health and the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where she designs and facilitates coursework on responding to grief and loss.

Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD, is a graduate of WAWI, as well faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy there. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, where she served as the dean of the humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences from 2017-2020. She is the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) where her signature initiative is “Black Bodies, Black Health”, a multi-pronged approach to incentivize engagement in interdisciplinary work in exploring structural racism in order to create equitable health outcomes. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press, 2005) and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014). She has published numerous articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
To learn more about Dr. Stephens’ work and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, go to: https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/
Stav Livne, currently lives in Brooklyn, but she grew up in Israel and graduated from the Hebrew University with a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical and School Psychology. Stav continued her training at the William Alanson White Institute and graduated from the Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis in 2023. Her interests are in intergenerational patterns of trauma and dissociation.

Jenny Kahn Kaufmann, PhD, is Director of Curriculum, and is a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI where she teaches “Comparative Conceptualizations and Treatment Approaches in Working with Narcissistic Patients”. Dr. Kaufmann is also an Editorial Board member of the Institute’s journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has co-written and presented numerous papers with Peter Kaufmann, including Emerging from the Shadows of Parental Narcissism; We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us; and A Battle Cry for our Moment: Revisiting the Two Analyses of Mr. Z.
Morteza Modares Gharavi, PhD, was born and raised in Iran where he earned his degree in Clinical Psychology in 2007 from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. After working as an associate professor, he began training at the William Alanson White Institute online, in 2019, and then relocated to New York in 2021 while continuing his studies. Currently he is a fourth year Candidate in the Certificate Program for Psychoanalysis there, and he also serves as a psychologist at the Pratt Institute. Dr. Gharavi’s interests focus on culture, history, and collective social traumas. He has been an active member of the Freudian Group of Tehran since 2010.

Sue Kolod and Tom Hennes on Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups
2024-06-29 10:00 - 11:30
Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups
with Sue Kolod, PhD and Tom Hennes
Moderated by Mary McRae, EdD
Hosted by Maria Nardone, PhD
Presented by The Technology and Global Learning Committee
SATURDAY, JUNE 29th, 2024
10:00-11:30AM/Eastern time
1.5 CE Credits are available for attending this event.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Toxic polarization is defined as a state of intense, chronic polarization marked by high levels of loyalty to a person’s in-group and contempt or even hate for out-groups. Toxic polarization limits our ability to humanize and engage with political opponents.
Toxic polarization is occurring all over the world, both within psychoanalysis and in the world at large. Fueled by social media, the pandemic and authoritarian governments, it has become a defining characteristic of our “zeitgeist.”
It has frequently been noted that psychoanalysis has much to offer to alleviate toxic polarization: We are trained to be good listeners, to be able to hold different and sometimes opposing thoughts in our minds at the same time, to listen to ourselves as we listen to others, to pay attention to our reactions, both conscious and unconscious and to forego judgement.
But this has not proven to be the case. Psychoanalysts, in group settings, are just as prone, if not more so, to splitting and projection as those in the general public. What is missing?
The presenters will outline their experiences working in small groups and describe the encounters and techniques that have worked as well as those that have not been successful in alleviating toxic polarization.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sue Kolod, PhD, is President-elect of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). She is a Supervising and Training Analyst and member of the Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and co-leads a study group on polarization called the Depolarization Project. Dr. Kolod is a Director-at-Large and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In January 2024 Dr. Kolod was a presenter on a 2 part webinar on toxic polarization hosted by the International Psychoanalytic Association entitled, Behind the Scenes of Toxic Polarization: Consequences of a Divided World, Parts 1 & 2.
Dr. Kolod’s webinar presentations can be viewed through these two links:
Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxt7bPc_5_c&t=155s
Part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2UA2w8HA4&t=78s

Tom Hennes is one of the most sought-after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, Mr. Hennes has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice. At Thinc he has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. Mr. 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, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
Read about Thinc Design: https://www.thincdesign.com/

ABOUT THE MODERATOR & THE HOST
Mary B. McRae, Ed.D, today’s Moderator, is a counseling psychologist in private practice who does individual and group psychotherapy. She also does coaching and group facilitation to enhance more effective and productive functioning. She is a retired professor of Applied Psychology, New York University, where she taught for 27 years. Dr. McRae is the President of the William Alanson White Institute; a fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and a member of the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems.
Maria Nardone, PhD, the Host of this event and series, is Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Director of Technology and Global Learning; Former Director of the Online Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers; Former Chair, Council of Fellows, and Founding member of the Center for Public Mental Health at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Nardone is Co-Chair of American Psychoanalytic Association’s Social Issues Department and a North American Representative to the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Board of Directors. She is Adjunct Associate Professor in Fordham University’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration, and former Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Psychological Services in the Department of OB/GYN at S.U.N.Y Downstate Medical Center. She is in private practice in New York City.

Learning Objectives of this presentation:

1. Participants will be able to define toxic polarization
2. Participants will begin to notice polarizing thoughts and feelings in themselves
3. Participants will be able to describe techniques that help alleviate polarization in small groups

Dreaming and Imagining: Space as Participant in Humanizing the Other
2024-09-05 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th from 1:30-3:00PM
TOM HENNES, INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED EXHIBITION DESIGNER
Dreaming and Imagining: Space as Participant in Humanizing the Other

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus AvenuesOnline via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER

Internationally renowned exhibition designer Tom Hennes will present an exploration of how space shapes human experience and human relating. Showing slides of his projects, he will share his singular approach of design from a relational perspective — both as a process of shaping, and as the tangible result long after the space is shaped. Our group can consider the influences of what is probable and possible in any space: in our homes, our consulting rooms, our museums, etc. The question we are left with: Is it possible for some people to transcend their environment?
Please join us to examine and share your experience of the space around you.
Tom Hennes is one of the most sought after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice; Freedom Park in South Africa, a national memorial and museum in Pretoria. Hennes is in the midst of a 3-year consultation on human experience design in the planning of four new jails in the New York boroughs.
At Thinc, Tom Hennes has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. He 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, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
To read more about Thinc Design visit: https://www.thincdesign.com/
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

Can the Body Psychotherapies Integrate with Psychoanalysis?
2024-09-14 00:00 - 14:00
THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES
Scott Baum, PhD, ABPP; Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa; Lynne Jacobs, PhD; David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
CAN THE BODY PSYCHOTHERAPIES INTEGRATE WITH PSYCHOANALYSIS?
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th
12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern Time

This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
For general CE Credit information, click here
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Until recently, there was little that the body psychotherapies and psychoanalysis had in common. In today’s changing world, efforts have been made to combine the best of both these disciplines. The members of this conversation panel offer different and exciting approaches to this subject.

ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

THE SPEAKERS
Scott Baum, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and bioenergetic therapist practicing in New York City. Currently he is on the faculties of the New York, Israel, and Swiss bioenergetic societies, and is an Adjunct Full Professor of Psychology in the PsyD program at Pace University. Dr. Baum has been involved in Reichian and related psychotherapeutic approaches since the 1960’s and has written extensively from a somatopsychic perspective about psychotherapy and related subjects.

Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa, is a board certified psychoanalyst with a full time private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is an IPA training and supervising psychoanalyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Selected publications include Painting Poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinking in A. Frosch (Ed.), Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain (2012), Psychic skin and narcissistic rage: Reflections on Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In. in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2012), From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis, D. Blue & C. Harrang (Eds.) (2016), River to rapids: Speaking to the body in terms the body can understand, in C. Harrang, D. Tillotson, & N. Winters (Eds.), Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021), and Possibility Clouds Arising from a Close Reading of Civitarese and Berrini’s On Using Bion’s Concepts of Point, Line, and Linking in the Analysis of a 6- Year-Old Child (2022).

Lynne Jacobs, PhD, has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She is also interested in what it means to practice as a white therapist in culturally diverse environments. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of PGI and faculty analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published two books (with Rich Hycner) as well as numerous articles in both gestalt and psychoanalytic journals.

David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP, is a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis and in Clinical Psychology. He is a Fellow at the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow at the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. He is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). His current faculty positions are Faculty and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP); co-founder, Chair, and faculty in the MIP Postgraduate Fellowship Program-West; and he is an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is former Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, and is former Adjunct Associate Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work. He has written about the interweaving of Somatic Experiencing into psychoanalytic treatment, and has presented extensively on this subject regionally, nationally and internationally. He is in private practice in Amherst, MA, where he provides individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and consultation for colleagues.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT

Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. 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.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, The And/Or of Gender – a Psychoanalytic Perspective
2024-09-20 19:30 - 21:30
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
OPENING EVENT
PATRICIA GHEROVICI, PhD
The And/Or of Gender – a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Moderated by TOM HENNES
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20th, 7:30-9:30pm
Presented in person, on location at the Institute
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.
Doors will open for this event at 7:00PM.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, a novel in which the protagonist changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, writer and activist Paul B. Preciado sends a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf in Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). Following the premise that the body is not a fixed entity but entails a process of embodiment, a becoming-body, this lecture takes as point of departure Preciado’s recent docu-fiction to explore how those analysands who exist beyond the so-called traditional gender norms as well as those who consider themselves non-binary or outside heterosexuality are helping us rethink gender. Thinking gender outside of the either/or of traditional binary opposition, one subverts the fixity of identitarian claims while reorienting psychoanalytic practice.
1.5 CE Credits are offered for this presentation. Attendees must sign the attendance sheet at the event in order to qualify for CE credit.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities.​ She is a trustee at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.
Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism, and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference. She co-authored with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize.) She edited with Manya Steinkoler Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t, as well as Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and most recently, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award for Best Edited Collection).

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Tom Hennes is one of the most sought after exhibition designers in the world. He is founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized, award-winning exhibition design firm that has presented dynamic visitor experiences at museums and cultural attractions in numerous settings around the globe. Believing in the implicit power of the exhibition medium to engage society in important ways, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with exhibition projects embedded in social and environmental justice; Freedom Park in South Africa, a national memorial and museum in Pretoria. Hennes is in the midst of a 3-year consultation on human experience design in the planning of four new jails in the New York boroughs.
At Thinc, Tom Hennes has encouraged an evolving conception of relational design, envisioning the exhibition as a narrative environment, rich in implicit and explicit confluences, contradictions, and paradox. He 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, the University of Pretoria, among many others.
THIS EVENT’S LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND REFERENCES:
Learning Objectives
1) Explore the process of learning and unlearn about gender as it emerges in the clinical practice.

2) Explain the difference between sex, gender, and sexual difference.
References:
Gherovici, Patricia (2023), “The Monsters within and the Monsters Without: Gender Dissidents and the Future of Psychoanalysis”, Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Gherovici, Patricia (2022), “Beyond Fear and Pity”, Psychoanalytic Review.
Gherovici, Patricia (2021), “Does the Father Need to be a Man? Trans* Embodiments and Parenthood” in Weissberg, Liliane Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family, Palgrave, Macmillan.
Gherovici, Patricia, and Steinkoler, Manya (2023), “Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*”, Routledge.

LGBTQ Study Group w/ JOY LADIN, PHD
2024-10-09 20:30 - 22:00
The LGBTQ Study Group invites you to our first meeting of the new year to a conversation with poet Joy Ladin:

JOY LADIN, PHD

“Once Out of Nature:
Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender”

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

on Zoom only, RSVP below
https://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/

Description: Join us to celebrate the publication of Joy Ladin’s Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender. The collection, which includes essays that began as talks to our LGBTQ Study Group, is a distillation of fifteen years of thinking, writing and speaking about trans identities and issues. Ladin will read and discuss selections from the book, focusing on contributions inspired by WAWI events.

Joy Ladin, Ph.D., Joy Ladin has long worked at the tangled intersection of trans-gender identity and literature, publishing and transgender identity, publishing a memoir of gender transition, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life, a book-length work of trans theology, Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist, The Soul of the Stranger, and her brand-new essay collection, Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender (Once Out of Nature — Persea Books). She has also published eleven books of poetry, including Family (also new – Family — Persea Books), including Lambda Literary finalists Transmigration and Impersonation and National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna. Her work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Fellowship, among other honors. A nationally recognized speaker on trans identity, Ladin has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including an “On Being” with Krista Tippett interview that has been re-broadcast several times. Her writing is available at joyladin.wordpress.com.

Please note:
– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair,

Willa France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

Resurrection: The Works of Heide Hatry and Francesca Schwartz
2024-10-10 01:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th from 1:30-3:00PM
RESURRECTION
Heide Hatry and Francesca Schwartz, Ph.D
Conceptual/Feminist Artists

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Visual artists, Heide Hatry and Francesca Schwartz derive their artistic center of gravity from a focus around the body and its embodiment of history, memory, containment, and ultimate disappearance. Though they work in different mediums, (ash and bone, etc.), there is a synergistic relationship and conversation between the two bodies of work.
The two are internationally known. For this Artist Study Group they will present a slide overview of their remarkable projects, embracing a space between the body’s longing and loss, memory and its erasure, permanence, and dissipation.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
HEIDE HATRY
With years of experience in the rare book trade, Heide Hatry explores the mystery of bridging the flourishing of life in literature to the representation of the body’s decay created from the visceral ashes of her experience; from art object to art subject. Among her fundamental preoccupations are the effects of knowledge (and ignorance) upon perception. Having been raised a Pietist in a Germany writhing under the onus of its ignominious past and on an industrialized pig-farm, she is no stranger to the engagement with final things.
For additional information, heidehatry.com
FRANCESCA SCHWARTZ
Francesca Schwartz, PhD, merges psychoanalysis with her background in the performing and fine arts. She is informed by a fascination with the materiality and metaphor of the female body. Dr. Schwartz is on the faculty of IPTAR and has a private practice in New York where she specializes in treating emerging artists.
Together, their presentation and discussion will respond to the present wounds of the world in human ways: awareness, concern, and involvement. They will demonstrate the rigor and sensitivity of examining the relationship of memory, of transformation. of reintegration, and of art. They use a range of unconventional artistic mediums in a desire to break entrenched social and gender identity roles.
For additional information, francescaschwartz.com

Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

DEPTH THERAPY IN A QUICK-FIX WORLD WITH LINDA MICHAELS, PsyD, MBA
2024-10-25 11:00 - 12:30
The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients, Our Practice and Ourselves
LINDA MICHAELS, PsyD, MBA
DEPTH THERAPY IN A QUICK-FIX WORLD
with Moderator Bevin Campbell, PsyD
Friday, October 25th from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern
AN ONLINE WEBINAR
1.5 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
For general CE Credit information, click here
NOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox, you should check your Trash and Spam folders. Still no link-letter by the business day prior to the event? Email: e.rodman@wawhite.org
We 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.
NOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.

Cost: $30 per person

ABOUT THIS EVENT
A presentation that will outline the forces and factors, from within and without our field, that are shaping the mental health landscape and contributing to the diminished understanding and appreciation of relational, depth therapies. Misunderstandings among the public and policymakers about efficacy and “gold standard” treatments are common, and new technology apps and companies are redefining what therapy is at scale. From the insurance industry, to venture capital and private equity, to the educational system training therapists and the fragmentation of our field, there are many ways in which the work we do is threatened.
This presentation will outline factors that help therapists know what they can do to protect and advance their work. It will set the stage for the subsequent, upcoming webinars in coming months.

ABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES
In these last few years, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help, what people are looking for in mental health treatment, and how we can support and protect the work we do, while making it more accessible to more people.
Prevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public, including marginalized communities, towards a reduced set of options.
Many of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.
This webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.
Read about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, is a psychologist with a private practice in Chicago. She is Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), a grassroots nonprofit that advocates for therapies of depth, insight and relationship. She is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and a fellow of the Lauder Institute Global MBA program. She is author and co-editor of Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation, and has published, presented, and been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and other national media on the value of psychotherapy, the therapeutic relationship and technology, and the public narrative about therapy. Linda has a former career in business, with over 15 years’ experience consulting to organizations in the US and Latin America.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Bevin Campbell, PsyD, is a New York and New Jersey licensed psychologist treating couples and individuals in her Brooklyn-based psychotherapy practice. Dr. Campbell has a postgraduate certificate in Couple Therapy from Adelphi University and is an advanced candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT
1) Describe the impacts of new technology companies and venture capital investment entering the mental health field
2) Describe how stakeholders, such as insurers, policymakers, and the mental health professions, have influenced evidence-based treatments and public opinion on therapy

Daniel Pick, PhD, Paranoid States: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Thought, Conspiracy Theory, and Political Life
2024-11-01 19:30 - 21:30
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
DANIEL PICK, PhD
PARANOID STATES: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Thought, Conspiracy Theory, and Political Life
with Moderator David Thurn, PhD, LCSW-R
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1st, 7:30-9:30pm
Presented in person, on location at the Institute
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
It is a truism to say that today we live in a world of ultra-suspicion. But what is the appeal of that world? How has it arisen and where are we heading now? Why is every major news story shadowed by myriad conspiracy theories as well as claims and counter-claims about mass brainwashing? In addressing these issues, Daniel Pick’s will revisit classic psychoanalytic ideas about paranoia, alongside famous historical works, case studies and works of cinema. He will ask how far past theories and stories may help us make sense of the dark times we are living in now.
1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation. Prior to the event an email is sent out with specific instructions about how to request your credits. To receive credit, you must sign in at the event to confirm your attendance. (Late registrants should request instructions on the first business day after the event.)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Daniel Pick, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and historian, and recipient of the 2023 Sigourney Award. He was educated at Cambridge, and taught for many years at London University. He is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society, and professor emeritus at Birkbeck, University of London. His books include Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-1918; War Machine: The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern Age; Svengali’s Web: he Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture; The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind; Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction; and most recently, Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control. 2014-21, From 2014 to 2021, he ran a team-based project, on behalf of the Wellcome Trust, focusing on the history of hidden persuasion and brainwashing.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
David Thurn, PhD, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and in New Jersey. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute, where he taught the Freud course for many years, as well as a course on psychoanalysis and literature. A former academic, David has also taught at Cornell, Vassar, and Princeton on a wide range of courses in literature, and courses addressing literature in interdisciplinary contexts.

Event Learning Objectives

To explain key psychoanalytic ideas about paranoid states of mind, as developed by Freud, Klein and others.

To discuss about the history of endeavors to apply those psychoanalytic ideas to cultural, social and political phenomena, past and present.

To consider the opportunities and potential difficulties of applied psychoanalytic thought in historical inquiries.

To investigate how historians and cultural theorists have developed their ideas about the paranoid style’ in political thought, and to compare and contrast past and present analyses of the popular appeal and political exploitation of conspiracy theory.

LGBTQ Study Group w/ JACK DRESCHER, M.D.
2024-11-06 20:30 - 22:00
LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with
JACK DRESCHER, M.D.

Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth:
Reflections on the Opposition

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

on Zoom only, RSVP below
https://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/

Description: The treatment of children and adolescents diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria (DSM-5-TR) or Gender Incongruence (ICD-11) has evoked both clinical and cultural controversies. This presentation begins with a brief history of gender diagnoses in the DSM and ICD followed by a history of clinical controversies in treating prepubescent gender dysphoric children. The paper then goes on to explore some attitudes and beliefs that underlie opposition to gender affirming care followed by ways in which the data on treating these patient populations is sometimes misinterpreted or even deliberately distorted. The paper concludes with an ethical issue raised by such attitudes, beliefs and practices.
Jack Drescher, M.D.,is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
Dr. Drescher trained at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst and serves as a member of its Board of Trustees. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Uni-versity and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He serves on APA’s Committee on Judicial Action.
Dr. Drescher served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process. He served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served on the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).
Dr. Drescher’s professional honors include:

Dr. Ivan Goldberg Outstanding Service Award, New York County Psychiatric Society (2024)
Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (2023)
The Mary S. Sigourney Award for International Work on Gender and Sexuality (2022)
Visiting Professor, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (2021)
American Psychiatric Association’s John Fryer Award (2018)

Dr. Drescher is Author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBTQ communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters as well. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish and German.
Dr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender and sexuality.

Please note:
– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair,
Willa N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

HUMANISM IN FROMM AND SHAKESPEARE WITH SANDRA BUECHLER, PhD
2024-11-07 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Humanism in Fromm and Shakespeare
with Sandra Buechler, PhD
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Dr. Buechler will consider some humanistic concepts in Erich Fromm’s work and in the plays of William Shakespeare. By juxtaposing their lines, she hopes to convey the timelessness of both, suggesting that Fromm’s insights gain vividness in Shakespeare’s neighborhood, and Shakespeare’s lines sharpen from being beside Fromm’s formulations. More specifically, in juxtaposing Fromm’s words about life with Shakespeare’s similar expressions, she suggests that some insights are for all time, spanning eras and geography: they are human.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Sandra Buechler, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. Her many books include Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (2008), which won the Gradiva award; Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joy of a Clinical Career (2012); Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (2015); and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living, (Routledge, 2019). Her most recent bookis Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2025).

Join us for this special guest and her presentation and discussion of universal and timeless themes.

Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group

Joshua Durban, FIPA, Revisited: Home, Homelessness, and Nowhere-ness in Early Infancy - Part 1 of 2*
2024-12-04 20:00 - 22:00
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
JOSHUA DURBAN, FIPA
REVISITED: HOME, HOMELESSNESS, AND NOWHERE-NESS IN EARLY INFANCY (Part 1)
with Moderator Tammy Kaminer, PhD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 8:00-10:00PM
*This is Part 1 of a two part event
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
The construction of a sense of home in early infancy is a complex achievement. It is intertwined throughout life with the child’s pursuit of a safe physio-mental coverage. This process will be described as an interaction between: (a) a safe dwelling in the body-as-mother (constitution); (b) the internalization of the mother-as-me (internal object space); and (c) the establishment of Oedipal triangular space, which is responsible for the capacity to move between narcissism-as-a-home and the world-as-a-home.
The construction of a home as an interplay between these two elements is accompanied by distinct anxieties and unconscious fantasies. Disruption in the early process due to deficit, internal object relations, or environmental factors, might lead to severe withdrawal, mindlessness, hatred, violence, and murderousness. A distinction will be made between these mental states of being-at-home, homelessness, and nowhere-ness based on the corresponding levels of early developmental and typical anxieties.
Home and homelessness are seen as more developed states of object relating accompanied by some capacity for depressive feelings of loss, mourning, and longing. Nowhere-ness, however, stems from early states of anxiety-of-being and osmotic/diffuse anxieties, which are characterised by confusion between self and object, by a lack of orientation and of a sense of agency, as well as by nameless grief, nameless dread, and devastation. The varieties of home, homelessness, and nowhere-ness will be discussed along with clinical material from the analytic treatment of a refugee child on the autistic spectrum and of his father. The role of psychoanalysis and of the psychoanalyst in promoting the creation of an internal home will be described in reference to technique.
1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Durban, FIPA, is training and supervising child and adult psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (IPA); and a research analyst and instructor at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. He is the founder and the clinical director of the Vista Autism Center (VAC) at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services (VDM) in Los Angeles, which provides psychoanalytic treatment for infants, toddlers, adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum and their families. He is on the faculty of the School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, The Psychotherapy Program, Post-Graduate Kleinian Studies and the Early Mental States track. He is the editor (together with Dr. Merav Roth) of the Hebrew edition of the collected works of Melanie Klein. He is a member of the IJPA international editorial board and of the IPA inter-committee for the prevention of child abuse. He has a private practice in Tel-Aviv and Los Angeles and specializes in the psychoanalysis of ASD and psychotic children, adolescents and adults. He is currently also teaching and supervising in the UK, Germany, Australia and the USA. His research on autism, trauma and early development has been published and translated internationally.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Tammy Kaminer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience in the treatment of children and adolescents, parents, couples, and families. Dr. Kaminer is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent training program, and part of the program’s faculty. Her previous experience includes providing psychotherapy, neuropsychological testing, and supervision in school and hospital settings. Dr. Kaminer is in full-time private practice in New York City.

EVENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Discuss the origins of a sense of home in early infancy

Name two types of anxieties characteristic of neurodiverse infants

Describe the dynamics of early infantile trauma

Demonstrate clinical work with post-traumatic autistic withdrawal

Joshua Durban, FIPA, Supervised Clinical Presentation - Part 2 of 2*
2024-12-05 11:45 - 13:45
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute

JOSHUA DURBAN, FIPA
Supervised Clinical Presentation
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 11:45AM-1:00PM
*This is Part 2 of a two-part event

ABOUT TODAY’S PRESENTATION
A case will be discussed with a focus on new diagnostical and technical considerations gained from working with neurodiverse infants and adults. Dr. Tammy Kaminer will present and Dr. Durbam will supervise.
1.25 CEs are available for attending this event.
ABOUT TODAY’S SUPERVISOR
Joshua Durban, FIPA, is training and supervising child and adult psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (IPA); and a research analyst and instructor at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. He is the founder and the clinical director of the Vista Autism Center (VAC) at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services (VDM) in Los Angeles, which provides psychoanalytic treatment for infants, toddlers, adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum and their families. He is on the faculty of the School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, The Psychotherapy Program, Post-Graduate Kleinian Studies and the Early Mental States track. He is the editor (together with Dr. Merav Roth) of the Hebrew edition of the collected works of Melanie Klein. He is a member of the IJPA international editorial board and of the IPA inter-committee for the prevention of child abuse. He has a private practice in Tel-Aviv and Los Angeles and specializes in the psychoanalysis of ASD and psychotic children, adolescents and adults. He is currently also teaching and supervising in the UK, Germany, Australia and the USA. His research on autism, trauma and early development has been published and translated internationally.

ABOUT TODAY’S CASE PRESENTER
Tammy Kaminer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience in the treatment of children and adolescents, parents, couples, and families. Dr. Kaminer is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent training program, and part of the program’s faculty. Her previous experience includes providing psychotherapy, neuropsychological testing, and supervision in school and hospital settings. Dr. Kaminer is in full-time private practice in New York City.

EVENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Discuss the origins of a sense of home in early infancy
Name two types of anxieties characteristic of neurodiverse infants
Describe the dynamics of early infantile trauma
Demonstrate clinical work with post-traumatic autistic withdrawal

REVERSOS with Dr. Ernesto Mujica
2024-12-05 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
THURSDAY, December 5th, 2024 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
REVERSOS
WITH ERNESTO MUJICA, PhD

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Dr. Ernesto Mujica was inspired to share his experience following a visit in February 2024 to the Museo del Prado and seeing the exhibit, “Reversos”. According to him, “There were two very unique aspects to this exhibit: one being that the curator is an artist himself – rather than an art historian – as would most typically be for an exhibit of this nature. The curator, Miguel Angel Blanco, noted that the museum had provided him with the “poetic license for subjectivity and imagination” to be an integral part of this project. The second unique feature was the focus on an exploration of the reverse side of paintings.”
Dr. Mujica was struck by the kindred spirit between the project of “Reversos” and our work as psychoanalysts, a project entrenched in curiosity and fascination with the relationship between what is portrayed and what is hidden, what is initially offered as ‘real’ and what has led to its creation, its context and its history. Some of the topics to be discussed in his presentation concern the self-portrait of the artist as it is revealed by the back side of a painting and the ‘unseen’ as a ﬁeld for experimentation and subjective expression. Clinical vignettes will be discussed which highlight contrasts between how the therapist initially perceives and imagines the patient and what is consequently revealed.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ernesto 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 WAWI, and at the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma, as well as sociocultural factors in mental health, with his strong interest in the arts. His previous talks within the WAWI Artists Study Group have included discussions of artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria), Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree, Canada), and Yayoi Kusama (Japan).

Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group.

WHO IS DEPTH THERAPY SUITED FOR? Challenging the Myths and Stereotypes
2024-12-06 11:00 - 12:30
The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients, Our Practice and Ourselves
USHA TUMMALA-NARRA, PhD
WHO IS DEPTH THERAPY SUITED FOR? CHALLENGING THE MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES
with Moderator Bevin Campbell, PsyD
Friday, December 6th, 2024 from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern
AN ONLINE PRESENTATION
1.5 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
For general CE Credit information, click here
NOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: We send out entry links for Zoom events 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you do not see a link-letter in your Inbox, check your Trash and Spam folders. If you still see no link-letter by the business day prior to the event, email: e.rodman@wawhite.org
We 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.
NOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.

Cost: $30 per person

ABOUT THIS EVENT
This presentation will address myths and stereotypes of depth therapies – specifically psychodynamic psychotherapy, with racial and ethnic minority clients. Dr. Tummala-Narra will delineate how these misperceptions contribute to racial disparities in access to appropriate mental health care. She will explore how the historical neglect of sociocultural issues in clinical theory shape contemporary notions of depth therapy and call attention to how psychodynamic concepts are critical for culturally informed interventions. She will present research and clinical case vignettes to illustrate how sociocultural oppression, such as racism and xenophobia, can be engaged in the therapeutic relationship.

ABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES
In these last few years, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help, what people are looking for in mental health treatment, and how we can support and protect the work we do, while making it more accessible to more people.
Prevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public, including marginalized communities, towards a reduced set of options.
Many of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.
This webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.
Read about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD, is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Bevin Campbell, PsyD, is a New York and New Jersey licensed psychologist treating couples and individuals in her Brooklyn-based psychotherapy practice. Dr. Campbell has a postgraduate certificate in Couple Therapy from Adelphi University and is an advanced candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.

How are Sex and Gender Embodied in the Therapeutic Relationship?
2024-12-07 12:00 - 14:00
THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES
William Cornell, MA; Sarah Schoen, PhD; Jack Foehl, PhD; Stacy Berlin PsyD,
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
HOW ARE SEX AND GENDER EMBODIED IN THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP?
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 2024
Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern
This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
From the earliest beginnings of psychoanalysis, perceptions of sex and gender have greatly influenced the therapeutic relationship. Societal upheavals in our world along with the turn toward embodiment have led to significant changes in our understanding of these concepts. Our speakers examine sex and gender in contemporary clinical practice from a variety of perspectives.

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
STACY BERLIN, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst in Studio City, CA. She is on the Board of Directors for the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, a Guest Editor for the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry, an Associate Editor for the journal Psychoanalysis Self and Context, and an instructor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In her professional practice, she takes an egalitarian and contextualist approach within a safe relational framework, integrating creativity, play, and humor.
WILLIAM CORNELL, MA, maintains an independent private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, PA. He teaches internationally with a primary focus on working with somatic processes and sexuality. He is a founding faculty member of the recently inaugurated Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies and is the author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers, Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living, Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and subjectivity in clinical practice, At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, and Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and clinical perspectives, and Une Vie Pour Etre Soi. He is a co-author and editor of Into TA: A comprehensive textbook, which have been translated into several languages. Bill has published numerous articles and book chapters, many of which have been translated into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Chinese. Bill edited and introduced books by James T. McLaughlin, Warren Poland, Wilma Bucci, and Maurice Apprey. An editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal for fifteen years, he is now the Editor of the Routledge book series, “Innovations in Transactional Analysis.” Bill is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for Transactional Analysis Gold Medal, in recognition of his writing.
JACK FOEHL, PhD, is past-President of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where he is Training and Supervising Analyst and is Supervisor and Faculty Member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Jack is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a past editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Jack’s recent publications include Playing with Winnicott: Squiggling Through Therapeutic Consultations; The Slap: Playing with Reality in Discussing Trauma in 2022, and Lived Depth: A Phenomenology of Psychoanalytic Process and Identity in 2020. He integrates Merleau-Ponty’s work on the lived body into a framework for teaching and experiencing psychoanalytic process.
SARAH SCHOEN, PhD, is Faculty, Supervising, and Training Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she teaches and writes about contemporary perspectives on gender, narcissism, and the clinical implications of the relational turn. She is co-editor, with J. Petrucelli and N. Snider, of Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2023). She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
DORIS BROTHERS, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.

JON SLETVOLD, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. 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.
ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

LGBTQ Study Group - LEXI KOREN
2024-12-11 20:30 - 22:00
LEXI KOREN

The Global Assault on Youth Gender-Affirming Care:
How Opponents Hijacked the Narrative

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

On Zoom only, RSVP below
https://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/

Description: Over the past five years there has been an unprecedented assault on gender-affirming care for youth across the United States, Canada,Western Europe, and Australia. This talk focuses on the international network of “Gender critical” feminists, anti-affirming doctors and psychologists, and the Christian right which have successfully hijacked the narrative around these treatments. It also focuses on how mainstream media in the US and abroad have bought into these narratives and how their coverage has been used to restrict care for this population.

Speaker: Lexi Koren has worked in electoral politics and advocacy for over 14 years. She began researching and writing about the assault on youth gender-affirming care in 2022 after seeing the flood of disinformation on the topic and lack of adequate response. She published one of the first articles in the US that interviewed trans people in Sweden and Finland to understand why their countries were restricting trans health care. She writes media criticism of youth gender-affirming care coverage for FAIR, and her recent piece on the Cass Review was one of the outlet’s top 10 articles of the year. She presented at the US Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH) conference in 2023 on the spread of disinformation about adolescent gender affirming care.

Please note:

Registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”.
LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.
For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair,
Willa N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

A Shimmering Landscape with Dodi Goldman, PhD
2025-01-02 01:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life
with Dodi Goldman, PhD
Thursday, January 2nd from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman will offer us an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration. Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we
are not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens when we cannot do so? Dr. Goldman will present evocative visual images – a prehistoric figurine, a Hindu lithograph, an Italian etching, an Inuit statue, a painting by Magritte, and more-for us to imagine together; revealing unexpected connections and novel insights into what enlivens experience to make the personal landscape shimmer.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Dodi Goldman is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. His new book is The Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life and his previous books include In Search of the Real and A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Clinical Imagination, which won the 2017 Gradiva Award for Best Book in Psychoanalysis.

LGBTQ Study Group - ADAM GAUBINGER, LCSW
2025-01-08 20:30 - 22:00
LGBTQ Study Group of the William Alanson White Institute invites you
to a candidate case presentation by:

ADAM GAUBINGER, LCSW
Competing Regimes of Truth and the Construction of an “I”:
Psychoanalysis, Digital Media, and Biomedicine in the Case of Jo

Wednesday, January 8, 2025
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

on Zoom only, RSVP below
https://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/

Please Note: Because this will be a presentation of case material, attendance is limited to Division 1 and CAPTP candidates (current and graduates) and current Online IPPP and Online TOPP students. Please join the meeting 5 minutes before scheduled start time so as not to delay the meeting. The “waiting room” will be open beforehand
Description: This presentation explores the case of Jo, a non-binary trans masculine person with chronic illnesses. It will think about the discordant discourses of selfhood and ways of relating to bodily experiences that Jo draws on as they build a more stable, true feeling “I”: those in their family and early relationships; those from their engagement with the medical system; and those found in trans and disability communities on social media. These different ways of knowing seem to assist in Jo’s quest to live a survivable life and yet, at other times, constrain and defend against a more interpersonal, psychoanalytic way of experiencing and knowing the self.

Adam Gaubinger, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice, where he sees adults and teenagers. He graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 2017 and is a second-year psychoanalytic candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. His writing draws from queer critique and psychoanalysis to think about technology, desire, and processes of subject formation and disintegration.

Please note:
– Registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from
The William Alanson White Institute with subject line:
“LGBTQ Study Group 2024-2025”.
– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.
– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact the chair,
Willa N. France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net

21st Century Children and Adolescents: Clinical Approaches
2025-01-13 19:30 - 21:00
A new program for professionals of all disciplines and levels of experience, held online, starting January 2025.
Every generation faces new challenges. Children born in the 21st century are clearly facing unique ones. Consider the events and issues affecting this generation: September 11, 2001, ongoing, multiple school shootings, the pervasiveness of the internet and social media, the expanded use of smart phones, controversies and issues around nonbinary gender identification, the MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Climate Justice and Trans movements; donor babies (assisted reproduction) and the COVID-19 pandemic – to name a few.
As clinicians we are aware that the sociopolitical, cultural developments, and traumatic events are shaping the emotional and social lives of the children and adolescents we treat. This program will focus on contemporary clinical topics related to today’s challenges.

THE SCHEDULE
10 Classes, presented online, on the second Monday of each month from 7:30 to 9:00 pm
Classes are held in 2025 on the following dates:
January 13, February 10 , March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, (no classes in July or August) September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8.
15 CE CREDITS will be available upon completing this course.

TUITION
Early Registration pricing: $475 (offered through 1/1/2025 )
Professionals, starting 1/2/2025: $550
Students, Candidates and current attendees of What Really Works: $400

Program Director: Wendy Panken, LCSW

Nancy Kulish, PhD, A Case of Infantile Trauma and the Question of Resilience
2025-01-24 19:30 - 21:30
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
NANCY KULISH, PhD
A CASE OF INFANTILE TRAUMA AND THE QUESTION OF RESILIENCE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24th, 2025 from 7:30-9:30pm
Alice Sohn, PhD, Moderator
Presented in person, on location at the Institute
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
The author presents a case of early infantile trauma. Experiences of severe neglect during infancy came to life in this woman’s analysis through dramatic bodily experiences on the couch. The case touches upon technical and theoretical questions about the recovery and reconstruction of early, non-verbal memories and how they arise within the transference/countertransference. Of particular interest are questions that the case raises about psychoanalytic ideas of development and resiliency in surviving early and continuing trauma, given this woman’s high-level functioning in many areas of her life. The author draws upon Winnicott’s views on the infant’s share in “going-on-being” and argues for a more questioning approach to understanding how individuals overcome and transcend early trauma.
1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nancy Kulish, PhD, is Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Detroit/Mercy. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she was past president and is a Training and Supervising Analyst. Currently she is on the Editorial Boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and serves on the IPA Steering Committee for Working Parties. She has published and presented on topics ranging from female sexuality, gender, transference/countertransference, termination, and supervision. With Deanna Holtzman, she is the co-author of A Story of Her Own, The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed (2008), and co-editor of The Clinical Problem of Masochism (2014). She is in private practice in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Alice Sohn, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, and faculty at the William Alanson White Institute, where she is also the Director of Training, and is Book Review Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss how early bodily memories of infantile trauma may be expressed in the transference/countertransference in psychoanalysis

Evaluate the factors that may contribute to resilience to early trauma.

Poets, Artists and Analysts: Insight into Action with Erica Ehrenberg
2025-02-06 13:30 - 15:00
PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS
Poets, Artists and Analysts: Insight into Action
with Erica Ehrenberg
Thursday, February 6, 2025 from 1:30-3:00Pm/Eastern
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Poet and prose writer Erica Ehrenberg started writing poetry at a young age. As she pursued a life built around this work, she felt it to be a process of self-definition — deeply influenced by, but also in contrast to her parents’ careers as psychoanalysts. When she decided to pursue psychoanalytic training herself, she discovered that being an artist and being a psychoanalyst fed each other and that the deeply creative, expressive, and relational links between the two were fundamental to her understanding of what it means to enact internal change in any context.
For this presentation she will be reading poems from her manuscript in progress, which explores intimacy, motherhood, and the body. She will also present excerpts from her paper, On Not Knowing and the Relational Location of the Self, where she asks what it means to work as a psychoanalyst in the “generative unknown,” and compares the work of poets and painters like Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Guston to Freud’s concept of the life instinct and to Winnicott’s “potential space.”
Erica Ehrenberg’s poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals including The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, BOMB Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet Series, Poetry Daily, Guernica, The Bennington Review, The Mississippi Review, The Harvard Review, The Common as well as The Paris Review Podcast. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, and a Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has taught creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies, New York University, Storm King Art Center, and Fordham University. A recent graduate of The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) psychoanalytic training program, Erica lives in New York City, where she is establishing a private practice, and teaches courses on the intersection of psychoanalysis, art, and literature.

How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?
2025-02-22 12:00 - 14:00
THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES
Udesh Anda, PsyD, Fanny Brewster, PhD, MFA, Lynne Jacobs, PhD, and Guilaine Kinouani
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2025
Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern
This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
2 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
For general CE Credit information, click here
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Although therapists and patients have always lived in a world roiled by racism, few psychoanalytic therapists have examined how racial differences affect the clinical situation. In the hope of bringing this important matter to the forefront of our attention, this conversation focuses on the embodiment of blackness and whiteness within therapeutic contexts.

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

THE SPEAKERS
Udesh Anda, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, a specialist in child and adolescent psychology, and a clinical society psychologist. He has worked in both the public and private sectors for over 30 years. Using a psychodynamic perspective and approach, he has worked as as clinical practitioner for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties for more than 10 years. Since he is originally from Sri Lanka, he offers education and counselling on minority issues. His special interest is on variables that are often unspoken, yet sensitive for the people of minority origin.
Fanny Brewster, PhD, MFA, is a Jungian analyst and Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her analytical training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst and Certified School Psychologist. She holds an M.F.A. degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. Dr. Brewster is the author of several books, including The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows and Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming. (All Routledge) Dr. Brewster is the recipient of the Fay Lectures honorarium of 2023 from the C.G. Jung Society of Houston.
Lynne Jacobs, PhD, has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She is also interested in what it means to practice as a white therapist in culturally diverse environments. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of PGI and faculty analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published two books (with Rich Hycner) as well as numerous articles in both gestalt and psychoanalytic journals.
Guilaine Kinouani is an award-winning writer, psychologist, group analyst, and thinker. She is the founder of Race Reflections. She taught critical psychology, social sciences and black studies at Syracuse before her PhD at Birkbeck. Her first book Living While Black (2021) exposes the impact of racism on black minds and bodies. Her second book, White Minds (2023) is a psychosocial exploration of the quotidian workings of whiteness. In her upcoming co-edited collection: Creative Disruption: Psychosocial scholarship as praxis (2025), contributors explore power, knowledge, memory, embodiment and the of potential of multidisciplinary approaches in fostering epistemic disruption. Guilaine’s thesis examines whiteness and the afterlives of colonialism and enslavement in the clinic using Afro-analytics, a frame she is developing to rethink racial trauma, inheritance, transmission and associated issues of communication and embodiment within the black diaspora.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. 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.

ABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Inspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
A wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In Person Open House
2025-02-24 19:30 - 21:00
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
IN PERSON OPEN HOUSE
Monday, February 24, 2025
7:30-9:00 PM
Families and High Conflict Divorce: Working within a Psychoanalytic Framework
with Erin Cantor, LCSW, Lisa Dubinsky, PsyD, and Jacqueline Ferraro, DMH
Join us at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues)

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Children during a high conflict divorce benefit from a combination of play, arts and crafts, and talk therapy. Their parents’ cooperation and engagement are crucial, as with all child work, but the relationship and legal issues make working with these parents complex.

Our presenters will discuss their work with children and parents at various stages of the separation/divorce process. ​ Describ​i​ng work with collateral professionals​ –including attorneys for the child and parent coordinators, t​hey will address how these can be helpful but can also complicate treatment. ​I​mpacts on the clinician will also be addressed, as countertransference feelings can be quite powerful.
Light refreshments will be served following the presentation
THE PRESENTERS
Erin Cantor, MA, LCSW​, is a child play therapist, and adolescent, adult and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She received post graduate training in Family Therapy from The Ackerman Institute and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) from Behavioral Tech. Entering her final year in the three year child and adolescent psychotherapy training program (CAPTP) at The William Alanson White Institute, Erin is also completing her first year in the Anni Bergman Parent Infant Program (ABPIP) with Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), also in New York City, where she lives, works and occasionally writes with her family.
Lisa Dubinsky, PsyD​, is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (CAPTP). She is a faculty member and supervisor of CAPTP. Lisa worked at the Jewish Board in the Early Childhood Program, including developmental evaluations, play therapy, small group therapy, and parent guidance. She has worked for many years with children, adolescents, and adults, and providing preschool consultation and parent workshops on topics relevant to young children.
Jacqueline Ferraro, DMH, is Executive Committee member, faculty and supervisor in both the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) and in the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS) at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Ferraro is in private practice in Manhattan working with children, adolescents, and adults.

Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House with Clinical Case Presentation
2025-02-26 19:30 - 21:00
Psychoanalytic Training Program In Person Open House
Wednesday, February 26th from 7:30-9:00pm
Follow Me, I’ll Show You the Way: Trauma, Twinship, and Transference in an Analytic Training
A Clinical Case Presentation and Discussion
by BIAGIO MASTROPIERI, PhD, Candidate
with ERNESTO MUJICA, PhD, Case Discussant
and TOMAS CASADO-FRANKEL, LMFT, Moderator
The evening will also include a brief history of the Institute by Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, and an overview of the Psychoanalytic Training Program by Seth Aronson, Director of Admissions. Light refreshments will follow the presentation, discussion and a Q&A.
The Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenues.
Biagio Mastropieri, PhD, 2nd year Candidate in the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training Program, has a private practice in New York City. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University and completed a pre-doctoral internship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospitals in New York. Dr. Mastropieri previously served as Program Director for Project Rising, an outpatient treatment program at Montefiore Medical Center.
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, Psychotherapy Supervisor at WAWI and Director of its Sexual Abuse Study Group & Service. He is also an Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, journal of the Institute and Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Mujica was past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis for the NYS Psychological Association and served on the Board of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychology (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association. He is also faculty of the Korean Institute of Clinical Psychoanalysis in Seoul, and is a Facilitator at MenHealing.org.
Tomás Casado-Frankel, LMFT, WAWI Director of Outreach and Recruitment, is a graduate of both its 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.

EMPOWERING CLINICIANS: PRACTICAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
2025-02-28 11:00
The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients, Our Practice and Ourselves
JOE FELDMAN, MBA
KATE GALLAGHER, PhD
BRIAN HUFFORD, ESQ
EMPOWERING CLINICIANS: PRACTICAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
with Moderator Bevin Campbell, PsyD
Friday, February 28th from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern
AN ONLINE WEBINAR
1.5 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), you should request CE instructions after the event.
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NOTE: Confidentiality requirements prevent the recording of this presentation.

Cost: $30 per person

ABOUT THIS EVENT
In an ideal world, everyone would have access to affordable, quality health insurance. Clinicians would provide the care that’s needed, and insurers would reliably process and pay claims. If problems arose, laws, regulations, and litigation would ensure compliance and fairness and help protect patients and their treatment. After all, health insurance benefits are designed to help people access the care they need to maintain their health and well-being without facing overwhelming obstacles and financial burdens.
Regrettably, this ideal system remains elusive. Disparities in insurance coverage, especially for mental health, routinely force people to choose between forgoing essential care or incurring massive out-of-pocket expenses. When it comes to therapies of depth, insight and relationship, obtaining appropriate insurance coverage may be especially difficult. For those already facing mental health and addiction issues, navigating insurance denials and fighting for appropriate coverage can be a daunting prospect. When the system falls short, advocacy by patients and clinicians may be required. Yet, many clinicians feel equally disempowered and lost.
The purpose of this panel is to empower clinicians with the knowledge and resources needed to support patients in obtaining appropriate reimbursement for treatment. Drawing on their diverse professional backgrounds, panelists will identify common barriers to care, demystify the systemic factors underlying these barriers, and provide practical resources – tools, templates, step-by-step instructions – to address them.

ABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES
In these last few years, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help, what people are looking for in mental health treatment, and how we can support and protect the work we do, while making it more accessible to more people.
Prevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public, including marginalized communities, towards a reduced set of options.
Many of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.
This webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.
Read about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Kathryn (Kate) Gallagher, PhD, is a staff psychologist, psychoanalyst, and faculty member at the Austen Riggs Center. She is also in private practice in Stockbridge, MA. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Gallagher is committed to addressing human rights and health equity issues. This often takes the form of supporting patient and clinician efforts to obtain insurance coverage for medically necessary behavioral health care.

Joe Feldman, MBA, is President and Founder of Cover My Mental Health. He began advocating for access to mental health care after overcoming denials for his daughter’s residential care, including with a successful federal lawsuit. His advocacy work has included policy-driven discussions with legislators and regulators, a board role with The Kennedy Forum Illinois, presentations to parent groups, and publication of actionable guidance such as a 2021 article in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice on medical necessity letters (including a letter template).

Brian Hufford, Esq, a graduate of the Yale Law School, is a Partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in New York City. Over the past two decades, he has been an industry leader in challenging improper denials and underpayments by health insurance companies and claims administrators on behalf of providers, provider associations, and patients. His efforts include a national legal effort that is systematically challenging mental health discrimination by insurers. In his innovative and nationally recognized practice, Mr. Hufford’s work has provided relief to tensof thousands of individuals who have been impacted by widespread mental health discrimination or other forms of improper coverage denials, forced policy changes by insurers, and significantly influenced health care law. These efforts have led to two of the largest recoveries ever obtained in ERISA-based health insurance class actions, and to a collection of other precedent-setting decisions that have transformed the rights of patients and providers. Mr. Hufford led the team behind the landmark case Wit v. United Behavioral Health, which has been recognized as one of the most important litigations addressing the legal rights of patients seeking appropriate coverage for their behavioral health services.
Mr. Hufford has received numerous honors and designations relating to his work, including being honored with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) 2021 Rona and Ken Purdy Award for Distinguished Service for his sustained contributions to improving the lives of people who suffer from mental illness and their families. He has been awareded Law360’s “MVP” Award five times, twice been named a Plaintiff’s Attorney “Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal, and has been consistently recognized in industry rankings such as Benchmark Litigation and Super Lawyers. He is also a Board member of PsiAN, in addition to many other leadership positions. Married to his wife, Wendy, another attorney, Mr. Hufford is the proud father of eight children.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Bevin Campbell, PsyD, is a New York and New Jersey licensed psychologist treating couples and individuals in her Brooklyn-based psychotherapy practice. Dr. Campbell has a postgraduate certificate in Couple Therapy from Adelphi University and is an advanced candidate at the William Alanson White Institute. She is a teaching and supervising faculty member of the Health Psychology and School/Clinical Psychology programs at Pace university. She is a longtime PsiAN member and is the creator and host of PsiAN Speaks Live, a quarterly forum on issues impacting contemporary mental healthcare.

Donnel Stern, PhD, Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation, Dissociative Enactment, and the Social
2025-02-28 19:30
The Colloquium Series of 2024-2025
Psychoanalytic Synthesis and Innovation in Times of Upheaval
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
DONNEL STERN, PhD
Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation, Dissociative Enactment, and the Social
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 7:30-9:30PM
with Deborah Fraser, PhD, Moderator
Presented in person, on location at the Institute
20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)
Seating for this and all Colloquium events are on a first come, first serve basis.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis, the author examines the relation of interpellation and enactment. Interpellation is a way of conceptualizing the creation of subjectivity via individual participation in the ideological tropes of power. Enactment is our psychoanalytic way of referring to unconscious participation in relatedness. In interpellation, one person is “hailed” by another in a way that inducts the person so addressed, without the awareness of either party, into a relational pattern that includes both. The author argues that we can see the same process in dissociative enactment. Clinical process is illuminated by the recognition of the continuity of the social and the individual that is modeled by the relation of these two dissociative processes. New meaning–the formulation of unformulated experience–comes about unbidden, sometimes slipping the traces of ideology. Paraphrasing an aphorism from Lacan: We think where we are not.
1.5 CEs are available for attending this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Donnel Stern, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst, and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City; and Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is founder and editor of the Psychoanalysis in a New Key book series from Routledge, which has 90 titles in print. He is former Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published five books, the most recent of which has just appeared, On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field. He has also co-edited four books about the theory and practice of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Dr. Stern is in private practice in New York City.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Deborah Fraser, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute, where she is a member of the teaching faculty. She also serves on several key committees, including the Council of Fellows, the Training and Progression Committee, and the Nominations and Elections Committee. In addition to her work at the Institute, she maintains a full-time private practice in New York City.

Loss, Resilience and Survival: The Art of Storytelling with Ed Gavagan
2025-03-06 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts

presents
Loss, Resilience and Survival: the Art of Storytelling
with Ed Gavagan
and Discussant Eric Dammann
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION

Art has the power to inspire, evoke emotions, and leave a lasting impact on people’s lives. But how do artists create works that make us feel and think deeply? Our presenter, Ed Gavagan, uses storytelling to capture moments in time that create a narrative that speaks to the human experience and our shared humanity. He will share his process of surviving childhood and adult trauma, and talk about the role that storytelling has played in his recovery. As psychoanalysts, we bear witness through listening deeply to extraordinary stories.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Ed Gavagan is owner of Praxis, a design/build firm that has built homes and furniture nationally and internationally including the MOTH headquarters in New York City. In addition to his participation in the documentary film Procession, he has shared his stories with live audiences, on the Moth Radio Hour, on A&E’s Biography Channel, and in TED talks. His most recent show, Loud Memory, was performed off Broadway at Theatre 154 and will be performed in Ireland in the summer of 2025. For more information, visit: https://themoth.org and processionfilm.com

ABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT
Eric Dammann, PhD, is Co-Director of the Artist Study Group at WAWI. He has a psychotherapy and executive coaching private practice in Manhattan and serves on the Board of Sounds of Saving, a non-profit agency that uses music to address mental health and suicide prevention.

Join us for this special presentation!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors, the Artist Study Group

Supporting the Front Line: Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges
2025-03-26 19:30 - 21:00
A SPECIAL IN-PERSON EVENING AT THE INSTITUTE
MARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN, PhD, Moderator/Presenter
and
CLARICE J. KESTENBAUM, MD
AVA SIEGLER, PhD
NECHAMA SORSCHER
present
Supporting the Front Line: Helping Parents and Teachers Improve the Self-esteem of Children with Social and Academic Challenges
Wednesday Evening, March 26th, from 7:30-9:00pm
The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street, between Central Park West & Columbus Avenues, on New York City’s Upper West Side.
1.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain CEs are sent out to registrants via email, prior to the event, so be careful to register with your correct email address. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups), you may request CE instructions after the event.
This presentation has been arranged in conjunction with the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.

ABOUT THIS EVENING
Dr. Nechama Sorscher has brought together a panel of experts in child development and psychology and will lead the discussion. Together they will examine the pointed needs of today’s children and adolescents, given the prevailing social and academic challenges they face. How best to help our kids develop confidence and positive self esteem? Topics of assessment, school intervention, and parent guidance and therapy will be discussed.

COSTS
Professionals $30
Candidates and Students $15

ABOUT OUR PANEL

CLARICE J. KESTENBAUM, MD, is Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The former Director of Residency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia, Dr. Kestenbaum is the recipient of an endowed professorship in education and training. She is past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP). Dr. Kestenbaum is also the co-founder of CARING at Columbia, an organization that helps at-risk underserved children through the arts and literature. The recipient of numerous awards for her leadership and service, Dr. Kestenbaum has a broad range of expertise and focuses on child development, psychopathology and children at risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Dr. Kestenbaum continues to teach and supervise medical students, general psychiatry residents, and second-year residents in outpatient psychotherapy. She is a consultant to the Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE) at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Dr. Kestenbaum is a graduate of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in both general and child and adolescent psychoanalysis.

MARSHA H. LEVY-WARREN, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who writes, teaches, lectures, and consults both nationally and internationally. She is the author of The Adolescent Journey (Jason Aronson, 1996; reissued by Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and of numerous articles on clinical and developmental theory, adolescence, and various aspects of culture. Dr. Levy-Warren is past president of The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS), a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in both the CFS and the IPA. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and a Clinical Consultant in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Levy-Warren has a clinical practice with adolescents and adults, and a consulting practice with parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

AVA SIEGLER, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, who received her PhD from New York University. She has post-graduate training in adult, adolescent, child, couples, and family work. In addition to professional papers, she has written three award-winning books for parents. Dr. Siegler worked as a forensic consultant for the New York State Supreme Court for over fifteen years, and continues to serve as a Parent Coordinator for high-conflict parents. In 1991, after serving as Dean of Training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health for over ten years, she developed and directed the Institute for Child, Adolescent & Family studies which provided specialty training for over 150 child and adolescent clinicians. Dr. Siegler currently supervises and maintains a private practice in Chelsea, Manhattan.

NECHAMA SORSCHER, PhD, has been in private practice in New York City since 1993. With over 20 years of individual and group counseling experience, her extensive expertise includes performing comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations and teaching and supervising doctoral candidates. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in 1992, and further completed her postgraduate psychoanalytic training in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New York University in 2016. Dr. Sorscher continues to engage in ongoing supervision with Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum, (who is one of our speakers this evening), a leading specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. As of late, Dr. Sorscher is a published author, with her first full book Assessment and Intervention with Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Neurocognitive Challenges: A Psychodynamic Perspective, out now, and with a second book coming out in 2025 entitled, Your Neurodiverse Child: Howto Help Kids with Learning, Attention, and Neurocognitive Challenges Thrive.
