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SUMMARY:A Woman I Once Knew  with Rosalind Fox Solomon\, Photographer
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS\nTHURSDAY\, MAY 2nd FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nA Woman I Once Knew with Rosalind Fox Solomon\, Photographer\nwith Claire Basescu\, Ph.D.\, Interlocutor\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:  https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\nPlease RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER\nRosalind Fox Solomon\, internationally acclaimed photographer and world traveler will present a slide overview of her remarkable 56 year career and then focus on the self-portraits and text from her new book\, A Woman I Once Knew.  Solomon explores the periodic depressions and euphoric experiences in other cultures that defined her extraordinary life and shaped her empathic approach to photography.  Her presentation will demonstrate the rigorousness and sensitivity of self-examination which suggests the boundless possibilities of taking the self as subject.\nWhile living in Chattanooga\, Tennessee\, Rosalind Fox Solomon began a new life as a photographer at age 38.  Studying with Lisette Model in the early 1970’s\, she honed the photographic voice which would mark the prodigious half-century of work to follow.\nSolomon’s photographs have been included in selected artist lectures\, press and print\, sound and motion and several exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art.  She was awarded the International Center of Photography Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.\nVisit her website at:  www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com\n\nABOUT OUR INTERLOCUTER\nClaire Basescu\, PhD\, is a graduate\, faculty member\, and supervisor of psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute. She is currently teaching “Credo:  My Psychoanalysis”\, a writing workshop for its main Psychoanalytic program Candidates.\nJoin us for a memorable presentation and discussion of one artist’s lifetime of looking outward and inward!\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors of The Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:CAROL GILLIGAN\, PhD\, NAOMI SNIDER\, LLM\, LP\, and YAEL HALLAK with Discussant MICHELLE STEPHENS\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD:  PSYCHOANALYSIS\, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS\, the 2023-2024 Colloquium Series\nThe Colloquium Series 2023-2024 presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nDissociation\, Double Consciousness\, and Doublethink: Where Freud Meets W.E.B. DuBois and George Orwell\nCAROL GILLIGAN\, PhD\nNAOMI SNIDER\, LLM\, LP\nYAEL HALLAK\nDISCUSSANT: MICHELLE STEPHENS\,  PhD\n  \nABOUT TODAY’S TALK \n“…the splitting of consciousness which is so striking in the well-known classical cases under the form of “double conscience” is present to a rudimentary degree in every hysteria\, and that a tendency to such a dissociation\, and with it the emergence of abnormal states of consciousness (which we shall bring together under the term “hypnoid”) is the basic phenomenon of this neurosis” (Freud) \n“It is a peculiar sensation\, this double-consciousness\, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others\, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness\,—an American\, a Negro; two souls\, two thoughts\, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body\, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” (DuBois) \n“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously\, and accepting both of them.”  (Orwell) \nThree key thinkers of the 20th century — the respective fathers’ of psychoanalysis; pan-Africanism and modern dystopian fiction — writing across a five decade time span\, happen upon the same discovery: the splitting of the conscious mind so that one can simultaneously know and not know. For one it is a psychic defense\, the other a symptom of anti-black racism and the third an instrument of the state that is used to maintain confusion. The same phenomenon looked at from three different angles\, when taken as a whole allows a new picture to emerge: the traumatic splitting of the mind as central to the maintenance of oppressive political systems. Bringing together the writing of Freud\, DuBois and Orwell\, Gilligan and Snider will sketch out an understanding of the psychological and social forces that inhibit and foster political resistance. With this understanding in mind\, the psychoanalytic project of expanding and integrating awareness becomes not just a matter of clinical process\, but political progress. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\n1.     Attendees will be able to articulate the parallels between psychoanalytic theories of dissociation and Orwell’s concept of “Double think” and W.E.B. DuBois theory of “Double consciousness”\n2.     Attendees will integrate these concepts into a psycho-social theory of dissociation.\n\nABOUT CAROL GILLIGAN\, PhD\nCarol Gilligan is the author of In a Different Voice\, “the little book that started a revolution” and Why Does Patriarchy Persist? with Naomi Snider. As a member of the Harvard faculty\, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development and held the university’s first chair in Gender Studies. As a University Professor at NYU\, she started the Radical Listening Project. Her books include The Birth of Pleasure\, Meeting at the Crossroads (with Lyn Mikel Brown)\, Kyra: a novel\, Joining the Resistance\, Darkness Now Visible (with David Richards)\, and most recently\, In a Human Voice. In 1996 she was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Americans.\nABOUT NAOMI SNIDER\, LLM\, LP\nNaomi Snider is a practicing psychoanalyst and graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis & Psychology\, where she currently serves as President of the Psychoanalytic Society. Her published works include the 2018 book\, Why Does Patriarchy Persist?\, co-authored with Carol Gilligan\, and the co-edited volume (with Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen)\, Patriarchy and its Discontent: Psychoanalytic Perspective (2022). She is currently part of a research team from NYU’s Radical Listening Project that in collaboration with three girls’ schools\, is taking up one of the most urgent challenges of girls’ education: how to help girls develop the skills they need to resist pressures to self-silence in the name of inclusion and success.\nABOUT YAEL HALLAK\nYael Hallak\, a social psychologist\, holds a postgraduate Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy certification from NYU and is currently pursuing her studies in the Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness graduate program. Yael is a published author and contributor to Ha’aretz. Currently\, she is engaged in research examining the experiences of IDF spotters concerning the October 7 war\, particularly highlighting the voices of young women who endured profound personal costs for silencing themselves\, including the ultimate sacrifice—the loss of their lives.\nABOUT MICHELLE STEPHENS\, PhD\, LP\nMichelle Stephens is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychoanalysis & Psychology and a practicing psychoanalyst. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University\, and the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ). Originally from Jamaica\, West Indies\, she graduated from Yale University with a PhD in American studies. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States\, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press\, 2005) and Skin Acts: Race\, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press\, 2014). Recently she has published articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in such journals as JAPA\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, Studies in Gender and Sexuality\, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/disturbing-the-sleep-of-the-world-psychoanalysis-social-awakening-radical-politics-9/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - David Goldenberg\, M.D.
DESCRIPTION:“Homophobia: A Symptom”  \n  \nWednesday\, May 8\, 2024 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \n  \nDescription: The authors’ thesis is that the pervasive prejudices that are homophobia and/or misogyny should alert us to significant underlying pathology in development\, specifically in the resolution of ordinary or expectable developmentally normative narcissistic and relational wounds and conflicts. All gender development involves trauma. Structured forms of hatred—homophobia\, transphobia\, misogyny\, and the like–signify defenses against unresolved conflicts arising from trauma. We focus on two aspects of homophobia: (1) fear of one’s drive-based aggression projected into and seen as threats from a homosexual person\, and (2) symptoms of unresolved developmental conflicts that encompass competitive strivings; a maladaptive defense against feelings associated with helplessness resulting from unmet developmental needs. These needs involve the ‘seeing and being seen’ dynamic\, mirroring and parental reflection\, necessary for the development of a coherent and flexibly stable sense of self and identity regarding gender\, sexual attraction\, aggression\, and competition. \nDavid Goldenberg: is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. He is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where he is on faculty. He is also on faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College where he teaches in the Brain and Behavior course and\, also at Payne Whitney\, where he supervises Psychiatry residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. At NYPSI he has taught various courses and served as Director in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and has held multiple administrative and educational positions\, including co-teaching Freud’s Case Studies in the analytic training program. As an ongoing Adolescent Psychoanalysis Candidate\, David co-teaches the Theoretical and Technical Aspects of Child Analysis in the tri-Institutional child and adolescent analytic training program; and is co-chair of the Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities. He is a member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he teaches a segment on mid-20th century ego psychology. He has written several book reviews for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; participated on panels on Psychoanalysis and the Digital Age; presented papers on digitally-mediated dating and intimacy. His latest publication is about homophobia and misogyny with a revision of psychodynamic theories of gender development. \nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs\, \n  \nEsin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org \nWilla France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net
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SUMMARY:Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program In person Open House
DESCRIPTION:An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation\,\nSecret\, Love and Protection – stories from a 9-year-old girl\nby Dan Liu\, LCSW\nWednesday evening\, May 15th from 7:30 – 9:00PM\n20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\, New York City 10023\n  \nThis presentation follows the therapy of Ava\, a 9-year-old girl whose parents are going through a separation. Throughout the two years of treatment\, Ava created numerous stories around the theme of secrets\, with little figures. She and the therapist embarked on a journey to understand the possible hidden meanings behind the secrets.\nFaculty\, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nDan Liu\, LCSW\, is currently in the second year of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.  She is a graduate of the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Training  program and she is also faculty in its Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/child-adolescent-psychotherapy-training-program-in-person-open-house-3/
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SUMMARY:Julianne Appel-Opper\, Zeynep Catay\, Ruella Frank\, and Helena Vissing
DESCRIPTION:Julianne Appel-Opper\, Zeynep Catay\, PhD\, Ruella Frank\, PhD\, and Helena Vissing\, PsyD\nwith Moderators Doris Brothers\, PhD\, and Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nHOW DOES EARLY DEVELOPMENT AFFECT THE EMBODIMENT OF THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER?\n  \nSATURDAY\, JUNE 1ST \n12 Noon – 2:00 PM/Eastern Daylight Time\n  \nA multi-view discussion followed by audience interaction. Presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. For CE Credit information\, click here\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThere can be little doubt that babies communicate with their caregivers through body–to–body interactions. However\, there are many ways to understand how these early interactions affect the embodiment of the therapeutic exchange. Our speakers offer a variety of perspectives on the crucial importance of understanding the link between embodiment in early life and the treatment situation.\nThis event brings together clinicians who hold a variety of views on the subject. The four speakers will answer questions posed by our two Moderators\, who are also Co-Directors of the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. After engaging in dialogue together\, members of our online audience will be invited to join the discussion.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nCOSTS\nProfessionals $45\nCandidates and Students $25\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nJulianne Appel-Opper is a psychologist\, psychotherapist\, supervisor and trainer with 35 years of clinical experience. She offers online therapy and supervision internationally from her private practice in Berlin. Her approach of ‘Relational Living Body Psychotherapy’ focuses on inter-bodily communication and ways of developing embodied interventions. She has developed and offered international training programs since 2005 and has presented her work in articles\, book chapters\, interviews\, invited seminars/webinars and lectures. Her publications include: English smiles\, Italian shoulders and a German therapist (International Body Psychotherapy Journal\, 2019)\, Relational Living Body Psychotherapy: From physical resonances to embodied interventions or experiments (USA Body Psychotherapy Journal\, 2010)\, and Two living bodies online\, which will be published in 2024. Julianne is an Editorial Board Member of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy\, a founding member of IG-FEST\, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy. Her website is: www.thelivingbody.net \n\nZeynep Catay\, PhD\, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in New York City working with adults and children. She is also a Dance/Movement Therapist and practitioner of somatic experiencing method. She was a faculty member at the Psychology Department of Istanbul Bilgi University between the years of 2005 and 2019. Dr. Catay is currently a part-time instructor and clinical supervisor at the Clinical Psychology PhD program of the New School for Social Research. She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Attachment Research at the New School and is currently directing a study in collaboration with the Child Psychotherapy Process Research Lab at Istanbul Bilgi University on the therapist’s ability to coordinate nonverbal communication in child psychotherapy. Her current research and writing interests focus on nonverbal bodily dynamics and embodiment in psychotherapy and somatic countertransference. She is also a candidate at the NYU post-doctoral program for psychoanalysis. \n  \nRuella Frank\, PhD\, is Founder and Director of the Center for Somatic Studies\, faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy\, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto\, and guest faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy. Ruella teaches throughout the United States\, Europe\, Eurasia\, Mexico\, South America and Canada. She is author of Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy\, (2001\, GestaltPress\, available in 4 languages)\, co-author of The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement\, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change (2010\, Routledge Press\, available in 3 languages)\, and author of The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy (2022\, Routledge Press\, available in 7 languages). Her video Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy\, is available in three languages. www.somaticstudies.com \n  \nHelena Vissing\, PsyD\, is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in California. She practices psychodynamic and trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is experienced as Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions including Reiss-Davis Graduate School\, Antioch University\, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. Her book on her somatic and psychodynamic model for the treatment of trauma in the Perinatal Period is titled\, Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health (Routledge). Dr. Vissing has trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Saturday Center for Psychotherapy. She also hosts the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy. \n\nABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo. \nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book\, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Libido:  Andreas Embiricos\, Surrealist Poet and Psychoanalyst
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS\nTHURSDAY\, June 6th FROM 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nRevolutionary Libido:  Andreas Embiricos\, Surrealist Poet and Psychoanalyst\nwith Alexander Baron-Raiffe\, PhD\, LP\nAttend in person or online as follows:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION AND ITS SPEAKER\n“I once more take the opportunity to express here my admiration and gratitude for André Breton and the other surrealists who\, after Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalysts\, have shed\, in our age\, the most illuminating light on the thick darkness that surrounds us. And so a new world opened up before me\, like a sudden bursting into bloom of inexhaustible miracles\, a world around me and in me that was unending and immeasurable\, a truly magic world to which surrealism has given us once and for all the right keys.” (A. Embiricos\, “Letter to Vivika” in Amour Amour\, København & Los Angeles: Green Integer\, 2003\, p. 20 )\nOur presenter\, Dr. Alexander Baron-Raiffe\, will describe the major challenges and satisfactions of translating the work of Andreas Embiricos (1901-1975)\, a unique figure in the history of both Psychoanalysis and Surrealism in Greece. Embiricos’ work as a psychoanalyst was inseparable from his artistic practice.  Embiricos was personally close to André Breton\, the founder of the Surrealist group\, whose belief he shared: that Surrealism had the potential to effect revolutionary change on both the individual and the societal levels by bringing unconscious material to the surface through contact with the surrealist work of art. Embiricos brought the Surrealist faith to his clinical work through his vision of psychoanalysis as a revolutionary practice. He believed that Freudian psychoanalysts could serve the role of “revolutionary trainer” by liberating repressed libido on the level of the individual patient; at scale\, this could affect transformational change at the societal level.\nJoin us for Dr. Baron-Raiffe’s reading of Embiricos’ poetry and his writings on psychoanalysis\, and a discussion of their clinical resonance in our current socio-political climate.\n  \nAlexander Baron-Raiffe\, PhD\, LP\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.  He is an advanced candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society.  He holds a doctorate in French Literature from Princeton University where he was also a fellow of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.  He has held teaching positions at Princeton University\, Fordham University\, Sarah Lawrence College\, and The New School.\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/revolutionary-libido-andreas-embiricos-surrealist-poet-and-psychoanalyst/
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SUMMARY:Treating Chronic Somatic Pain: Integrating Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:with Frances Sommer Anderson\, PhD\, SEP\nA 6-session online mini-course on Friday mornings\, starting June 7th.\n12 CEs are available upon completion of this course.\nThis series presentation has been arranged by the Institute’s Conference Advisory Board through the special efforts of Dr. Jean Petrucelli.\nABOUT THE COURSE\nSomatic pain\, a private subjective experience\, lends itself readily to the psychoanalytic clinicians’ intervention. In this experiential and didactic course\, therapists will learn how to intervene effectively with people in chronic pain\, once a medical evaluation has ruled out structural and/or organic disease as the source.\nThrough discussions of contemporary research on the neuroscience of pain\, analysts will learn how to utilize knowledge about neural plasticity in their clinical work.  Clinical case material\, both published and from ongoing treatments\, will be used to illustrate how integration of Interpersonal/Relational principles with the neuroscience of pain encoding will expand the clinicians’ technical repertoire.\n  \nSERIES SCHEDULE\nClasses will be held online\, on Fridays\, from 10:00AM-12Noon/Eastern time\, on the following dates:\nJune 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 and July 12 & 19\n\nNotes about the Series:\nPreparation for Class 1 will begin with an assignment on May 17th\, emailed to students. Throughout the series\, Dr. Anderson will provide all readings and links to materials for each class on the Friday before the next Friday class.\nREQUIRED FOR THE COURSE:\nBreaking Out of Pain:  Living the Legacy of John E. Sarno\, MD   Leonard-Segal\, A.\, Sherman\, E.\, Feinblatt\, A\, and Anderson\, F. S. (2023) Atmosphere Press.\nNeuroplastic Transformation Workbook\, Moskowitz\, M. H.\, & Golden\, M. D. (2013). Available as an eBook on the website of Marla Golden:  https://www.integrativepain.com\n  \nTHE CLASSES:\nClass 1 FRIDAY\, JUNE 7:  Defining Somatic Pain as an Interpersonal/Relational Construction\nPreparation for Class 1 begins with an assignment on May 17\, 2024\nClass 2 FRIDAY\, JUNE 14: The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Development of Chronic Pain: Early Psychodynamic Contributions\nClass 3 FRIDAY\, JUNE 21: The Contribution of John E. Sarno\, MD\nClass 4 FRIDAY\, JUNE 28: Further Elaborations of Sarno’s Contribution\nClass 5 FRIDAY\, JULY 12: The Neuroscience of Pain: Neuroplasticity\nClass 6 FRIDAY\, JULY 19: The Contributions of Physicians Influenced by John E. Sarno\, MD\n  \n  \nCOSTS\nPROFESSIONALS: Early Registration extended through May 17th\, $675\nStarting May 18th\, Professionals $775\nCANDIDATES & STUDENTS: Early Registration extended through May 17th\, $400\nStarting May 18th\, Candidates & Students $500\nNote: Refunds for the full amount of the series cost will be made for requests made by or before May 31st\, one week in advance of the series start date. \n\n  \nABOUT FRANCES SOMMER ANDERSON\, PhD\, SEP\n \nFrances Sommer Anderson\, PhD\, SEP\, a psychologist and psychoanalyst with advanced training in treating trauma\, has specialized in treating chronic somatic pain since 1979. She is recognized internationally for her contributions to the psychoanalytic literature on treating chronic pain\, expanding what she learned from John E. Sarno\, MD and Arlene Feinblatt\, PhD while working at Rusk Rehabilitation-NYU Langone Health.\nWith the late Lewis Aron\, she co-edited Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998)\, the ground-breaking volume credited with bringing the body into relational psychoanalytic theory and practice.  In 2008\, she edited Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension\, and in 2013\, co-authored with Dr. Eric Sherman\, Pathways to Pain Relief\, also available in Spanish. She and Dr. Sherman teach courses on treating chronic pain for psychoanalysts. Breaking Out of Pain:  Living the Legacy of John E. Sarno\, MD\, published in December 2023\, was co-authored with Andrea Leonard-Segal\, MD\, Eric Sherman\, PsyD\, and Arlene Feinblatt\, PhD.\nDr. Anderson was the invited lecturer in 2015 at London’s 22nd John Bowlby Memorial Conference\, which honored the contributions of Dr. Sarno. Her paper\, It Was Not Safe to Feel Angry: Disrupted Early Attachment and the Development of Chronic Pain in Later Life\, was published in 2017. In 2016\, she was the only clinician invited to present clinical case material at the American Psychosomatic Society’s research conference\, Neuroscience of Pain: Early Life Adversity\, Mechanisms and Treatment. In collaboration with cognitive neuroscientists Richard D. Lane\, MD and Ryan Smith\, PhD\, she published a theoretical model to explain how physical pain can override emotional pain (2018).\nTo read more about Dr. Anderson\, visit: drfransommeranderson.com\nAlso:  pathwaystopainrelief.com  and breakingoutofpain.com
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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program   In Person Open House
DESCRIPTION:An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation and supervision\nHow Mentalization Helps an Adolescent Learn About Love\, Anger and Growth\nby Mayan Abecasis\, LMSW\nwith Supervision by Jacqueline Ferraro\, DMH\nMonday\, June 10\, 2024\n7:30-9:00PM\n20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\, New York City 10023\nThe evening’s case presentation is about an an 18-year-old patient who presented with issues of anger\, engaging in a series of risky behaviors during the last year of high school and first year of college.\nThrough mentalization of her relationships with her family\, partner\, as well as her therapist\, the patient explored her relationships. In re-enactments in therapy and using her countertransference\, the therapist supported the patient in learning to love herself and others\, and to look at her behavior patterns. Both patient and clinician grew from the relationship-evolving treatment.\nFaculty\, graduates and current students will answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.\nMayan Abecasis\, LMSW\, is a second-year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. She graduated with a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and attended an Internship at Creedmore Psychiatric Center where she worked with young adult psychiatric patients.  Since then\, she has worked at a school-based psychotherapy program in Western Queens providing therapy to students and families. At the William Alanson White Institute\, her first training in interpersonal/relational psychotherapy\, she is feeling inspired and  supported.\nJacqueline T. Ferraro\, DMH\, is Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (CAPTP).  She is faculty\, supervisor and Executive Committee member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) and also of the Eating Disorders and Addictions Program (EDCAS) at the Institute. Dr. Ferraro has years of experience working with adults\, adolescents\, children and families. She maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - KATE BORNSTEIN
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Binaries: Navigating the Quantum Self \n  \nWednesday\, June\, 12 2024 \n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST) \n  \n\n\n\nOn Zoom only. RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/ \nPlease note that the LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded.\n\n\n\nDescription: 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. \nFor 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 \n\n\n\nPlease note: \n– The registrants will receive the Zoom link to attend this meeting via email from \nThe William Alanson White Institute with subject line: \n“LGBTQ Study Group 2023-2024”. \n– LGBTQ Study Group events are not recorded. \n– We are not able to provide CE credits at this time.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact co-chairs \nEsin Egit: e.egit@wawhite.org \nWilla France: poetadmiral@earthlink.net
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SUMMARY:The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Summer Educational Intensive: Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal Perspective\nMonday-Friday\, June 17th-21st\, 2024\n9:30AM-12:30PM daily\nWe 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.\n  \nABOUT THE PROGRAM \nFive 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.\nAll 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.\n15 CEs are available for this program. For information about CE Credits click here.\nThe William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue\, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\, several museums\, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.\n\n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\nMonday\, June 17th     Pascal Sauvayre\, PhD\nOn Not Knowing and Needing to Know\nCase Presenter: David Jiang\, MD\nDr. 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.\n  \nTuesday\, June 18th       Jack Drescher\, MD\nA Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity: An Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspective\nCase Presenter: Sarah Best\, LCSW-R\nDr. 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.\n\nWednesday\, June 19th      Ira Moses\, PhD\nThe Role of Inquiry: A Workshop on “Detailed Listening”\nCase Presenter: Bevin Campbell\, PsyD\nDr. 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”.\n\nThursday\, June 20th       Michelle Stephens\, LP\, PhD\nRace in Interpersonal Space\nCase Presenter: Stav Livne\nDr. 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.\n\nFriday\, June 21st        Jenny Kaufmann\, PhD\nUnderstanding the Developmental Force of Narcissism: Formative Trauma and Transference\nCase Presenter: Morteza Modares Gharavi\, PhD\nThe 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.\n\nSummer Educational Intensive: \nLearning Objective \n  \n Monday June 17: Pascal Sauvayre\, PhD \nTo  explore the confrontation of the fundamental human drive to know with the unknowable object of psychoanalysis – the unconscious.   \n  \nTuesday June 18th: Jack Drescher\, MD \nTo use case material to illustrate how the therapeutic task of defining a sexual identity is often a complex\, interpretative and interpersonal process. \n  \nWednesday June 19th : Ira Moses\, PhD \n  \nTo 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.  \n  \nThursday June 20th Michelle Stephens\, LP\, PhD \n  \nTo 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 \n  \nFriday June 21st: Jenny Kaufmann\, PhD \n  \nTo  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. \n\nCOSTS\nProfessionals – Regular pricing $700 starting May 21st.\nCandidates & students – Regular pricing $375 starting May 21st.\nNote: 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. \n  \nABOUT THE CLINICIANS and their PRESENTERS\nPascal 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.\nDavid 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.\n\n\nJack 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.\nTo learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/\nTo read about his 2022 Sigourney Award: https://www.sigourneyaward.org/newsandevents/2022/11/15/jack-dreschers-work-wins-the-sigourney-award-2022\nSarah 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.\n\n\nIra 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. \nBevin 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. \n\n\nMichelle 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.\nTo learn more about Dr. Stephens’ work and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice\, go to: https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/\nStav 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.\n\n\nJenny 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.\nMorteza 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.\n 
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SUMMARY:Sue Kolod and Tom Hennes on Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups
DESCRIPTION:Crush of the Unseen: Engaging Toxic Polarization in Small Groups\nwith Sue Kolod\, PhD and Tom Hennes\nModerated by Mary McRae\, EdD\nHosted by Maria Nardone\, PhD\nPresented by The Technology and Global Learning Committee \nSATURDAY\, JUNE 29th\, 2024\n10:00-11:30AM/Eastern time\n1.5 CE Credits are available for attending this event.\nNOTE 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 the day before the event? Then email: e.rodman@wawhite.org \nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\n\n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\nToxic 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.\nToxic 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.”\nIt 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.\nBut 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?\nThe 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.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nSue 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.\nDr. Kolod’s webinar presentations can be viewed through these two links:\nPart 1\, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxt7bPc_5_c&t=155s\nPart 2\, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2UA2w8HA4&t=78s\n\nTom 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.\nRead about Thinc Design: https://www.thincdesign.com/\n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR & THE HOST\nMary 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.\nMaria 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.\n  \nLearning Objectives of this presentation:\n\n\n\n\n1.      Participants will be able to define toxic polarization\n2.      Participants will begin to notice polarizing thoughts and feelings in themselves\n3.      Participants will be able to describe techniques that help alleviate polarization in small groups
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