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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, March 11th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nAdolescence in the Manosphere: the Psychodynamic Treatment of an Isolated 16 Year Old Boy\nA CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION by Stephanie Vanden Bos\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe presentation will follow the treatment of an isolated adolescent boy struggling with intense affect and unmet relational needs as he works to consolidate a stable sense of identity. Struggling at the crossroads of a chaotic childhood and uncertain adulthood\, he is wrecked with anxiety and rage about his pervasive sense of invisibility and helplessness. He seeks advice in online communities that offer simplified\, prescriptive narratives about gender and power\, and which promise clarity\, status and a sense of dignity. The work we do together aims to support development of a more cohesive and enlivened sense of self — one that can tolerate ambivalence\, integrate anger\, and enhance his capacity for connection within the therapeutic relationship.\nJoin us for an insightful presentation given by a candidate in the Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. There will be opportunity to ask questions and join in discussion\, as well as to learn about our unique program and about the Institute. Light refreshments will be available.\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nStephanie Vanden Bos\, LCSW\, is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute.  She completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in 2007\, where she is now a training analyst and supervisor. She has also trained in several different trauma treatments including EMDR\, AEDP\, Sensorimotor Training and Somatic Experiencing. She has been in private practice in New York City for the past 25 years.\n  \n\n\nFOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM\, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-child-adolescent-psychotherapy-training-program-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic  Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects
DESCRIPTION:Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects\nwith Margaret Crastnopol\, PhD\nA 3-part mini-course for clinicians at all levels\, to explore and recognize micro-traumatic functioning\, while learning how to work with patients in resolving these patterns.\nHeld online on three Fridays\, starting March 13th\n4.5 CE credits are available\n  \nABOUT THE SERIES\nSubtle types of psychic injury\, called “micro-trauma” can mount up over time\, eroding a person’s sense of well-being while distorting character development and interpersonal functioning. In her book\,  Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury (Routledge\, 2015)\, Dr. Crastnopol draws upon the theoretical framework for these events\, and shares her recent thinking about them. For this three-session\, online course\, she focuses on and helps clinicians identify specific patterns of micro-traumatic functioning and their impacts\, as they play out in everyday life and in the analytic engagement itself.\nParticipants will explore their own clinical experiences with micro-trauma and gain an understanding of how to identify and work to resolve such problematic patterns for patients.\nA list of required and optional reading will be sent to registrants.\n\nABOUT MARGARET CRASTNOPOL\, PhD\nMargaret Crastnopol\, PhD\, is an Analyst of Candidates (“Training Analyst”)\,  Consulting Analyst\, and Faculty Member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Crastnopol is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, and she also serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Having recently finished her tenure\, she is a long-term former member of the executive committee and the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury\, (Routledge\, 2015)\, and of numerous other published works. Dr. Crastnopol is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle\, New York\, Idaho\, and elsewhere\, working remotely and in person.  She offers individual and group supervision or consultation for those in the United States and various locations abroad.\n\nCLASS SCHEDULE\nHeld online on Fridays\, from 12Noon-1:30PM/Eastern\, on March 13\, 20\, 27\n\nCOURSE COSTS:\nProfessionals: $400 \nCandidates and students: $250\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nBy the completion of this course\, students will be able to:\n\n\nEnumerate and describe certain specific mechanisms of toxic functioning\, including “unkind cutting back\,” “connoisseurship gone awry\,” “little murders\,” etc.\n\n\nIdentify signs within the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic relationship that such patterns are being replayed.\n\n\nArticulate and implement various effective strategies for repairing micro-traumatic damage to the patient’s sense of well-being and self-worth.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/micro-traumatic-experience-therapeutic-approaches-to-healing-cumulative-toxic-effects-2/
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SUMMARY:MARK FREEMAN on Self as Story: Narrative Knowing\, Narrative Unknowing\, and the Mystery of Selfhood
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nSelf as Story: Narrative Knowing\, Narrative Unknowing\, and the Mystery of Selfhood\nMARK FREEMAN\, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics\, Society and Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, MARCH 13th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nA core premise of this presentation is that narrative is central to the process of both self-understanding and self-formation: through looking backward over the past\, one may discern patterns\, connections\, and themes and craft a story — and a self\, accordingly.\nBut how does one tell such a story\, and what sort of story might it be? The challenge is large. Although there is much about the self that can be known\, there is also much that remains unknown\, and perhaps\, unknowable. Not the least is that our existence is permeated by what is other — first and foremost\, by other people\, but also by the larger social\, cultural\, and political world\, within which our lives take shape\, often in ways unbeknownst to us. This doesn’t mean that seeking self-understanding is futile. Rather\, it means that narrative knowing must be supplemented by narrative unknowing\, and in turn that science must be supplemented by art when engaging in the process. By proceeding in this way\, we may be better poised to both fathom and narrate the deepest sources of selfhood in all of their radiant obscurity.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nMark Freeman\, PhD\, is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. Award-winning author of numerous works\, including Rewriting the Self: History\, Memory\, Narrative (1993)\, Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (2010)\, The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (2014)\, Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia (2021)\, and\, most recently\, Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (2024)\, he also serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series\, Explorations in Narrative Psychology.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series: \n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION: \n\nDescribe the implications of narrative for psychoanalytic practice.\nDescribe the role of narrative in developing self-awareness.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/mark-freeman-narrative-lived-and-told/
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SUMMARY:Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck with MET Curator Dita Amory
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nMET Curator Dita Amory\, MA  \nSeeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck\nwith Discussant Ernesto Mujica\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, April 2\, 2026\, 1:30-3pm Eastern time/In-person and Online \nJoin us in-person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street\nor online at: at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nFinnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck’s first solo show which has been a featured exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, is suffused with a melancholic quietude\, while possessing an unexpected spirit of strength. MET Curator Dita Amory will introduce the artist to us\, showing her modernist language of the brush and pivotal passages of her life. Ms. Amory’s slide presentation glimpses Schjerfbeck’s isolation and interiority through the artist’s intimate use of light\, space\, and volume.\nDiscussant Ernesto Mujica will examine how Schjerfbeck’s vision became increasingly subjective over time\, revealing a more intimate experience of the subject\, a process that he finds evocative of the therapist’s initial perception of the patient and what is gradually revealed during their work together.\nFor those who can visit the exhibit in advance\, it is at the MET through April 5\, 2026.\n\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTERS\nDita Amory\, MA\, is the Robert Lehman Curator in Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her numerous exhibitions include Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (2009); Madame Cezanne (2014-15); Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (2017-18); Felix Vollotton (2019-20); Vertigo of Color:  Matisse\, Derain\, and the Origins of Fauvism (2023).  She is a trustee of the Robert Lehman Foundation and serves on several non-profit Boards.\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI\, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of the institute’s journal\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is a supervisor of psychotherapy at the Institute\, and also in the doctoral program of Clinical Psychology of Teachers College\, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma\, as well sociocultural factors in mental health\, with his strong interest in the arts. Dr. Mujica has previously spoken at the Artists Study Group including discussions about artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria)\, Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree\, Canada)\, Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and Reversos\, El Prado exhibition\, (Madrid\, Spain).\n\n\nJoin us for this discussion\, looking at the nuances of artistic evolution!\nRSVP to:  fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW\, and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\, the Artist Study Group
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/seeing-silence-the-paintings-of-helene-schjerfbeck-with-met-curator-dita-amory/
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SUMMARY:Acting Out: a New Online Mini-Series with Ira Moses
DESCRIPTION:ACTING OUT AND THE THERAPIST’S SUPEREGO CONFLICTS\nwith \nIRA MOSES\, PhD\, ABPsa\nA new online mini-series for experienced and new clinicians\n4 Wednesday evenings in April \nfrom 8:00-9:15pm/Eastern\n5 CEs are available\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nOften out of fear of shaming the patient\, being perceived as “judgmental\,” or worrying that the patient may drop out of treatment\, therapists may stumble — or avoid entirely — the opportunity to engage patients in analyzing their provocative or self-defeating behaviors. Therapists may\, perhaps unwittingly\, selectively ignore these behaviors\, thereby risking their inevitable escalation.\nSuch behaviors can range from extreme acts such as unprotected sex\, substance abuse\, or compulsive internet use\, to subtler forms of acting out\, such as habitual lateness to appointments or difficulties with paying bills and spending. Through participants’ case material\, Dr. Moses will take us though an exploration of how inquiry and free association can help mobilize reluctant therapists to assist patients in translating action into words.\n  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nIra Moses\, PhD\, ABPsa\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst\, former Director of Training\, and former Director of Clinical Services at the William Alanson White Institute\, where he currently teaches a seminar that functions as the alternative pathway to becoming a Supervising Analyst\, as well as teaching in the Institute’s Ukrainian online Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (the UKR-IPPP). He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and is Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center;  and also is Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute.  Dr. Moses was a former Board Member and faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. He has published many articles\, including the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure\, The Analyst’s Resistance to Asking Questions\, and recently\, Wrestling with Reductionism is Racial and Cultural Discourse.\n  \nCLASS SCHEDULE\nHeld online on Wednesday evenings from 8:00pm-9:15pm/Eastern\non April 8\, 15\, 22 & 29\n\nCOURSE COSTS\nProfessionals $325\nCandidates and students $225\n  \n 
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-new-online-mini-series/
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SUMMARY:MARIANNE HIRSCH\, Epiphanies of Repair: Memory Art and Practice
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nEPIPHANIES OF REPAIR: MEMORY ART AND PRACTICE\nMARIANNE HIRSCH\, William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender\, Columbia University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 10th\, from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern — please note this is a revised date\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nHow can we imagine repair at this moment of continuing war and genocide\, of violence\, political neglect and injustice?\nThis talk will place psychoanalytic theories of reparation into conversation with works by contemporary memorial artists like Kara Walker and Doris Salcedo. With destruction as a necessary ground of repair\, their works dislodge entrenched embodied responses to traumatic remembrance\, thus re-imagining the past and remembering its unrealized possibilities. Memory art\, Hirsch will suggest\, can become a transformative practice of communal repair and a platform of social solidarity.\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nMarianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations\, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. She is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)\, the co-edited volumes Women Mobilizing Memory (2019) and Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular  Photography (2020)\, and\, co-authored with Leo Spitzer\, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference(2020).  Currently a fellow at the Getty Research Institute she is working on a book about the reparative potentials of memory from which this talk is drawn.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nDescribe the ways in which memory can have a reparative effect.\n\n\nExplain the relationship of reparative memory to trauma and psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/marianne-hirsch-reparative-memory/
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SUMMARY:A Memorial and Tribute to Edgar Levenson
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Ed: A Memorial and Tribute to Edgar Levenson\nSunday\, April 12th\, 2026\n1:00-3:30pm\nat the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue)\nand offered online (entry links will be sent out prior to the date)\n  \nJoin family\, friends and colleagues including \nCorey Levenson along with \nMiri Abramis\, Seth Aronson\, Judith Brisman\,\nSandra Buechler\, Ann D’Ercole\, Jack Drescher\, \nJack Foehl\, Jay Greenberg\, Anton Hart\, Irwin Hirsch\, \nHarriette Kaley\, Sue Kolod\, Spyros D. Orfanos\, \nSue Shapiro\, Alan Slomowitz\, Donnel Stern \nand Jean Petrucelli\, host\nRSVP required: please let us know if you are coming and how you will attend\nRefreshments to follow the program.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-memorial-and-tribute-to-edgar-levenson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T190000
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SUMMARY:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opening Event April 17th
DESCRIPTION:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opening Event April 17th\nHosted by The Harry Stack Sullivan Society and the Antiracism Action Working Group\nSexuality as Bedrock to Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Reading Freud through Fanon amidst Inequality and Genocide (and why sex is on your patient’s mind too)\nPresented by DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE\, PsyD\, assistant professor of psychology at Queens College and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 17\, 2026\, 7:00-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York\, NY 10023 and via live stream online\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTATION\nFreud’s conceptualization of sexuality has become outdated and irrelevant in contemporary psychoanalysis — or so they say. Despite reports of Freud’s “death\,” the relevance of his ideas return again and again not only in the clinic but in how we understand our contemporary malaise\, from the complexity of our interpersonal relationships to the inequality\, war\, and genocide we witness in our news feeds and in our streets. Drawing on a decolonial lens informed by the work of Frantz Fanon\, this presentation re-reads Freud to better understand the centrality of sexuality in systems of oppression\, from the militarized violence faced by people of color\, immigrants\, and LGBTQ people domestically\, to the war and genocide visited upon racialized peoples globally. Given Fanon’s work not just as a revolutionary but a practicing psychoanalytic clinician\, this theory of sexuality will be brought back to the intimacy of the consulting room to reveal the relevance of thinking about sexuality in routine clinical practice. Drawing on contemporary thinkers like Avgi Saketopoulou and Dominique Scarfone\, decolonial feminists like Maria Lugones and Ochy Curiel\, it will be shown that although interpersonal dynamics and societal oppression are “not all about sex\,” they all have a “sexual lining.” Central to this sexual lining is the way constructions of threat and vulnerability are intimately bound up with pleasure and pain\, both fearing and desiring the other—and the other’s gratuitous suffering and death. Clinical illustrations will be used to make the theoretical come alive in the realities of day-to-day practice.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDaniel José Gaztambide\, PsyD\, is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College\, where he is the director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology\, and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of the books\, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology\, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch\, which received a 2024 Gradiva Award for Best Book. He is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship\, a Miranda Family Fellowship\, and the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education’s Outstanding Psychoanalytic Educator Award. Lastly\, he is the recipient of a presidential citation for his service as part of the American Psychological Association’s Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism\, Discrimination\, and Hate.\n  \nABOUT THE SERIES\nThe Not-Me Speaker Series is a new offering from the Institute’s psychoanalytic training program candidates who make up the Harry Stack Sullivan Society\, who hope to foster constructive dialogues around difficult and potentially polarizing topics relevant to the contemporary practice of psychoanalysis. The series was conceived as a direct response to the bevy of candidates\, past and present\, who have been eagerly searching for an arena in which to address the challenges and diverse community needs of their patients.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Harry Stack Sullivan Society.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-not-me-speaker-series-opening-event-april-17th/
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SUMMARY:How do Analysts Understand  the Embodiment of Fascist Experience?
DESCRIPTION:THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026\nWITH MODERATOR-HOSTS \nDORIS BROTHERS\, PhD\, and JON SLETVOLD\, PsyD\nHow do Analysts Understand the Embodiment of Fascist Experience?\nA panel discussion with\nJessica Benjamin\, PhD\,  Sue Grand\, PhD\, Daniel Posner\, MD\, and Doris Brothers\, PhD\, & Jon Sletvold\, PsyD\nSATURDAY\, APRIL 25th\nOnline from 12 Noon-2:00pm/Eastern\nThis series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe rise of fascist movements all over the globe has infiltrated our therapeutic relationships.\nIn the belief that understanding the embodied experience of fascism helps us confront this frightening development\, participants in this conversation provide a variety of perspectives.\n\n  \nEVENT COSTS\nProfessionals $50\nCandidates and Students $30\n\nCE CREDIT INFORMATON\n2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email\, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups)\, please request CE instructions after the event.\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS\nNOTE TO ALL REGISTRANTS FOR ONLINE EVENTS: Entry links for Zoom events are sent in two ways: (1) the entry link is sent on the Registration payment receipt delivered to your email INBOX; and (2) links are sent out to Registrants 1-3 days prior to the scheduled event date. If you register just prior to the event’s start\, you will only receive the link on the payment receipt.\nFor those who do not see a link letter in their Inbox\, check Trash and Spam files. If you do not find your link-letter by the business day prior to the event\, you may email: e.rodman@wawhite.org\nWe will do whatever we can to get your link to you\, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.\n\nTHE GUEST PANELISTS\nJessica Benjamin\, PhD\, is best known for her books The Bonds of Love (1988)\, which brought a feminist intersubjective perspective into the psychoanalytic field\, and for Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness (2004)\, which provided the basis for her recent Beyond Doer and done To: Recognition Theory\,\nIntersubjectivity and the Third (2018). The last emphasizes the importance of acknowledgment in therapeutic interaction and in relation to trauma\, including collective historical trauma. Additionally\, she is the author of Like Subjects\, Love Objects (1995); and Shadow of the Other (1998). Dr. Benjamin has been one of the leaders in the relational movement in psychoanalysis since its inception. She teaches and supervises at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center which she is a co-founded. She initiated and co-directed a project for acknowledgment between Israeli and Palestinian mental health professionals during the period 2003-2011. Recently she has written on the psychological aspects of domination and destructiveness manifest in the current social world and is currently exploring the interconnections between affect regulation theory and recognition theory.\nSue Grand\, PhD\, is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; faculty\, the Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis; faculty\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; visiting scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective and The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude. She is the co-author of Trans-generational Transmission: A Contemporary Perspective\, and has co-edited multiple books on trans-generational transmission and on relational theory. Dr. Grand teaches in Ukraine and in Israel. She is on the boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalysis\, Culture and Society. Her area of interest is political/social/psychic violence and trauma. She maintains a private practice in New York City and in Teaneck New Jersey.\nDaniel Posner\, MD\, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the faculty at the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. His writing explores a range of topics through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis\, enactive phenomenology\, epistemic justice and infancy research. He has published work in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders\, Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, where he is an associate editor. He is also the co-host\, with Daniel Goldin\, of The Conversation\, the podcast of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is currently writing a book on Daniel N. Stern for Routledge.\nADDITIONAL PANELISTS and SERIES MODERATORS\, THE CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nDoris Brothers\, PhD\,  is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has served on the executive and advisory boards and council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP).  Dr. Brothers has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as five books. Her forthcoming book\, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled\, Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. Earlier books include\, A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES written with Jon Sletvold\, Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008)\, Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995)\, and with Richard Ulman\, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.\n\nJon Sletvold\, PsyD\, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory\, practice\, and training. He is the editor of four books and the authorof The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality\, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote\, From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His forthcoming book\, written with Doris Brothers\, is Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. His last book\, also written with Doris Brothers\, is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory\, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and he co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe\, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.\n  \nABOUT THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT\nInspired by the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich and encouraged by the recent surge of interest in embodiment among clinicians\, co-Directors Drs. Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold have founded the Center. With it\, they are introducing an online forum for dialogues about the ways in which embodiment affects the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.\nA wide range of approaches to embodiment have emerged in the last two decades that have led them to believe that a “turn toward embodiment” is underway. In the interest of furthering this turn they are offering a format that differs from the usual at psychoanalytic meetings. Rather than featuring a paper presenting a specific theorist or clinician followed by discussions\, they intend that each event will center around a specific topic. Speakers from around the world\, each of whom employs a different perspective on embodiment\, will be invited to participate in a roundtable conversation of the topic. Afterward\, online participants will be encouraged to join the conversation.\nLearn more about The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment\n 
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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program\n\nIN PERSON OPEN HOUSE\n\nWednesday\, April 29th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm\nNot Fully Formed:  Using Modeling Clay and Slime-making in Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with a 7-year-old Girl\nA CLINICAL CAST PRESENTATION by Erin Cantor\, LCSW\nHeld at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nA fascinating and insightful case presentation describing the play therapy with a seven-year-old girl\, that took place over a two-year period. Ms. Cantor describes her patient’s tenacious use of utilitarian molding clay and slime in creating evocative sculptures\, allowing a greater psychological containment during a devastating\, high-conflict custody battle between her parents. \nAttendees will be encouraged to participate with questions\, take part in discussion\, and learn about our unique program.\nJoin us!\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nErin Cantor\, LCSW\, is a graduate of the Institute’s three-year Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP). She is a social worker\, symbolic play therapist for children\, an adolescent talk therapist\, and  a clinical writer.  She lives and works in New York City.\n  \nFor questions about the program\, contact Lisa Dubinsky\, CAPTP Director:  ldubinskypsy@gmail.com\n 
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SUMMARY:On the Work of Camel Collective with Anthony Graves
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nOn the Work of Camel Collective\nwith Anthony Graves\, MFA\, LP\n\nTHURSDAY\, May 7th\, 2026\, 1:30-3pm Eastern time/In-person and Online \nJoin us in-person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street\nor online at: 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  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nArtist and psychoanalyst Anthony Graves will present the work of Camel Collective\, his collaboration with artist Carla Herrera-Prats which was active from 2005–2020. Camel Collective’s works in video\, sculpture\, performance\, and photography think through the subjects of collaboration and the often laborious production of sensation as they relate to contemporary labor and shared myths of cultural production. From philosophers to Foley artists\, labor theorists to lighting designers\, the work of the collective sought to bring together collaborators from a variety of often incongruent professions and backgrounds\, and to provide occasion to question the disciplinary assumptions of knowledge and meaning.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamel Collective is the name that artists Anthony Graves (US) and Carla Herrera-Prats (MX\, d. 2019) worked under from 2005–2019. Together they exhibited internationally at museums and galleries including The Queens International 2018: Volumes; MUAC\, Mexico City (2017); REDCAT Gallery\, Los Angeles (2016); Trienal de Artes Frestas\, Sesc\, Sorocaba\, Brazil (2015); the Bard Hessel Museum\, Annendale-on-Hudson\, New York (2014); Casa del Lago\, Mexico City (2013); Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan\, Puerto Rico (2012); Mass MoCA\, North Adams\, Massachusetts (2011); and Aarhus Kunsthalle\, Denmark (2010). They were recipients of numerous awards and grants including Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes\, two Jumex Foundation Grants\, and the Statens Kunstrad Danish Arts Council project grant.The presentation will include video screenings\, images\, and discussion. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAnthony Graves\, MFA\, LP (b. 1975\, South Bend\, Indiana) received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MFA from Cornell University\, and was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Graves is currently an Advanced Candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York\, has a private psychoanalytic practice in Manhattan\, and is represented by Ulterior Gallery in New York. He is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU\, Steinhardt.\nPlease join us for a discussion that explores and challenges social\, political and institutional structures.\nPlease RSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  the Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:SUNIL BHATIA\, Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering Global Marginalized Knowledges
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nToward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering Global Marginalized Knowledges\nSUNIL BHATIA\, PhD\, Professor of Human Development and Cultural Psychology\, Connecticut College\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, MAY 8th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nNote that this event is being held via live stream online.\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nDr. Bhatia grapples with a fundamental question: how do we imagine and build futures in psychology that are genuinely grounded in Indigenous cultures\, peoples\, places\, and lands — futures no longer entangled in the logic of colonialism and coloniality? He offers a rich\, place-sensitive map of decolonial scholarship that has taken shape within psychology over the last decade.\nSpeaking to the experiences of the majority world\, and to communities whose lives remain marginalized in postcolonial and settler-colonial nations\, he draws upon his 25 years of work in cultural and decolonial psychology\, to address the question: Why decolonize psychology?\nIn particular\, the presentation is organized around five thematic threads\, each distinct yet deeply interconnected\, all oriented toward retrieving and reclaiming knowledges that have been suppressed or sidelined: 1) the discipline’s colonial history and its ongoing colonial present; 2)  transnational expressions of decoloniality that move past the oversimplified Global North/South divide;  3) the entanglements of race\, racism\, and colonial domination with psychology; 4) alternatives to individualism that center community\, relational agency\, and collective liberation; 5)  Indigenous psychologies and settler colonialism\, with particular attention to the reclamation of land\, culture\, spirituality\, and ecology. Dr. Bhatia’s presentation invites the audience toward fundamental rethinking of psychological theory and practice\, pointing toward decolonial futures built on justice\, relational ways of being\, and the revival of epistemologies long silenced.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nSunil Bhatia\, PhD\, is an internationally recognized authority on culture and psychology and Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is at the forefront of studies on decolonization and author of such books as American Karma; Race\, Culture\, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization\, Social Justice\, and Indian Youth Identities; and Globalization and Culture: Narratives of Indian Youth from Call Centers to Chail Stalls (forthcoming Oxford U. Press) among others. Additionally\, he is a frequent lecturer and commentator on current events.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:\n\n\nExplore how decolonization matters for psychoanalytic practice.\n\n\nExplain what decolonization is and what its implications are.\n\n\n\n\nRelated Events\n\nColloquium 2025-2026
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SUMMARY:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Online Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nONLINE OPEN HOUSE \nTHURSDAY\, JUNE 11th\n7:30-9:00PM/Eastern\nA panel of graduates and current candidates will discuss their training experiences in the program.\nLisa Dubinsky\, PhD\, Director of the CAPT Program will moderate the discussion and lead a Q&A for all attendees following the panel’s presentations.\nPanelists include Maria Lakis\, LCSW\, Megan Lothian\, LCSW\, Liz Manus\, LCSW\, and Jascon Vazquez\, LMSW.\nJoin us!\nApplications for the coming academic year are currently being accepted.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/the-child-adolescent-psychotherapy-training-program-online-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Retracing the Trace with Luzene Hill\, MFA
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents \nRetracing the Trace\nwith Luzene Hill\, MFA\nOnline on Thursday\, June 18th\, 2026 1:30-3pm/EST\nUse this link to join the meeting: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nLuzene Hill\, a Native American multimedia artist and citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In this presentation she will explore themes of trauma and shame produced by various types of violence enacted against women and indigenous cultures and the transformative healing powers of art. Combining performance with installation to reflect acts of violence against women\, she uses lyrical abstraction to approach difficult topics.\nMs. Hill is best known for her 2011-2015 work\, Retracing the Trace\, an installation about the prevalence and pain of sexual assault seen through the lens of Hill’s own experience.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nLuzene Hill  was born in Atlanta\, GA. She received her bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts from Western Carolina University. She lives and works on the Qualla Boundary\, Cherokee\, NC.  She has exhibited throughout the United States\, as well as in Canada\, Russia\, Japan\, and the United Kingdom. Awards she has received include: Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists\, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship\, Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship\, and First Peoples Fund Fellowship. She has had recent residencies at IAIA\, MoCNA Social Engagement Residency; the Anderson Ranch Arts Center; and a Township 10 Residency. Hill’s work is featured in Jeffrey Gibson’s book\, An Indigenous Present; the anthology\, Gender Violence\, Art and the Viewer\, edited by S. Caldwell; Art\, Activism and Sexual Violence\, edited by S. Kitch and Gilpin\, as well as on the PBS Documentary\, Native Art NOW!   \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease join us for a discussion exploring the intersection of culture\, art and sexual abuse.\n  \nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  the Artist Study Group and Ernesto Mujica\, Ph.D.\, Director Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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DESCRIPTION:LABOR DAY
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of the Life of Kathy White
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of the Life of Kathy White\nFriday evening\, September 25th from 5:oo-7:00pm/Eastern\nHeld at the Institute\, in person and online\nWith invited speakers and reflections from the audience\nPresented by the Antiracism Action Working Group
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/a-celebration-of-the-life-of-kathy-white/
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SUMMARY:Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard:   Revelation of Depth\, with George Mandelbaum
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nChekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Revelation of Depth\nWith GEORGE MANDELBAUM\, PhD\nand images by Alison Feit\n\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nAttend In person or Online\nAttend in person at the Institute: 20 West 74th Street\, between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West\nJoin us via Zoom: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDespite his limited dramatic output\, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is considered by many to have been the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. Our presenter\, Dr. George Mandelbaum\, will focus on some of the reasons why Chekhov has this reputation and why his work is of special interest to psychoanalysts. The talk will focus on the climax of The Cherry Orchard\, which Chekhov wrote while he was at death’s door.  The bittersweet climax of the play mixes relational pleasure and pain\, and loss and gain\,at its ideational\, emotional and symbolic center.\nWith images created by Dr. Alison Feit\, we will explore through multiple perspectives\, the final scene of The Cherry Orchard with its blending of Lopakhin’s joyful\, deep throated speech at having gained the orchard\, and Ranevskaya’s physical and emotional collapse at its loss.  We will consider whether every gain one achieves also represents a loss;  the realization of personal and generational fantasies\, transformation and transcendence; the values embodied in psychoanalysis and how those can be used in the valuation of artistic creations\, including Chekhov’s plays. How did Chekhov manage to create plays that at one and the same time were outwardly directed to address the monumental changes occurring in the late 19th Century and symbolizations of his inner life?\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nGeorge Mandelbaum\, PhD\,  was the 2014-15 Visiting Scholar at the William Alanson White Institute. He received his PhD in English Literature from Columbia University. He has published several articles on drama in psychoanalytic journals\, including the Spring 2018 issue of Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, and that journal’s 2021 issue on Checkov’s plays\, and he presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2011.  Dr. Mandelbaum taught the WAWI elective course\, “HAMLET and Hamlet:  An introduction\,” in 2016.  Over the last ten years\, he has presented to the Artist Study Group on a variety of subjects involving playwrights\, including the efforts of Strindberg and Tennessee Williams to deal with their psychosis through their late plays; on Eugene O-Neill’s composition of Long Day’s Journey into Night and on American playwright\, novelist\, journalist and actress\, Susan Glaspell.  In general\, his presentations view plays as varied efforts by playwrights to artistically master their inner lives. Dr. Mandelbaum is currently a candidate in the Academic Associate Track of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.\n  \nPlease join us for a discussion that explores the intersection of drama and psychoanalysis. \nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, Director\, Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service
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SUMMARY:STEPHEN FRIEDMAN\, Clinical Encounters with Otherness: The Conundrum of White Empathy
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nClinical Encounters with Otherness: The Conundrum of White Empathy\npresented by Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, October 2nd\, 2026 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit\, after the event\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe conundrum of white empathy summarizes the way in a cross-racial encounter the well-intentioned white analyst and the Black patient are immediately “caught” trying to navigate the reverberations of centuries of racial inequality and hierarchy. The empathic gesture inaugurating the clinical conversation allows for the possibility of authentic engagement and the inevitability of perpetration that enacts racial harm. The clinical space can never transcend the oppressive order. Yet the seduction of a color blind space can draw in both the white clinician hoping to avoid implication in their participation and benefit from anti-Black racism\, and the Black patient always wary of white spaces perhaps hoping there will be a chance for some respite\, but certainly not transcendence. The possibility of repair is minimal if the white analyst’s subtle unconscious investment in perpetration remains out of awareness which means that an important part of the Black patient’s lived experience in the larger world and in the consulting room is effectively off limits. Ways of combatting this silencing tendency and opening up dialogue to confront directly the conundrum of white empathy\, as well as the limits of dialogue and efforts at repair\, will be explored in this talk.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nStephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. He is currently a supervisor of psychotherapy and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  He is also an MSW and PhD graduate of the Smith School for Social Work and is an adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Instructor at Smith School for Social Work. Dr. Friedman is also on the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute\, the National Institute of Psychotherapies\, the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis\, China American Psychoanalytic Alliance\, and the NYU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. In 2019 he published a paper in Smith College Studies in Social Work entitled\, Exploration of Racial Enactments in an Interracial Dyad to Foster the Strengthening of Voice and Identity in African American Male Adolescents. His doctoral dissertation (2024) was entitled\, Interrogating Whiteness: An In-depth Study of Race and Psychoanalysis in Cross-Racial dyads. He presented Crying for different reasons: The conundrum of white empathy in an anti-Black racist world\, at a 2026 international conference in Japan. Dr. Friedman is this year’s President of the Psychoanalytic Society at the William Alanson White Institute and is the organizer of this colloquium series. He is in private practice in New York City.\n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n 
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SUMMARY:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opens with Glenn A. Albrecht
DESCRIPTION:The Not-Me Speaker Series\nA Harry Stack Sullivan Society Event\npresents\nDr. Glenn A. Albrecht\nENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHER\nOn Solastalgia\, the Symbiocene\, and Our Emotional Bonds With the Living Earth\nWednesday evening\, October 7th from 7:00-9:00PM/Eastern\nA SPECIAL ONLINE EVENT\n  \nPlease note: this is a Candidate/student sponsored event. CE Credit is not available. \nABOUT THIS EVENT\n“Humans have now created a globalized gigantic system of consumption and production which impacts the world. It changes the climate\, it has led to the sixth great extinction event\, and it is leading to the seventh\, which is us.”\nEnvironmental Philosopher\, Dr. Glenn A. Albrect\, is the author of 2019’s Earth Emotions. Bringing both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health\, he has pioneered the research of “psychoterratic” or earth-related mental health\, with the concept of “solastalgia” – or the lived experience of negative environmental change. He has also written about animal ethics\, including the ethics of relocating endangered species in the face of climate change pressures.\nDr. Albrecht joins us via live stream from his home in Australia.\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Paradox\, Containment\, and the False Self in Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:A New Four-Part Workshop with Todd Anderson\, PhD\, PsyD\, LP\nParadox\, Containment\, and the False Self in Clinical Practice\nPRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONFERENCE ADVISORY BOARD OF WAWI\nAttend in person at the Institute* or online. The speaker will be in person for these sessions.\nOffered on four Monday evenings in October and November\n6 CEs are available\n* The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street\, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenues.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nDrawing upon four chapters from Todd Anderson’s book\, The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire\, this workshop explores how clinicians work with paradox\, fragmentation\, premature adaptation\, and difficulties in symbolic life. \nAcross the four sessions\, Dr. Anderson will examine the clinical tension between coherence and containment\, the legacy of premature self-organization\, and the paradoxes of false-self functioning and authenticity. Emphasis throughout the meetings will remain on applied clinical thinking: analytic stance\, listening\, timing\, symbolization\, and the conditions under which experience can become more thinkable and livable in treatment.\nComplete session descriptions and readings are detailed below.\n\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd Anderson\, PhD\, PsyD\, LP\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. His clinical and theoretical work focuses on personality structure\, dissociation\, paradox\, symbolic life\, and the conditions under which experience becomes thinkable in analytic treatment. Rooted in a relational and developmental orientation\, his writing draws on object relations\, queer theory\, and post-structural thought. He is the author of The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire and three other books in psychoanalysis.\n\n\n\nTHE SCHEDULE\nSessions are being held in person\, and are also offered online via Zoom\, on the following four Monday evenings from 7:00-8:30PM: October 26th\, November 2nd\, 9th\, 16th\n\n\nSERIES COST\nProfessionals with Early Registration discount\, $450 – register by September 25th\nProfessionals\, Regular pricing\, $600 – starts September 26th\nCandidates and students\, $300\nSpecial Bonus: Registrants of this Workshop will be offered a discount to attend the new\, 5-part Fran Anderson mini-series set for  Spring 2027\, a follow-up workshop to her popular series\, Chronic Somatic Pain. Announcement to come during the 2026-2027 season.\n\nSESSION CURRICULUM\nSession 1: The Original Paradox\nThis session introduces paradox not as a problem to be solved\, but as a basic structure of psychic life and analytic process. It will consider how contradiction\, fragmentation\, and internal complexity may need to be borne rather than prematurely resolved\, and how clinicians can work more responsively when experience cannot yet be organized into coherent meaning. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 2: The Dialectic of Coherence and Containment: Ferenczi’s Legacy and the Ethics of Listening\nThis session focuses on the tension between the analyst’s wish to help create meaning and the equally necessary capacity to contain affect\, dissociation\, and uncertainty without rushing toward interpretation. It will examine coherence and containment as mutually necessary yet potentially disruptive analytic functions\, especially in trauma\, dissociation\, impasse\, and enactment. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 3: The Wise Baby and the Unborn Self\nThis session explores the figure of the prematurely knowing child and the “unborn self” as enduring psychic structures organized around survival\, dissociation\, and foreclosed development. It will consider how some patients come to know too much before they have been sufficiently held\, and how analytic work may involve not simply insight\, but the gradual emergence of what has not yet been able to take form. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 4: The False Self as Curator: Symbolic Life\, Containment\, and the Paradox of Authenticity\nThis session rethinks the false self not as a simple mask to be stripped away\, but as an intelligent structure of survival\, adaptation\, and symbolic mediation. It will explore how performance and accommodation may preserve aliveness under conditions of mis-recognition\, and how authenticity may depend less on dismantling the false self than understanding its protective and developmental function. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSUGGESTED READING\nAll readings are from The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire.\nReadings may consist of one book chapter for each meeting:\n1. “The Original Paradox”\n2. “The Dialectic of Coherence and Containment: Ferenczi’s Legacy and the Ethics of Listening”\n3. “The Wise Baby and the Unborn Self”\n4. “The False Self as Curator: Symbolic Life\, Containment\, and the Paradox of Authenticity”\n 
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SUMMARY:MARY WATKINS\, White Work: Reckoning with the Legacies of "Whiteness"
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nWhite Work: Reckoning with the Legacies of “Whiteness”\npresented by Mary Watkins\, PhD\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 30\, 2026 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nWhen people deemed “white” in the U.S. try to understand themselves\, they rarely honestly address their extended ancestral histories. Even less common are efforts to critically understand how the invention of whiteness in the late 1600’s Virginia has affected their lives.\nDr. Watkins will share her odyssey through reparative genealogy to retrieve her ancestral history of enslaving and to reckon with ancestral debt through repair and racial reparations. Her work opens a path for “white” people to develop something akin to what W.E.B. Du Bois described as double consciousness\, an effort to try to see through the eyes of those who have been harmed by white supremacy. This kind of “white work” is vehemently opposed by many who embrace whiteness as a fact instead of a myth\, as well as by white people who have suffered a variety of losses and are low on sources of pride. For those who believe in white superiority\, the call for reparations is often seen as shaming whites. How might we mindfully approach the issue of shame so that becoming accountable for ancestral histories that have harmed others is a restorative pathway to empathic action? How might therapeutic practices open their lens to include the relevance of whiteness and ancestral history for self-understanding and reparative action?\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMary Watkins\, PhD\, Professor Emerita at Pacifica Graduate Institute\, co-created the first doctoral program in liberation psychology in the U.S. She is the author of numerous books\, including Toward Psychologies of Liberation (with Helene Shulman)\, Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons\, and White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations. She is the recipient of the award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology (Div. 24\, APA) and is the 2023 recipient of the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action (Div. 27\, APA). Currently\, Dr. Watkins focuses on critical anti-racist genealogy and the pedagogy of the white non-poor in the U.S.  for the purpose of racial reparations. She facilitates the Houses of Healing psychoeducation curriculum in prison and conducts psychological evaluations for asylum seekers in immigrant detention.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:ANTON HART\, Maybe me? Radical Openness to the Me the Other Might See
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nMaybe me? Radical Openness to the Me the Other Might See\npresented by Anton Hart\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\nFRIDAY\, MAY 7\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nIf psychoanalysis aspires to maximal exploration\, how can analysts position themselves to persistently be as open as possible to what emerges within the co-participatory analytic process? The Freudian concept of transference has greatly enhanced our capacity to recognize and interpret patients’—and our own—unconscious\, unformulated\, solitary and relational experience. Yet might the lens of transference also occasion the jettisoning unwanted or potentially overwhelming aspects of experience in analysis?\nDrawing on a dissociation-based\, Ferenczian reconceptualization of unconsciousness\, Sullivan described three realms of self-experience: the good me\, the bad me\, and the not me. The not me comprises aspects of oneself that cannot be borne as one’s own. Both patients and also analysts inevitably occupy this realm to some degree\, but such not-me-ness constrains curiosity\, exploration\, and psychological growth. This represents and obstacle for increasingly free association and exploration.\nThis presentation introduces a “transitional” psychic position—the maybe me—and an accompanying analytic stance in which what feels impossible to recognize as “me” becomes available as a possible aspect of self. Extending the presenter’s previously proposed concept of radical openness\, which involves listening to the “strange other” as if they are likely to be carrying personally unconscious information about oneself\, the presentation explores the implications of this stance for a more fully realized\, coparticipatory form of psychoanalytic inquiry.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAnton Hart\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA\, is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality\, issues of racial\, sexual and other diversities\, and psychoanalytic pedagogy.  He is a member of the group\, Black Psychoanalysts Speak and\, also\, co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The New School for Social Research\, The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis\, Columbia/New York Presbyterian Hospital\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program\, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Hart served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He is completing a book for Routledge focusing on radical openness as a clinical and ethical orientation. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis\, individual and couple psychotherapy\, psychotherapy supervision and consultation\, and organizational consultation\, in New York.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES \n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:NIKOL ALEXANDER-FLOYD\, The Narrative Cure: An Intersectional Reading of Trauma and Dissociation in The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nThe Narrative Cure: An Intersectional Reading of Trauma and Dissociation in The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones\npresented by Nikol Alexander-Floyd\, JD\, PhD\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 15\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nIn this presentation\, Dr\, Alexander-Floyd provides a psychoanalytic intersectional analysis of The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones (1986/2022)\, an author who has paid special attention to psychology and trauma. Jones powerfully exposes how race\, gender\, and class domination persists\, despite gains in civil rights in terms of race and gender\, and how trauma\, including through efforts to assimilate or to transgress dominant norms\, can fracture the psyche\, through various forms of dissociation.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNikol G. Alexander-Floyd\, JD\, PhD\, is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. A lawyer and political scientist\, Dr. Alexander-Floyd has been actively engaged in a wide range of political and legal issues\, providing commentary for a variety of venues such as public radio NPR\, TNT World News\, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is the author of several books\, and her articles have appeared in leading journals such as Feminist Formations\, The International Journal of Africana Studies\, Frontiers\, Meridians\, The National Political Science Review\, Politics & Gender\, PS: Political Science & Politics\, and Signs. Her latest book\, Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics (NYU Press 2021)\, examines liminality\, utilizing psychoanalytic theory on\, among other things\, splitting\, identification and idealization\, and haunting\, and won the 2022 W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award\, given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. A recognized leader committed to diversity\, Dr. Alexander-Floyd is a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Black Women and Politics; she also co-chaired the Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association for two years\, and led the American Political Science Association’s Committee on the Status of Women and the Profession. She is editor of a special\, forthcoming issue in the Spring 2027\, of Psychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society\, marking the 30th anniversary of Claudia Tate’s Freud and His ‘Negro’: Psychoanalysis as Enemy and Ally of African Americans.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:DANIEL GAZTAMBIDE & STEVEN KNOBLAUCH\, Where We've Been\, Where We're Going\, and Getting Lost Getting There: an improvisational dialogue on contemporary psychoanalysis and the "decolonial turn"
DESCRIPTION:The 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nWhere We’ve Been\, Where We’re Going\, and Getting Lost Getting There: an improvisational dialogue on contemporary psychoanalysis and the “decolonial turn”\npresented by Daniel Gaztambide\, PsyD\, and Steven Knoblauch\, PhD \nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\nFRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 19\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nIn this conversation\, Drs. Gaztambide and Knoblauch assess their own experiences as well as those they have observed in the larger professional community. Each bringing their historical and personal perspectives to consider how\, as psychoanalysts\, we are responding to the challenging impacts concerning race\, class\, gender\, culture and power differentials in social configurations\, on  individual practices and professional institutions.\nIn particular each speaker will address how our theory and forms of practice with those who come for treatment\, are changing in response to the effects of the “decolonial turn” in various social/political/economic contexts in which we are performing as professionals.  Drs. Gaztambide and Knoblauch are not looking for simple answers — so much as seeking an exploration and ongoing delineation of the complexity and immediacy of the challenges confronting all of us in both similar and different ways.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nDaniel José Gaztambide\, PsyD\, is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College\, where he is the director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology\, and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of the books\, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology\, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch\, which received a 2024 Gradiva Award for Best Book. He is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship\, a Miranda Family Fellowship\, and the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education’s Outstanding Psychoanalytic Educator Award. Lastly\, he is the recipient of a presidential citation for his service as part of the American Psychological Association’s Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism\, Discrimination\, and Hate.\n\nSteven H. Knoblauch Ph.D. is an internationally recognized clinician\, teacher and lecturer on  psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with emphasis on the interaction between the unconscious\, the body and the social.  He is faculty and clinical consultant at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and faculty/supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity.  Additionally he has been a guest lecturer/teacher for institutes in North and South America\,  Africa\,  Asia\, Australia\, Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Knoblauch is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000)\, Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity (2021)\, and co-author with Beebe\, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005).  He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, and Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context.  For 18 years prior to entering psychoanalytic training\, Steven worked in Community Mental Health in various community based programs.  From 1975 to 1988 he worked at The Door\, an internationally recognized model program for integrating  service delivery across the health\, mental health\, education\, vocational and educational/recreational needs of inner city adolescents. His roles there included clinician\, administrator and trainer/consultant to organizations globally. After the 9/11 event in New York\, he worked with Emanuel Ghent’s daughter\, Valerie\, Latin band leader\, Arturo O’Farrill\, and a variety of other New York-based musicians/artists\, as a trainer and supervisor in the development and implementation of Feel The Music\, a program for families who lost family members in that tragedy. His work there built on his early experience performing as saxophonist and percussionist in jazz\, rock\, blues and Brasilian musical formats.  From 2022 to 2023 he served as a supervisor for The Women’s Prison Association in New York.  He continues to develop his approach to psychoanalytic treatment that combines perspectives across subjective\, intersubjective and sociogenic dimensions of experience as a complex and opaque navigational process.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE STEPHENS\, The Unthought Other: Race\, Dissociation\, and a Black Feminist Psychoanalytics
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nThe Unthought Other: Race\, Dissociation\, and a Black Feminist Psychoanalytics\npresented by Michelle Stephens\, LP\, PhD\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\nFRIDAY\, MARCH 12\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nAt the end of the 1980s\, the black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw wrestled with the problem of a female blackness lived as an invisible intersectionality. Almost five decades later\, Crenshaw’s work on intersectionality and critical race theory has become a hot button topic for conservative assertions of the lack of relevance of racialized experience to American identity.\nMeanwhile\, the past 50 years has also seen the emergence of a coherent\, experientially based\, archive of writings—essays\, scholarly works\, memoirs\, biographies and autobiographies\, histories\, fiction and poetry—articulating the distinctive position of black female subjects. This position – historical\, psychic\, subjective – is situated within and shaped by a centuries long colonial formation stretching from Europeans’ early encounters with the peoples of Africa and the Americas to the present. Drawing from this archive of black female writings\, including perspectives by black female psychoanalysts and visual artists\, this talk will explore some of the traumatic\, dissociative processes that shape how we approach race and sex interpersonally. In so doing\, a key goal is to demonstrate black feminist contributions to our understanding of the ‘unthinkability’ of the black female subject as an “unthought other.”\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMichelle Stephens\, LP\, PhD\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. A practicing psychoanalyst and co-director of The Chocolate Salon\, 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). Recent published works include Skin Acts: Race\, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press\, 2014); and articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)\, Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, Studies in Gender and Sexuality\, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.\n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270409T193000
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SUMMARY:RACHEL KABASAKALIAN-McKAY and DAVID MARK\,  The Space Between: Race\, Racism\, and Implication
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nThe Space Between: Race\, Racism\, and Implication\npresented by Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay and David Mark\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 9th\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe most fertile space in psychoanalysis is also the most fraught: the space between the two people in the room. Elaborating and affectively inhabiting what each person is bringing to the encounter asks more of us\, and offers more possibility for deep engagement and change. This of course includes the identifications and lived social experience of each person\, with race a particularly charged element. \nEngaging with Rothberg’s concept of “the implicated subject”\, a position that occupies the space between the polarities of perpetrator and victim without denying the realities of these categories\, Drs. Kabasakalin-McKay and Mark suggest the concept of implication offers a way forward that may dovetail with something at the core of a Relational analytic ethos. Central to the ways implication is felt\, disavowed\, named\, expressed and defended against are the affects and emotions that are stirred when we are called to reckon with this subject position in both the social and clinical realms. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nRachel Kabasakalian-McKay\, PhD\, EdM\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, and is co-editor with David Mark\, of Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis (2023\, Routledge). She is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Mitchell Relational Studies Center\, and she is a founding board member\, Co-Director emerita\, and faculty\, of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Additionally\, Dr. Kabasakalian-McKay teaches and supervises at NIP and ICP-NY. She has written on the subjects of implication; on empathy and recognition; and on the expansion of maternal subjectivity\, and thus\, enriched potential space made possible by Jessica Benjamin’s theory. With David Mark\, she has explored the importance of the “intersubjective real”. She is in practice in Philadelphia and New York\, and serves as an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.\nDavid Mark\, PhD\, is faculty and director emeritus of The Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia (IRPP). He is also on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Among other works\, in 1997 he co-authored with Jeffrey Faude\, PhD\, The Psychotherapy of Cocaine Addiction: Entering the Interpersonal World of the Cocaine Addict\, published by Jason Aronson. In 2023\, with Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay\, PhD\, he was co-editor of Inhabiting Implication in Racial oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Philadelphia and Narberth\, PA.\n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:ROMY OPPERMAN\, Domination and Disalienation
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nDomination and Disalienation\npresented by Romy Opperman\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\nFRIDAY\, MAY 7\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nWhat is the place of emotional and psychic life within planetary anthropogenic climate change and mass ecological destruction? Amongst responses to this question\, attention to structural racism – including settler colonialism and imperialism – is largely absent. Ms. Opperman intervenes in these conversations by focusing on Frantz Fanon’s treatment of alienation and the conceptualization of environment central to it. Building on Fanon\, she argues that colonial constructions and treatments of Nature are central to the psychic harms of racial alienation. Reciprocally\, ecological alienation cannot be understood without an account of structural racism. Ultimately\, ecological-racial alienation works as a form of debilitation in the service of domination. Yet\, it is never total. She concludes by considering some of the implications of this account for disalienation.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nRomy Opperman is a feminist philosopher bridging critical philosophy of race\, environmental philosophy\, and critical theory. Her research focuses on Africana and anti- colonial and -imperialist philosophies to understand ecological violence and envision liberated climate futures.  Romy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is currently completing her first book\, Ecological Autonomy: Reimagining Environmental Racism with Frantz Fanon and Sylvia Wynter.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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SUMMARY:CARLOS PADRON\, Symptom\, Fetish\, and/or Transformation? The Attention to Race in American Psychoanalysis Today
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nSymptom\, Fetish\, and/or Transformation? The Attention to Race in American Psychoanalysis Today\npresented by Carlos Padrón\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, JUNE 4th\, 2027 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThis presentation explores the contemporary focus on race in American psychoanalysis through the concepts of symptom\, fetish\, and transformation. Carlos Padrón examines whether this emphasis on race has led to substantive changes in psychoanalysis’ engagement with the communities whose experiences it seeks to understand or has remained largely at the symbolic level of theoretical and clinical discourse. To assess its transformative potential\, he analyzes three interrelated risks.\nThe first risk is when psychoanalytic engagements with the experiences of BIPOC communities become oriented mostly toward producing what has been called totemic capital\, that is\, moral prestige\, institutional legitimacy\, symbolic currency\, and professional distinction. Padrón examines whether this orientation reproduces a fetishistic relation to racialized others in the ways their experiences are taken up and mobilized by psychoanalysts and academics who center race in their work. The second risk concerns the displacement of class. He explores what happens when psychoanalytic engagements with race transform the experiences of BIPOC communities into symbolic objects of professional identification while overlooking class differences and reducing BIPOC identity to socioeconomic deprivation. He argues that this reduction protects psychoanalysts from confronting their own class and institutional position and the possibility of losing the moral and epistemological authority from which they speak about race. The third risk concerns theoretical innovation without meaningful changes in clinical practice or institutions and Padrón examines what happens when psychoanalytic “originality” is being driven from the top down through academic theorizing rather than from the ground up through concrete praxis in the world.\nRather than emphasizing further academic innovation\, Mr. Padrón suggests that psychoanalysis’ most urgent task is to expand its presence within public institutions of care\, or help create new ones\, allowing sustained clinical engagement with different ethnic and racial groups to reshape psychoanalytic theory from the ground up.  Addressing the aforementioned three risks may help create the conditions for the transformative horizon I envision\, grounded in the ongoing creative reworking of psychoanalytic theory (on race and many other things) through praxis within the public sphere\, as part of the polis\, as a public service.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nCarlos Padrón is a licensed psychoanalyst from Venezuela who has lived in New York City for over 20 years. He has an MA in Philosophy from the New School & an MPhil in Latin American Literature from NYU\, and he trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in NYC.\nCarlos has written and presented on the relations between philosophy & psychoanalysis & literature; on community psychoanalysis; on psychoanalysis and the political; and on clinical issues related to difference. He has published works in Out Art\, the Magazine of the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association; Division Review; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Journal of Infant\, Child\, & Adolescent Psychotherapy; Room: A Sketchbook for Psychoanalytic Action; Stillpoint Magazine; Trópicos\, the Journal of the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas; Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race\, Class\, & the Unconscious (Routledge); Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War\, Pandemic\, & Climate Change(Routledge); and in the Journal of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; among other publications.\nCurrently a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR)\, he also leads the study group “The World and the Psyche”. He has taught at various analytic institutes in New York City\, including the Silberman School of Social Work at CUNY. Carlos has worked & supervised psychoanalytically in different settings\, including community health clinics (Article 31s)\, schools\, & non-profit organizations. He currently has a private practice based in Brooklyn.\n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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