The Rhythm of Life: Drumming and its Place in Human and Personal History
2025-06-05 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts

presents
The Rhythm of Life: Drumming and its Place in Human and Personal History
with Eric Dammann, PhD, and James Polsky, JD, LP
Thursday, June 5th, 2025 from 1:30-3:00pm/Eastern

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

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
As humans, we are deeply and innately connected to rhythm. Drs. Eric Dammann and James Polsky will explore the role of percussion through human history and its impact on their lives personally. They will share videos of their improvisational and embodied experience, drumming in collaboration with fellow jazz and rock band members. The conversation will include a comparison of different styles of drumming – what is being expressed and what psychological needs are being met.

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

James Polsky, JD, LP, is a graduate of the Institute’s Psychoanalytic Program and is a psychoanalyst in private practice. James founded the Jazz Standard club in New York City the 1990’s, and is also the founder of Jazz Generation, a non-profit organization that supports multiple weekly live jazz performances around the city. He is also a jazz drummer and plays in gigs around town with many wonderful musicians.

Join us for this very special event!

Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, Ph.D Co Directors, Artist Study Group

LGBTQ Study Group - Pride Month
2025-06-11 20:30 - 22:00
Happy Pride to us all.
We will not have a speaker for this month. Rather, everyone is invited to a group chat to tell how they have managed these past months, what their fears and hopes have been and are for the future.
The meeting will not be held the first Wednesday, but rather the second, June 11, 2025, 8.30 – 10.00 pm. Come join us.
Best,
Willa France

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

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

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

Master Clinicians of the Interpersonal-Relational Perspective
2025-06-23 09:30 - 2025-06-27 12:30
The 2025 SUMMER EDUCATIONAL INTENSIVE
MASTER CLINICIANS OF THE INTERPERSONAL-RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Miri Abramis, PhD, Sandra Buechler, PhD, Jack Drescher, MD, Anton Hart, PhD, Jean Petrucelli, PhD, CEDS-S
Monday-Friday, June 23rd-27th, 2025

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Summer Educational Intensive, offered in person, on location at the Institute during June. This year offers a stellar line-up of five of the Institute’s most prominent Master Clinicians.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
This year the Institute is proud to present a program with five of its true Master Clinicians. Each offers expertise in a specific area. Their perspectives on the practice of Interpersonal-Relational psychoanalysis will illustrate technique and theory as applied to clinical material. Participants will attend three intensive hours each morning comprised of clinical case presentation, live supervision, group discussion, and class Q&A.
All classes are held in person at the Institute. A welcome breakfast and introduction to the Institute will be part of the first morning’s schedule; coffee and light refreshments are available daily.
The format of the program offers class participants a unique vantage for observing and participating in clinical examination with direction and input from experts in the field. Afternoons and evenings are free for socializing and exploring New York City, or for locals to return to their work settings.
15 CEs are available for this program.
The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The neighborhood includes Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, several museums, as well as numerous restaurants and shops. It is also a great jumping-off point for visiting all other parts of the City.

THE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM
MONDAY, JUNE 23rd, 9:00am-12:30pm*
SANDRA BUECHLER, PhD
The Clinical Legacies of Sullivan and Fromm
While both H.S. Sullivan and Erich Fromm emphasize the interpersonal nature of all human experience, their clinical legacies differ some. Sullivan and Fromm are my Apollonian and Dionysian gods. That is, Sullivan’s work guides me to approach treatment as occurring in phases, while Fromm’s thinking infuses me with passion. One without the other would be incomplete. In this course I describe their influence, with clinical illustrations.
Case Presenter: Gal Katz, PhD
*Monday’s schedule includes a Welcome Breakfast and an introduction to the Institute, starting at 9:00AM.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24th, 9:30am-12:30pm
JACK DRESCHER, MD
From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories
The study of human sexual and gender identities is changing, obliging analysts to think about gender and sexualities in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forebears. These changes also require an awareness of the limitations imposed upon by their own theoretical traditions. Toward that end, Dr. Drescher begins with a review of historical assumptions underlying the theory of bisexuality. Then, introducing the role of categories and hierarchies in general, he examines the particular clinical meaning of sexual hierarchies, and a discussion of the meanings and uses of the term, “natural.” He concludes with a commentary on intersexuality as an example of both the social and surgical construction of gender.
Case Presenter: Stephane Goldsand, LP, MBA

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th, 9:30am-12:30pm
ANTON HART, PhD, FABP, FIPA
The Analyst’s Aspiration to be Radically Open to Patient Experience, especially in Foreign Situations
Practicing the dispositional stance of “radical openness” requires the analyst take to heart the analysand’s experience and formulations about the analyst. Dr. Hart will discuss this and the desired effect: creating a space for analytic self-discovery that may extend beyond the analyst’s tolerable awareness.
Case Presenter: Sari Kessler, PhD

THURSDAY, JUNE 26th, 9:30am-12:30pm
MIRI ABRAMIS, PhD
Listening with an Interpersonal Lens
Despite our shared book learning on theory and technique, each of us brings a unique subjectivity and instrument to analytic dialogue. Like our patients, how we listen, process, and communicate word and deed are essential components of the ongoing conversation. In this workshop Dr. Abramis shares her Interpersonal perspective, incorporating many of the varied influences that shape her thinking, including the use of infant and child research in adult treatment, the work of Edgar Levenson, and an interest in comparative psychoanalysis. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss analytic listening following a detailed case presentation.
Case Presenter: Sarah Best, LCSW-R

FRIDAY, JUNE 27th, 9:30am-12:30pm
JEAN PETRUCELLI, PhD, CEDS-S
The Too-muchness and Not Enough-ness of Desire: What’s Food Got to Do with This?
For patients struggling with an eating disorder, there is an unrelenting internal dialogue related to desire — the having or not wanting to want – and the consuming behavioral rituals that briefly quiet these tortuous thoughts and cause much suffering. Patients must triumph over these thoughts, emotions, compulsions, and often, the experience of denial, in order to begin the road to recovery. From the Interpersonal perspective, treating an ED involves the interplay between attending directly to the disorder and disengaging from the pull to do so.
Case Presenter: Bevin Campbell, PsyD

PROGRAM PRICING
Take advantage of our deeply discounted pricing, available now:
PROFESSIONALS $500
CANDIDATES & STUDENTS $300

Note: Requests for refunds must be made before Monday, June 9th, which is two weeks prior to the course’s start date. From June 9th and on, medical documentation will be required.

ABOUT OUR MASTER CLINICIANS
Miri Abramis, PhD, is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Emeritus Fellow at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She is currently teaching and writing about the work of Edgar Levenson. For many years she taught Child Development Research and Adult Treatment, an ongoing area of interest. She is Director emeritus of the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (IPPP) at WAWI and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, the Institute’s academic journal. Dr. Abramis is in private practice in Manhattan, specializing in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She supervises widely and is currently running a study group: Enhancing Attention to Clinical Process: Language theory of Edgar Levenson, informed by contemporary research on infant development.

Sandra Buechler, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004), Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (Routledge, 2008), which won the Gradiva award; Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge, 2012), Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge, 2015), Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IP Books, 2017), Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge, 2019), Poetic Dialogues (IP Books, 2021), and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2024).

Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and a Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process. He is a Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association and moderator of the Journal Club of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Drescher is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge), and is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He was awarded the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his International Work on Gender and Sexuality.
To learn more about Dr. Drescher go to: https://jackdreschermd.net/

Anton 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. Dr. Hart is a member of the group Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and he 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, Mt. Sinai Hospital, 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 currently completing a book for Routledge entitled Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation in New York.

Jean Petrucelli, PhD, CEDS-S, is a Training & Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS); Conference Advisory Board (CAB) Committee Chair; and Founding Director of the EDCAS one-year educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant for NYU’s Postdoctoral Program; Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; editor of six books, and winner of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2016 Edited Book award for Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Petrucelli specializes in the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders and addictions. She presents nationally and internationally and maintains a private practice in New York City.
She can be reached at: drjmpetrucelli@gmail.com

Hysterical Girl with Filmmaker/Documentarian Renee Silverman
2025-09-11 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts

presents
HYSTERICAL GIRL, a discussion and examination of Kate Novack’s film with Filmmaker Renee Silverman
and Discussant Ernesto Mujica, PhD
Thursday, September 11th, 2025
1:30-3:00pm/Eastern
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Sigmund Freud produced only one major case history of a female patient, Dora, a teenage sexual assault victim. In her 2020 film short, Hysterical Girl, director Kate Novack uses a compelling lens to imagine Dora as a female patient today. It is this depiction that filmmaker/documentarian Renee Silverman presents in this examination and discussion, at a time when we are witnessing a long wave of sexual harassment, gender-based violence and sex trafficking.
Woven throughout the film is archival material – a cacophony of paintings, photographs, film clips, news reels and advertisements that underscore the depth and breadth of a society that conspires to silence and shame survivors of sexual abuse. By reframing the narrative, the film serves as a powerful indictment of not just this aspect of Freudian theory but of civilization itself. What emerges is a visceral portrait of the ways in which Freud’s theory of hysteria survives within our culture, more than a hundred years later, still silencing and shaming survivors of sexual abuse regardless of age or gender.
After screening the short film with the group, filmmaker Renee Silverman and Dr. Ernesto Mujica will facilitate a discussion about the formalistic elements of the film and the visual representation of the social and oppressive factors that surround sexual violence today.

The group is also invited to attend the Sexual Abuse Study Group meeting for a second discussion of the film and the case of Dora, which will be held online on Thursday, September 18th, 1:30-3pm EST.
To view the film Hysterical Girl in advance, go to:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007026836/hysterical-girl.html

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Renee Silverman, Filmmaker/Documentarian, is an award-winning American producer for German public television. Her recent credits include Wim Wenders: Desperado, winner of the 2020 Rose d’Or at Cannes, and It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story. She was archival producer on the Oscar nominated documentary RBG, as well as HBO’s United Skates. With Peter Miller, she directed and produced the award-winning docs Sosua: Make A Better World and Refugee Kids. She is currently in production with Peter Miller on a new documentary, Halloween Parade: A Tale of Two Villages, with executive producer, Sebastian Zimmermann (aka Seymour Licht).

ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Ernesto Mujica, PhD, is Director of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at WAWI, where he also serves as an Associate Editor of its journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica is also Supervisor of psychotherapy there and at the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology of Teachers College, Columbia University. He integrates his clinical work in the areas of childhood and adult trauma, as well as sociocultural factors in mental health with his strong interest in the Arts. His previous talks within the WAWI Artists Study Group have included discussions of artists El Anatsui (Ghana & Nigeria), Kent Monkman (First Nations-Cree, Canada), Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and the Museo del Prado’s exhibit titled “Reversos.”

Understanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange
2025-09-27 12:00 - 14:00
THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026
First Embodiment event of the New Season

Understanding the Embodiment of Narrative in the Therapeutic Exchange
Jack Foehl, PhD, Mark Freeman, PhD, Daniel Goldin, MFT, PsyD and Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP
with
Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern
This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

ABOUT THIS EVENT
Can the narratives that organize psychoanalytic exchanges be conducted without words? The answer according to the presenters in this conversation is a resounding “yes!” They offer different perspectives on how both verbal and nonverbal communication in psychoanalysis takes narrative form.
Together they demonstrate the crucial importance of understanding the embodiment of narratives in therapeutic relationships.

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

CE CREDIT INFORMATON
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups), please request CE instructions after the event.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENTRY LINKS FOR ONLINE EVENTS
NOTE 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.
For 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
We will do whatever we can to get your link to you, however the Institute is not responsible for your email provider’s security settings. There are no refunds for paid events if a link was sent to you.
For general CE Credit information, click here

THE SPEAKERS
Jack Foehl, PhD
is Past President of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where he is Training and Supervising Analyst and is Supervisor and faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Foehl is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is a past editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His recent publications include, Playing with Winnicott: Squiggling Through Therapeutic Consultations and The Slap: Playing with Reality in Discussing Trauma in 2022, and Lived Depth: A Phenomenology of Psychoanalytic Process and Identity in 2020. He integrates Merleau-Ponty’s work on the lived body into a framework for teaching and experiencing psychoanalytic process.

Mark Freeman, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, is currently Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. Author of numerous works, including Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative; Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward; The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self; Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia, and most recently, Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology. He also serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series, Explorations in Narrative Psychology.
Dr. Freeman says about his presentation for this event: For many of us, recent history has brought in tow a barrage of disturbing, mystifying, and at times positively horrifying events and experiences. All of these are “metabolized” in some way. But how? More specifically, how might we begin to tell the story of the ways in which the state of the world has entered into our own embodied being? In addressing these questions, I will discuss the movement from past to present as well as from present to past. How can we begin to understand how a given event–the morning after the election of Donald Trump, say, is carried into the future? And how can we begin to understand how a given experience in the present–for instance a bout of despairing malaise–may have originated? In short: How does one determine what sorts of stories are to be told, and what sorts of clues can the body provide?

Daniel Goldin, MFT, PsyD
serves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis: Self and context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Toward a Pragmatic Psychoanalysis: Bringing Nature, Nurture and Culture Together again will be published by Routledge this year. He and Daniel Posner create and host the popular podcast “The Conversation,” which confronts important issues of the day in a psychoanalytic vein.
For Dr. Goldin’s presentation, he says: I will be describing two kinds of empathy, one which is immediate and obviously embodied, which I call perception empathy, and another which expands from the first to wrap an intimate story around a patient’s situation, which I am calling extended empathy. Empathy so conceived provides a long tether. The stories we put together with our patients sometimes reach into infancy, sometimes into contemporary culture and politics, but they inevitably return to the body, to the feelings that started the excursion. Stories describe how we feel and change how we feel at the same time. It will be a pleasure to think together about this ordinary (but also extraordinary) aspect of our work.

Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP
is a New York City-based relational psychoanalyst and supervisor. She is the founding director of the Community Empowerment Project and Help for Helpers, an online covid-inspired international support group for therapists. She has written on the subjects of implicit experience and the use of the analyst’s subjectivity. She has a special interest in applying self-psychological principles to groups and communities.

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

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

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

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:
1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the
advantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based
language for psychoanalysis.
2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss
communication that takes place in the silences between the words.

LGBTQ Study Group - NICOLAS EVZONAS, PhD
2025-10-01 20:30 - 22:00
NICOLAS EVZONAS, PhD
Refracted Time, Gender, and the Analyst’s Trans Becomings
Wednesday, October 1 2025
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Description: This presentation articulates the psychoanalytic concept of shattered temporality with gender. According to Freud, the process of subject formation is the outcome of multiple post-hoc elucidations of one’s own experience in the framework of an intrapsychic logic. By contrast, Jean Laplanche emphasizes the intersubjective dimension of afterwardsness, which finds its ultimate raison d’être in the transference, where the analysand discovers new meanings of his or her experience at different and deferred times thanks to the analyst’s meaningful interpretations, thus promoting a novel subjectivizing process. Based on the Laplanchian framework and interdisciplinary thinking, the author moves away from the traditional psychoanalytic conception of gender as a solipsistic construction and fixed identity. He instead argues that gender constitutes an intersubjective process and a “narrative identity” (Ricoeur) that is endlessly rewritten under the sway of afterwardsness and in constant relation to the other(s) (i.e., family, peers, society, culture). Accordingly, he proposes to establish transness as the epistemological paradigm of psychoanalytic temporality and becomingness. The speaker further understands the violent reactions of certain analysts towards trans analysands as a revival of the analyst’s own traumatic narrative of gender, infantile sexuality, and primary terrors of formlessness. Finally, he illustrates how the working-through of the analyst’s countertransference agitations is likely to transform not only the analysand but also the analyst, who undergoes multiple transitions, detransitions, and retransitions within the inter-psychic, inter-temporal, and inter-processual space of the analytic treatment.

Nicolas Evzonas (PhD in Literature and PhD in Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis) is a Greek Cypriot Paris-based therapist in private practice. He is a candidate to the French Psychoanalytical Association (APF, IPA) and Associate Professor with tenure in Clinical Psychology at the University of Paris. Nicolas has written numerous papers on clinical and applied psychoanalysis published in Greek, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan peer-reviewed journals, as well as essays on films, theatre, and literature. He is the author of the French book Devenirs trans de l’analyste [Trans Becomings of the Analyst], which is currently being translated in four European languages. He is also co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue on “Sexualities, Gender, Class, and Race: A Psychoanalytic View from France” (2020) and editor of a double special issue of The Psychoanalytic Review on “Trans* Becomings and Countertransference” (2021 & 2022). His latest projects are a guest-edited French-based issue for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2023) on perversion and a forthcoming edited volume on Trauma and Sexuality (2026), which gathers together psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars from all over the world.

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

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD LP at e.egit@wawhite.org

EBONI BOOTH, Theatre, Writing and Lived Experience
2025-10-03 19:30 - 21:30
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
OPENING EVENING: a Special Presentation
THEATRE, WRITING AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
EBONI BOOTH, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 2025, 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Eboni Booth is a Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and actor in New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). As an actor, she has appeared in theatre and film productions. Booth is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program, resident playwright at New Dramatists, and the recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, and a John Gassner award.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to the Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.

Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

Objectives for this presentation:

Describe how theater understands the experience of individuals and their interaction.

Explain how theatre explores the internal life of the lonely person and the implications for psychoanalytic practice.

Halloween: Liminal Visions
2025-10-09 01:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
with The Sexual Abuse Study Group

presents
Halloween: Liminal Visions
with Julie Marcuse, PhD
Thursday, October 9, 2025
1:30-3:00pm/Eastern

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:

https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
The book, Halloween: Liminal Visions is about a personal journey. Dr. Julie Marcuse records what she sees in “objective” reality through a lens of “radical subjectivity.”
Marcuse has used the documentation and interpretation of the manifest content of Halloween, with its emphasis on chaos, ambiguity, dread and death to master her feelings in response to living through the decline and death of her husband Donald.
Some of the photographs are surprising, fun and beautiful, while many are extremely disturbing. They attempt to link different domains of experience through color photographs with minimal manipulation. This book, her 3rd, is a testament to love, loss and her own capacity for survival, and it was intended to be a final gift to her husband. He died shortly before its completion.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julie Marcuse, PhD, is a psychologist, trauma specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where she continues to teach and supervise. She headed the Sexual Abuse Service there for 11 years, learning about witnessing, dissociation, vicarious traumatization and multi-disciplinary approaches to healing. She is passionate about the arts, from poetry to painting to music. She uses a platform called Blurb to self-publish her work.

Please join us for this presentation aligned with the commitment of the Artist Study Group to showcase the power of creating art to mitigate and master trauma.

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

ELIZABETH LUNBECK, Artificial Intelligence and its Implications: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
2025-10-24 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
ELIZABETH LUNBECK, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 2025
7:30-9:00pm/Eastern
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT THIS EVENT
The AI therapist is rapidly becoming a dominant figure in the psychotherapeutic landscape, embraced by the public and even more intriguingly by some clinicians—if not as a licensed therapist, then as a companion, a tool with which to better understand patients, or a therapeutic ally. Professor Lunbeck suggests that the appeal of ChatGPT “therapists” is to be found, in part, in their resolution of a longstanding problem for the field: the analyst’s personality, which has long prompted attempts to standardize and mechanize practitioners in the interest of reliability, replicability, and the demands of science. She suggests that Generative AI is the latest in a long series of innovations that not only achieves these goals but also does so in an improvisational and idiosyncratic register. Although observers routinely situate these new clinicians in therapy world’s CBT wing, they come just as much from the heart of the psychoanalytic enterprise.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Elizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches popular courses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America; with Bennett Simon; Family Romance, Family Secrets; The Americanization of Narcissism; and four additional co-edited volumes. Lunbeck is an academic program graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a co-chair of APsA’s University Forum, and board member of PsiAN. She is currently writing a book on the analyst’s self from Freud to AI.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.
This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

Learning Objectives
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.

Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

Objectives this presentation:

Discuss the implications of AI for psychoanalysis.

Explain how AI works and how it may be used.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

Dr. Benjamin Bernstein presents "What the Hell was That" - On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
2025-10-30 11:45 - 13:00
The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
Presents a Colloquium
Benjamin Bernstein, PhD
“What the Hell Was That?”: On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
Thursday, October 30, 2025
11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Offered in person at the Institute and online at
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=[REDACTED]

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Dr. Bernstein explores the therapeutic power and complexity of non-directive play therapy with adolescents. Drawing from vivid clinical vignettes and psychoanalytic theory, he examines how activities that may appear unproductive — such as games, humor, or even sleep — can become profound vehicles for emotional regulation and relational growth when held within a responsive therapeutic frame. Through concepts such as Winnicott’s holding environment, Bion’s containment, and contemporary relational ideas about enactment and therapist subjectivity, his talk highlights how play helps both adolescent and therapist to tolerate uncertainty, engage symbolically, and rediscover spontaneity in the therapeutic process.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Benjamin Bernstein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fairfield County, Connecticut, as well as the adolescent psychologist at Silver Hill Hospital and founder of Redwood Psychology Group, which specializes in depth-oriented therapy for adolescents, families, and parents. His work integrates psychoanalytic and relational approaches with a focus on play, mentalization, and the therapist’s use of self. Dr. Bernstein writes and teaches on adolescent development, therapeutic play, family therapy and the psychology of sports fandom. His work has been published by the American Psychological Association and his writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Axios and Psychology Today.

LGBTQ Study Group w/ Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
2025-11-05 20:30 - 22:00
Toward a Horizon of Potential:
Longing, Phobia, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
with Sam Guzzardi, LCSW

Wednesday, November 5 2025
8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Description: In this presentation Sam Guzzardi will share an abridged version of his paper “Toward a Horizon of Potential: Longing, Phobia, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond,” which was awarded the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytical Association. The paper takes a close look at a brief encounter with a prospective patient who insists on knowing whether the prospective analyst is a “biological gay man” despite being told the analyst identifies as a “queer person.” It wonders about how the notion of queerness may elicit forms of regulatory anxiety and regulatory violence. Borrowing from the work of Jill Gentile, the feminine and the vaginal are taken up as organizing/disorganizing paradigms in both methodology and content; the paper also interrogates the rhetorical move of deploying the logics of biology in the prospective patient’s inquiry. Ultimately, the author leans on the notion of queer potentiality developed by José Esteban Muñoz to dream forward another, more generative version of the interaction.

Sam Guzzardi, LCSW is a New York City-based psychoanalyst trained at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, IPSS. His written work on gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis has won numerous awards, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and, most recently, the 2025 Tiresias Award of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) and IPSS, and is an Associate Editor at Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context and at Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His clinical work focuses on questions of gender, trauma, development, sexuality, and loss.

Please note:
*Attendance is free, but registration is required.
**LGBTQ Study Group meetings are held on Zoom and they are not recorded.

For inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD, LP at e.egit@wawhite.org

Alice Jones, MD, Cadence of Vanishing
2025-11-06 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
Cadence of Vanishing
with ALICE JONES, MD
Thursday, November 6, 2025
1:30-3pm/Eastern

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:

https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Psychoanalyst and poet, Dr. Alice Jones will read from her memoir, Cadence of Vanishing, weaving together love, loss, and the profound work of witnessing human trauma. With clinical precision and a poet’s heart, Jones explores the delicate choreography between presence and absence that defines human connection.
The memoir follows Jones through four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive, love, and leave. She reveals how deep listening becomes its own form of love, and how even in loss, we discover what endures.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alice Jones is a physician, psychoanalyst, open water swimmer, and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Verse, and Best American Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the NEA, as well as other literary prizes.
Thomas Ogden, author of What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations, says about her:
“Alice Jones’s Cadence of Vanishing is a meditative memoir in the form of diary entries in which many of the passages have the delicate feel of poetry. This is a penetrating exploration of the inner life of a poet through perceptive observations of the ordinary, reminiscent of Lydia Davis. It is an experience to be savored”.

Please join us for this engaging presentation!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

ELLIOT JURIST, Learning From Memoir
2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
LEARNING FROM MEMOIR
ELLIOT JURIST, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, 2025, 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Memoirs are an unexplored and fruitful way to understand how patients experience therapy, and in particular, psychoanalysis. Drawing from diverse sources, Dr. Jurist argues that some memoirists see therapy as transformative; others regard it equivocally or even negatively. He also reflects on how beliefs about therapy have changed from the post-war era to the present. The memoirists whom he addresses are Lucy Freeman, Rachel Reiland, Alison Bechdel, Melissa Febos, Hua Hsu, Stephanie Foo, and Joan Peters.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Elliot Jurist, PhD, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York, CUNY. From 2004-2013, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, from Guilford Publications, and author of a book in the series, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy, from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian, Chinese and Spanish, and was named best theoretical book in 2019 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture and Agency (MIT Press, 2000) and co-author with Peter Fonagy, George Gergely and Mary Target of Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press, 2002), the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes. He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008). His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy. In 2014, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA, and in 2024, he was given the Leadership award from the same organization. Recently, he is co-author with Norka Malberg, Jordan Bate and Mark Dangerfield of Working with Parents Across the Lifespan: A Mentalization-Informed Approach (APA Publications, 2023). Along with his wife and two children, he lives with two ancient, insubordinate dachshunds, one of whom smiles.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.
Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:

Describe the role of memoir for understanding human experience.
Explain how memoir relates to self-reflection and psychoanalytic learning.

American Photographer Steve Giovinco presents Capturing Unguarded Moments
2025-12-04 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
CAPTURING UNGUARDED MOMENTS
with STEVE GIOVINCO, MFA
and TOM HENNES, Discussant

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th 2025
1:30-3pm/Eastern

Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:

https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
American photographer Steve Giovinco will present images from two photographic projects: the endlessly mysterious nature of couples’ interactions from his series, On the Edge of Somewhere; and evidence of epic but subtle changes in extremely remote areas around arctic Greenland captured in his long-exposure nighttime photographs. His use of long exposure photography in near-total darkness makes it impossible to see through the camera’s viewfinder, and instead Giovinco “feels” the image, in tuitively framing it in the dark. His experience of the process can be meditative, revelatory and… terrifying.
Informed by his unconscious as well as a sense of history, culture, and the environment, Giovinco’s work captures the immensity of human and natural spaces, and feelings of loss and transition. Curious about interpersonal and environmental change, his visual representations allow the viewer a deep, unfolding, and emotional experience.
Giovinco’s inspirations are far reaching: the paintings of Frederick Church and the Hudson River School; the photographs of Eugène Atget, Brassai; the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, the Scandinavian and German cinema, movies his father would bring home as a child; Roman ruins and large, abandoned industrial structures.
Indeed, in 1992 his need and vision led him to create an additional tool: a hand-held, large-format (8×8″) camera. Steve Giovinco’s works are exhibited in fine arts museums around the world, and are included in numerous private and public collections.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steve Giovinco is a New York based photographer. His work is in numerous public and private collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the California Museum of Photography. Exhibitions of his work include the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Winnipeg Art Gallery; White Columns, New York; Sadler’s Wells, London; Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea. He was commissioned by one of the first blockchain art platforms, Monegraph. Giovinco earned his MFA in photography from Yale University. As a Fulbright Fellow Alternate, he received a Yaddo artist residency and numerous grants.
ABOUT OUR DISCUSSANT
Tom Hennes is founder of Thinc Design and is a member of the Institute’s Board of Trustees. Believing in the implicit power of exhibition as a medium to engage society in important ways, he has pursued an ever-deepening involvement with projects embedded in social and environmental justice. Hennes has written extensively on the multi-faceted role of museums and has taught at leading academic and design institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pratt Institute in Boisbuchet, France, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the University of Pretoria, among many others.

Join us for what promises to be an evocative presentation and discussion, with this very special guest.
RSVP to: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group

How Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?
2025-12-06 12:00 - 14:00
THE EMBODIMENT SERIES of 2025-2026
How Does the Embodiment of Memory Affect Therapeutic Relationships?
Françoise Davoine, PhD, Heather Ferguson, LCSW, Vincent Stephen, PsyD, Nancy Winters, MD,FIPA
with
Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 2025
Online from 12Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern
This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

ABOUT THIS EVENT
“Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences.”
Since Freud and Breuer pronounced this in 1895, memory is still believed to play a crucial role in the bodily as well as psychological suffering of our patients. We now understand that memory is not only verbal (declarative) but is also nonverbal (implicit). Our speakers will share how they use body-based memory in every therapeutic encounter.
Comments by the speakers about their planned talks:
Françoise Davoine, PhD:

Two sentences that I will use in my conversation:
“My delusion happens at the crossroad of my little story and the Great History.” — told by a patient.
“The Body keeps the Score,” Bessel Van der Kolk’s title, as it embodies the premature knowledge of a catastrophic stoppage of time.

Heather Ferguson, LCSW:

As Pierre Janet discovered, traumatic memories are split off from conscious awareness and stored as sensory perceptions, behavioral reenactments, and symptoms. In my work with one patient, the nonverbal iterations of traumatic memory and their sensorimotor traces infiltrated our therapeutic space, guiding our attention to her body’s long-thwarted impulses.

Vincent Stephen, PsyD:

I will focus on dissociated memories that express themselves as movements and sensations in the therapeutic context, and on embodied identification in the therapeutic relationship.

Nancy Winters, MD, FIPA:

In 1926 Freud observed: “There is much more continuity between intrauterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe.” I extend this notion to the emergence of the primitive or infantile in later bodily phenomena. In several brief vignettes I discuss how embodied experience — in both patient and therapist (via somatic reverie) — can be recognized as registrations of early “remembered,” yet unsymbolized and unmetabolized, experience.

COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30

CE CREDIT INFORMATON
2 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE. Instructions about how to obtain available CEs are sent out to registrants in the entry link email, prior to the event. If you miss that letter (for late sign-ups), please request CE instructions after the event.
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Françoise Davoine, PhD, has completed studies in classical literature. She has a PhD in sociology and is a professor a Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where, for 40 years, she has lead a weekly seminar with Jean Max Gaudillière entitled “Madness and the Social Link.” She has been a psychoanalyst in a public psychiatric hospital and outdoor consultation, as well as in private practice in Paris for 30 years. Dr. Davoine was a member of Lacan’s “Ecole Freudienne” until Lacan’s death in 1981. She is a member of ISPS founded in 1954 by Gaetano Benedetti, and is an Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs Center. Her books include History beyond Trauma (Other Press with Max Gaudillière); and, several published by Routledge: Mother Folly, Fighting Melancholy: Don Quixote’s teaching: A Word to the Wise (on Don Quixote’s second book); Jean Max Gaudillière’s Seminars (2 volumes); Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature; Shandean Psychoanalysis: Madness and traumas in Tristram Shandy and Wittgenstein’s Folly.
Heather Ferguson, LCSW, is a faculty member and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR, she incorporates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has chapters in“Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis” (edited by Harris, Kalb, and Klebanoff) and “Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists” (edited by Hagman). She maintains a private practice in New York City.
Vincent Stephen, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist working as a therapist and supervisor at the University Hospital in Tromsø, North Norway. He specializes in psychotherapy for people struggling with complex trauma, dissociation, and serious relational difficulties. He is a candidate at the Norwegian Character Analytical Institute in Olso, a training institution for embodied psychoanalysis. Dr. Stephen is interested in the therapeutic use of countertransference and has written on language, embodiment, suicide and authenticity. He is also a multi-disciplinary artist and musician and has written and performed in various works, including several collaborations with dancer Mirte Bogaert.
Nancy C. Winters, MD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, the Northwestern Psychoanalysis Society and Institute, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University. She serves on editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also co-editor and chapter author of the 2022 Gradiva award-winning Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (2021); Autoimmunity and its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness (IJP, 2022), and A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary Perversion of Truth (in press, American Journal of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Winters has a full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland, OR.

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

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

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

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:
1. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to evaluate the
advantages of using body-based language rather than concept-based
language for psychoanalysis.
2. By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to discuss
communication that takes place in the silences between the words.

Trauma and Healing through Symbolization with Betsy Hegeman
2026-01-08 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
Trauma and Healing through Symbolization
with Betsy Hegeman, PhD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8th 2026
1:30-3pm/Eastern
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Does art help us move from dissociated pain, shock, horror or numbness to more grounded, connected states? Can it help us get to a part of the conscious self where traumatic experience can be processed differently than just dissociation?
Betsy Hegeman will describe clinical examples exploring these questions, where the experience of making art helps patients move from their dissociated state to one of connection. As a group, we will then consider how cultural traumatic or existential events, like global warming, are denied, and how we might work to instead incorporate cultural experiences of connection.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Betsy Hegeman, PhD, is a faculty member and a Training and Supervising Analyst at WAWI, where she co-taught a class on trauma with Richard Gartner and Sharon Kofman. She is also a faculty member at NYU Postdoc and is professor emerita of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she has taught for over fifty years. Dr. Hegeman has done field work in Puerto Rico and Colombia, focusing on migration, class structure, gender and poverty. She lives in Massachusetts with her daughter and grandson.

Please join us for this moving presentation and discussion.

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

From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts
2026-01-10 10:00 - 13:00
From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts
with Todd Essig, PhD
An Online Workshop for WAWI Graduates, Faculty and Candidates
presented by the WAWI Curriculum Committee
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10th, 2026
10:00am-1:00pm/Eastern

3 CE credits are available for attending this workshop

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
The recent IPA Code revisions affirm what many discovered through pandemic necessity: deep analytic work can happen on screens and speakers. But “can happen” is not the same as “happens in the same way.” Many now see that screen relations are similar enough to in-person work to sustain analysis, yet different enough to require us to rethink aspects of our clinical stance and theoretical framework.
This workshop will explore those similarities and differences, both psychologically and clinically: How do screen relations affect presence, attention, and the analytic frame? What happens to transference, countertransference, and reverie when we meet on screen? And, most centrally, how do we make the most of what’s unique about this context rather than in attending differences?
Throughout, we’ll strive to think together. Your questions, concerns, and clinical experiences are essential to this exploration. As broader context for our discussion, we’ll also consider how the rapid emergence of AI relationships is already reshaping the technological landscape in which screen-based care now takes place.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Todd Essig, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering in the creative uses of mental health technologies. In addition to his full time NYC-based clinical practice, he publishes, lectures, and consults internationally on forming best practices in the use of technology to serve human purposes. His primary academic affiliations are Faculty and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Essig is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) where he served on the Task Force on Distance Training and on the Task Force on Training in Contemporary Times where he co-authored task force reports. As a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), he co-chaired the COVID-19 Response team. Recently, in the current center of his non-clinical professional life, he founded and is Co-Chair of APsA’s Council on Artificial Intelligence. He teaches and lectures at institutes and societies in the US and in Japan, Canada and England.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE INFORMATION
By completing this class:
1. Attendees will be able to name the process by which online sessions operate similarly to in-person sessions
2. Attendees will be able to list 2 of the 3 ways online sessions afford different experiences than in-person sessions
3. Attendees will be able to name the three interactive contexts operating in the AI Age

References:
Essig, T., & Russell, G. I. (2021). A report from the field: Providing psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(2), 157-177.
Lemma, A. (2025). What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to “The phenomenology of teleanalysis” by Dr N. Zapien. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 106(2), 363-374.
Zapien, N. (2025). The phenomenology of teleanalysis: A research study of the experiences of analysts and candidates in training analyses in the US during 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 106(2), 340-36

The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy: An Artistic Expression of Understanding Attachment Theory and How I Apply it to Clinical Work by Jill Leibowitz
2026-01-22 11:45 - 13:00
The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
Presents a Colloquium
JILL LEIBOWITZ, PSYD,
“THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ITSY BITSY: AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND HOW I APPLY IT TO CLINICAL WORK”
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Offered in person at the Institute and online at:
https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=[REDACTED]

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In describing this presentation, Dr. Leibowitz says, “I believe that open and playful communication between children and their grown-ups is a key component to fostering healthy development. Feeling a need to share this understanding with more of the adults in kids’ lives than I could reach in my private practice, I wrote and published two children’s books that model reflection, mentalization, and open emotion communication. My goal was to help children and their grown-ups talk and reflect together about tough emotional moments and to normalize the full range of emotions we all experience — ideas that reflect, from my perspective, the important takeaways from Attachment Theory.
Thus, through these books, I am attempting to communicate my understanding of Attachment Theory and how I apply it to the everyday clinical and parent-guidance work I do. In this presentation, I will read one of the books, share my process of engaging playfully to create the books, and talk about the Attachment Theory-related concepts that I hope the books illustrate.”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jill Leibowitz, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in her New York City private practice. She specializes in play therapy, psychotherapy, parenting support, and parent-child work, and she is a member of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Home Visiting Program. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Leibowitz teaches and supervises graduate and post-graduate students at several New York universities and institutes. She is the author of The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy, a children’s book series, and has contributed to blogs, podcasts, and academic journals on topics related to children’s emotional development, play and emotional literacy.

Learning Objectives:

To gain an appreciation for the central role of playful engagement in our clinical work and in development more generally.

To apply reflective, open communication practices to everyday, real-life scenarios that occur between children and their grown-ups.

To learn about one individual’s process of children’s book publishing and marketing.

BILL T. JONES, On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
2026-01-30 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
A Special In-Person and Live-Streamed Event at New York Live Arts*
On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
BILL T. JONES, Award-winning Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Author, and Co-Founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and of New York Live Arts
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30th, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern
* This event will be held in person at New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, New York City. The venue will provide the link to its live stream.
You must register to attend. Please note that registration and charges for this event are being handled through the venue.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Bill T. Jones is an artistic director and leading dancer, choreographer, director, and writer. He is co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Manhattan and Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles and on Broadway and for other theatrical venues. The recipient of numerous awards including two Tony Awards, an Obie, a MacArthur “Genius” Award and Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and of the National Medal of Arts, among a long list of others.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person, we offer a real-time stream for most of the dates, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.

Note that CEs are not available for this event.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.

Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

Objectives for this presentation:

Describe how choreography of movements conveys meaning and autobiography.

Explain how mind and body inform dance and psychoanalytic treatment.

Passing Through with Visual Artist Naomi Friedman and Discussant Stephen Friedman
2026-02-05 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
PASSING THROUGH
WITH NAOMI FRIEDMAN, VISUAL ARTIST
and Stephen Friedman, PhD, Discussant
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5th 2026
1:30-3:00pm/Eastern

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

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
Passing Through challenges one of the most persistent binaries of our time: the divide between public and private space. Visual Artist Naomi Friedman interrogates how trans bodies, experiences, and rhythms disrupt these categories, revealing their fragility and the violence required to maintain them. With collage and paintings, Friedman insists on the permeability of cultural categories and the instability of the narratives that sustain them.
We will discuss figure and setting in the works, and what components might complicate/disrupt those boundaries, as well as other questions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Naomi Friedman, non-binary, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College in 2022 andl co-founded the Boyz With Apple Artist Collective LLC, https://www.boyzwithapple.com/about-the-boyz Recent exhibitions include the Cannes Contemporary Art Biennale, Art Basel Switzerland and a solo exhibition in Madrid. Friedman teaches early-childhood art classes in Brooklyn.

ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Stephen Friedman, PhD, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where he is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and teaches a seminar on the clinical implications of the Interpersonal perspective, race, diversity and otherness in clinical work. He has a private practice in New York City.
Join us!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group

The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
2026-02-11 19:30 - 21:00
The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program

IN PERSON OPEN HOUSE

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm
Envy, Greed, and the Search for a Holding Environment: Working with Stealing and Lying in a Latency-Age Girl
A Clinical Case Presentation by Dan Liu, LCSW
with discussion led by Mara Heiman, LCSW
Held at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)

ABOUT THIS EVENT
According to Melanie Klein, envy is a primitive and fundamentally destructive affect, whereas greed refers to the impulse toward excessive taking and possessing that is often driven by envy. Clinically, behaviors such as lying and stealing can be understood as manifestations of both envy and greed – expressions of destructiveness, anger, and aggression that involve taking from others and depriving them of what they have. Yet these behaviors may also be seen as communications that seek a holding environment in which such intense feelings can be contained and transformed, allowing movement toward the true self.
Ms. Liu will discuss a long-term treatment with a nine-year-old girl, illustrating how envy and greed emerged in the clinical work and how the holding environment made it possible to recognize, contain, and work through these dynamics.
Join us for a rich presentation by a current candidate, demonstrating the culmination of a sophisticated learning process and the integration of clinical theory and technique. It will be an opportunity for those interested in child and adolescent psychotherapy training to learn more about our program, participate in a discussion, and take part in a Q&A. Light refreshments will be available.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dan Liu is a candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) at the William Alanson White Institute. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Institute, where she now serves as faculty in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. Ms. Liu earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University and has lived in New York City for the past 14 years, where she maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Originally from Shenzhen, a coastal city in southeastern China, she brings a multicultural perspective to her clinical work. She speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese, and works with individuals from diverse racial, ethnic, and social backgrounds.
FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com

SUNIL BHATIA, Why DeColonization?
2026-02-20 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
WHY DECOLONIZATION?
SUNIL BHATIA, Professor of Human Development and Cultural Psychology, Connecticut College
Please note: This event has been cancelled.

with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Sunil Bhatia, is an internationally recognized authority on culture and psychology and Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is at the forefront of studies on decolonization and author of such books as American Karma; Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities; and Globalization and Culture: Narratives of Indian Youth from Call Centers to Chail Stalls (forthcoming Oxford U. Press) among others. Additionally, he is a frequent lecturer and commentator on current events.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.

Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:

Explore how decolonization matters for psychoanalytic practice.

Explain what decolonization is and what its implications are.

The Psychoanalytic Training Program Special Open House
2026-03-04 19:30 - 21:30
The Psychoanalytic Training Program
A SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4th
7:30-9:30pm
THE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS:
A cohort of graduates reflects upon the influence of psychoanalytic training on personal and professional evolutions.
With David C. Banthin, PhD, Tomás Casado-Frankel, LMFT-D, LP, John Eastman, LCSW, Dan Liu, LCSW, Mary Olsen, LCSW, Josh Yoselovsky, LCSW
Held In Person at the Institute: 20 West 74th Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue

ABOUT THE EVENING
A clinical case will be presented, followed by discussion with our panel of graduates – who together went through the training program and have gone on to build their practices.
Attendees will be invited to join the discussion for the experience of a cohort peer supervision, and will be encouraged to ask questions about the case, the program, and our Institute. Light refreshments will be available.
Join us!

ABOUT OUR PANELISTS
David C. Banthin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He earned his doctoral degree from the New School for Social Research and completed fellowships and postdoctoral certificates at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Mount Sinai/Mental Illness Research and Clinical Center at the Department of Veteran Affairs, Behavioral Tech for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and psychoanalytic training at WAWI. He has engaged in psychotherapy research in psychodynamic and behavioral treatment modalities for 15+ years with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and personality disorders.
Tomás Casado-Frankel, MA, LMFT-D, LP, is the Director of Outreach and Recruitment, a Supervisor of Psychotherapy, and a graduate of both the WAWI Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. He is co-author of Early Relational Trauma and the Development of Self, published by Routledge in 2022. He is in private practice in NYC.
Dan Liu, LCSW, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Originally from Shenzhen, China, Dan brings a multicultural perspective to her work and provides therapy in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Mary Olsen, LCSW, worked at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in the Employee Assistance Program before completing her training at the William Alanson White Institute. Mary is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at WAWI and credits her psychoanalytic training for her seamless transition into full time private practice. Prior to earning her MSW, she founded and ran a technology consulting practice.

Josh Yoselovsky, LCSW, completed his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in 2021, and is on its faculty, as well as that of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Josh is also an adjunct instructor at Fordham University’s Graduate School for Social Service. His academic and clinical interests focus on early Interpersonal thinking and literature, as well as on the intersection of theater, performance, and psychoanalysis.

Aesthetics of the Encounter: Psychoanalysis in Chaotic Times
2026-03-05 13:30 - 15:00
The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
Aesthetics of the Encounter: Psychoanalysis in Chaotic Times
with Gabriela Goldstein, PhD
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026, 1:30-3pm/Eastern time
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
Online via Zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=[REDACTED]

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In response to this time of radical political polarization, Gabriela Goldstein offers us an exploration of aesthetic experience as a transformative event; an unexpected encounter with works of art that may lead to a state of poetic estrangement, promoting a possible reorganization of its subject’s psychic economy. In this presentation, she will share slides and vignettes that demonstrate the experience of this state of estrangement, reflecting upon the encounter between the subject and the other or Other;between analyst and patient and in the framework provided by the analytical situation. In her new book, Art and Psychoanalysis: Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement (Routledge, 2026), she considers how the metapsychology of aesthetic experience and its research contribute to a clinical understanding of processes of deficient symbolization.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD, is a training analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association and FEPAL. She is also the former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and currently serves as a Latin American member of the IPA Board (2025-2027). Dr. Goldstein has authored several books and has received distinctions in psychoanalytic literature and the Arts. She is also an architect and visual artist, with exhibitions in Argentina, Europe, and the United States. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. For further information about her work, visit her website: gabrielagoldstein.com.ar

Join us for a fascinating and timely presentation!
RSVP to fvdillon@gmail.com

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

The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
2026-03-11 19:30 - 21:00
The Child & Adolescent​ Psychotherapy Training Program

IN PERSON OPEN HOUSE

Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm
Adolescence in the Manosphere: the Psychodynamic Treatment of an Isolated 16 Year Old Boy
A CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION by Stephanie Vanden Bos, LCSW
Held at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street (between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West)

ABOUT THIS EVENT
The 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.
Join 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.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Stephanie 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.

FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD & ADOLESCENT PROGRAM, CONTACT MARA HEIMAN AT maraheiman18@gmail.com

Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects
2026-03-13 12:00 - 13:30
Micro-Traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing Cumulative Toxic Effects
with Margaret Crastnopol, PhD
A 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.
Held online on three Fridays, starting March 13th
4.5 CE credits are available

ABOUT THE SERIES
Subtle 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.
Participants 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.
A list of required and optional reading will be sent to registrants.

ABOUT MARGARET CRASTNOPOL, PhD
Margaret 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.

CLASS SCHEDULE
Held online on Fridays, from 12Noon-1:30PM/Eastern, on March 13, 20, 27

COURSE COSTS:
Professionals: Early Registration $400 available now thru February 22nd. Starting February 23rd, $500
Candidates and students: $250

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the completion of this course, students will be able to:

Enumerate and describe certain specific mechanisms of toxic functioning, including “unkind cutting back,” “connoisseurship gone awry,” “little murders,” etc.

Identify signs within the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic relationship that such patterns are being replayed.

Articulate and implement various effective strategies for repairing micro-traumatic damage to the patient’s sense of well-being and self-worth.

MARK FREEMAN on Narrative, Lived and Told
2026-03-13 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
NARRATIVE, LIVED AND TOLD
MARK FREEMAN, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Society and Psychology, College of the Holy Cross
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, MARCH 13th from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
A 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.
But 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.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Mark 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.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.
Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:

Describe the implications of narrative for psychoanalytic practice.
Describe the role of narrative in developing self-awareness.

MARIANNE HIRSCH, Reparative Memory
2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:00
IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES
The 2025-2026 Colloquium Series
presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute
REPARATIVE MEMORY
MARIANNE HIRSCH, William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Columbia University
with Hosts & Moderators, Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll, PsyD, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society
FRIDAY, APRIL 10th, from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern — please note this is a revised date
Held in person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York City and via live stream online
1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective, a process she has termed “post memory.” Some of her books include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory; The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust; and Women Mobilizing Memory. She is currently a Getty Scholar and completing a book on the theme of reparative memory.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
From 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.
All 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.

This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overall objectives of this colloquium series:

Describe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.

Explain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES THIS PRESENTATION:

Describe the ways in which memory can have a reparative effect.

Explain the relationship of reparative memory to trauma and psychoanalytic practice.
