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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Study Group - NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD 
DESCRIPTION:NICOLAS EVZONAS\, PhD\nRefracted Time\, Gender\, and the Analyst’s Trans Becomings\nWednesday\, October 1 2025\n8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)\nDescription: 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. \n  \nNicolas 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. \n\n\n\n on Zoom only\, RSVP below  \nhttps://wawi.wufoo.com/forms/s1v361i7149pvzz/\n\n\n\n  \nFor inquiries regarding The LGBTQ Study Group please contact \nEsin Egit\, PhD LP at e.egit@wawhite.org
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SUMMARY:EBONI BOOTH\, Theatre\, Writing and Lived Experience
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nOPENING EVENING: a Special Presentation\nTHEATRE\, WRITING AND LIVED EXPERIENCE\nEBONI BOOTH\, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 3rd\, 2025\, 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nEboni Booth is a Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and actor in New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). As an actor\, she has appeared in theatre and film productions. Booth is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program\, resident playwright at New Dramatists\, and the recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award\, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting\, and a John Gassner award.\n\n  \n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n This series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to the Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives for this presentation:\n\n\nDescribe how theater understands the experience of individuals and their interaction.\n\n\nExplain how theatre explores the internal life of the lonely person and the implications for psychoanalytic practice.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/eboni-booth-theatre-writing-and-lived-experience/
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SUMMARY:Halloween: Liminal Visions
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nwith The Sexual Abuse Study Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents \nHalloween: Liminal Visions \nwith Julie Marcuse\, PhD\nThursday\, October 9\, 2025 \n1:30-3:00pm/Eastern\n\n  \nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\n\n\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \n\n\n\nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nThe book\, Halloween: Liminal Visions is about a personal journey. Dr. Julie Marcuse records what she sees in “objective” reality through a lens of “radical subjectivity.”\nMarcuse has used the documentation and interpretation of the manifest content of Halloween\, with its emphasis on chaos\, ambiguity\, dread and death to master her feelings in response to living through the decline and death of her husband Donald.\nSome of the photographs are surprising\, fun and beautiful\, while many are extremely disturbing. They attempt to link different domains of experience through color photographs with minimal manipulation. This book\, her 3rd\, is a testament to love\, loss and her own capacity for survival\, and it was intended to be a final gift to her husband. He died shortly before its completion.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJulie Marcuse\, PhD\, is a psychologist\, trauma specialist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where she continues to teach and supervise. She headed the Sexual Abuse Service there for 11 years\, learning about witnessing\, dissociation\, vicarious traumatization and multi-disciplinary approaches to healing. She is passionate about the arts\, from poetry to painting to music. She uses a platform called Blurb to self-publish her work.\n\nPlease join us for this presentation aligned with the commitment of the Artist Study Group to showcase the power of creating art to mitigate and master trauma.\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, are Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group
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SUMMARY:ELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Artificial Intelligence and its Implications: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: The ChatGPT Therapist and the Inner Analyst\nELIZABETH LUNBECK\, Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 24th\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit for attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe AI therapist is rapidly becoming a dominant figure in the psychotherapeutic landscape\, embraced by the public and even more intriguingly by some clinicians—if not as a licensed therapist\, then as a companion\, a tool with which to better understand patients\, or a therapeutic ally. Professor Lunbeck suggests that the appeal of ChatGPT “therapists” is to be found\, in part\, in their resolution of a longstanding problem for the field:  the analyst’s personality\, which has long prompted attempts to standardize and mechanize practitioners in the interest of reliability\, replicability\, and the demands of science.  She suggests that Generative AI is the latest in a long series of innovations that not only achieves these goals but also does so in an improvisational and idiosyncratic register. Although observers routinely situate these new clinicians in therapy world’s CBT wing\, they come just as much from the heart of the psychoanalytic enterprise.\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER\nElizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of psychoanalysis\, psychiatry\, and psychology\, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches popular courses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge\, Gender\, and Power in Modern America; with Bennett Simon; Family Romance\, Family Secrets; The Americanization of Narcissism; and four additional co-edited volumes. Lunbeck is an academic program graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, a co-chair of APsA’s University Forum\, and board member of PsiAN.  She is currently writing a book on the analyst’s self from Freud to AI.\n\n\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nFrom its very beginnings\, psychoanalysis has existed at the intersection of science and the humanities. In the face of increasing pressures from evidence-based practice and medicalization\, what can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities? Collectively\, our speakers represent the leading edge in humanities and the arts and bring a diverse array of perspectives to bear. These talks promise to illustrate the manifest and often overlooked links between psychoanalysis and the humanities and provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and dialogue.\nAll speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone who can\, to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting together at the Institute. For those who are unable to join in person\, we offer a real-time stream\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n\nLearning Objectives \nOverall objectives of this colloquium series:\n\n\nDescribe the many interactions between the humanities and psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how psychoanalytic practice can benefit from the insights of the humanities.\n\n\nObjectives this presentation:\n\n\nDiscuss the implications of AI for psychoanalysis.\n\n\nExplain how AI works and how it may be used.\n\n\n\nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/elizabeth-lunbeck-artificial-intelligence-and-its-implications/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Benjamin Bernstein presents "What the Hell was That" - On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\n“What the Hell Was That?”: On Non-Directive Play Therapy with Adolescents\n Thursday\, October 30\, 2025\n11:45 am to 1:00 pm\nOffered in person at the Institute and online at\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/99698610096?pwd=L2JpVkVXa0o1OW96N0FNejBpVjYwdz09\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDr. Bernstein explores the therapeutic power and complexity of non-directive play therapy with adolescents. Drawing from vivid clinical vignettes and psychoanalytic theory\, he examines how activities that may appear unproductive — such as games\, humor\, or even sleep — can become profound vehicles for emotional regulation and relational growth when held within a responsive therapeutic frame. Through concepts such as Winnicott’s holding environment\, Bion’s containment\, and contemporary relational ideas about enactment and therapist subjectivity\, his talk highlights how play helps both adolescent and therapist to tolerate uncertainty\, engage symbolically\, and rediscover spontaneity in the therapeutic process.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBenjamin Bernstein\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fairfield County\, Connecticut\, as well as the adolescent psychologist at Silver Hill Hospital and founder of Redwood Psychology Group\, which specializes in depth-oriented therapy for adolescents\, families\, and parents. His work integrates psychoanalytic and relational approaches with a focus on play\, mentalization\, and the therapist’s use of self. Dr. Bernstein writes and teaches on adolescent development\, therapeutic play\, family therapy and the psychology of sports fandom. His work has been published by the American Psychological Association and his writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Time\, Axios and Psychology Today.
URL:https://wawhite.org/event/dr-benjamin-bernstein-presents-what-the-hell-was-that-on-non-directive-play-therapy-with-adolescents/
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