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SUMMARY:Trauma and Healing through Symbolization with Betsy Hegeman
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\nPRESENTS\nTrauma and Healing through Symbolization \nwith Betsy Hegeman\, PhD\nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 8th 2026\n1:30-3pm/Eastern\nAttend in person or online as follows:\nIn person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, between CPW & Columbus Avenues\nOnline via Zoom at:\nhttps://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09 \nPlease be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDoes 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?\nBetsy 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.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nBetsy 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.\n  \nPlease join us for this moving presentation and discussion.\n  \nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group\n 
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SUMMARY:From Room to Zoom and Beyond:  Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care  and Emerging Clinical Contexts
DESCRIPTION:From Room to Zoom and Beyond: Navigating Screen Relations-Based Psychoanalytic Care and Emerging Clinical Contexts\nwith Todd Essig\, PhD\nAn Online Workshop for WAWI Graduates\, Faculty and Candidates\npresented by the WAWI Curriculum Committee\nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10th\, 2026\n10:00am-1:00pm/Eastern\n  \n3 CE credits are available for attending this workshop\n  \nABOUT THIS WORKSHOP\nThe 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.\nThis 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?\nThroughout\, 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.\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd 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. \nDr. 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. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVE INFORMATION\nBy completing this class:\n1. Attendees will be able to name the process by which online sessions operate similarly to in-person sessions\n2. Attendees will be able to list 2 of the 3 ways online sessions afford different experiences than in-person sessions\n3. Attendees will be able to name the three interactive contexts operating in the AI Age\n\nReferences:\nEssig\, T.\, & Russell\, G. I. (2021). A report from the field: Providing psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, 18(2)\, 157-177.\nLemma\, 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.\nZapien\, 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
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SUMMARY:The Untold Stories of Itsy Bitsy:  An Artistic Expression of Understanding Attachment Theory and How I Apply  it to Clinical Work by Jill Leibowitz
DESCRIPTION:The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\nPresents a Colloquium\nJILL LEIBOWITZ\, PSYD\,\n“THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ITSY BITSY: AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND HOW I APPLY IT TO CLINICAL WORK”\nThursday\, January 22nd\, 2026\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\nIn 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.\nThus\, 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.”\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJill 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.\n  \nLearning Objectives:\n\n\nTo gain an appreciation for the central role of playful engagement in our clinical work and in development more generally.\n\n\nTo apply reflective\, open communication practices to everyday\, real-life scenarios that occur between children and their grown-ups.\n\n\nTo learn about one individual’s process of children’s book publishing and marketing.
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SUMMARY:BILL T. JONES\, On the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:IN DIALOGUE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES\nThe 2025-2026 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nA Special In-Person and Live-Streamed Event at New York Live Arts* \nOn the Continuity of Falling Apart and Rebuilding\nBILL 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\nwith Hosts & Moderators\, Roger Frie\, PhD\, PsyD\, and Nancy Freeman-Carroll\, PsyD\, Co-Presidents of the Psychoanalytic Society\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 30th\, 2026 from 7:30-9:00pm/Eastern\n* 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.\nYou must register to attend. Please note that registration and charges for this event are being handled through the venue.\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nBill 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.\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 for most of the dates\, to reach beyond New York to a broader audience.\n\n\nNote that CEs are not available for this event.\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 choreography of movements conveys meaning and autobiography.\n\n\nExplain how mind and body inform dance and psychoanalytic treatment.\n\n\n 
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