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SUMMARY:Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard:   Revelation of Depth\, with George Mandelbaum
DESCRIPTION:The Artist Study Group of The Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresents\nChekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Revelation of Depth\nWith GEORGE MANDELBAUM\, PhD\nand images by Alison Feit\n\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern\nAttend In person or Online\nAttend in person at the Institute: 20 West 74th Street\, between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West\nJoin us via Zoom: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09\n\n  \nABOUT THIS PRESENTATION\nDespite his limited dramatic output\, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is considered by many to have been the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. Our presenter\, Dr. George Mandelbaum\, will focus on some of the reasons why Chekhov has this reputation and why his work is of special interest to psychoanalysts. The talk will focus on the climax of The Cherry Orchard\, which Chekhov wrote while he was at death’s door.  The bittersweet climax of the play mixes relational pleasure and pain\, and loss and gain\,at its ideational\, emotional and symbolic center.\nWith images created by Dr. Alison Feit\, we will explore through multiple perspectives\, the final scene of The Cherry Orchard with its blending of Lopakhin’s joyful\, deep throated speech at having gained the orchard\, and Ranevskaya’s physical and emotional collapse at its loss.  We will consider whether every gain one achieves also represents a loss;  the realization of personal and generational fantasies\, transformation and transcendence; the values embodied in psychoanalysis and how those can be used in the valuation of artistic creations\, including Chekhov’s plays. How did Chekhov manage to create plays that at one and the same time were outwardly directed to address the monumental changes occurring in the late 19th Century and symbolizations of his inner life?\n  \nABOUT OUR PRESENTER\nGeorge Mandelbaum\, PhD\,  was the 2014-15 Visiting Scholar at the William Alanson White Institute. He received his PhD in English Literature from Columbia University. He has published several articles on drama in psychoanalytic journals\, including the Spring 2018 issue of Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, and that journal’s 2021 issue on Checkov’s plays\, and he presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2011.  Dr. Mandelbaum taught the WAWI elective course\, “HAMLET and Hamlet:  An introduction\,” in 2016.  Over the last ten years\, he has presented to the Artist Study Group on a variety of subjects involving playwrights\, including the efforts of Strindberg and Tennessee Williams to deal with their psychosis through their late plays; on Eugene O-Neill’s composition of Long Day’s Journey into Night and on American playwright\, novelist\, journalist and actress\, Susan Glaspell.  In general\, his presentations view plays as varied efforts by playwrights to artistically master their inner lives. Dr. Mandelbaum is currently a candidate in the Academic Associate Track of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.\n  \nPlease join us for a discussion that explores the intersection of drama and psychoanalysis. \nRSVP to:   fvdillon@gmail.com\n\nFrances V. Dillon\, MSW and Eric Dammann\, PhD\, Co-Directors\,  Artist Study Group\nErnesto Mujica\, PhD\, Director\, Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service
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SUMMARY:STEPHEN FRIEDMAN\, Clinical Encounters with Otherness: The Conundrum of White Empathy
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nClinical Encounters with Otherness: The Conundrum of White Empathy\npresented by Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, October 2nd\, 2026 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit\, after the event\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe conundrum of white empathy summarizes the way in a cross-racial encounter the well-intentioned white analyst and the Black patient are immediately “caught” trying to navigate the reverberations of centuries of racial inequality and hierarchy. The empathic gesture inaugurating the clinical conversation allows for the possibility of authentic engagement and the inevitability of perpetration that enacts racial harm. The clinical space can never transcend the oppressive order. Yet the seduction of a color blind space can draw in both the white clinician hoping to avoid implication in their participation and benefit from anti-Black racism\, and the Black patient always wary of white spaces perhaps hoping there will be a chance for some respite\, but certainly not transcendence. The possibility of repair is minimal if the white analyst’s subtle unconscious investment in perpetration remains out of awareness which means that an important part of the Black patient’s lived experience in the larger world and in the consulting room is effectively off limits. Ways of combatting this silencing tendency and opening up dialogue to confront directly the conundrum of white empathy\, as well as the limits of dialogue and efforts at repair\, will be explored in this talk.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nStephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. He is currently a supervisor of psychotherapy and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  He is also an MSW and PhD graduate of the Smith School for Social Work and is an adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Instructor at Smith School for Social Work. Dr. Friedman is also on the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute\, the National Institute of Psychotherapies\, the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis\, China American Psychoanalytic Alliance\, and the NYU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. In 2019 he published a paper in Smith College Studies in Social Work entitled\, Exploration of Racial Enactments in an Interracial Dyad to Foster the Strengthening of Voice and Identity in African American Male Adolescents. His doctoral dissertation (2024) was entitled\, Interrogating Whiteness: An In-depth Study of Race and Psychoanalysis in Cross-Racial dyads. He presented Crying for different reasons: The conundrum of white empathy in an anti-Black racist world\, at a 2026 international conference in Japan. Dr. Friedman is this year’s President of the Psychoanalytic Society at the William Alanson White Institute and is the organizer of this colloquium series. He is in private practice in New York City.\n\nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.\n 
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SUMMARY:The Not-Me Speaker Series Opens with Glenn A. Albrecht
DESCRIPTION:The Not-Me Speaker Series\nA Harry Stack Sullivan Society Event\npresents\nDr. Glenn A. Albrecht\nENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHER\nOn Solastalgia\, the Symbiocene\, and Our Emotional Bonds With the Living Earth\nWednesday evening\, October 7th from 7:00-9:00PM/Eastern\nA SPECIAL ONLINE EVENT\n  \nPlease note: this is a Candidate/student sponsored event. CE Credit is not available. \nABOUT THIS EVENT\n“Humans have now created a globalized gigantic system of consumption and production which impacts the world. It changes the climate\, it has led to the sixth great extinction event\, and it is leading to the seventh\, which is us.”\nEnvironmental Philosopher\, Dr. Glenn A. Albrect\, is the author of 2019’s Earth Emotions. Bringing both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health\, he has pioneered the research of “psychoterratic” or earth-related mental health\, with the concept of “solastalgia” – or the lived experience of negative environmental change. He has also written about animal ethics\, including the ethics of relocating endangered species in the face of climate change pressures.\nDr. Albrecht joins us via live stream from his home in Australia.\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Paradox\, Containment\, and the False Self in Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:A New Four-Part Workshop with Todd Anderson\, PhD\, PsyD\, LP\nParadox\, Containment\, and the False Self in Clinical Practice\nPRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONFERENCE ADVISORY BOARD OF WAWI\nAttend in person at the Institute* or online. The speaker will be in person for these sessions.\nOffered on four Monday evenings in October and November\n6 CEs are available\n* The William Alanson White Institute is located at 20 West 74th Street\, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenues.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\nDrawing upon four chapters from Todd Anderson’s book\, The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire\, this workshop explores how clinicians work with paradox\, fragmentation\, premature adaptation\, and difficulties in symbolic life. \nAcross the four sessions\, Dr. Anderson will examine the clinical tension between coherence and containment\, the legacy of premature self-organization\, and the paradoxes of false-self functioning and authenticity. Emphasis throughout the meetings will remain on applied clinical thinking: analytic stance\, listening\, timing\, symbolization\, and the conditions under which experience can become more thinkable and livable in treatment.\nComplete session descriptions and readings are detailed below.\n\n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER\nTodd Anderson\, PhD\, PsyD\, LP\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. His clinical and theoretical work focuses on personality structure\, dissociation\, paradox\, symbolic life\, and the conditions under which experience becomes thinkable in analytic treatment. Rooted in a relational and developmental orientation\, his writing draws on object relations\, queer theory\, and post-structural thought. He is the author of The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire and three other books in psychoanalysis.\n\n\n\nTHE SCHEDULE\nSessions are being held in person\, and are also offered online via Zoom\, on the following four Monday evenings from 7:00-8:30PM: October 26th\, November 2nd\, 9th\, 16th\n\n\nSERIES COST\nProfessionals with Early Registration discount\, $450 – register by September 25th\nProfessionals\, Regular pricing\, $600 – starts September 26th\nCandidates and students\, $300\nSpecial Bonus: Registrants of this Workshop will be offered a discount to attend the new\, 5-part Fran Anderson mini-series set for  Spring 2027\, a follow-up workshop to her popular series\, Chronic Somatic Pain. Announcement to come during the 2026-2027 season.\n\nSESSION CURRICULUM\nSession 1: The Original Paradox\nThis session introduces paradox not as a problem to be solved\, but as a basic structure of psychic life and analytic process. It will consider how contradiction\, fragmentation\, and internal complexity may need to be borne rather than prematurely resolved\, and how clinicians can work more responsively when experience cannot yet be organized into coherent meaning. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 2: The Dialectic of Coherence and Containment: Ferenczi’s Legacy and the Ethics of Listening\nThis session focuses on the tension between the analyst’s wish to help create meaning and the equally necessary capacity to contain affect\, dissociation\, and uncertainty without rushing toward interpretation. It will examine coherence and containment as mutually necessary yet potentially disruptive analytic functions\, especially in trauma\, dissociation\, impasse\, and enactment. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 3: The Wise Baby and the Unborn Self\nThis session explores the figure of the prematurely knowing child and the “unborn self” as enduring psychic structures organized around survival\, dissociation\, and foreclosed development. It will consider how some patients come to know too much before they have been sufficiently held\, and how analytic work may involve not simply insight\, but the gradual emergence of what has not yet been able to take form. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSession 4: The False Self as Curator: Symbolic Life\, Containment\, and the Paradox of Authenticity\nThis session rethinks the false self not as a simple mask to be stripped away\, but as an intelligent structure of survival\, adaptation\, and symbolic mediation. It will explore how performance and accommodation may preserve aliveness under conditions of mis-recognition\, and how authenticity may depend less on dismantling the false self than understanding its protective and developmental function. The meeting will also include time to explore clinical material in relation to these themes\, allowing for integration of theory and practice.\nSUGGESTED READING\nAll readings are from The Fragmented Self\, Recognition\, and the Edge of Desire.\nReadings may consist of one book chapter for each meeting:\n1. “The Original Paradox”\n2. “The Dialectic of Coherence and Containment: Ferenczi’s Legacy and the Ethics of Listening”\n3. “The Wise Baby and the Unborn Self”\n4. “The False Self as Curator: Symbolic Life\, Containment\, and the Paradox of Authenticity”\n 
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SUMMARY:MARY WATKINS\, White Work: Reckoning with the Legacies of "Whiteness"
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERNESS\nThe 2026-2027 Colloquium Series\npresented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute\nWhite Work: Reckoning with the Legacies of “Whiteness”\npresented by Mary Watkins\, PhD\nwith Host & Moderator Stephen Friedman\, PhD\, LCSW\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 30\, 2026 from 7:30-9:30pm/Eastern\nHeld in person at the Institute\, 20 West 74th Street\, New York City and via live stream online\n1.5 CEs are available for attending. In order to receive your credit after attending\, follow the instructions that are sent prior to the event.\n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nWhen people deemed “white” in the U.S. try to understand themselves\, they rarely honestly address their extended ancestral histories. Even less common are efforts to critically understand how the invention of whiteness in the late 1600’s Virginia has affected their lives.\nDr. Watkins will share her odyssey through reparative genealogy to retrieve her ancestral history of enslaving and to reckon with ancestral debt through repair and racial reparations. Her work opens a path for “white” people to develop something akin to what W.E.B. Du Bois described as double consciousness\, an effort to try to see through the eyes of those who have been harmed by white supremacy. This kind of “white work” is vehemently opposed by many who embrace whiteness as a fact instead of a myth\, as well as by white people who have suffered a variety of losses and are low on sources of pride. For those who believe in white superiority\, the call for reparations is often seen as shaming whites. How might we mindfully approach the issue of shame so that becoming accountable for ancestral histories that have harmed others is a restorative pathway to empathic action? How might therapeutic practices open their lens to include the relevance of whiteness and ancestral history for self-understanding and reparative action?\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMary Watkins\, PhD\, Professor Emerita at Pacifica Graduate Institute\, co-created the first doctoral program in liberation psychology in the U.S. She is the author of numerous books\, including Toward Psychologies of Liberation (with Helene Shulman)\, Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons\, and White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations. She is the recipient of the award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology (Div. 24\, APA) and is the 2023 recipient of the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action (Div. 27\, APA). Currently\, Dr. Watkins focuses on critical anti-racist genealogy and the pedagogy of the white non-poor in the U.S.  for the purpose of racial reparations. She facilitates the Houses of Healing psychoeducation curriculum in prison and conducts psychological evaluations for asylum seekers in immigrant detention.\n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES\n\nThe ability to live with differences\, let alone to enjoy such living and to benefit from it\, does not come easily and certainly not under its own impetus. This ability is an art which like all arts\, requires study and exercise…\nZygmunt Bauman (2000)\n\nPsychoanalysis at its best lingers in liminal spaces and gleans wisdom from encounters on the margin (bell hooks\, 2000)\, with things unseen and experienced as ‘Other.’ The spirit of this colloquium series on Race and Psychoanalysis is to foster a dialogue about otherness in far flung places and deep within ourselves. The hope is to sustain the conversation and build authentic human connection without a collapse into a realm where defensiveness reigns\, thoughts cannot be thought and feelings become rife with experiences of anxiety and shame.\nAlthough the repair of centuries of racial oppression is impossible\, the speakers in this colloquium series will address in an interdisciplinary fashion\, the myriad ways in which psychoanalysis may help inform pathways towards some semblance of healing in the consulting room and beyond.\nAll the speakers will present their talks in person. We encourage everyone to attend in person and continue the tradition of meeting at the Institute. At the same time\, the series will be offered on a live stream\, allowing us to reach a broader audience beyond New York\, and connect with those who are unable to join in person.\n  \nThis series is presented at no charge to its audience. Please consider making a donation to The Psychoanalytic Society when registering.
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