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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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