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Free Associations
From the WCSPP community
Our blog’s title is Free Associations because that is what we hope you’ll do. We are an eclectic institute, where many schools of thought are taught. The reflections you will see represent who we are, a diverse community of independent thinkers.
We invite you to scroll down and get to know some of the therapists in our community. We hope that you will find the articles thought-provoking and that they inspire you to learn more about the many ways to engage with WCSPP.
Blog Editor: Cara Maniaci, LCSW-R
Reflections on My Years Teaching and Practicing as a Psychoanalyst and Couple Therapist
by Bari Smelson, LCSW, PhD After my six years of co-directing the couples therapy program and 14 years as faculty at WCSPP, I find myself reflecting...
The Unconscious as Inspiration: Surrealism at 100
By Carter Thornton, LP, LCAT 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, a document that sparked an art movement deeply...
A Moment of Real Impact – It’s Here!
By Wade Anderson, PhD I imagine that at least a few of you who are reading this know who Deion Sanders is. He goes by Coach Prime these days and has...
My Weird Barbie, My Self
By Cara Maniaci, MA, LCSW I too had a Weird Barbie. When I was about 11 or 12, my best friend Sarah and I gathered our Barbies, some hairspray and...
The Masters
By Erica Forest, LCSW Rodrigo Garcia penned a letter to his deceased father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in the New York Times on May 6th, 2020,...
Reflections
By Julie Willstatter, LCSW-R It was the time of year when endings become beginnings because the ball drops and the clock strikes midnight; demanding...
The Perils of Uncertainty (aka, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
By Sylvia Steinert, LCSW Thanks to Google’s wiles, the Italian phrase I came upon this morning (se non e vero, e ben trovato, in English, ‘even if...
The Electronic Journal Submission: Confessions of a Technophobe
By Sharon Medoff Picard, LCSW If you’re hoping for some insider secrets on how to get a paper published in a journal, I wish I had a few. But, this...
The Times They are A-Changin
By Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, PhD It was one week ago today that I arrived by car to visit my alma mater, my partner by my side. It is the place where...
First Blog
By Coren Schwartz, LCSW Ok. I’ll go first. Leslie Phillips and I, as co-chairs for the Leadership Development Committee, created this blog. I...