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SUMMARY:Jung's Perspective on The Psychology of Aging
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\nCT Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMFTs\, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists \nDr. Fogarty will explore aging as it arises in clinical process from a Jungian perspective.  For Jung our experience of embodied psychic life is purposive\, not simply an extension of reductive repetitions of the past. When we are faced with the archetypal drama of the “Second Half of Life”\, the arc of existence felt within the horizon of death\, patterns operate in tension with newly emerging potentials – loss\, mourning\, rebirth\, “new wine in new wineskins”\, or not. Working relationally within multiple self-states\, we engage such possibilities within the treatment matrix.  Emergent patterns may be amplified through archetypal\, collective\, personally experienced motifs known in images\, stories and events that open up the transference-countertransference field and can further individuation for analysand and analyst. Clinical vignettes and a film clip will demonstrate the transformative and the unchanging. \n \nHarry W. Fogarty\, MDiv\, PhD\, LP is a Jungian Analyst maintaining a practice in NYC. He serves as a Faculty Member and Supervisor for the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. He has presented papers at various conferences\, and taught\, serving as Lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary\, NYC (1991-2014). In recent years\, a particular interest has been working with experiences of the collective psyche as it manifests in the relational analytic field\, as well as with motifs of personal and intergenerational trauma\, of the embodied psyche\, and of the generative dynamics of aging\, including illness. Recent papers include: “Blind Spots in Western Mentality: Imposition vs. Universalism”\, “Without Words or Thought: Psyche as Only Incarnate\, Or on Working Analytically with Embodied Awareness”\, and “More to Come: Clinical Studies of Analytical Process with Older Analysands.”
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/jungs-perspective-on-the-psychology-of-aging/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T193000
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SUMMARY:WCSPP Film Night: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, Psychologists and PsyDs\nWatch the Movie before the Event – – then Join Us to Discuss!\nYou can stream the movie on many platforms including Google Play\, Paramount+ and YouTube. \nIn our increasingly uncertain world\, Steven Spielberg’s (2001) prescient film “AI: Artificial Intelligence” raises essential questions about the human condition as it depicts a society in which technologies have become so advanced that it’s hard to tell the difference between robots and humans. A modern Pinocchio story\, it centers around a robot boy who has been programmed to love. Imprinted onto a human mother who ultimately abandons him\, the boy sets off on a perilous journey hoping to become real. \nAs we grapple today with the humanization of machines and the mechanization of humans\, the movie illustrates what can happen when the creations we’ve made to serve us threaten our being and identity. Through the lens of attachment\, loss\, fantasy and memory\, we see the pain of perpetual longing\, the search to heal unbearable aloneness\, and the thin line between object usage and object love. It asks what it means to be authentically human in a vast\, timeless universe\, and suggests what might be truly reparative within the therapeutic relationship. \nJudith Schweiger Levy\, PhD\, is a Faculty and Supervisor\, WCSPP; Training and Supervising Analyst\, Contemporary Freudian Society; Faculty\, Supervisor\, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis; and Supervisor\, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Dr. Levy has a Certificate in Psychoanalysis\, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and Contemporary Freudian Society. \n\nSign up to join us! \nREGISTRATION LINK\n\n 
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/wcspp-film-night-a-i-artificial-intelligence/
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SUMMARY:Blooming in December
DESCRIPTION:Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults and Perspectives on the Aging of the Analyst\n\n\n\nThe Academic Events Committee Presents A Wrinkle In Time\nA Series that will Consider both the Psychic Challenges and Opportunities for Generativity and Transformation in Later Stages of Life \nPresenter: Amy Schaffer\, PhD \nLive on Zoom! \n2 CE Hours available for\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\nCT Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMFTs\, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists\nThis Event is also Approved for Cultural Competency in Connecticut \nAlthough our field has largely neglected this population\, psychodynamic treatment of older adults can be extremely effective\, not only relieving suffering but leading to striking psychological change and more fulfilling lives. Aspects of aging that we will explore include current and revived relational conflicts and trauma\, later-life disruptions to self-experience\, the impact of ageism\, and existential concerns. After focusing on the way psychodynamic treatment of depth and meaning can help our older patients\, we will turn to ourselves. How does our own entry into later life affect our psyches and our clinical practice? I’ve been interviewing therapists about this and will share what I’ve been learning. And then\, let’s talk! \n \nAmy Schaffer\, PhD is the author of Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults\, a publication in Routledge’s “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” series. She is affiliated with the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy as faculty\, supervisor\, and former director of the Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and she currently serves on the Executive Board of NYSPA’s Division of Adult Aging and Development. She has treated older adults for over 50 years.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/blooming-in-december/
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SUMMARY:The Feminine in Buddhism & Psychoanalysis: Our Portal to Aliveness
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\n\nPsychoanalysis in Action: The Feminine in Buddhism & Psychoanalysis: Our Portal to Aliveness\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Pilar Jennings will explore her decades long relationship to Tibetan Buddhism and its influence on her psychoanalytic practice. With an emphasis on the tradition’s shared efforts to restore our contact with feminine aspects of the psyche – intuitive knowing\, empathy\, and receptivity – she will consider how the Buddhist and psychoanalytic traditions benefit from active engagement. She will also consider recent collective struggles influencing analytic work\, and the analyst’s increased need for feminine resources nurtured in the Buddhist model of mind. \n \nPilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst based in New York City with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary\, and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2000. Dr. Jennings is a long-term practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; a faculty member of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; and teaches internationally on the intersection of Buddhist psychology and psychoanalysis. Her publications have included “East of Ego: The Intersection of Narcissism and Buddhist Meditation Practice\,” “Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche’s Push for Healing\,” Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (Wisdom Publications; 2010)\, and a memoir about her entry into clinical work: To Heal a Wounded Heart: On the Transformative Power of Buddhism & Psychotherapy in Action (Shambhala; 2017).
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/the-feminine-in-buddhism-psychoanalysis-our-portal-to-aliveness/
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Behavioral Health Professions: Emerging Ethical and Risk Management Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is transforming behavioral healthcare.  AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments\, assist people in crisis\, monitor clients’ status\, strengthen prevention efforts\, record clinical notes\, identify systemic biases in the delivery of behavioral health services\, provide clinical education and supervision\, and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes\, among other uses. This training will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to clinicians’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI. \nJoin Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism\, dishonesty\, fraud\, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools. \n \nFrederic Reamer\, PhD\, is on the faculty of the School of Social Work\, Rhode Island College.  His teaching and research focus on professional ethics\, criminal justice\, mental health\, health care\, and public policy.  Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings.  He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in and served on the code revision task force.  Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by NASW\, the Association of Social Work Boards\, Council on Social Work Education\, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed standards governing social workers’ use of technology in professional practice. \nDr. Reamer serves as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Work and served as editor of the Journal of Social Work Education. He also served on the State of Rhode Island Parole Board for 24 years and has been the ethics instructor for the Providence (RI) Police Department Academy since 2012.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-the-behavioral-health-professions-emerging-ethical-and-risk-management-challenges/
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SUMMARY:Winnicott in a Clinical Context
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nThis presentation\, configured largely as a Q & A forum\, aims to capture the playful essence of Winnicott’s work such that the process and content of his thinking are given equal weight. Moving from the Capacity to be Alone\, to the Holding Environment\, to the creation of False and True Selves\, to the Capacity to Use Objects and to Hate\, to the creation of Transitional Phenomena\, we will portray his work as a dialectical dance between child and caretaker(s). The talk will also consider how Winnicott’s clinical voice speaks to what a “good enough” parent is and what gets in the way of good enough parenting. This format will allow the audience to engage in a creative way with Dr. Tuber and discuss why the “play” goes well or not.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/winnicott-in-a-clinical-context/
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SUMMARY:Born to Flourish: How to Thrive in a Challenging World
DESCRIPTION:Grounded in decades of neuroscientific research as well as in the accumulated wisdom of ancient contemplative traditions\, Richard Davidson\, PhD will discuss how to promote human flourishing and enhance mental health across the life span through the cultivation of four transformative practices.\nThese practices include:\n\nAwareness – learning to be fully present with your emotions.\nConnection – grow meaningful relationships and a sense of belonging.\nInsight – learn to know yourself through self-inquiry.\nPurpose – connect with your core values to enhance clarity and make sound decisions.\n\nDr. Davidson will speak to the practical application and measurable benefits of developing these habits of mind for us as individuals as well as for integration into our therapeutic approaches.\n\n\nRichard J. Davidson\, PhD\, received his PhD from Harvard University in Psychology in 1976. Davidson’s research is broadly focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing including meditation and related contemplative practices. He has published over 600 papers\, numerous chapters and reviews\, and edited 20 books. Davidson’s newest book\, “Born to Flourish” with Cortland Dahl\, is set to release in March 2026. He is also author (with Sharon Begley) of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain”published in 2012\, and co-author with Daniel Goleman of “Altered Traits” published in 2017. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and appointed to the Governing Board of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) in 2018. In 2014\, Davidson founded the non-profit\, Healthy Minds Innovations\, which translates science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/a-wrinkle-in-time/
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SUMMARY:Don't Talk to Those People: Rhetoric\, Polarization\, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS\nToday’s divisive political climate has made the idea of talking to those on the “other side” an act of traitorous betrayal. At the same time psychoanalysis has a long history of attempting to bridge what can feel like irreconcilable differences and splits\, as they appear in both individual and group dynamics. Rather than following the expectable\, and often appropriate\, tendency to avoid conversations that break down into attacks and opposition\, Dr. Kolod will explore what is possible when we are willing to place ourselves intentionally in the line of fire between polarized groups.\n\n\n\nSue Kolod\, PhD\, is President of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC).  She is a Supervising and Training Analyst and member of the Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and co-leads a study group on polarization called the Depolarization Project.  Dr. Kolod is a Director-at-Large and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her essay\, From Chosen Trauma to Depolarization: Addressing Toxic Polarization in Groups Using the Work of Vamik Volkan\, appears in the April 2025 issue of The American Psychoanalyst.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/dont-talk-to-those-people-rhetoric-polarization-psychotherapy-and-psychoanalysis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T083000
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SUMMARY:Annual Conference: Emotional Inheritance: Love\, Loss and the Legacy of Trauma (Hybrid Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Manhattanville University or by Zoom! \n Conference Overview\nThis conference builds on topics central to Dr. Galit Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance and the myriad ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. \nThrough the stories of her patients\, her own life\, and decades of research\, Dr. Atlas will help us identify the links between life struggles and the emotional inheritance we all carry. \nHow do we hold and process things that we do not remember or did not experience ourselves? What is the psychic weight of that which is present but not fully known? \nEmotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential\, creating gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have. As psychotherapists\, we join our patients in uncovering their legacies and become partners in this discovery. \nIn addition to a keynote address\, Dr. Atlas will apply her theoretical lens to rich clinical material provided in presentations by Adrienne Katzow\, PhD\, and Jonathan Rust\, PhD. Their clinical papers will illuminate the process by which emotional inheritance makes itself known in the consulting room—as secrets and ghosts. \nThe psychoanalytic case material explores the transmission of cultural expectations and communications\, developmental traumas\, and disrupted attachments. Reflections between presenters and with attendees will provide an opportunity to examine how the unseen transmissions of the past find expression in our work and open possibilities for new forms of psychic freedom. \nClick here for full brochureRegistration link to attend IN-PERSONRegistration link to attend on ZOOM \n\nSpeaker Biographies\nGalit Atlas\, PhD \nGalit Atlas is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, as well as the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She has published three books for clinicians and numerous psychoanalytic articles. Her latest book\, Emotional Inheritance\, is an international bestseller that has been translated into 27 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award\, the NADTA Research Award\, the Gradiva Award\, and the Nautilus Book Award. \nAdrienne Katzow\, PhD\, PMH-C \nAdrienne Katzow is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in perinatal mental health. She is certified in EMDR and integrates somatic work into relational psychoanalytic treatment. She has prior training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute. She is currently a candidate at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice in Irvington\, NY. \nJonathan Rust\, PhD \nJonathan Rust is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. He is a New York State licensed psychologist who maintains a private practice in Poughkeepsie\, NY. He is currently a senior candidate in the Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Additionally\, Dr. Rust is a member and a certified consultant of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. \nModerator – Marc Rehm\, PhD \nMarc Rehm is an Adjunct Professor and Supervisor at Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Faculty and Supervisor at The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He supervises doctoral candidates in clinical psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program Externship\, at Adelphi University’s Derner School of Psychology\, and at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Rehm is on the staff of Northern Westchester Hospital and maintains a private practice in New York City and Westchester County\, New York.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/annual-conference-2025/
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SUMMARY:Film Night: Clinical Perspectives on Remarkable Movies
DESCRIPTION:ADOLESCENCE: A four-part series available for viewing on Netflix. Watch the Series before the Event — then Join Us To Discuss!\n2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, Psychologists and PsyDs\nA discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by Janit Bliss\, LCSW-R and Carter Thornton\, LCAT\, LP\nAdolescence is a British television psychological crime drama series created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and directed by Philip Barantini. It centers on a 13-year-old schoolboy\, Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper)\, who is arrested after the murder of a girl in his school. This multiple Emmy award-winning production explores themes of technology\, grief\, generational divides\, sociopathy\, therapist-client relationship\, and social/developmental challenges. \nJanit Dini Bliss\, LCSW-R\, a psychodynamically-informed psychotherapist\, is a graduate of the WCSPP Couples Therapy Training Program and currently serves as the WCSPP Psychotherapy Service Director for the Couples Training Program. She has been in private practice for nearly 30 years and has over 40 years experience in Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention\, including directing an outpatient program through Yonkers General Hospital in Pelham\, NY. \nCarter Thornton\, LCAT\, LP\, is a Psychoanalyst and Creative Arts Therapist in private practice in Westchester County\, NY. Thornton teaches at WCSPP and is co-chair of the Film Committee. He is a graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis\, where he teaches\, supervises\, and has served on the board as Program Chair. He is also a visual artist and musician.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/film-night-clinical-perspectives-on-remarkable-movies/
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SUMMARY:A Shimmering Landscape: the Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available forNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nWhy does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we are not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens when we cannot do so? \nIn this talk\, I will describe the process of writing this book and what I believe are some implications of Winnicott’s suggestion that the psyche is an “imaginative elaboration of…aliveness.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/a-shimmering-landscape-the-imaginative-and-actual-in-psychic-life/
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SUMMARY:Parenting in Today's World: Clinical Conversations
DESCRIPTION:CONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS \nThe intersection of parent therapy and couples therapy provides an opportunity for clinicians to engage with families to achieve substantial and lasting growth in parents and their children. This presentation will showcase the work of Dr. Ellen Wachtel who has been working at that intersection during her lengthy career and has written volumes on these subjects.With the use of clinical material and through conversations organized around questions and answers\, Dr. Wachtel will demonstrate her ways of working to help identify and organize the valuable material of everyday sessions into templates for changing lives. Her tools and techniques will likely become additions to each clinician’s style of working within families\, adding to trusted guideposts from previous training. \n \nEllen Wachtel has a PhD in clinical psychology from New York University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Treating Troubled Children and their Families; We Love Each Other But…Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Paul Wachtel) and most recently\, The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It. Her books have been translated into a number of languages\, including Spanish\, Portuguese\, Japanese\, and Arabic. She gives workshops at home and abroad and has taught courses in Couples Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/parenting-in-todays-world-clinical-conversations-2/
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SUMMARY:Talking Against Each Other
DESCRIPTION:LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS! \nTo allow for depth of clinical discussion and a true sense of our formal coursework\, participation will be capped at 30 therapists. \nThe writing of this paper was inspired by observations that public discourse\, political policymaking\, internet barking\, and even conversation within psychoanalytic institutes too often relies on signaling affiliation at the expense of dialogue and discovery. Such flag waving stops rather than promotes conversation. Too many of us seek safety and resonance within familiar groups\, where a kind of intellectual inbreeding can limit growth. “Penetrating Language” argues that foundational principles of psychoanalytic listening and engagement continue to offer an attitude and an orientation to finding out sorely needed in so much of today’s fraught communication. \n \nSylvia Steinert LCSW is in private practice in Ridgefield\, CT\, and Murray Hill\, NYC. She is faculty supervisor and instructor at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP)\, where she served as executive director from 2021-2025.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/talking-against-each-other/
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SUMMARY:Transformations of the Interpersonal Field
DESCRIPTION:On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field is Donnel B. Stern’s fifth authored book\, and his latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern’s book is essential for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists wishing to understand how the analyst’s interventions grow from the analyst’s emotional involvement in the clinical process. This presentation will begin with an overview of the book’s contents\, followed by a question and answer segment with the audience\, and then a presentation of one of the book’s clinical chapters\, again followed by Q and A. \n \nDonnel B. Stern\, PhD is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute; and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is Founder and Editor of a book series at Routledge\, “Psychoanalysis in a New Key\,” which has 90 books in print. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published 100 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters since he began to write about unformulated experience in his first article in 1983. He has authored five psychoanalytic books and co-edited four others. His first authored book was Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1983)\, which was followed by Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience\, Dissociation\, and Enactment (2010); Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (2015);The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience\, Language\, and the Nonverbal (2019) and On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field (2024). His four co-edited books are presentations of the theory and practice of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Dr. Stern speaks\, teaches\, and supervises around the world\, is in private practice in New York City\, and leads private study groups.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/transformations-of-the-interpersonal-field/
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SUMMARY:From Reverie to Play: Applying Psychoanalytic Principles in Work with Underserved Families
DESCRIPTION:This presentation describes a community-based psychoanalytic outreach program developed by the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program\, which offers dyadic therapy to mothers and infants living in poverty. Drawing from two detailed clinical vignettes\, the talk will illustrate how psychoanalytic principles—particularly those related to containment\, maternal reverie\, and the internal setting—can be applied flexibly beyond the traditional consulting room. The presentation will explore how therapists can maintain a stable internal frame amid chaotic external realities\, allowing the therapeutic relationship itself to become a transitional space where emotional growth can occur. Special attention will be given to the intersubjective nature of the therapeutic process\, with an emphasis on the analyst’s receptivity and the use of play\, reverie\, and dream life as clinical tools in work with vulnerable families.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/from-reverie-to-play-applying-psychoanalytic-principles-in-work-with-underserved-families/
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SUMMARY:The Power to Heal
DESCRIPTION:2 CE HOURS \nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nThis clinical seminar offers an overview of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning differences that interfere with academic\, social\, emotional and behavioral development. Participants will learn how to incorporate a neurodevelopmental perspective in their ongoing diagnostic curiosity. A key component of the seminar will be addressing the psychodynamic challenges people with neurodevelopmental issues and learning differences face\, how these constant challenges are understood as microtraumas that affect the nervous system and affect dysregulation and how that in turn may negatively influence learning and behavior. \nSheri Perlman\, OT\, LCSW is an adult\, teen and child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. Sheri’s particular areas of interest include trauma\, parent-child relationships\, parenting\, learning differences and recovery from narcissistic abuse. She incorporates a myriad of tools in an eclectic\, integrated approach to her work while maintaining an analytic\, neuropsychoanalytic and trauma frame. Sheri graduated from Washington University with a Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy and New York University with a Masters in Social Work. Additionally\, Perlman received certificates from both the Institute for Child\, Adolescent and Family Studies (ICAFS) and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) for adult treatment. She is a member of CFS and an affiliate of WCSPP. Sheri has also trained in trauma work including EMDR\, trauma stabilization\, and in alternative treatment modalities such as Craniosacral work Journeying and Meditation. She sees patients in her full time private practice in person and online from her offices in New York and Israel.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/the-power-to-heal/
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SUMMARY:WCSPP Film Night: "The Quiet Girl"
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available to NYS\nLCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, Psychologists and PsyDs\nThis film is available for viewing on Kanopy\, Amazon\, Google Play and other Streaming Services\nWatch the Movie before the Event — then Join Us To Discuss! \nA discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by Sarah Fisher\, LCSW & Carter Thornton\, LCAT\, LP \nCo-Hosted by WCSPP’s Child Adolescent\, Parent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPP) \nThis film provides a unique opportunity to reflect upon the vulnerability both children and parents feel as they experience loss\, and grief\, over the course of their development. It also sheds light on the impact of different caregiving styles and the challenges of economic hardship. \nSarah Fisher\, LCSW\, is finishing the CAPP program at WCSPP and is co-chair of the Film Committee. She has over 25 years of experience working with children\, adolescents and families in Westchester County. She is currently working with Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) as Director of WJCS’s Mobile Crisis Response Teams (MCRT)\, which provide mental health co-responses to police departments in Northern and Central Westchester County. \nCarter Thornton\, LCAT\, LP\, is a Psychoanalyst and Creative Arts Therapist in private practice in Westchester County\, NY. Thornton teaches at WCSPP and is co-chair of the Film Committee. He is a graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis\, where he teaches\, supervises\, and has served on the board as Program Chair. He is also a visual artist and musician.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/wcspp-film-night-the-quiet-girl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression\, a Psychoanalytic Perspective
DESCRIPTION:2 CE HOURS \nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nThis presentation addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression\, one that is troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage the ambitions\, assertions and voices of women. \nApproached from a psychoanalytic perspective\, the presentation details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics and compel her to sacrifice her goals and dreams. \nThe critical question of how a woman can ever succeed in this disabling environment is addressed through the stories of six highly influential women who reimagine their own “nastiness” as an innovative\, vitalizing tool that powers their success. \n \nJanet Rivkin Zuckerman\, PhD\, JD\, is a psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, and previously practicing attorney. She is Former Director\, current Faculty\, and Clinical Consultant at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy\, and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. She conducts supervision and study groups in interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis and is in private practice in Rye\, NY. She can be reached at janetzuckerman@gmail.com. \nRound Table Discussants \nJanet Shimer\, LCSW\, MBA is current Co-Executive Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Faculty and Supervisor\, WCSPP; She earned her Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision at WCSPP. She is a Former Director of WCSPP Annual Conference; a Former Director of WCSPP Marketing\, and Past President\, WCSPP Psychoanalytic Association. She is in private practice in Armonk\, NY. \nSylvia Steinert\, LCSW is the current co-Executive Director of WCSPP and Faculty\, WCSPP. Steinert holds certificates in psychoanalysis and supervision from WCSPP. She is in private practice in Ridgefield\, CT and in Manhattan. \nDiane Malkin\, LCSW is incoming Co-Executive Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has been the Co-Director of Admissions for WCSPP for two years. Diane earned her Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision at WCSPP. She has a private practice in Ardsley\, New York. \nJennifer Havens\, MD is the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine\, Director of the Child Study Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital\, and Director of Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Strategy & Growth in the Office of Behavioral Health at NYC Health and Hospitals. Dr. Havens is an expert in the treatment of behavioral and mental health issues in children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/reclaiming-the-power-of-female-aggression-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/
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SUMMARY:The "Big Shot" Raises His Fee: Social Class in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
DESCRIPTION:The role of social class in the analytic encounter has been given little attention in our psychoanalytic literature and training institutes. This dimension of the treatment relationship tends to remain invisible most of the time. However\, when the analyst raises the fee\, it can become a catalyst for bringing social class concerns of both patient and analyst into the treatment room. The fee increase discussed in this presentation evokes shame\, envy\, and guilt for both participants\, each raised in a working-class home. The author considers unconscious dynamics informing psychoanalytic work between patients and analysts who outwardly appear to have no conflict about their social class origins but privately harbor much shame and anger about where they come from.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/the-big-shot-raises-his-fee-social-class-in-the-psychoanalytic-encounter/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250126T100000
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SUMMARY:Maintaining Professional Boundaries in Psychotherapy (Ethics Course)
DESCRIPTION:This 3-Hour CE Course meets the NYSED Office of the Professions requirement for Ethics and Appropriate Boundaries for LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMHCs\, LMFTs\, Licensed Psychoanalysts and Licensed Psychologists. \n3 CE HOURS\nPresented by:\nBruce V. Hillowe\, JD\, PhD \nThe New York State Board of Regents mandated that effective April 1\, 2023\, psychologists\, social workers and mental health practitioners (LMHC’s\, LMFT’s\, LPsa’s and LCAT’s) take as part of their required continuing education a three credit course on the maintenance of professional boundaries with patients. The reason for the new requirement is concern about the number of professional disciplinary proceedings by the State’s licensing boards against mental health professionals where boundaries have allegedly been violated. This course has been designed to meet the State’s mandatory CE requirement for both boundaries and ethics: courses on boundaries that cover New York laws\, rules and regulations related to unprofessional conduct may also be counted toward the ethics requirement. \nTopics to be discussed will include the ethical\, professional\, legal and clinical backgrounds for boundaries; discriminating between boundary crossings and violations; the establishment and maintenance of boundaries at the outset of and during psychotherapy including issues of multiple relationships\, at- risk patients and social media; the challenge of vulnerable patients and therapists; and maintaining clinical creativity and flexibility within the therapeutic frame. The potential harm and legal consequences of boundary violations will also be reviewed. The presenter is Bruce V. Hillowe JD PhD\, a psychologist-psychoanalyst and mental health care attorney who has defended hundreds of mental health practitioners in professional disciplinary proceedings in New York State\, many of them for alleged boundary violations. \nPresenter \nBruce V. Hillowe\, JD\, PhD\, is a mental healthcare attorney with a law practice in Mineola\, New York. A graduate of Binghamton University\, Duke University School of Law\, and Adelphi University Derner Institute (Clinical Psychology and Postdoctoral Programs)\, he formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst\, including as a coordinator of clinical training and director of a forensic mental health service. He was a teaching attending psychologist in law and ethics at a major teaching hospital for 15 years. He currently teaches courses in ethics and law as adjunct faculty at the Derner Institute. He is legal counsel to numerous mental health facilities\, institutes\, and practitioners and sponsors legal plans for professional associations. He has written articles and book chapters including for law reviews and healthcare publications\, is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in healthcare law and is a “SuperLawyer” featured in the New York Times Magazine.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/maintaining-professional-boundaries-in-psychotherapy-ethics-course/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250112T160000
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SUMMARY:Parenting in Today's World: Clinical Conversations
DESCRIPTION:2 CE HOURS\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nFathers for Change (F4C) is a novel\, individual clinical intervention for fathers who have been violent with their partners and/or children. F4C addresses 9 individually focused core topics\, 4 co-parent topics\, and 5 father-child focused topics in 60-minute individual therapy sessions over 18-24 weeks. In the context of a strong working alliance developed through focus on fatherhood\, F4C employs a continual emphasis on reflective functioning and emotion regulation skills. Improvement in these targets in turn leads to reduced intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment. F4C motivates the father to change by continually recognizing his desire to be a better parent and facilitating his ability to reflect on the experiences of his co-parent and children and learn skills to manage his emotions to improve outcomes for his family. This presentation will include: 1) an overview of F4C intervention\, the theory of change and research data to support F4C as an emerging evidence based approach to reducing IPV. \n \nCarla Smith Stover\, PhD is a Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center\, and an Investigator with the IPV Center for Implementation\, Research and Evaluation at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Dr. Stover was awarded a Career Award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse that began her research on interventions for fathers to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) and substance misuse behaviors and improve parenting. She developed Fathers for Change and her recent book published by Guilford Press Fathers and Violence: A Program to Change Behavior\, Improve Parenting and Heal Relationships is the manual for this intervention approach. She currently has two NIH research grants to conduct clinical trials of Fathers for Change. One for families involved with child protective services due to IPV and the other for fathers with co-occurring IPV and substance misuse disorders seeking substance use treatment in the community or the VA. She has presented trainings internationally on the topics of family conflict\, healthy relationships\, family violence\, engaging and treating fathers and interventions for childhood trauma.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/parenting-in-todays-world-clinical-conversations/
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SUMMARY:Conflict in Divorce: Helping Parents Protect Children’s Innocence
DESCRIPTION:2 CE HOURS\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nThis interactive training will present an overview of the psychological impact of divorce on parents and children. We will examine how divorce can go wrong and what parents and clinicians can do to significantly improve the lot of children during the process. \nThe Problem: In every divorce there is a leave-er and a leave-ee. One initiates and one is left; it’s asymmetrical and painful. Also\, by definition\, divorce is a failed marriage\, so it’s no surprise that the original marital struggles get played out – and amplified. Anger is accentuated\, blaming abounds and fear undermines the project. But\, since the goal of a divorce is to separate and build a new life\, an alternative narrative is required\, especially if there are children involved. \nPresenter \nMark Banschick\, MD is the co-founder of The Katonah Study Group for Integrative Medicine\, now in its 25th year. Dr. Banschick completed a residency in Psychiatry at Georgetown University and a Child Fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Medical Center. He is a contributor to Psychology Today with sixteen million readers to date – and author of The Intelligent Divorce book series. Recently\, Mark co-founded Alums for Campus Fairness\, promoting healthy dialogue on college campuses\, with over 50\,000 members representing 75 colleges. Dr. Banschick works with children and adults in private practice in Stamford\, CT.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/conflict-in-divorce-helping-parents-protect-childrens-innocence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T190000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
DESCRIPTION:Presented by:\nJoyce Slochower\, PhD\, ABPP \nModerated by:\nRabbi Irwin Kula\, President Emeritus\, Clal \n2 CE HOURS\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Slochower reflects on what is most often left unspoken and unexamined in our field.  Dr. Slochower illustrates the ways our analytic ideal has influenced us in both positive and negative ways. Revisiting her own thinking about relational holding\, analytic breaches\, and a range of existential issues\, she invites us to do the same. \n \nJoyce Slochower Ph.D.\, ABPP\, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center\, CUNY.  Joyce is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program\, the Steven Mitchell Center\, the National Training Program of NIP\, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies in Philadelphia and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco.  She is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, Ricerca Psicoanalitica and Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is on the Board of the IARPP.  Joyce has published over 100 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Joyce is co-Editor\, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand\, of “De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within” and “Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018\, Routledge).  Second Editions of her two books\, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006)\, were released in 2014 by Routledge. Her new book\, Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken\, was released by Routledge in June. She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples\, runs supervision and study groups. \nModerator \nRabbi Irwin Kula is a 7th generation rabbi and a disruptive spiritual innovator. A rogue thinker\, author of the award-winning book\, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life\, and President-Emeritus of Clal – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership\, he works at the intersection of religion\, innovation\, and human flourishing. A popular commentator in both new and traditional media\, he is co-founder with Craig Hatkoff and the late Professor Clay Christensen of The Disruptor Foundation whose mission is to advance disruptive innovation theory and its application in societal critical domains. He serves as a consultant to a wide range of foundations\, organizations\, think tanks\, and businesses and is on the leadership team of Coburn Ventures\, where he offers uncommon inputs on cultural and societal change to institutional investors across sectors and companies worldwide.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/psychoanalysis-and-the-unspoken/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T090000
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SUMMARY:Annual Conference: Moral Development: Implications for Clinical Work with Children and Parents
DESCRIPTION:Continuing Education\n4 CE credits for most NY and CT Licenses \nAbout \nThis conference invites reflection upon the cultivation of morality within\ntoday’s families often challenged by an exclusive emphasis on individual development\,\nthe weakening of binding institutions\, and the influence of the Internet. How can clinicians\nhelp parents hold in mind the importance of moral development alongside their goals\nand good wishes for their children’s future? How can they help parents define and\nintegrate values that support the well-being of their own families and society? Through\npresentations and discussions\, we will delve into these timely and urgent questions. \nRichard Weissbourd\, PhD\nConcerns regarding the deleterious impact of contemporary culture influence parents\nand educators to focus intensely on the well-being and achievements of children.\nToo much preoccupation with these two aspects of individual success—and the\nconstant praising of children that goes with it—can undermine children’s capacity\nto care for others and their investment in the common good. Further\, concentrating\nso much on achievement and happiness risks making kids not only less caring\, but\nironically\, less happy and consequently less likely to achieve at high levels. In the\ncurrent socio-political climate\, where tolerance and empathy seem to be in short\nsupply\, it is more important than ever to help children develop concern for others.\nThis talk will explore these current trends and help clinicians working with families\nunderstand these challenging dilemmas. \nKen Barish\, PhD\nIn this talk\, Dr. Barish will discuss Dr. Weissbourd’s ideas on moral development in\nchildren\, highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement. The discussion will focus\non how our current culture of individual achievement erodes children’s capacity for\nempathy and the importance of helping others. Dr. Barish will offer recommendations to\ntherapists on how we can most effectively immunize our children and teens against the\nemotional pathogens of loneliness and shame\, help promote constructive engagement\nin their communities\, and foster a spirit of generosity and kindness toward others. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers \nRichard Weissbourd\, PhD\, is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard\nGraduate School of Education\, and he also teaches at the Kennedy\nSchool of Government. His work focuses on moral development\,\nmeaning and purpose\, mental health challenges among teens and\nyoung adults and effective schools and services for children facing\nrisks. He directs the Making Caring Common Project\, a national\neffort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising\nand provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting com-\nmitment moral and social capacities. He leads an initiative to reform\ncollege admissions\, Turning the Tide\, which seeks to elevate ethical\ncharacter\, reduce excessive achievement pressure and increase\nequity and access in the college admissions process. Weissbourd\nis the author of The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America’s\nChildren and What We Can Do About It (Addison-Wesley\, 1996)\,\nnamed by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10\neducation books of all time. His most recent book\, The Parents We\nMean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s\nMoral and Emotional Development (Houghton Mifflin 2009) was\nnamed by The New Yorker as one of the top 24 books of 2009. \nKen Barish PhD\, is a graduate and faculty member of the Westchester\nCenter for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is\nalso on the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute Child and\nAdolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\, Clinical Professor of\nPsychology at Weill – Cornell Medical College\, and Visiting Professor\,\nTongji Medical College in Wuhan\, China. He is a Fellow of the\nAmerican Psychological Association. Ken is the author of How To Be\na Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change\n(W. W. Norton\, 2018) and Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding\nYour Child’s Emotions and Solving Family Problems (Oxford\nUniversity Press\, 2012). Pride and Joy is the winner of the 2013\nInternational Book Award and the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/annnual-conference-the-moral-development-of-children/
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SUMMARY:Erotophobia: Laplanche\, Queer Theory & Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:2 CE HOURS available for:\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\nCT Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMFTs\, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists  \nIn contemporary psychoanalysis\, it has become popular to accuse the clinical field of hating sex\, hating pleasure\, and being generally – both in its theory and in its techniques – hostile and averse to sex and sexuality. Although this isn’t a particularly new argument – French psychoanalysis has been accusing American psychoanalysis of this in one form or another for the past seventy-five years – the argument has taken on new momentum with the popularization of queer theory\, and alongside recent attempts to radicalize psychoanalytic theory and practice. In this presentation\, I will draw on Laplanche to challenge this popular argument by showing that it depends on a simplistic version of queer theory that totally misrecognizes its radical potential. In so doing\, I will demonstrate that to the extent we are afraid of sexuality it may have less to do with sensational\, exotic or shattering sex\, but sexuality in relation to otherness\, desire that thrusts and propels us toward others in ways we can’t comprehend and can’t quite escape. I elaborate Laplanche’s account of “enlarged sexuality” to elaborate “erotophobia” as the denial of enlarged sexuality. \nPresenter: \n \nGila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychoanalysis at Columbia University as well as a faculty member of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the Faculty at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\, and at IPTAR. She is the author of three books\, Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP\, 2021)\, Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge\, 2021) and Aural History (Punctum\, 2020). Her primary areas of academic and clinical expertise include identity\, trauma and sexuality. She is in private practice in New York City. \nModerator \nSylvia Steinert\, LCSW is the current co-Executive Director of WCSPP and Faculty\, WCSPP. Steinert holds certificates in psychoanalysis and supervision from WCSPP. She is in private practice in Ridgefield\, CT.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/erotophobia-laplanche-queer-theory-psychoanalysis/
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SUMMARY:Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction
DESCRIPTION:CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS. \nThis webinar is live\, real-time and interactive. \nFrom our speaker Sandra Buechler: Erich Fromm\, who was born in 1900\, continues to inspire me in 2024. His humanistic insights are highly relevant to the clinical and societal challenges we face today. In this talk\, I explore Fromm’s concepts of the “pathology of normalcy\,” paradox in treatment\, productive and non-productive orientations\, and becoming a “physician of the soul\,” among other concepts. I express why Fromm has a special place in my own “internal chorus” of wise voices I can “consult” in moments of need. \nSandra Buechler\, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press\, 2004)\, Making a Difference in Patients’Lives (Routledge\, 2008)\, which won the Gradiva award\, Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge\, 2012)\, Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge\, 2015)\, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IPBooks\, 2017)\,Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge\, 2019)\, Poetic Dialogues (IPBooks\, 2021)\, and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction(Routledge\, 2024).
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/erich-fromm-a-contemporary-introduction/
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