WCSPP

Diversity Book Group (Members only)
2022-05-07 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
We will be reading “That place gives me the heebie jeebies,” from Lynne Layton’s book, “Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes,” 2020.

Virtual Open House: Supervisory Training Program
2022-04-24 10:30 - 12:00
If you have graduated four or more years ago from a psychoanalytic training program as a certified psychoanalyst and are interested in applying to, or just learning more about, this very exciting and expansive one-year program, please consider attending.

Current applicants, faculty and graduates will be present to discuss the program, the impact it has had personally and on clinical practice, and to answer any questions.
THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE
Opportunity for distance learning!
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be a certified psychoanalyst who is licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT, LQP
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
CE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LMHC,LCAT, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2022
Program begins September 2022
We’d love to have you become part of our community…Come see what we are all about!

Virtual Open House: Couples Therapy
2022-04-23 13:00 - 14:00
About this event

How Couples Training Can Change Your Practice
Hone your skills and confidence in treating couples

Become part of our Westchester/Connecticut community of clinicians
Begin or grow your private practice through our referral network of graduates

About Our Training Program
Our Couples Therapy Training Program is a one-year program that teaches both basic and advanced couples therapy techniques and theory with a combination of psychoanalytic and systems perspectives. Candidates are introduced to several different theoretical approaches including object relations and relational theory, self-psychology, Bowenian theory, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with emphasis on the clinical work with couples. We also discuss issues pertaining to LGBTQ relationships, divorce, cross-cultural relationships, and substance abuse. In addition to the didactic instruction, weekly supervision is provided by senior faculty for cases seen through our Psychotherapy Service.
The Couples Therapy Training Program provides a solid introduction to couples work and provides an opportunity to join the warm, supportive community at our institute, build your referral network, and be exposed to the many and varied learning opportunities provided at WCSPP.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT
CE Credits will be offered for coursework.
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2022.
Program begins September 2022
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We’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!

Winnicott's Sensibility
2022-04-08 19:00 - 21:00
A discussion by D.W. Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman PhD in a Zoom talk titled “Winnicott’s Moon”

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About this event

For our inaugural event in a new series, we welcome recognized author and psychoanalyst:
DODI GOLDMAN, PHD, WITH THE PRESENTATION “WINNICOTT’S MOON”
Winnicott’s Moon” marks the 50th anniversary of the death of D.W. Winnicott, arguably one of the most creative psychoanalysts since Freud. This talk offers a portrait of his sensibility, which appeals to some but confounds or even irritates others. Sensibility is different than theory. Theories can be potentially useful even if eventually proven wrong. Sensibilities, in contrast, are neither right nor wrong; they are aesthetically and emotionally resonant or not. The title, “Winnicott’s Moon,” refers to a poem Winnicott penned at the very end of his life in response to the American moon landing. A longer version of the talk appears as the concluding chapter of a forthcoming edited book, “Winnicott in America,” published by the Winnicott Trust and Oxford U. Press.
Friday, April 8th at 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Admission with CE hours: $45
Live on Zoom!
Dr. Goldman is a training and supervising analyst and on faculty at White. He authored “In Search of the Real: the origins and originality of D.W. Winnicott” and is the former book review editor of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. His latest book, “A Beholder’s Share: essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination” won the 2017 Gravida Award for Best Psychoanalytic Book.
CONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS
Description of Teaching Method: LECTURE & DISCUSSION
Learning Objectives:
ATTENDEES WILL LEARN ABOUT:
1. Participants will be able to describe the difference between theory and sensibility.
2. Participants will be able to articulate the main features of D.W. Winnicott’s clinical sensibility.
3. Participants will be able to describe how attitudes toward Winnicott changed over time as well as the potential pitfalls of any given sensibility.
The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is recognized by NY State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0050; Licensed Clinical Social Workers #SW-0063; Licensed Psychoanalysts #P-0027; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists #MFT-0040; Licensed Mental Health Counselors #MHC-0075; and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0028
A completed evaluation must be submitted after the event via Survey Monkey.
Who should attend: Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychoanalysts, other mental health professionals, nurses, graduate students.

Virtual Open House: Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Advanced Psychoanalysis
2022-04-02 13:30 - 14:30
About this event

WCSPP offers two adult training programs: a two-year training experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and also an intensive course of study and immersion into contemporary psychoanalysis. Each of these certificate programs provides excellent hands-on education and training in the theory and practice of psychotherapy and contemporary psychoanalysis. The programs are designed to enhance a clinician’s understanding of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking in their workplace and/or private practice. The training hones the candidate’s existing capacities to “see”, feel, and understand the multiple levels of meaningful human interaction in the consulting room.
Growing empirical evidence is clear that “deep therapeutic work”–like the kind offered at WCSPP–promotes change and growth in patients that is more substantial and longer lasting than in short-term, singularly focused, or behavioral treatments.
The Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program is a two-year program designed to provide candidates with a solid theoretical and clinical base in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A three-pronged approach is used, which includes coursework, personal therapy, and consultation/supervision with a number of master clinicians who are a part of the WCSPP Faculty. Candidates will learn how to better recognize aspects of their work that are occurring outside the conscious awareness of the patient (or even the clinician) and how to use this expanded understanding in a dynamic, transformative way.
The Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program is open to graduates of the Foundations Program and/or an equivalent program at another training institute. The Advanced course is an additional three-year program (beyond the Foundations program) that provides further in-depth training in psychoanalysis. The training consists of concurrent participation in didactic course work, supervised clinical work, and a personal psychoanalysis. Such an intense immersion enables the candidate to transform experientially and deeply understand the empirical basis of theoretical formulations and to develop analytic skill in the conceptualization and execution of psychoanalytic work.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT
CE Credits will be offered for coursework.
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2022
Program begins September 2022
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We’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!

Virtual Open House: Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPP)
2022-03-20 16:00 - 17:00
Learn about the academic and clinical components of our
two-year online training program

AND
Participate in a real-time supervision session as a current student of CAPP shares a case followed by a discussion with
Ken Barish, PhD, Senior Child Analyst

Psychoanalysis in Action presents: Helping Patients Cope With Cancer and Other Challenges in Working With Uncertainty
2022-03-18 14:30 - 16:30
Presenter: Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, LCSW
Facilitated by: Joan Milano, LCSW, Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, Rhonda Reitz, PhD
2 CE Hours available for NY LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
*Enrollment will be limited to 60 people per event*
Course Description
A WCSPP COMMUNITY FORUM
How can patients and their loved ones deal with being thrown off balance by cancer and other challenges of living with uncertainty? This presentation explores how DBT and principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy can help patients develop ways to manage the powerful emotions that can get in the way of effective decisions, constructive relationships, and living in a hopeful, meaningful way. Focus will also be on the challenges this presents for therapists.
This WCSPP sponsored course is based on Elizabeth Stuntz’s book, Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage your Emotions and Balance Uncertainty with Hope. The book, co-authored with Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT, has been described as…
“…manageable, step-wise approach to coping with an individual and interpersonal disaster. Draw(ing) on knowledge from both DBT and psychoanalysis to produce a welcome, creative synthesis.”
—Nancy McWilliams, PHD, ABPPG
The learning objectives – Participants will be able to:
Describe treatment approaches that support patients facing cancer and other life challenges.
Identify the components of the stress response.
Articulate three interventions to address emotional disregulation.
Identify common countertransferential responses in therapists working with patients facing cancer and trauma.
Presenter
Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, LCSW, is the co-author of Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage your Emotions – and Balance Uncertainty with Hope, with Marsha Linehan, developer of DBT. She is a cancer survivor, Zen student and psychotherapist in private practice serving on the faculty of WCSPP.
Facilitators
Joan Milano, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with extensive personal and professional experience working with people impacted by cancer at Gilda’s Club Westchester, Dickstein Cancer Center, and in private practice. She is a 1992 graduate of the WCSSP Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program.
Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, Certified Group Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner and Assistant. She currently consults for Gilda’s Club and other group organizations. She graduated from the WCSPP Advanced Analytic Program at WCSPP in 1982.
Ronda Oswalt Reitz, PhD, has been providing treatment, supervision, international training and consultation in Dialectical Behavior Therapy since 1996. She is the Coordinator for Dialectical Behavior Therapy for the state of Missouri, and was a long-time Zen student of Marsha Linehan.

Psychoanalysis in Action presents: Helping Patients Cope With Cancer and Other Challenges in Working With Uncertainty
2022-03-16 19:30 - 21:30
Presenter: Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, LCSW
Facilitated by: Joan Milano, LCSW, Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, Rhonda Reitz, PhD
2 CE Hours available for NY LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
*Enrollment will be limited to 60 people per event*
A WCSPP COMMUNITY FORUM
Course Description
How can patients and their loved ones deal with being thrown off balance by cancer and other challenges of living with uncertainty? This presentation explores how DBT and principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy can help patients develop ways to manage the powerful emotions that can get in the way of effective decisions, constructive relationships, and living in a hopeful, meaningful way. Focus will also be on the challenges this presents for therapists.
This WCSPP sponsored course is based on Elizabeth Stuntz’s book, Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage your Emotions and Balance Uncertainty with Hope. The book, co-authored with Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT, has been described as…
“…manageable, step-wise approach to coping with an individual and interpersonal disaster. Draw(ing) on knowledge from both DBT and psychoanalysis to produce a welcome, creative synthesis.”
—Nancy McWilliams, PHD, ABPPG
The learning objectives – Participants will be able to:

Describe treatment approaches that support patients facing cancer and other life challenges.
Identify the components of the stress response.
Articulate three interventions to address emotional disregulation.
Identify common countertransferential responses in therapists working with patients facing cancer and trauma.

Presenter

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, LCSW, is the co-author of Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage your Emotions – and Balance Uncertainty with Hope, with Marsha Linehan, developer, of DBT. She is a cancer survivor, Zen student and psychotherapist in private practice serving on the faculty of WCSPP.

Facilitators
Joan Milano, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with extensive personal and professional experience working with people impacted by cancer at Gilda’s Club Westchester, Dickstein Cancer Center, and in private practice. She is a 1992 graduate of the WCSSP Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program.Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, Certified Group Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner and Assistant. She currently consults for Gilda’s Club and other group organizations. She graduated from the WCSPP Advanced Analytic Program at WCSPP in 1982.
Ronda Oswalt Reitz, PhD, has been providing treatment, supervision, international training and consultation in Dialectical Behavior Therapy since 1996. She is the Coordinator for Dialectical Behavior Therapy for the state of Missouri, and was a long-time Zen student of Marsha Linehan.

WCSPP FILM NIGHT: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES ON REMARKABLE MOVIES
2022-03-11 19:30 - 21:30
POWER OF THE DOG, WINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FOR BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR NOMINATED FOR 12 OSCARS

This film is available for viewing on Netflix before the event
CE Hours available to LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, and LCATs
**Attendees will access and watch the film prior to the event and come prepared for an introduction to and formal presentation of ideas generated by the film and a group discussion of the film. The presentation will relate directly to the psychological and societal import of the film and its themes, how they emerge in clinical settings, and how they impact a struggling culture. The first hour will focus on that presentation. The second hour will focus on thoughts and questions raised by attendees and will be interwoven with clinical material. Special attention will be paid to the etiology of good and evil and the intrapsychic/interpersonal/societal fallout of sadistic power.**
In the small world that this film examines, goodness, love, creativity, sexuality, intimacy are all threatened by the power of evil. It is a riveting rendering of the tension between the forces of good and evil as portrayed by its psychologically elaborate characters and told in minute detail. The discussion of the film will attempt to examine common manifestations of sadism, efforts to avoid its damage, and one boy’s cunning conquering of darkness.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will learn about:
-The hazardous power dynamics in couples and families.
-The power of positive attachment and self regard in countering destructive intrapsychic, interpersonal, societal threats.
-The intersectionality between binary gender categories and stereotyping divisions between goodness and aggression.
Who should attend: Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychoanalysts, other mental health professionals, nurses, graduate students.
The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is recognized by NY State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Clinical Social Workers # 00063; Licensed Psychoanalysts # P-0027; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists #MFT-0040; Licensed Mental Health Counselors #MHC-0075; and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0028.
A completed evaluation must be submitted at the end of the conference via Survey Monkey.

WCSPP ONLINE OPEN HOUSE
2022-02-12 12:30 - 13:30
Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2022 in:
*Advanced Psychoanalysis
*Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
*Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy
*Couples Therapy

Join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Hear personal experiences about the transformational impact of training on deepening work in agency settings and helping build and grow private practices.
Questions? Contact one of our Directors of Admissions: cnardozzi@gmail.com

Scientific Meeting: Psychoanalysis' and Psychotherapy's Troubled Encounter with Gay Men: How Our Disciplines Lost Their Way, and How They May Yet Find It.
2022-02-11 19:30 - 21:30
Using historical analysis, Dr. Schwartz will offer an understanding of the sources of the devaluing of gay men in psychoanalytic and psychological theory. He situates the contradiction of our disciplines’ theory and values that is inherent in the disparagement of male homosexuality, in the larger context of the history of xenophobia in the United States. This includes special attention to the negative contributions of Sandor Rado, among other mid-century psychoanalysts. Dr. Schwartz concludes by suggesting that the antidote to the development of such xenophobic trends in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is three-fold: (1) Thoroughly include the history of our discipline in training (2) Always give consideration to relevant scientific findings in the development of psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapeutic practice and (3) Re-engage the tradition of social criticism as part of training.
Presenter

David Schwartz, PhD., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Westchester. He is a graduate of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and has been writing about sexuality and gender for the past thirty-five years.
Discussant
Eric Mendelsohn, PhD., teaches and supervises at WCSPP, in the Four Year Analytic and the National Training Programs at NIP, in the Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University, and he teaches at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington, DC. Eric writes about the patient-therapist relationship and about the therapist’s subjective experience. His clinical practice is in Hartsdale, NY.

Dialogues in Clinical Moments: Incorporating the Body's Response to Emotions: Somatic Experiencing and Psychoanalysis, A Powerful Integration
2022-02-05 11:30 - 12:30
Incorporating the Body’s Response to Emotions: Somatic Experiencing® and Psychoanalysis
A Powerful Integration
Live on Zoom!
Nancy Bottger, LCSW, SEP
Saturday, February 5
11:30 – 12:30 PM
Cost: $20
EARN 1 CE CREDIT
LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS!
(To allow for depth of clinical discussion and a true sense of our formal coursework, participation will be capped at 8 therapists who have not trained at WCSPP.)
Somatic experiencing® therapy is a way of working that addresses how the body responds to emotions and seeks to relieve and resolve trauma symptoms and chronic stress. This seminar will introduce participants to the principles of somatic experiencing® therapy, review the principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and will talk about how to combine both modalities.

Book Club: The Diversity Committee presents: Clint Smith’s, “How the World is Passed; A Reckoning of the History of Slavery Across America,” an intergenerational story of how slavery has shaped our nation’s collective history as well as our own.
2022-01-23 11:00 - 12:30
(MEMBERS ONLY)
Book Club: The Diversity Committee presents: Clint Smith’s, “How the World is Passed; A Reckoning of the History of Slavery Across America,” an intergenerational story of how slavery has shaped our nation’s collective history as well as our own.

Reclaiming Pleasure: A Clinical Imperative for Sexual Healing and Passionate Living
2022-01-12 19:30 - 21:30
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The word “survivor” has emerged strongly within our cultural lexicon due to more forward-facing, high-profile cases of sexual perpetration, thus establishing a social declaration for sexual healing and empowerment. We can no longer avoid hard truths—sexual abuse, assault, harassment and rape happen to one out of every six women and one out of every thirty-three men in the United States (rainn.org)—and the aftermath of these traumas include the burden of being believed in addition to a survivors’ often solitary journey toward mind/body health. Repairing what has been lost to sexual trauma is necessary, even vital, to the process of recovery, but it’s not enough. Surviving is the beginning though certainly not a sufficient or acceptable end.
This presentation explores what comes next in the process of a survivor’s recovery. Practitioners will learn how to help patients shift from surviving to thriving—from simply existing to fully living—by reimagining what their individual and relational evolutions entail. It draws from contemporary research in sex therapy and somatic psychology, offering theories and tools to ground survivors in concepts of safety, security, and trust, but also reaching further into the necessary terrain of vitality, freedom, healthy relationships and fulfilling sex. Through specific somatic sex therapy protocols and case studies, practitioners will learn to guide patients on a holistic journey toward the rediscovery of eroticism, both for themselves and in their intimate relationships.
Presenter

Holly Richmond, Ph.D., is a Somatic Psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and Certified Sex Therapist (CST). This unique combination of credentials enables her to focus on clients’ cognitive processes as well as mind-body health. She works with women, men, couples and gender-diverse individuals on relationship and sexuality issues, offering sex therapy and sexual health coaching nationally and internationally. Her treatment specialties include low libido, sexual dysfunction, compulsive sexuality (often called “addiction”), desire discrepancies in couples, recovery from sexual assault and abuse, and alternative/non-traditional sexual expression. Her newly released book Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life (New Harbinger, Oct. 2021) is an innovative look at both somatic and psychological factors in survivor’s erotic recovery.

Facilitator
Aviva Gitlin, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist with advanced training in psychoanalysis and couples therapy. She works in private practice (23 years) and teaches courses on Dreams and on Sexuality at both WCSPP and Adelphi’s Psychoanalytic Postgraduate Program. Dr. Gitlin’s rich understanding of how unconscious experience formulates our perceptions, understandings, and behavior informs the work she does. She works with adult individuals and couples, helping people create increased empathy for their own experiences and the experiences of others.

Talking About Money: Challenges For The Clinician
2022-01-08 09:30 - 10:30
Talking About Money: Challenges For The Clinician
With Heidi Knoll, LCSW
2 CE available
Do you find yourself feeling uncomfortable or avoiding talking with your clients about fees, e.g. dealing with reactions to your fee, awkward discussions related to reduced fees or addressing an unpaid bill?
This Dialogues in Clinical Moments 2-session seminar will address these challenges. Psychodynamic principles will be explores to advance your understanding of how to deepen discussions about fees and other issues related to money.
A paper will be distributed before the first class to help frame our discussion.
Heidi Knoll, LCSW has been in private practice for 35 years treating children, adolescents and adults. She is on the teaching faculty of WCSPP in the Advanced Psychoanalytic Training program and a 1991 graduate of the Psychoanalytic Program at WCSPP.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to describe how psychoanalytic concepts can be utilized to facilitate effective discussion with clients related to fees, including setting a fee and payment of bills.
2. Participants will be able to identify at least 3 factors that contribute to the avoidance or minimizing of discussion of fees.
Enrollment: Up to 8 people.
Format: Seminar style zoom presentation.
THE WESTCHESTER CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (WCSPP) is a non-profit academic center which provides high quality post graduate training to mental health practitioners representing a variety of licensed disciplines. Founded and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1974 as an interdisciplinary, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic educational center, we were the first in Westchester County to provide such intensive training to non-medical clinicians. As New York State has expanded the scope of licensing, we are currently able to train students with a variety of graduate degrees. Since our origins, WCSPP has been dedicated to an open exchange of ideas and dialogue. Our faculty represents diverse perspectives on human development and psychotherapeutic techniques.

Scientific Meeting - Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Find a Home: Emotional Phenomenology of Trauma and Loss with Robert Stolorow
2021-12-10 19:00 - 21:00

Annual Conference - The Efficacy of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Lecture and Clinical Workshop. Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D.
2021-11-20 12:30 - 16:30
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/167919326225
WCSPP Annual Conference
THE EFFICACY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY: A LECTURE AND CLINICAL WORKSHOP
4 CE CREDITS AVAILABLE
Keynote speaker: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Moderated by: John Turtz, PhD
Dr. Shedler will conduct live supervision sessions with Melissa Capozzi, LCSW and Matthew Korner, PsyD
Overview
Psychodynamic therapy is an evidence-based treatment. In the first half of the lecture — based on the internationally acclaimed article, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy — Dr. Shedler will describe the seven core features of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy in clear, jargon-free language.
Dr. Shedler will discuss scientific evidence for the benefits of psychodynamic therapy and how it compares to other evidence-based treatments like CBT and antidepressant medication. Dr. Shedler will also describe how the active ingredients of all effective psychotherapies draw on (often unacknowledged) psychodynamic principles, such as enhancing self-knowledge, identifying problematic relationship patterns, and addressing these patterns in the “here and now” of the therapy relationship.
The second half of the conference program will have a practical, hands-on clinical focus, building on concepts from Dr. Shedler’s lecture. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of contemporary psychodynamic therapy through clinical case presentations by workshop participants with case discussion, “live” clinical supervision, and role playing to demonstrate clinical interventions. Dr. Shedler will emphasize the role of clinical case formulation as a road map to effective psychodynamic treatment.
Presenters
American psychologist Jonathan Shedler, PHD is known internationally as an author, consultant, and master clinician and teacher, and is the 2021 recipient of IPA’s “Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to the International Psychoanalytic Association” award.
His article The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy won worldwide acclaim for firmly establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment.
Dr. Shedler’s research and writing are shaping contemporary views of personality syndromes and their treatment. He is author of numerous scientific and scholarly articles, creator of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).
He has more than 25 years’ experience teaching and supervising psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts.
Dr. Shedler lectures internationally, leads workshops for professional audiences, consults to U.S. and international government agencies, and provides expert clinical consultation to mental health professionals worldwide. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and Consulting Supervisor at California Pacific Medical Center.
John Turtz, PHD is teaching and supervisory faculty at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP). He is the Co-director of the Foundations and Advanced Programs in Psychoanalysis and was former Director of the Couples Therapy Program at WCSPP. He is faculty, supervisor, and former Co-director at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. In addition, Dr. Turtz is faculty at the New York Medical College and is in private practice in Larchmont and Manhattan.
Melissa Capozzi, LCSW is currently a candidate in the Advanced Psychoanalytic Program at WCSPP and is a recent graduate of the Foundations Program. Melissa studied creative writing and film at Pace University and received her Masters in Social Work from Fordham University. For the past five years she has worked as a school-based therapist, providing adolescents individual and group counseling. She sees patients privately in Westchester.
Matthew Korner, PSYD is a graduate of the advanced psychoanalytic training program at WCSPP. He is a Supervising Psychologist at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology at the Rusk Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center. He is director of Union Square Psychology. His private practice offices are located in Pleasantville, NY and at Union Square, NYC.

Dialogues In Clinical Moments w/ Diane Malkin, LCSW: Helping Couples Negotiate The New Normal In Covid-- A Case Presentation
2021-10-30 11:30 - 12:30
(Limited to 8 participants to allow for depth of clinical discussion)

Dialogues In Clinical Moments w/ Kate Washton, LCSW: Helping Families Understand Sensory Challenges Today
2021-10-23 11:30 - 12:30

WCSPP Community Fundraiser - Member's Only
2021-10-17 16:00 - 17:00

Dialogues In Clinical Moments w/ Ken Barish, PhD: Helping Oppositional Children--An Integrative, Emotion-Regulation Approach
2021-10-16 11:30 - 12:30

Scientific Meeting - You Don’t Have to Be a Specialist to Treat Addictions: An Integrative Harm Reduction Approach with Andrew Tatarsky
2021-10-01 19:30 - 21:30

Psychoanalysis in Action - Working With the New Normal: Helping Families and Couples Manage Back to School and Work Transitions in the Time of COVID
2021-09-22 19:30 - 21:30

First Trimester Begins
2021-09-14 19:00 - 21:00

Candidate Orientation
2021-09-12 15:00

The Nuts and Bolts of Beginning and Growing a Private Practice: Practical Considerations and Unconscious Currents
2021-06-29 19:30 - 21:00
This event is part of our Psychoanalysis in Action series.
Register here.
This workshop will address the practical considerations of dealing with insurance panels, setting up an office, marketing on the internet and within the community, and establishing fees. It will then shift to more abstract issues of maintaining evenly suspended attention, setting the frame, answering direct personal questions, and instilling a sense of curiosity.
William Behr, LCSW is the former director of the Psychotherapy Training Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, as well as a faculty member and supervisor. He is also a supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
Psychoanalysis in Action is the beginning of our work to be a resource for a wider community of caregivers, therapists and anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the human experience. We hope to be available as external consultants to individual therapists and community organizations searching for opportunities to consider fresh ways to look at the therapeutic process. Our intent is to show how psychoanalytic principles can inform therapeutic work of all kinds, in both private practice and agency settings.

Psychoanalysis in Action - The Nuts and Bolts of Beginning and Growing A Private Practice
2021-06-29 19:30 - 21:00
A WCSPP COMMUNITY FORUM
Psychoanalysis in ActionThe Nuts and Bolts of Beginning and Growing a Private Practice:
Practical considerations and unconscious currentsTuesday, June 29
7:30 – 9 pm
Wherever YOU are…on Zoom!
Instructor: William Behr, LCSW

Register for this event below.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-in-action-how-to-start-a-private-practice-tickets-159525239285
You will be asked to complete a brief form to establish a Zoom link for the workshop.
Fee for this event is $20

This workshop will address the practical considerations of dealing with insurance panels, setting up an office, marketing on the internet and within the community, and establishing fees. It will then shift to more abstract issues of maintaining evenly suspended attention, setting the frame, answering direct personal questions, and instilling a sense of curiosity.

William Behr, LCSW is the former director of the Psychotherapy Training Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, as well as a faculty member and supervisor. He is also a supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP) is a non-profit academic center which provides high quality post graduate training to mental health practitioners representing a variety of licensed disciplines. Founded and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1974 as an interdisciplinary, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic educational center, we were the first in Westchester County to provide such intensive training to non-medical clinicians. As New York State has expanded the scope of licensing, we are currently able to train students with a variety of graduate degrees. Since our origins, WCSPP has been dedicated to an open exchange of ideas and dialogue. Our faculty represents diverse perspectives on human development and psychotherapeutic techniques.

For more information on our training programs, upcoming virtual admissions open houses, and other events and opportunities go to WCSPP.org.

CAPP Open House on Zoom
2021-06-23 20:00 - 21:00
The Child/Adolescent/Parent Program (CAPP) invites you to an Admissions Open House:
Program directors Jane Bloomgarden and Irene Studwell will answer questions about our training program.
Our program weaves together the study of individual child & adolescent, and parent development through understanding the impact of psychological histories, relational patterns, intergenerational effects, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic, relational orientation to change, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed.
We welcome all mental health practitioners, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents, primarily serves adults, or some combination. We never forget that there is, after all, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child, adult, and parent.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT
CE Credits will be offered for coursework.
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2021.
Program begins September 2021
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We’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!
Please register for this event here.

Open House -- Advanced Psychoanalytic & Foundations (June)
2021-06-16 19:30 - 20:30
Please Join Our VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE via ZOOM
About Our Training Programs
WCSPP offers two adult training programs: a two-year training experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and also an intensive course of study and immersion into contemporary psychoanalysis. Each of these certificate programs provides excellent hands-on education and training in the theory and practice of psychotherapy and contemporary psychoanalysis. The programs are designed to enhance a clinician’s understanding of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking in their work place and/or private practice. The training hones the candidate’s existing capacities to “see”, feel, and understand the multiple levels of meaningful human interaction in the consulting room.
Growing empirical evidence is clear that “deep therapeutic work”–like the kind offered at WCSPP–promotes change and growth in patients that is more substantial and longer lasting than in short-term, singularly focused or behavioral treatments.
The Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program is a two-year program designed to provide candidates with a solid theoretical and clinical base in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A three-pronged approach is used, which includes coursework, personal therapy, and consultation/supervision with a number of master clinicians who are a part of the WCSPP Faculty. Candidates will learn how to better recognize aspects of their work that are occurring outside the conscious awareness of the patient (or even the clinician) and how to use this expanded understanding in a dynamic, transformative way.
The Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program is open to graduates of the Foundations Program and/or an equivalent program at another training institute. The Advanced course is an additional three-year program (beyond the Foundations program) that provides further in-depth training in psychoanalysis. The training consists of the concurrent participation in didactic course work, supervised clinical work, and a personal psychoanalysis. Such an intense immersion enables the candidate to transform experientially and deeply understand the empirical basis of theoretical formulations and to develop analytic skill in the conceptualization and execution of psychoanalytic work.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT
CE Credits will be offered for coursework.
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2021
Program begins September 2021
We’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!
RSVP For This Event!
Register here.

Zoom Into...Dreams (CE Credits Available)
2021-06-09 19:30 - 21:30
A WCSPP Community Forum

Psychoanalysis In Action presents:

Zoom Into…Dreams

Come to an experiential workshop to learn how to use dreams in psychotherapy.

Dr Mark Finn will introduce participants to the relationship between psychoanalysis and dream work. The important value of the dream.
Dr. Gitlin will lead participants through an exploration of an anonymous dream. The process is one of “feeling one’s way into a dream.” The stories we tell ourselves, the images we use to tell those stories, all emerge in the language of the unconscious. The group process will allow us an entry into the unconscious of the dreamer.
Dr. Gitlin and Dr. Finn will speak about the value of exploring the unconscious. They will also discuss what dreams teach us about the language of the unconscious mind.
This will be followed by an open discussion and Q&A
Please register for this event here.
