Supervisory Training Program Open House
Join our Supervisory Training Program for the 2026-2027 academic year!
Program Highlights:
One-year certificate program
Provide direct supervision to psychoanalytic candidates or graduates
Receive weekly supervision from a senior faculty member
Once-weekly classes via zoom on a trimester basis
Program Benefits:
Learn some benefits of joining this highly regarded program from graduates and instructors of the program such as:
Professional Development: Continuous learning and skill refinement
Mentorship: Guide and mentor emerging analysts
Deepening Understanding: Delve deeper into theory and practice
Joining a Warm Community: Where we welcome WCSPP graduates as well as those from other psychoanalytic institutes to learn in a collegial atmosphere.
The Academic Events Committee Presents A Wrinkle In Time
A Series that will Consider both the Psychic Challenges and Opportunities for Generativity and Transformation in Later Stages of Life
Presenter: Amy Schaffer, PhD
Live on Zoom!
2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
Although 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!
Amy 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.
2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs
Watch the Movie before the Event – – then Join Us to Discuss!
You can stream the movie on many platforms including Google Play, Paramount+ and YouTube.
In 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.
As 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.
Judith 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.
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.
Join 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.
Frederic 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.
Dr. 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.