Impairments to the “Therapeutic Minding” of Black Boys

2 CE Hours available for
NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
CT Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists
**HYBRID EVENT**
In-Person at the Scarsdale Public Library or Live on Zoom!
Currently, a number of books have been written, such as Ken Corbett’s, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities; Jonathan Haidt’s, The Anxious Generation; and Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men, addressing the social, psychological, and mental health challenges faced by male youth and youth in general. A major benefit of these works is that they are available to the public as well as to professional audiences. In addition, unlike a considerable number of their predecessors, efforts are made to address the different plight of Black youth or boys.
This presentation is an attempt to request psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists to examine systemic racism and its unacknowledged effects upon the developing psyches of Black youth. It is particularly advantageous to consider the following: transgenerational trauma as a legacy from slavery, our educational and apartheid institutional arrangements of living, and the impediments to cross racial therapeutic engagement.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A Fellow-training and supervising analyst on the faculty of IPTAR, he is also faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/ Hempstead Child Clinic and Supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program and faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is also the Honorary Institute Dean of the Harlem Family Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism, generational trauma among African Americans, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color, and is a subject of the documentary, Your Mum and Dad. He Is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and was a member of the Holmes Commission. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of SPPP (Div. 39) APA.
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New York and Connecticut mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Our Couples Therapy Training Program is a one-year program which 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 NY or CT licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals:
MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT and LP
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
The Rosalind Cohen Scholarship fund will award one fully paid scholarship for course work and supervision to a qualified applicant of WCSPP’s Couples Therapy Training Program.
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, 2026
Program begins September 2026
We will continue to be on Zoom for the 2026-2027 year.
Sign up to join us!
REGISTRATION LINK

Mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2026 in: Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy
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:
MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT and LP
Financial assistance 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, 2026
Program begins September 2026
We will continue to be on Zoom for the 2026-2027 year.
Sign up to join us!
REGISTRATION LINK

New York and Connecticut mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2026 in:
*Advanced Psychoanalysis
*Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Hear candidates discuss the transformational impact of training: deepening their work in agency settings and building/growing their private practices with the help of our collegial referral network.
WCSPP PLANS TO OFFER ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE 2026-2027 ACADEMIC YEAR.
CE credits will be offered for the coursework.
Financial assistance is available to those who qualify.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be NY or CT licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT
Sign up to join us!
REGISTRATION LINK

2 CE Hours available for
NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
CT Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists
Dr. 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-

Harry 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.”

2 CE Hours available for
NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
CT Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists
As diagnoses and awareness of neurodivergence (including ASD, ADHD, etc.) have rapidly grown over the years, many psychotherapists wonder how to address neurodivergent clients’ unique needs in psychotherapy. The DIRFloortime® model and related strategies, developed by Stanley Greenspan, MD and Serena Wieder, PhD, are well-suited for addressing developmental differences, emotional regulation, reflective thinking, and self-advocacy in a strengths-based, developmentally-informed, and relationship-based manner. Through didactic and video case presentation and discussion, participants will learn the foundations of this person-centered, neuroaffirming model and how to apply to children (with their parents) and adults with a range of developmental capacities.

Dr. Lauren Tobing-Puente is a licensed psychologist who earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in child and family therapy, from Fordham University. She leads a team of mental health clinicians at her private practice, Connected Growth & Wellbeing, in NYC which provides evaluations and intervention for individuals, from toddlerhood to adulthood, and their families, as well as professional consultations and training, and parent workshops. Dr. Tobing-Puente is the former Clinical Coordinator of a large nonpublic school where she supervised a multidisciplinary team of mental health clinicians, and evaluated and provided psychotherapy to students through age 21 using the DIRFloortime(R) methodology. Her diverse experience includes many years working in home-based and center-based Early Intervention, independent preschool and elementary school, Head Start, and hospital settings for children with various developmental needs. Dr. Tobing-Puente was a long-time board member of the NY Metro chapter of the National Autism Association (NAA).

New York and Connecticut mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Our Couples Therapy Training Program is a one-year program which 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 NY or CT licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals:
MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT and LP
Financial Aid is available for those who qualify.
The Rosalind Cohen Scholarship fund will award one fully paid scholarship for course work and supervision to a qualified applicant of WCSPP’s Couples Therapy Training Program.
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, 2026
Program begins September 2026
We will continue to be on Zoom for the 2026-2027 year.

Mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2026 in: Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy
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:
MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT and LP
Financial assistance 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, 2026
Program begins September 2026
We will continue to be on Zoom for the 2026-2027 year.

*Advanced Psychoanalysis
*Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
New York and Connecticut mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Hear candidates discuss the transformational impact of training: deepening their work in agency settings and building/growing their private practices with the help of our collegial referral network.
WCSPP PLANS TO OFFER ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE 2026-2027 ACADEMIC YEAR.
CE credits will be offered for the coursework.
Financial assistance is available to those who qualify.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be NY or CT licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT

Are you a psychoanalytic graduate with a minimum of four years post-analytic training seeking to deepen your practice and gain new skills?
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.

