Film Night: Clinical Perspectives on Remarkable Movies

ADOLESCENCE: A four-part series available for viewing on Netflix. Watch the Series before the Event — then Join Us To Discuss!

2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs

A discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by Janit Bliss, LCSW-R and Carter Thornton, LCAT, LP

Adolescence 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.

Janit 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.

Carter 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.

Join us at Manhattanville University or by Zoom!

Conference Overview

This 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.

Through 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.

How 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?

Emotional 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.

In 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.

The 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.

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Speaker Biographies

Galit Atlas, PhD

Galit 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.

Adrienne Katzow, PhD, PMH-C

Adrienne 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.

Jonathan Rust, PhD

Jonathan 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.

Moderator – Marc Rehm, PhD

Marc 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.