• Empathy and Historical Understanding

    Empathy, for Kohut, always involves an awareness of difference, of the distinction between the empathizing self and the empathized other. Since empathy is decidedly not sympathy, we can and must—Dr. […]

  • WCSPP Film Night: “Close”

    2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs This film is available for viewing on Hulu, YouTube, or Google Play before the event. […]

  • WCSPP Annual Conference: Language in Psychotherapy

    3 CE credits for most NY and CT Licenses (pending) OVERVIEW: WCSPP’s November 2023 Conference showcases two new papers by noted thinkers writing today about psychoanalysis and language, Donnel Stern […]

  • A Roadmap for Couple Therapy: Arthur Nielsen, MD

    2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDsA Roadmap for Couple Therapy Presenter: Arthur Nielsen, MD Live on Zoom! Friday, December 1, […]

  • Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis (IN-PERSON AND ON ZOOM)

    Megan Rundel, PhD, Author of Psychedelic Psychoanalysis: Transformations of the Self in conversation with WCSPP Faculty Mark Finn, PhD Aviva Gitlin, PsyD Wade Anderson, PhD & Community Morning Presentation by Megan Rundel, PhD, Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Zen Sensei at Crimson Gate Meditation Community

  • Admissions Open House

    WCSPP PLANS TO OFFER ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE 2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. CE credits will be offered for the coursework. Financial aid is available to those who qualify. Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2024 in: *Advanced Psychoanalysis *Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy *Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy *Couples Therapy Join us to meet our program directors […]

  • Love, “The Kiss” and Repair: Clara Thompson’s Contributions to Relational Theory

    This presentation begins with a moving account of Clara Thompson’s collaborative clinical work with the Hungarian psychoanalyst, Sandor Ferenczi. The vignette sets the stage for understanding the revolutionary aspects of the active and innovative work between Ferenczi and Thompson, and the transformative clinical practice Thompson would go on to introduce to her American colleagues. Ann D’Ercole […]