by Jack Brewster | Oct 29, 2024 | Blog
by Bari Smelson, LCSW, PhD After my six years of co-directing the couples therapy program and 14 years as faculty at WCSPP, I find myself reflecting upon what I have learned as a teacher, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and couple therapist. Stepping into one’s...
by WCSPP | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog
By Carter Thornton, LP, LCAT 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, a document that sparked an art movement deeply intertwined with psychoanalysis. Though the movement started in central Europe, largely in reaction to people’s inability to make...
by WCSPP | Nov 1, 2023 | Blog
By Wade Anderson, PhD I imagine that at least a few of you who are reading this know who Deion Sanders is. He goes by Coach Prime these days and has taken over the head-coaching position for football at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sanders was previously known...
by WCSPP | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog
By Cara Maniaci, MA, LCSW I too had a Weird Barbie. When I was about 11 or 12, my best friend Sarah and I gathered our Barbies, some hairspray and glue, nail polish remover and marker. We mismatched and cut up the Barbies’ clothes. We removed some of their printed-on...
by WCSPP | Sep 18, 2023 | Forms
TRAINING PROGRAM MANUALCouples Therapy Training Program Manual PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE INFORMATION & FORMSPsychotherapy Service Manual (includes Fee Setting Guidelines) One time use:Screening ReportTermination Summary Ongoing use:Treatment Progress Report – 15...
by WCSPP | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog
By Erica Forest, LCSW Rodrigo Garcia penned a letter to his deceased father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in the New York Times on May 6th, 2020, explaining that we were in a pandemic; he wondered what his father would have thought of it. The titles of Garcia Marquez’s...
by WCSPP | Mar 3, 2023 | Blog
By Julie Willstatter, LCSW-R It was the time of year when endings become beginnings because the ball drops and the clock strikes midnight; demanding I face the reality of time passing. I’d nestled into the week between Chrismukkah and New Year’s Eve, when suddenly my...
by WCSPP | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
By Sylvia Steinert, LCSW Thanks to Google’s wiles, the Italian phrase I came upon this morning (se non e vero, e ben trovato, in English, ‘even if not true, it is well invented’) led to the discovery of the gruesome demise of its author, Giordano Bruno, philosopher of...
by WCSPP | Jan 3, 2023 | Blog
By Sharon Medoff Picard, LCSW If you’re hoping for some insider secrets on how to get a paper published in a journal, I wish I had a few. But, this entry isn’t a primer about writing a paper. It’s about the process of submitting a paper. Like many, I’ve acquired a...
by WCSPP | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
By Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, PhD It was one week ago today that I arrived by car to visit my alma mater, my partner by my side. It is the place where we met, but didn’t forge our deeper bond till we re-discovered each other a decade later. A place so dear to me, with...
