How is madness embodied in psychoanalysis?

17 May 2025

These remarks are extracted from a much longer piece entitled:  “My Body, My Psyche, My Self: An Empath’s Reflections in Being and Becoming in the World,” that is part of Read more

Saturday, May 17th, 2025Online from 12 Noon-2:00pm/Eastern

Although Freud doubted that psychotic patients could benefit from psychoanalysis, he acknowledged that “suitable changes” in his method might “succeed in overcoming this contra indication.” From a variety of perspectives, the four Read more

How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?

24 February 2025

Here are notes summarizing my opening talk:

The therapeutic alliance between the therapist and the patient is an important process in making changes happen.

Norwegian statistics Read more

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern.

Although therapists and patients have always lived in a world roiled by racism, few psychoanalytic therapists have examined how racial differences affect the clinical situation. In the hope of Read more

How are Sex and Gender Embodied in the Therapeutic Relationship?

December 7, 2024

Dr. Stacy Berlin’s talk delves into the fluid nature of gender, weaving personal reflections with its impact on the psychoanalytic couple. She embellishes and emphasizes Read more

Saturday, December 7th, 2024. Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern.

From the earliest beginnings of psychoanalysis, perceptions of sex and gender have greatly influenced the therapeutic relationship. Our speakers examine sex and gender in contemporary clinical practice from a Read more

Wilhelm Reich Center Panel Presentation: Can Body Psychotherapies be Integrated with Psychoanalysis?

September 14, 2024

Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa

My background includes training as a bioenergetic therapist with the New York Society for Bionenergetic Analysis in the early Read more

The William Alanson White Institutein collaboration with The Wilheim Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment

ANNOUNCE THE EMBODIMENT SERIES OF 2024-2025


WITH MODERATOR-HOSTSDORIS BROTHERS, PhD and JON SLETVOLD, PsyD


STARTING WITHCan the Body Psychotherapies Read more

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How Does Early Development Affect the Embodiment of the Clinical Encounter?

Julianne Appel-Opper

In my contribution, I focus on body-body-communications in therapeutic sessions. We learn an embodied language before we learn words and we continue to communicate in this Read more