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
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
How does early development effect the embodiment of the clinical encounter?
Ruella Frank, PhD
I practice as a gestalt psychotherapist; my practice is phenomenological and aesthetic. I began my training in 1982. Before that time, I studied infant movements Read more
How Does Early Development Affect the Embodiment of the Clinical Encounter?
Helena Vissing, PsyD
I want to start with a statement that in the shortest – and perhaps a bit hyperbolic – way captures my take on the question Read more