Write-up – Stacy Berlin

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

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How are Sex and Gender Embodied in the TherapeuticRelationship?

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

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Write-up – Caron Harrang

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

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Write-up – Julianne Appel-Opper

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

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Can the Body Psychotherapies Integrate with Psychoanalysis?

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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Write-up – Ruella Frank

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

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Write-up – Helena Vissing

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

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Write-up – Heather Ferguson

The Wilheim Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment Feb 24, 2024

Reflections On How Trauma and Dissociation Are Embodied

Heather Ferguson, LCSW

I want to acknowledge the panelists’ significant contributions to the study of aesthetic, improvisational, sensorial, unconscious, Read more

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Embodied effects of Trauma and Dissociation and a Clinical approach

by Henry Markman

In this limited time I’m going talk about my work with traumatized-dissociated patients, particularly those with early relational developmental trauma, and some of the ideas the guide me.

We can’t talk about trauma and dissociation without Read more

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Write-up – Françoise Davoine

2nd Wilhelm Reich Center Conversation

February 24, 2024

HOW ARE TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION EMBODIED?

Françoise Davoine,

 “I turn to stone and my pain goes on,” said Wittgenstein, in his Philosophical Investigations. (§ 288)[1] . He had suffered Read more

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