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.
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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
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
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
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
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 Read more
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