Continuing Education

1. Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy & Mental Health is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers, #0269.
2. Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy & Mental Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy & Mental Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
3. Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy & Mental Health is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an Approved Provider of Continuing Education for Licensed Psychoanalysts, #P-0008.

Calendar for the Academic Year: Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

Washington Square Institute offers a series of lectures, workshops, seminars and conferences throughout the year. WSI draws on key theorists, scholars and clinicians in the mental health fields as well as from WSI’s own leadership and faculty to offer state of the art scientific educational events. In this rich intellectual and collegial environment, candidates, staff, faculty and WSI alumni and friends connect.

WSI Scientific Lecture Series

Thursdays, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM (1.5 CE hrs)
No Fee to Attend - RSVP required: admin@wsi.org

October 18, 2018

Freud's Theory of Female Sexuality from the Standpoint of the Critique of Patriarchy
Presenter: Marc Angers, MA Oxon., MSW, LCSW, LP, NCPsyA, WSI Dean/Executive Director

November 15, 2018

What Happened to Sabina Spielrein?
Presenter: Natalie Riccio, Ph.D., LP, LCSW, NYCPsyA

December 13, 2018

How Many Transferences Can You Fit Into a Therapy Group?
Presenter: Sean Grover, LCSW

January 17, 2019

Looking at the Object in the Mirror: An Exploration of Subjectivity and Otherness
Presenter: Meredith Darcy, LCSW-R

February 14, 2019

Doer and Done to Meets Pathological Accommodation: Benjamin and Brandschaft in the Treatment Room
Presenter: Tom Wagner, LP, NCPsyA

March 21, 2019

Psychodynamics in Clinical Practice
Presenter: Gene Guberman, MA, LP, NCPsyA

April 25, 2019

Re-visioning Metapsychology. "We must call the Witch to our help after all" - Goethe, Faust, Part I, Scene 6 in Freud, 1937, p. 225
Presenter: Anna Aragno, Ph.D.

May 16, 2019

Lacan and the Ends of Analysis
Presenter: Peter Gillespie, LCSW, MA, BFA

Open Houses

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00PM - 8:30PM

Open House: Training Programs in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Please join us on at our next Open House on April 25 to discuss the Training Programs in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at WSI. Following the Open House attendees are invited to attend a Scientific Lecture by Dr. Ana Aragno at 8:30pm.
RSVP required: admin@wsi.org

Conferences/Seminars

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2019, 10:00AM - 3:45PM

WSI’s 43rd Annual Scientific Conference:
Psychoanalysis Beyond Patriarchy:
Contributions of Post-Freudians,
Queer Theory, and Laplanche
Presenters: Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D. and Gila Ashtor, Ph.D.
Conference information and registration details >>