Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

I explore creativity as an essential aspect of aliveness and authenticity, and as transformative, emergent in the clinical process, and I draw on film, dance, poetry, literature and dreams as frames for experience that often exceeds what words can capture. In analysis, we dwell in stories, in associations, echoes and reverberations. Apres coup. In the enigmatic and ineffable. As psychoanalysts, we listen for the cracks and voids, interstitial spaces, the presence of an absence. Stories get told; untold and retold, as memory expands and collides, as dreams and remembrances float to the surface, or dissociated shards of trauma pierce through our consciousness, crashing unbidden into awareness, jarring and dysregulating. As a psychoanalyst and writer, I’m interested in the stories we tell, individually and collectively, as well as what gets left out of the narrative, the gaps and holes; what gets disavowed, dissociated, and disrupted by experiences of relational, intergenerational, and sociopolitical trauma. I’m concerned as well with whose stories get centered and whose get erased, silenced and marginalized. This crucial question, what gets left out of the narrative, and the potential for an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim their memory and creative agency and become the storyteller of their own lives, is at the heart of my new book, Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis.

Workshop Information

Date

February 28, 2025

Time

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. EST

Location

Online, live via Zoom

CEUs

3 CE contact hours available for NYS: Psy, SW, MHC, MFT & Psychoanalysts and APA: Psy

Fee

• $85 – General Admission
• $60 – Derner Alum, Adelphi faculty/clinical supervisor, Non-Adelphi psychoanalytic Candidate/student
• $35 – Derner student/Postgraduate candidate

Registration will close 48 hours before the start of the event.

Speaker

Lauren Levine, PhD

Dr. Lauren Levine is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Her new book, Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis was published in Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series in April 2023. The book has just been translated into Spanish by her colleague, Dr. Marie Saba from Lima, Peru. Dr. Levine teaches and presents both nationally and internationally, and has published articles about creativity, mourning, relational, intergenerational, and sociocultural trauma, and resilience. She is on the Faculty of New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. Dr. Levine is Visiting Faculty at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens, Greece, and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. 

Moderator

Matt Aibel, LCSW

Matt Aibel, LCSW is Faculty/Supervisor at National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), Adelphi University’s Derner School of Psychology, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and a Russian Relational Study Group. Submissions Editor, Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Editor, The IARPP Bulletin; Board Member, IARPP. His writing has appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Attachment, and Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and Relational Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2022). He practices in Manhattan and remotely.

Case Presenter

Jadwiga Cutrone

Dr. Jadwiga Cutrone is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Bilingual School Psychologist based in New York. With over 18 years of experience in public school settings, she currently works as a school psychologist at a local high school, where she provides support to adolescents, families, and educators. Dr. Cutrone recently opened a private practice in Long Island, where she provides psychotherapy for children, teens, adults and families. Her clinical interests include intergenerational trauma, disordered eating, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Cutrone is an adjunct professor at Adelphi University, teaching courses in the Master’s program in School Psychology. She is a candidate in the Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.

Disclaimer Statement

This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.

Cancellation Policy

Full refunds are issued for cancellations made up to 7 working days before the event. Cancellations of less than 7 days for any reason, or no-shows are not refunded. Credit towards a future event/workshop are issued for cancellations less than 7 days and up to 24 hours before the event. No credit is issued for cancellations less than 24 hours before the events or no-shows.