WCSPP Presents: On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field Presented by: Donnel B. Stern, PhD Moderated by: Matthew Korner, PsyD Friday, May 16, 2025 7 pm – 9 pm 2 CE HOURS for NY and CT Practitioners Live on Zoom! Admission including CE: $45
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This webinar is live, real-time and interactive.
On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field is Donnel B. Stern’s fifth authored book, and his latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern’s book is essential for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists wishing to understand how the analyst’s interventions grow from the analyst’s emotional involvement in the clinical process. This presentation will begin with an overview of the book’s contents, followed by a question and answer segment with the audience, and then a presentation of one of the book’s clinical chapters, again followed by Q and A.
Presenter
Donnel B. Stern, PhD is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute; and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is Founder and Editor of a book series at Routledge, “Psychoanalysis in a New Key,” which has 90 books in print. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published 100 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters since he began to write about unformulated experience in his first article in 1983. He has authored five psychoanalytic books and co-edited four others. His first authored book was Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1983), which was followed by Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (2010); Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (2015);The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (2019) and On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field (2024). His four co-edited books are presentations of the theory and practice of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Dr. Stern speaks, teaches, and supervises around the world, is in private practice in New York City, and leads private study groups.
Moderator
Matthew Korner, Psy.D. is a graduate of the advanced psychoanalytic program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP). He maintains a private practice in both Pleasantville, NY, and New York City, where he works with adults, adolescents, and couples. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Korner supervises doctoral students at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. He is also the founder and director of Union Square Psychology, a boutique group psychotherapy practice based in Manhattan.
CONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS
Teaching Method: Lecture, Discussion and Q & A.
As a result of attending this workshop:
Attendees will be able to define the concept of unformulated experience.
Attendees will be able to define the concept of the interpersonal field.
Attendees will be able to define the concept of witnessing.
Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 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-0050 and the state board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0063 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0028, licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0040, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0075 and licensed psychoanalysts #P-0027. This program has been approved for 2 Continuing Education Credits by NASW/CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. This approval may also be used by LMFTs, LPCs, and licensed psychologists for license renewal.
A completed survey must be submitted after the meeting for 2 CE hours.
Who should attend: Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychoanalysts, other mental health professionals, nurses, graduate students.