In adolescence, anger is associated with particular functional aspects (McConville, 1995). It protects young teenagers who lack the capacity to reconcile contradictory attitudes and beliefs, which may otherwise leave them feeling overwhelmed.
In this meeting, Helena Kallner will lead a discussion of her research by presenting her thesis for which she was just awarded her PhD.
The past two months seem like an eternity. The ascension of Trump and his MAGA loyalists continues to shake the foundations of our world.
Among the many DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) particularities, social class is rarely mentioned, yet it is an essential aspect of who we are in every interaction, including as therapists, and who each client is when they come to therapy seeking relief from their suffering.
In this workshop, I want to explore this very radical notion both theoretically and experientially. I want to highlight both the beauty that we as human beings can bring to the world, and the destructiveness and environmental impact of our sense that the world is our artistic canvas to be remade at will.
One hundred days. And counting.
How are we managing? As therapists? As human beings? As citizens? As a community?
Register hereDescription: Disbelief about his election. Dread after his inauguration. Despair about all that has been crushed during his first six months. On Sunday, July 20, we will […]
This workshop opens the 75th-anniversary year of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. It invites us to pause – not just to reflect on our history, but also to reawaken the very spirit that gave birth to it: the creative aesthetic of contacting, the surprise of the always-new, the call of wonder.
Buber’s critical concept of the “in-between” as the meeting place of the I and the Thou is an essential place from where everything reveals itself or becomes clear to our world of experiences.
