ROBERT U. AKERET, ED.D.
Author of among other titles, Tales From a Traveling Couch, 1996, Norton, and Photolanguage, 2000, Norton.  Prolific author and writer, Dr. Akeret is a talented speaker who is able to speak about psychotherapy and whether it works.  Other topics include: Boundary issues in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Discovering the Wisdom in Family Stories; Life Crisis Dreams in History and in Daily Life; Politics - National and International Conflicts & Elections.   Dr. Akeret is experienced in speaking to lay and professional groups.

DAVID APPELBAUM, PSY.D.
Dr. Appelbaum is a former director of a college counseling center.  He speaks on the following topics: Enhancing Self-Esteem for People in the Arts; How to Survive Your Child's Adolescence; Relational Approaches to Supervision, and How College Students Can Benefit from Psychotherapy.   

BONNIE ARONOWITZ, PH.D.
Talented writer, educator, clinical diagnostician and researcher, Dr. Aronowitz is available to speak about impulsive and compulsive disorders; psychopharmacolgy and psychotherapy, body dysmorphic disorders and trichotillomania.  She has extensive experience presenting to lay and professional groups and with presentations in all media.

JOERG BOSE, M.D.
Dr. Bose is Director of the White Institute.  He did his medical training in Berlin, then came to the United States to train in internal medicine, psychosomatic medicine and lastly in psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.  He is Clinical Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic.  Dr. Bose is noted for his writings and presentations on: Narcissistic States; Disorders of the Self; Depression; Shame; Transference & Countertransference; Trauma & Mourning; Ethnic Identity Disorder and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Artists.

LARRY COHEN, PH.D.
Dr. Cohen is experienced in speaking to lay and professional groups. His topics include: Child Custody Evaluation; Forensic Psychology; and Immigration/Asylum Application.

REBECCA CURTIS, PH.D.
Dr. Curtis indicates that she speaks on self-defeating behaviors and has written a book on this topic.

JACK  DRESCHER, M.D.
Dr. Drescher is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the White Institute, and an internationally recognized speaker and writer in the areas of gender and human sexuality.  He chairs the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues and is former chair of the Committee on Human Sexuality of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.  Dr. Drescher has appeared before professional audiences in the US, Canada, Italy, Russia, Norway, France and the UK.  He has also appeared on or been consulted by CNN, FoxNews, ABC Nightly News, NPR, the O'Reilly Factor, the Rikki Lake Show, The Village Voice, POZ Magazine, The Advocate and numerous other media outlets.  Dr. Drescher is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (The Analytic Press) and Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy.

KENNETH  EISOLD,  PH.D.
Former director of the Organization Program at the William Alanson White Institute.  Dr. Eisold is able to speak on the following topics: Understanding Organizational Life from a Psychodynamic Perspective; Organizational Role; Organizational (Social) Defenses and Anxiety; The Organization's ”Primary Task” or Mission; The Psychodynamics of Leadership; The Psychodynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutes.

LEONARD FEINBERG,  PH.D.
Dr. Feinberg speaks on Trauma; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Treatments & Effects on Health, and Public Health and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

RICHARD GARTNER, PH.D.
Dr. Gartner founded WAWI's Sexual Abuse Program and served as its Director for eleven years.  He is the author of Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse (2005) and Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men (1999), and is a past president of MaleSurvivor: the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization.  Dr. Gartner has appeared before numerous professional audiences speaking about the sexual abuse of boys and its aftermath for victims in adulthood.  He has also been widely quoted about childhood sexual victimization in the media, including, among others, the New York Times, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Newark Star Ledger, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Cosmopolitan, WABC, NBC News Channel, MSNBC, ABC.com, USA Radio Network, Liberty Broadcasting Network, Cable Radio Network, and WOR.

ANTON HART, PH.D.
Dr. Hart is an experienced speaker who can present on the following topics: Psychoanalytic Theory for Laypersons; Parenting Issues; Marital Issues; Issues of Race & Racial Identity; Sexual Abuse Issues; Trauma and Dissociation; Psychotherapy Supervision; College Students & College Counseling Service Work; Mutuality in the Psychoanalytic Process; Group Dynamics; Cultivating Curiosity in the Initial Interview; Ethical Issues in Psychoanalysis.

HELENE KAFKA, PH.D.
Dr. Kafka has delivered papers at national and international conferences and has been published in national and international journals and in 3 books.  She is able to speak on the following topics: Narcissistic and Masochistic Character Disorders; Aloneness and Loneliness; Sexual Abuse; Memory Disorders; Vicarious Traumatization; Inhumane Crimes and Their Healing; Cure or Healing in Psychoanalysis; New Techniques in Psychoanalysis; Countertransference Problems of Fear, Terror, and Patient Aversion

LEOPOLD KATZ,  PH.D.
Dr. Katz speaks about: Fear of Success; How to Speak to Mourners: Advice to Clergy and Others; The Importance of Self-Esteem: Especially in Singles & Others.

SUSAN KOLOD,  PH.D.
Dr. Kolod speaks on the following topics: Bi-Lingual and Multi-Lingual Therapy; Dreams; Women and Anger; Menopause and Its Effect on Relationships; General Topics Pertaining to Therapy and Interpersonal Theory; and any topic related to deafness.

EMILY KURILOFF,  PSY.D.
Presentations include: Group Work with Anorexics; What's Going on With Dora (psychoanalytic work with Freud's famous psychosomatic patient and its implications for the Interpersonal approach); When Words Fail:  Work with a Bulimic Patient; Family Secrets and Eating Disordered Patients; and Narcissism and the Hard to Reach Patient.  Dr. Kuriloff is particularly qualified to speak about eating disorders in adolescence and adulthood.

RUTH LIVINGSTON,  PH.D.
Dr. Livingston speaks about treatment of persons with chronic illness.

MARC MALTZ, MBA
Mr. Maltz is a former Co-Director of The Organization Program at The William Alanson White Institute.  The program teaches consultants to view organizations from a psychoanalytic viewpoint.   His presentations include: Understanding Organizational Life from a Psychodynamic Perspective; Organizational Role; the Psychodynamics of Leadership, Organizational Resistance to Change and Emotional Intelligence and Leadership.

ROSE MILLER, M.S.
Rose Miller is a member of the teaching faculty of The William Alanson White Institute's Organization Program.  She speaks about Organizational Role.

JOHN O'LEARY, PH.D.
Dr. O'Leary has spoken to both lay and professional audiences.  He speaks about serious and mild depressive disorders, as well as “mood problems.”  The general state of depression in this country is another topic.

CAROL PEPPER,  PH.D.
Dr. Pepper is a rehabilitation psychologist who trained at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and is now a senior psychologist at Bellevue Hospital.  She speaks about the impact of depression on cognitive functioning and how depression is often confused with dementia, and how neuropsych testing can differentiate the two.  Other topics include: sexual compulsiveness, sex addiction, sexual perversion, psychodynamic work with survivors of human-induced trauma, psychoanalysis and spirituality and psychology and religion.

JEAN PETRUCELLI,  PH.D.
Dr. Petrucelli has lectured at middle schools, colleges and institutes to both lay and professional groups.  She has taught a course on the marketing aspect of how to promote a psychotherapy practice and create a networking system.  She is co-director and co-founder of the William Alanson White Institute's Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Substance Abuse Service and lectures on any aspect of eating disorders and substance abuse.

DANIEL PILOWSKY, M.D.
Dr. Pilowsky specializes in child & adult psychotherapy and psychiatry and speaks about Depression in Children and Adolescents, Autism and certain aspects of HIV.  He has extensive experience speaking to professional groups.  

ALLISON ROSEN, PH.D.
Dr. Rosen has had extensive experience speaking to lay and professional groups.   Among her topics are Integration of Work and Family in Women's Professional Lives;  Fertility Preservation - Recent Advances;  Infertility, Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels & Infertility; Cancer and Fertility Preservation;  Egg Freezing, Embryo Freezing, Tissue Cryopreservation - Implications for the Future; Sex Selection for Medical & Nonmedical Reasons; Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis; Cloning; Ethics of Frequent Advances in Fertility Treatment; Religion & Assisted Reproductive Technology; Adoption Challenges; Attachment in International Adoption, and The Psychological Challenges of Adoptive Families.

CATHERINE STUART, PH.D.
Dr. Stuart is a training and supervising analyst at WAWI and a former supervising psychologist at Smithers Alcoholism Treatment Center.  She specializes in eating disorders and issues related to addiction and recovery from addiction.  She has spoken at various hospital grand rounds and has done workshops on dealing with habits of addiction.

RUTH SZMARAG, PH.D.
Dr. Szmarag's interest and expertise are in cross-cultural issues and post-traumatic stress disorder, especially for survivors of the Holocaust.

STEVEN TUBLIN, PH.D.
Has addressed professional groups on Interpersonal Theory and Technique.

E. MARTIN WALKER, PH.D
Topics of interest include: Psychological Adjustment to Later Life and Degenerative Illness; Systemic Views of Depression; Relaxation Response Approach to Anxiety; Psychological Implications of Inherited Wealth; Treatment of Sexual Victimization; Undiagnosed PTSD in Latina Women; Impact of a Multicultural Upbringing on Individuals and Families; AIDS Prevention/Treatment in the Context of Cultural Considerations; Open Systems Theories of Organizational Life; Theme Centered Interaction: Experiential Continuous Learning Process Groups; Cultural Identity and Group Behaviors; Social Dreaming; Application of Dreaming to Work Environments; Dream Intelligence; Inner Media: Secular Approaches to Spiritual Practice.

PAT WARD, M.S.
Ms. Ward is an internationally recognized consultant and speaker on leadership development, organizational transitions, and strategic values.  Topics she speaks to are work and family balance, organizational life cycles, checking organizational vital signs and mid-life/career transitions.  She has created innovative work/family programs for corporate clients.  Ms. Ward has experience speaking to both Lay and Professional Groups.

STEFAN ZICHT, Ph.D.
Dr. Zicht speaks to the following topics: Fame and Celebrity; Creativity, Being and Authenticity; Interpersonal Psychoanalysis; Harry Stack Sullivan; Co-participant Inquiry; Expanding the Data of Psychoanalysis: Inquiry and Openness; Countertransference and the Analyst's Use of Subjective Experience; Going One's Own Way: Personalistic Psychoanalytic Practice; Relationships; Substance Abuse; Body Image Issues; Self-Esteem - and combinations of the above listed topics.