I am pleased to announce that we will be offering a three hour Workshop/Seminar on Phototherapy, Sunday November 10, 2019 in midtown Manhattan, through the 10th Annual Expressive Therapy Summit. As a pioneer in the field of 'Phototherapy'; the therapeutic uses of photography, I will first review the evolution of my own work in Phototherapy, beginning with grants from the Polaroid Foundation when I was Clinical Director of the Henry Street Settlement School from 1973 until 1980, when I then joined the graduate art therapy faculty of the College of New Rochelle and began teaching courses in Phototherapy, and finally now at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, where I will be teaching a full semester graduate course in Phototherapy during the spring 2020 semester. This discussion will be followed by a demonstration of the uses of photography as a fascinating way to explore unconscious imagery. We all select unique, visual metaphors when we decide to 'click the shutter' and capture images that speak to us from deeply within, as well as when we choose images that have already been taken and elaborate on them in creative ways. The exercises offered in this experiential Seminar will prepare the participants to use photography with clients in clinical settings, as well as with themselves, to achieve personal insight. This will be the 10th annual Expressive Therapy Summit held in New York City and it is fitting that I will be presenting an updated version of the first 'Phototherapy Seminar' that I presented at the first NYC Expressive Therapy Summit, 10 years ago.
Registration is available online at: http://www.cvent.com/events/2019-expressive-therapies-summit-nyc-registration-site/event-summary-a2275b78e92c489ca88e81f0a520ef3f.aspx
Dr. Robert Wolf is trained in both Creative Art Therapy and Psychoanalysis and is currently the President of the Institute for Expressive Analysis and the Clinical Coordinator and Graduate Faculty member of the College of Mount Saint Vincent. He had been Professor Emeritus at the College of New Rochelle until it's unfortunate closure in August 2019. The Graduate Art Therapy Program, which had been offering through CNR, high-quality training for creative art therapists since 1978, has temporarily transitioned CMSV to enable currently enrolled students to complete their degree in a seamless fashion. CMSV is now in the process of applying for full program approval to enable the continued offering of this unique program that emphasizes and promotes the evolution of their students as both artists and clinicians. Phototherapy has always been a central part of this graduate training program since its inception, and over the years the technology used in teaching has evolved from exclusive focus on work with polaroid film, to 35 mm film using black-and-white darkroom processing, and finally to digital processing of photographs using digital editing software. While the CNR program had offered a New York State approved 12 graduate credit Certificate in Advanced Phototherapy Training, a unique option for those intent on the most in-depth training available anywhere in the world, we are hopeful that this Certificate will once again soon be available through CMSV.
Dr. Robert Wolf