FACULTY Bios - Susan Obrecht LCSW
Susan Obrecht, L.C.S.W. received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.S.W. from Columbia University. She is a Training Analyst, Supervisor, and member of the Faculty at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she also serves as Co-Director of Admissions for the Five Year Program in Psychoanalysis. Susan teaches Manhattan Institute's course on Classical and Interpersonal Approaches to Dreams, and has taught at the Fifth Avenue Center for Counseling and NYU's Faculty Staff Assistance Program. In Spring of 2010 Susan was chosen to be one of the instructors for Manhattan Institute's mini-course, "What was Paul Thinking?" using the show "In Treatment" to explore interpersonal psychoanalytic concepts.
Susan specializes in working with artists and writers and has presented papers and workshops on: maintaining therapeutic continuity with traveling actors: auditions as triggers to emotional eating disorders; the uses of 'optimal anxiety'in the creative process; addressing the re-enactment of childhood traumas within an acting studio; and exploring procrastination and writer's block. In a December 2009 presentation Susan explored the use of the patient's dreams as a "supervisory" communication to both analyst and training supervisor.
Susan works with individuals and couples struggling with infertility and was cited in The Couples' Guide to In Vitro Fertilization, by Liza Charlesworth (DeCapo, 2004). She has also begun to work with parents whose children have been recently diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
Susan has a private practice in Greenwich Village. |
