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Dana Wehle, L.C.S.W.

Dana Wehle, L.C.S.W., M.F.A., is a certified psychoanalyst/licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City and administrative supervisor at the Cult Clinic of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. She received her psychoanalytic training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute, is a member of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Society and Culture, and has presented on the theme of cults and creativity at ICSA conferences, Rutgers University, the William Alanson White Institute, other community, professional, and educational settings, as well as on Internet webcasts. As a classically trained painter, her interest in cultic violation of creativity has coalesced through intensive clinical work with former members, second generation adults (SGAs), and families of adult children in cults. Her article, "The Suppression of Creativity in Cults," is included in Miguel Perlado's book, Clinical Studies of Cults (2007). She is guest editing a special issue of Cultic Studies Review on “Cults and Creativity,” which will published before the 2010 conference in NYC. (DWehle1@gmail.com)
 

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