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Dana Wehle, L.C.S.W.

 

Dana Wehle, LCSW, MFA., is a certified psychoanalyst and 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, is a member of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Society and Culture, and has presented on the theme of cults on Internet webcasts, at Rutgers University, the William Alanson White Institute, and at other community, professional, and educational settings.  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, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Cult Recovery, and she will join him in discussing his successful treatment of a case involving a jazz musician and his cultic following at the 2007 ICSA conference in Brussels.  Ms. Wehle is editing a special issue of Cultic Studies Review on "the Impact of Cults on Creativity. (DWehle3@earthlink.net) 

 

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