William Alanson White Institute

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The William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), founded in 1943, is an institution for training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists that also offers general psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.^[1] It is located in the Clara Thompson building of the Upper West Side of New York, New York. It was founded as a protest against the mainstream of American psychoanalytic thought, which was thought to be sterile, dogmatic, and constrictive by the psychoanalysts who founded the institute. WAWI also offers continuing education, through conferences, lectures, and symposia, and publishes Contemporary Psychoanalysis.