As one person noted on the DSC listserv, it’s also the sense of feeling institutionally unsupported in our work that can help to create this feeling of being an imposter (in other words, it’s not just you!). That said, this workshop sounds like it will have good strategies for dealing with what can be an overwhelming and hindering experience/feeling.

THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME

October 22, 2015 (Thursday)

12:30PM-2PM

Room 9204

Workshop led by Dr. Alice Mangan & Aleksandra Rayska

Do you often feel like a fraud, faking your way through graduate school, just waiting for your true inadequacies to be exposed for all to see? Enduring and sometimes overwhelming feelings of fraudulence are central to psychological experience known as The Imposter Phenomenon. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss The Imposter Phenomenon, and work to help students develop strategies to combat this often crippling experience.

Alice Mangan, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and has a private practice in NYC. She works clinically with children, adolescents and young adults in individual, group and couples treatment. She is also a learning specialist and parent and educational consultant.

Aleksandra Rayska is a predoctoral clinical psychology fellow.