Clinical Program Faculty

Ania Wertz, PhD, PsyD
Half-time Institute Faculty
awertz@wi.edu

Dr. Wertz is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, where she sees individual adults and couples. Before becoming a psychologist, she was a historian of European intellectual history. She has taught interns in community mental health, psychiatry residents, and seasoned practitioners interested in deepening their knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and its historical contexts. Her research has centered on extending the bounds of psychoanalytic theory to include both new neuroscientific insights and a reintegration with the humanities She has a particular interest in understanding trauma from a multidisciplinary lens. She is also a leadership coach specializing in healthcare and higher education.

“The Language of Psychoanalysis Fifty Years On,” Panel Chair and Presenter, Annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association(APsA), February 2025

“On the Question of Belonging,” Fort Da (Spring 2025)

“Between the Concept and the Dream: Jean Bertrand Pontalis and the Uses of Psychoanalytic Theory,” Fort Da 26 (2020).

“Laplanche and Pontalis: Afterwords...After Words...Afterwards” Scientific Meeting, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, June 2019.

“Bion’s Ghosts: World War I and the History of War Trauma Treatment,” presented as part of a colloquy on Psychoanalysis and War Trauma, Division 39 Spring Meeting, 2015.

“On the Possibility of Creative Being: Introducing Hans Blumenberg,” Qui Parle 12 (Spring/Summer 2000).