WAWI also offers continuing education, through conferences, lectures, and symposia, and publishes Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
He was known for humanizing the treatment of the mentally ill, doing away with restraints, and offering occupational therapy to patients.
It emphasizes psychoanalytic activism in relation to issues of importance in culture and society, and addresses problems of living which are considered to be beyond the scope of classical psychoanalysis.
WAWI is strongly influenced by the work of Sándor Ferenczi, a member of Freud's inner circle who pioneered the analyst's authentic use of himself in the consulting room, emphasizing the mutuality of the relationship between therapist and client.
The journal reports advances in the application of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to depression, personality disorders, conflicts about sex and gender, and other psychological problems.