New
Directions
2015
Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge
Listening to the Unsayable
Memory, Memoir, and Meaning
The Winnicotts: Speaking, Writing Plainly
Family Legacies: The Stories We Tell
Friendship: What Makes It, What Breaks It
Isms, Phobias, and Invisibilities: Bigotry on the Couch
Engagement (Opening Moves in Writing and Treating)
Literate Living, Literate Listening
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COMMENTS
FROM OUR GUEST FACULTY
“It has been my great pleasure to be involved with the New Directions program
since its inception. The faculty is among the most thoughtful and innovative group
of teachers with whom I have worked. The curriculum facilitates creative critical
thinking, and supports students in conceptualizing and developing their personal
writing projects.”
Jay Greenberg, Ph.D. (William Alanson White Institute)
This excellent program provides an integration of reading, thinking and writing
that is unique in the field. It permits an in-depth treatment of subject matters which
creates its own consuming excitement. I warmly recommend it.”
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA (Freud Memorial Professor
of Psychoanalysis, University College, London)
“New Directions is well-named, for the program provides the crucial support,
encouragement and fellowship so many clinicians need to turn those percolating
ideas for papers into reality. Non-clinicians can take their academic interests and
careers in new directions as well, as they benefit from on-going involvement in a
structured group setting where the application of psychoanalytic ideas to their own
areas of expertise is really appreciated and understood. Why struggle to write alone
when there’s such a terrific - and fun - program that helps would-be writers make
strides together?”
Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.
(Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)
“I have found the New Directions program to be one of the most valuable programs
in the country for mental health professionals who wish both to update their
knowledge of current issues in the field and to improve their writing skills. It offers a
unique opportunity for therapists to develop professionally in both these ways and
I highly recommend it to all those who seek to expand their knowledge and skills in
these areas.”
Theodore Jacobs, M.D. (New York Psychoanalytic
Institute and New York University Psychoanalytic Institute)
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New Directions
“New Directions is a pioneering and unique program for learning to write
in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Refuting the prevailing
sense that such programs are often advocated but rarely carried out,
New Directions offers exciting opportunities, fresh methodologies,
and creative dialogue with skilled writers in our field. The result of
participating in the program is renewed vigor and enhanced skill for the
aspiring writers amongst us!”
Salman Akhtar, M.D. (Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute)
“New Directions really is a new direction, both for attention to writing
in our field and for attention to mentoring as the means to make the
writing process relational, that is, appropriate to our accumulating
clinical tradition.”
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, (Columbia Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research)
“Bringing together talented psychoanalysts and mental health
professionals with aspiring and already published writers makes for an
extraordinary catalytic experience. The program affords participants
the combination of the sheer pleasure that comes from playing with the
craft of words and the provocative experience of thinking deeply about
the individual meanings in a story well told. New Directions should be
sampled time and time again.”
Linda Mayes, M.D. (Yale Child Study Center)
“What touched me most on first encounter with New Directions was the
ambience of consistently considerate warmth, the air of comfortable
candor. Status and hierarchy had no presence. Rather, all shared
freely their common love for the struggle to translate experience and
knowledge into language. As a result, the thinking and the language
were never tediously predictable.
A serious writer writes in order to learn how to write. New Directions
succeeds as an intermittent writer’s camp, one offering both beginners
and those who have often published a safe opportunity to practice
learning to write in the company of thoughtful and respectful others.”
Warren S. Poland, M.D. (Washington Center for Psychoanalysis)
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THE NEW DIRECTIONS
PROGRAM
New Directions is a three-year postgraduate training program for clinicians,
academicians, and writers who want to develop a richer understanding of
modern psychoanalytic perspectives and apply it to their own work. In seasonal
weekend conferences and optional summer and winter retreats, our community
of students, alumni, teachers, and guest faculty come together to explore selected
aspects of the psychoanalytic domain. The range of conference topics has been
broad: memory, gender, trauma, infancy, evil, dreams, the body, creativity,
mourning, projective identification, writer’s block, revenge and forgiveness, the
writer’s voice, and the psychology of the therapist, have been the subjects, among
others, of our weekends.
A special focus of the program is writing. While some of our students are
extensively published and others are inexperienced, they are all invested in
developing their authorial skills. While some are pursuing professional writing,
several are interested in the crafting of essay, memoir, fiction, and poetry.
Exposing our work to others is vulnerable business, and getting the wise support
of mature colleagues is crucial in enabling us to take that risk.
We clarify and sharpen our thinking by writing. A variety of program
components support this effort. We use groups that review brief assignments
written for each conference, craft-oriented writing workshops, forums for critical
review of published writing, and collaborations that facilitate ongoing writing
projects. We have recruited a cadre of English teachers from area universities who
are paired with our psychoanalyst faculty as writing group leaders.
Many of our graduates continue to participate in the program because they
find New Directions a supportive professional community in which they can
continue to develop – as thinkers, as writers, and as professionals. Some have
found that they have made substantial progress as writers particularly during
their alumni years. Our students range in age from their thirties to their eighties,
they come with a variety of perspectives, and, given the program’s design, they are
able to come from all over the continent and even from overseas.
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THE EXPERIENCE OF
OUR STUDENTS
“‘New Directions has been a life-changing experience for me. It almost feels
like re-experiencing college—I have learned to think more critically (through a
psychoanalytic focus), and I have learned to write and express my ideas better. Like
in college, I have developed deep, long-lasting friendships while in a supportive,
holding environment at New Directions weekends. The mix of experiential small
groups and a variety of larger didactic seminars keeps me engaged from start to
finish. The caliber of the speakers and small group facilitators is top notch, and they,
like the group of students and alums, have quite a breadth of clinical experience
and writing modalities. I found my writer’s voice, and have subsequently written a
memoir and published some pieces that I would not have had the courage to write
without the support of my New Directions family.”
Liat Katz, LCSW-C, Class of 2014
“When I heard about New Directions I imagined that it would be a terrific
way to continue my education as a psychotherapist while providing a
springboard for writing about my clinical practice and experiences. New
Directions is all about that, and so much more. The weekend conferences
are the perfect interweave of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking with
the creative process of writing, be it for a journal article, fiction,
poetry, or a blog, to name but a few. What emerged for me, especially
through the weekend writing exercises, was a stronger voice for memoir
and creative non-fiction than I had anticipated. I was delighted to
find in New Directions a kind and supportive group of like-minded folks
that I feel simpatico with, and challenged by, in so many ways. I found
a unique writing community that is both playful and serious, and I’ve
developed deeply satisfying friendships as a result. Most importantly,
I learned not only that I can write, but how to be a better writer.”
Don Chiappinelli, MSW, Class of 2010
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COMPONENTS
1. WEEKEND CONFERENCES
Each year we use three weekend conferences, scheduled in the Fall, Winter, and
Spring, to focus in depth on topic areas chosen for their contemporary interest.
The function of the conferences is to look critically at the emerging ideas in these
developing areas, thus training the participants to become rigorous psychoanalytic
thinkers. At each weekend, we are helped in this project by a faculty of local and
national teachers who are expert in the relevant fields. Each conference is aimed at
developing the students’ capacities as writers, using group meetings and brief writing
assignments. Each weekend includes an interactive writing workshop event, led by
an experienced writing instructor, in which the group as a whole collaborates on a
writing task. A detailed description of the weekends appears in the following pages.
Weekends run from 9 am Friday morning to 12:30 pm Sunday afternoon,
including one evening session. The format includes both large group lectures
and discussions and small group meetings, the latter primarily focusing on the
participants’ writing. Each weekend offers approximately eighteen hours of
continuing education credit.
2. ORIGINAL WRITING
In addition to writing brief essays for each weekend, the participants are
encouraged to take on larger writing projects. Some participants may opt to write
books or substantial papers, others may want help in writing shorter essays or pieces
for oral presentation, and yet others may choose to take the Program without a
formal writing goal. Those participants who choose to undertake a writing project
can be assisted in this endeavor by a writing consultant chosen from an international
roster, which includes many leading contemporary theoreticians. Participant and
consultant will develop their own format for working together, and they may
collaborate in person or by phone, fax, mail or e-mail. A listing of the current roster
of consultants appears on page 20.
3. SUMMER & WINTER RETREATS
An optional week-long summer retreat at a vacation site involves half-day
sessions composed of a two-hour writing workshop and two-hour small group
discussion of ongoing writing projects. The retreat has been held in the past in
Stowe, Vermont and on Cape Cod. Because the format is designed to allow time for
recreation, participants may wish to bring family or friends to the destination.
Students beginning the program in the fall of 2015 would be welcome to attend the
summer retreat in August 2015. For further information about the retreat, please
turn to page 15.
An optional four day intensive writing retreat which allows extensive time for writing,
individual consultations with writers and psychoanalysts, and small discussion groups,
will be held at the Tabard Inn in Washington, DC. See page 16 for more information.
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WEEKEND
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Listening to the Unsayable
October 23-25, 2015
Memory, Memoir, and Meaning
February 5-7, 2016
The Winnicotts: Speaking, Writing Plainly
May 13-15, 2016
Family Legacies: The Stories We Tell
November 11-13, 2016
Friendship: What Makes It, What Breaks It
February 3-5, 2017
Isms, Phobias, and Invisibilities: Bigotry on the
Couch
April 21-23, 2017
Engagement (Opening Moves in Writing and
Treating)
Fall, 2017
TBA
February, 2018
Literate Living, Literate Listening
May 4-6, 2018
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WEEKEND CONFERENCES
LISTENING TO THE UNSAYABLE
October 23-25, 2015
This weekend will examine the complexity of the movement out of silence toward
symbolization in our work with clients and in our work as writers.
Our presenters will use their experience as clinicians, writers, and poets to help
us think about a language that, in its transformations – into and through silence,
psychosis, and poetry – is, perhaps, better experienced than defined. The poet,
psychotherapist and musician Tomas Tranströmer writes in his poem “Allegro”:
After a black day, I play Haydn…
The music is a house of glass standing on a slope;
rocks are flying, rocks are rolling.
The rocks roll straight through the house
but every pane of glass is still whole.
Tranströmer’s words suggest experience outside of language. Although the rocks
“are flying and rolling” “straight through the house,” the glass remains “whole,” and
the “house of glass” positioned precipitously “on a slope” remains – transparent,
penetrated, and yet, defying the laws of the physical world, “still whole,” immutable.
Annie Rogers, one of our presenters, has observed, the language of the unsayable
“signifies what is most elusive in human experience.” It offers “a bridge from the
known world to the unknown” and, like the unconscious, “leaps forward as a spark,
and you can not guess its trajectory.”
Anticipate a conference weekend of sparks!
Coordinator: Karen Earle, LICSW
GUEST FACULTY:
• DEBORAH BLESSING, MSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst
trained at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. She
also spent a year as a Clinical Associate at the Tavistock Centre in London where
she was awarded a permanent post as Honorary Senior Child Psychotherapy
Consultant. Ms. Blessing is a Core Faculty member of the Observation Studies
Program, Tavistock Method at the Washington School of Psychiatry. She has
published several papers on infant observation, siblings and eating disorders.
• GAIL S. REED, Ph.D. is a training and supervisory analyst at the New York
Freudian Society, the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, and NPAP, and is an
Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She
is the author of Transference Neurosis and the Psychoanalytic Experience:
Perspectives on Contemporary Clinical Practice and Clinical Understanding,
and an editor of and contributor to Unrepresented States and the Construction of
Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions. Her numerous articles include
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“Spatial Metaphors of the Mind,” and “In the Same Way a Poem Contains the
Alphabet: The Significance of Translation in William I. Grossman’s Freud.” She is
President and Founding Member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic
Process.
• SHELLEY ROCKWELL, Ph.D., is a training and supervising psychoanalyst
with the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington D.C. She has studied with
the London Kleinians Michael Feldman and Betty Joseph for close to twenty
years. She is the author of “Problems of Internalization: A Button is a Button is—
Not.” Dr. Rockwell completed an infant observation with Margaret Rustin at the
Tavistock Clinic in London. She has been a daycare consultant at the Kennedy
Institute and consults with the Jubilee Jumpstart Daycare Center. She is interested
in literature and its interweaving with psychoanalysis, particularly poetry. She
received an MFA in poetry from the New England College in 2009.
• ANNIE G. RODGERS, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical
Psychology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is affiliated
with the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco and the College
of Psychoanalysts in Ireland. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Ireland,
a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, and a Whiting Fellowship at
Hampshire College, she is the author of A Shining Affliction and The Unsayable:
The Hidden Language of Trauma, as well as many academic articles, memoir,
short fiction and poetry. As the Erikson Scholar at Austen-Riggs she plans to
complete a book on psychosis and a collection of poems.
MEMORY, MEMOIR, and MEANING
February 5-7, 2016
Memoir writing and psychotherapy meet at the intersection of memory and story.
In both we look to find the narrative, as opposed to the novelist who creates one.
To find the narrative both memoirist and patient must delve deep, mining their
memories, retrieving and reworking them, and in the end creating something new.
Meaning emerges through the process of exploration, finding what is buried and
most precious—the pearls—dredging them up to the surface, the light of day, and
examining them. Memoir writing and psychotherapy cannot simply be a chronology
or a retelling of events, or an outpouring of the traumatic experiences that have
happened in one’s life. Catharsis alone cannot sustain a patient in psychotherapy, nor
a reader of memoir. Both require the important next step of organizing meaning,
articulating the linking forces that led to this particular narrative arc. Only in this
way can a chronicle become a story. This weekend we will explore the interface of
memoir and psychotherapy and how both disciplines bring the reader and patient to
a new and richer understanding of self and other.
Coordinator: Kerry Malawista, Ph.D.
GUEST FACULTY:
• ALISON BECHDEL is the best-selling author of the graphic memoir Fun Home:
A Family Tragicomic. It was TIME Magazine’s # 1 Book of the Year, as well as a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2006, she published Are
You My Mother? in which she explores her relationship with her mother and also
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her experiences as a patient in psychotherapy and analysis. Her use of concepts
from Freud and Winnicott illuminates the narrative in ways both profound
and accessible. In 2013 she received the Distinguished Educator Award in
Psychoanalysis by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.
• MARK DOTY is a memoirist and poet, and the winner of the National Book
Award for Poetry in 2008. He has published eight books of poems, three memoirs,
an essay on still life painting, objects and intimacy, and a handbook for writers.
His memoirs, after Heaven’s Coast, are Firebird and Dog Years. He was the John
and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of
Houston Creative Writing Program for ten years, and is currently Distinguished
Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he directs Writers House
Education.
• DEBORAH ANNA LUEPNITZ, Ph.D. is on the Clinical Faculty in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
She maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in Philadelphia and is the author
of The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Family Therapy and
more recently of Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and its Dilemmas. She
was also a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Lacan. In 2005,
Dr Luepnitz launched Insight For All, a program that connects analysts in the
community willing to work pro bono with formerly homeless adults living at
Project HOME.
• JANNA MALAMUD SMITH is a writer and psychotherapist in Boston. She is
the author of four books, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (1997),
A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear (2003), My Father is a Book:
A Memoir of Bernard Malamud (2006), and An Absorbing Errand: How Artists
and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery (2013). Her articles and essays have
appeared nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and literary
journals including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The International
Herald Tribune,The Christian Science Monitor, American Scholar, Family Circle and
The Threepenny Review.
THE WINNICOTTS: SPEAKING, WRITING PLAINLY
May 13-15, 2016
For over 70 years, the work of Donald Woods Winnicott has been a unique voice
in the psychoanalytic world, addressing a wide range of concerns about child
development and clinical practice. Winnicott’s effectiveness in speaking to and
writing for diverse audiences is unprecedented in psychoanalysis – his radio talks
over the BBC to British parents, the dozens of papers presented to caregivers of all
stripes, and, of course, his formal analytic writings. But the emergence of Winnicott’s
voice was undoubtedly facilitated by his personal and professional collaboration with
his wife Clare, beginning with their work with evacuated children during the War.
An analysand of Melanie Klein’s, Clare’s leadership in British child welfare, both in
university and government, also involved communicating analytic understanding
to the world outside psychoanalysis. And Clare’s clarity and pragmatic outlook
complimented Donald’s playfulness and creativity. This weekend will explore the
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Winnicotts’ unique collaboration in creating a dialogue between psychoanalysis, the
helping professions and the general public.
Coordinator: Joel Kanter, MSW, LCSW-C
GUEST FACULTY:
• LESLEY CALDWELL is a training analyst for the London Child and Adolescent
programs, and training and supervising analyst for the IPA China Programme.
She is Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College
London where she teaches and supervises in the Masters and Doctoral
programmes and coordinates the Unit’s Interdisciplinary Programme. A trustee
of the Winnicott Trust, she is the co-editor of Reading Winnicott and of The
Collected Works of Donald Winnicott.
• JOEL KANTER, MSW, LCSW-C is recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner
by the National Academy of Practice in Social Work. He is on the faculty of
the Institute for Clinical Social Work, is a supervisor for the Chinese American
Psychoanalytic Association, and is a Consulting Editor of the Clinical Social Work
Journal. His publications include Clinical Studies in Case Management and Face
to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott.
• ANNE KARPF is a columnist, writer and sociologist. Her books include The
War After, The Human Voice and, most recently, How to Age. For this and
her Guardian columns and features about ageing she won the award for best
independent voice on older people’s issues in the Older People in the Media
Awards 2014. She is Reader in Professional Writing and Cultural Inquiry at
London Metropolitan University. Her research on Winnicott’s BBC radio
broadcasts to parents was presented in a 2014 BBC4 program.
Additional faculty will be announced at a later date.
FAMILY LEGACIES: THE STORIES WE TELL
November 11-13, 2016
There are many ways to tell the same story. As we know from eyewitness accounts —
as well as from our own family gatherings around the Thanksgiving table — stories
are shaped by the nuances of subjective experiences. In families, they become part of
a shared history that is either accepted and embraced or renounced and disavowed.
This weekend we will explore how family stories are shaped by, in Christina Baker
Kline’s words, “the spaces between words, the silences that conceal long-kept secrets,
the elisions that belie surface appearance.”
As psychoanalysts and writers know well, shame and secrecy impair the capacity to
reflect on and understand our histories and our motivations. Through writing, we
claim the power to tell our own stories. In fiction and memoir alike, narratives take
form around what is spoken and what is left out. They explore the legacy of trauma,
from despair to resilience. In telling our stories, we do more than reveal histories and
identities — we heal wounds, inflect new meanings, and often redefine the stories we
inherit and pass on.
Coordinator: Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D., LCSW
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GUEST FACULTY:
• CATHERINE BAKER-PITTS is Co-Director of the postgraduate training
program Minding the Body: Disruptions and Possibilities for Eating, Sex,
Surgery, Subversion and Creativity at The Women’s Therapy Center Institute.
She is a candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis. She is co-author of a clinical tool, The Body Observational
Diagnostic Interview. As a Fahs Beck Scholar, her research has focused on gender,
culture, technology, and the body. Her writing and clinical work in Manhattan
affirm non-conforming bodies and gender creativity.
• CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In
addition to the bestselling Orphan Train, her novels include Bird in Hand, The
Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. Kline is coeditor, with Anne
Burt, of a collection of personal essays, About Face: Women Write About What
They See When They Look in the Mirror. She is co-author, with her mother,
Christina Looper Baker, of a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The
Conversation Begins. Kline is currently at work on a literature anthology for
Facing History & Ourselves and a novel based on the iconic painting Christina’s
World by Andrew Wyeth.
• MATTHEW THOMAS has a BA from the University of Chicago, an MA
from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA from the
University of California, Irvine. His bestselling novel We Are Not Ourselves was
named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and one of the five
most important books of the year by Esquire.
Additional faculty will be announced at a later date.
FRIENDSHIP: WHAT MAKES IT, WHAT BREAKS IT
February 3-5, 2017
This weekend will explore the many facets of friendship across the lifespan. We
will look at friendship through the eyes of both writers and clinicians, examining
why friends are important to us, how friendships take shape, and how they become
meaningful. This weekend will also explore ruptures, loss and repair in friendship,
and the affiliative longings and subsequent disappointments that characterize
friendship across the developmental spectrum.
Coordinators: Anne Adelman, Ph.D. and Christie Platt, Ph.D.
GUEST FACULTY:
• Judith Stone has been a storyteller, host and curator at The Moth, the
international storytelling organization. She is the author of Light Elements, Essays
on Science from Gravity to Levity, a collection of her award-winning humor
columns from Discover magazine, and When She Was White, which was the basis
for the 2009 film Skin.
Additional faculty will be announced at a later date.
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ISMS, PHOBIAS, AND INVISIBILITIES:
BIGOTRY ON THE COUCH
April 21-23, 2017
Bias, prejudice, bigotry – these escalating words speak to one of the most destructive
aspects of being human. Such hatred leads to external attack and internalized
devastation. Bigotry is not about “someone else.” Everyone has the capacity for this
type of harmfulness and everyone can become the target of group hatred. Most
dishearteningly, bigotry appears to be a constant in human history. Group hatred
is passed down from generation to generation, as are the internalized scars of its
victims.
For this weekend, we plan to have speakers who will talk with us about some of
the following: the continuing consequences of American slavery, transgenerational
aspects of anti-Semitism, the intersection of external oppression and internalized
homophobia, dimensions of Islamophobia, and the invisibility of people with
physical or physiological differences. We will also explore our own unwanted-butsecretly-held prejudices through some of the writing prompts and small group
discussions.
Coordinator: Marc Nemiroff, Ph.D.
GUEST FACULTY:
• MAURICE APPREY, PH.D., is a psychoanalyst trained by Anna Freud at
the Hampstead Clinic. He received his training in adult psychoanalysis at the
Contemporary Freudian Society, where he is now a supervising and training
analyst. Dr. Apprey is Dean of African-American Affairs at the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville. Dr. Apprey will discuss “The Perpetrator-Victim Dance
of Transgenerational Racism.”
• MIMI BLASIAK, LCSW. Drawn by her experiences as a child of a survivor, Ms.
Blasiak studied Jewish philosophy and the history of the Holocaust at Baltimore
Hebrew University, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and the University of Pittsburgh.
She interviewed Holocaust survivors and created community programming
for Holocaust remembrances. Ms. Blasiak teaches in the Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy Training Program of The Washington School of Psychiatry. She is
currently a third-year candidate at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Additional faculty will be announced at a later date.
ENGAGEMENT (OPENING MOVES IN
WRITING AND TREATING)
Fall, 2017
Among the most important passages in a piece of writing is the one that opens the
story. This is where the writer captures the readers’ attention, bidding them to read
on. The invitation needs to be an engaging one, so that the reader will trust the writer
and want to follow along, through all the twists and turns, staying with the piece until
the end. So, too, in therapy—beginnings matter. As therapists, we want to spark the
client’s curiosity.
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In the opening pages the writer is signaling where he or she is hoping to go, our
patients are signaling to us what they want to deal with about themselves, and as
therapists we wonder how we may get there. All are setting the stage for what’s to
come. From the start one’s curiosity needs to be sparked, a connection made between
writer and reader, and therapist and patient.
This weekend will explore beginnings, how they develop, how they succeed and how
they fail.
It has been said that the goal of the first session is to do what’s needed to have a
second session. And it has been said the goal of the opening lines is to have the
reader inclined to turn the page. There’s a whole story in that.
The poet W. S. Merwin wrote: Come even so. We will start. Bring your nights with
you.
Coordinators: Kerry Malawista, Ph.D. and Bob Winer, M.D.
GUEST FACULTY:
• Maud Casey is the author of three novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New
York Times Notable Book, Genealogy, and The Man Who Walked Away; and a
collection of stories, Drastic. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and has
received international fellowships from the Fundación Valparaiso, Hawthornden
International Writers Retreat, Château de Lavigny, Dora Maar, and the Passa Porta
residency at Villa Hellebosch. Casey teaches at the University of Maryland.
Additional faculty will be announced at a later date.
LITERATE LIVING, LITERATE LISTENING
May 4-6, 2018
Adam Phillips characterizes patients as “failed artists of their lives.” Patterns of
coping that once were adaptive are now unresponsive or irrelevant to their current
circumstances. It is as if they are writing the same story over and over without a fresh
piece of paper. If we imagine the ultimate goal of psychoanalysis as a better rendering
of the self, how can we understand creative transformation in analytic work through
the lens of literature? How does the fiction analysts read affect how they listen and
understand their patients’ narratives? How can characters from stories help us
understand the dynamics of recurrent patterns of living? How can poets help us
see more deeply into the ways we interact with the world we inhabit? How can the
themes and poetics of texts help us more fully apprehend the associations, allusions,
metaphors, and rhythms of therapeutic dialogue? How does an analyst’s own writing
affect the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship?
Coordinator: Billie A. Pivnick, Ph.D.
GUEST FACULTY:
• SANDRA BUECHLER, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising analyst at the
William Alanson White Institute. Her publications include Clinical Values:
Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, Making a Difference in Patients’
Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting, Still Practicing: The
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Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, and Understanding and Treating Patients
in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature.
• MARILYN CHARLES, Ph.D, ABPP is a Staff Psychologist at Austen Riggs
Center, a Training Analyst with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council and the
Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical
School. She is President of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American
Psychological Association and co-chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis,
Culture and Society. She is the author of five books: Patterns: Building Blocks of
Experience, Constructing Realities: Transformations through Myth and Metaphor,
Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians, Working with Trauma:
Lessons from Bion and Lacan, and Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We
Live.
• DODI GOLDMAN, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at William
Alanson White Institute. Formerly the Book Review Editor of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, he is the author of numerous articles, including “Weaving with
the World: Winnicott’s Re-Imagining of Reality.” He is the author of In Search of
the Real: the Origins and Originality of D.W. Winnicott, and editor of In One’s
Bones: The Clinical Genius of Winnicott. He is on the advisory board of the Israel
Winnicott Center.
• SOPHIA RICHMAN, Ph.D., ABPP is a Supervisor at the New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, a Training and
Supervising Analyst at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New
Jersey, and a faculty member of the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational
Studies. Dr. Richman was born into the Holocaust in Poland and survived in
hiding. In 2002 she authored the award winning A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy
of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. Her most recent book is Mended by the
Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma. Dr. Richman is also a painter.”
ORIGINAL WRITING
Participants interested in undertaking an independent writing project will have the
option of working with a consultant. The topic selected may be theoretical, clinical,
or applied, and may be on research already in progress. Some students may choose to
write memoir, fiction, or poetry. Participants can select from an international roster
of consultants; the current panel is listed on the following page. Program advisors
will help the participants to select appropriate consultants. In addition, we will make
available bibliographies of the consultants’ writings to assist in consultant selection.
Work with the consultant may include discussions of how to define the research area,
finding resources for background study, the elaboration of the concept, and review
of successive drafts of the paper. Collaboration may be conducted by mail, phone,
fax, e-mail, or, where possible, in person. The participant will pay for the consultant’s
time.
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THE NEW DIRECTIONS JOURNAL
Since February 2003, New Directions has been publishing a journal of participant
and faculty writing. The first seven volumes were done under the editorship of
Program graduates Kent Jarratt (2002 and 2003) and Michael Bieber (2006 and
2007); Program faculty member, Kathie Hepler (2008); graduate Jessica Arenella with
Kathie Hepler (2009); and Jessica Arenella (2011). The journals should help provide
a sense of the Program.
Copies of the Journal are available on the website at http://newdirectionsinwriting.
com/student-publications-after-joining-new-directions/publications/. A hard copy
of the most recent journal is available by contacting ConfManagement@aol.com.
SUMMER RETREAT
The optional summer retreat offers students a chance to focus intensively on the
development of their writing in a one-week writing workshop. The group meets in
the mornings in plenary sessions with a focus on craft and technique, followed by
small discussion groups where each participant is able to work intensively on her/
his writing projects. Individual consultations with faculty members can also be
arranged. Afternoons
and evenings are free for
recreation, independent
work, and collaboration
with colleagues. Students
have found that they have
been able to accomplish
substantial work in this
relatively brief (six day)
time frame. Participation
in the retreat is open
to incoming students.
Please let us know if you
are interested.
The next summer retreat will be held August 1-7, 2015 in West Harwich,
Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The retreat fee is $950. Lodging and meals are
arranged independently. This makes it possible for participants to bring families and
friends for their time on Cape Cod, and they are welcome to join in all social events.
The faculty for the 2015 summer retreat will be Deirdre Callanan and Sara Taber.
Deirdre Callanan joined the New Directions’ faculty in 2006. Her roles have
included co-leading writing groups, as well as working with writers at both the
summer and winter retreats. Deirdre wrote her first poem at age six and has been
writing ever since. She has published poems, fiction, essays, and journalism articles.
Her manuscript and photos about a Tampa streetcar which since 1947 has been
a Fish Camp on Casey Key was serialized in the Venice, Florida paper. While she
relishes harvesting beach plums, she’s most content when helping other writers hone
their pieces.
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Sara Mansfield Taber (www.sarataber.com) is a writer of essays, memoirs,
commentary, and literary journalism. Raised in Asia and Europe as the daughter
of a C.I.A. covert operative, she recently spent ten years sorting out her exotic,
itinerant childhood. Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War
Spy’s Daughter, was published in 2012. She has also published two books of people
and place, Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia and Bread of Three Rivers:
The Story of a French Loaf. A past William Sloane Fellow in Nonfiction for the
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, she has received fellowships at the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts. She has taught creative nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins
University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has been part of New
Directions for nine years. Deirdre Callanan, Sara Taber, Catherine Anderson, and
Don Chiappinelli will be leading the writing discussion groups this summer.
WINTER RETREAT
The optional winter retreat has a unique character. Located at the Tabard Inn in
Washington D.C., it is a four-day intensive writing time with opportunities for
one-on-one consultation and small groups to workshop the writing. During the day,
participants work independently on their writing projects. Over the course of the
retreat, each participant will meet individually for consultation with two writers and
two analysts. At the end of each day, participants break up into small groups, co-led
by an analyst and writing teacher, to discuss their daily progress in their writing.
After the groups are over, participants join together for a communal meal. The
retreat fee is $875.00 plus lodging.
NEW DIRECTIONS
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
The Program is open to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented
psychotherapists, academicians, writers and researchers. To apply to New Directions,
please complete the application form on page 21 or apply online at www.wcpweb.org
under New Directions Program, and ask two people familiar with your professional
work to send us references.
For further information, write to:
WCP - New Directions Program
P.O. Box 25112
Arlington, VA 22202
or email at ConfManagement@aol.com
For further information about the components of the Program, please call:
Sharon Alperovitz: 202-387-8776, sharon.alperovitz@gmail.com
Catherine Anderson: 301-951-0949, CLAPHD@aol.com
Deborah Blessing: 202-872-9146, deborahblessing1@gmail.com
Mary Carpenter: 202-966-0973, carmedpub@gmail.com
Dr. David Cooper: 301.907.2880, dcooperphd@gmail.com
Dr. Kerry Malawista: 301.983.4541, kmalawista@gmail.com
Michaele Weissman: 301-718-1947, michaeleweissman@gmail.com
Dr. Robert Winer: 301.229.0600, robertwinermd@gmail.com
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TIME AND LOCATION
The weekend conferences will be held at conference centers in the Greater
Washington area. The weekends will generally run from 9:00 a.m. Friday to
12:30 p.m. Sunday.
FEES
New Directions is a three-year program consisting of nine consecutive weekend
conferences. Most frequently students begin in the fall, but they are welcome to
begin instead in the winter or spring. Annual tuition is $2640, and this is the charge
for students entering in the fall. Students starting in the winter will pay $1760 for
the first year, and then the full fee each year. Students starting in the spring will
pay $880 the first year, and then the full fee each year. In the latter two cases the
final year will be prorated. Tuition is due no later than 3 weeks prior to the first
conference attended that year. Students may miss up to two weekends during the
course of the three-years and shall be entitled to up to two free make-up weekends
in the twelve months following their three years in the program. No extensions
for make-up weekends beyond that are possible. Partial refunds for the annual
tuition for unused weekends will be issued only if a student cancels in writing their
participation in the program. Students may rescind their annual participation in the
program and receive a full refund for future weekends within 72 hours of payment.
TRIAL WEEKEND: Applicants may choose to attend a single weekend on a trial
basis and then decide whether they want to enroll. The fee for the trial weekend is
$880. In that case the trial weekend counts as the first of the nine weekends.
Students applying to the program understand and acknowledge that they are
agreeing to participate in a program that requires a time and economic commitment
on their part to ensure that all participants benefit from the program.
Alumni returning for additional weekend conferences will be charged $880/
conference in the 2015-2016 year.
The summer retreat fee for 2015 will be $950. The winter retreat fee for 2016 will be
$875. Lodging and meals are separate.
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
CME/CE credits are awarded for completion of each component of the New Directions
Weekend. Participants must sign in for each session and complete an overall online evaluation
at the completion of the weekend.
Continuing Education – Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas
and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the
joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Washington Center
for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME
to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic
Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [number of credits to be inserted
for each component of program] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim
only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Education – Psychology
The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological
Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Washington Center for
Psychoanalysis, Inc., maintains responsibility for the program and its content and offers 1
credit per hour for this activity.
Continuing Education – Social Work
The programs of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Inc. meet the criteria for
continuing education as defined by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners, District
of Columbia and Virginia Boards of Social Work, and the American Board of Examiners in
Clinical Social Work. The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Inc. designates this program
as a continuing education activity for social work for 1 credit hour per activity hour.
Licensed Professional Counselors.
Credits provided through this program may be submitted for LPC re-licensure in Maryland,
Virginia, and DC.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the
planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to
disclose.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Sharon Alperovitz, M.S.W.
Catherine Anderson, Ph.D.
Deborah Blessing, MSW
Mary Carpenter, M.A.
David Cooper, Ph.D.
Kerry Malawista, Ph.D.
Michaele Weissman
Bob Winer, M.D.
Paco Martinez-Alvarez, J.D., Program Administrator
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LEADERS OF ONGOING
WRITING GROUPS
Karen Earle, MFA, MSS
Carla Elliott-Neely, Ph.D.
Sylvia Flescher, M.D.
Nan Heneson
Joanie Liebermann, M.D.
Tarpley Long, MSW
Billie Pivnick, Ph.D.
Sally Steenland, M.Ed.
Sara Taber, MSW, Ed.D.
Ernest Wallwork, Ph.D.
Bonita Winer
Anne Adelman, Ph.D.
Sharon Alperovitz, MSW
Hemda Arad, M.A., LMHC
Rene Biel, M.A.
Deborah Blessing, MSW
Michelle Brafman, Ph.D.
Deirdre Callanan, Ph.D.
Teresa Conlin, M.A.
Kate Daniels, Ph.D.
Janice Delaney, Ph.D.
Martha Dupecher, Ph.D., MSW
Additional leaders will be added for the 2015-2016 academic year.
WRITING WORKSHOP LEADERS
Michaele Weissman
Bob Winer, M.D.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
Jeanne Lemkau, Ph.D., MFA
Sally Steenland, M.Ed.
Sara Mansfield Taber, MSW, Ed.D.
Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D.
ALUMNI WRITING GROUPS
In 2003 we inaugurated a new form of writing group participation for alumni
attending the conference weekends. Special writing groups were constituted which
met four times on each of the three weekends – during the three times allocated to
the regular small discussion groups on Friday and Saturday, and during the writing
group time on Sunday morning. The purpose of the groups was to help each of the
participants to complete a writing project, whether a book, a chapter of a book, a
paper, or some other piece of work. The groups had both a clinician and a writing
teacher as faculty. One of the groups generated three books. We are continuing this
program. Other alumni attended the program this past year using the usual format
of participation in three discussion groups focused on short writing assignments and
membership in a long-term project writing group on Sunday mornings.
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CONSULTANT PANEL
Susan G. Lazar, M.D. (Bethesda, MD)
Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI)
Howard B. Levine. M.D. (Brookline, MA)
Susan S. Levine (Philadelphia)
Roger A. Lewin, M.D. (Towson, MD)
Deborah A. Luepnitz, Ph.D. (Philadelphia)
Robert Michels, M.D. (New York)
Juliet Mitchell-Rossdale (London)
Arnold Modell, M.D. (Newtonville, MA)
Humphrey Morris, M.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Jessica Neely, M.A. (Washington, DC)
Malkah T. Notman, M.D. (Brookline, MA)
Thomas H. Ogden, M.D. (San Francisco)
Sydney E. Pulver, M.D. (Philadelphia)
Joseph Reppen, Ph.D. (New York)
Harvey L. Rich, M.D. (Washington, DC)
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D. (New York)
Arnold D. Richards, M.D. (New York)
Arthur L. Rosenbaum, M.D.
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
John Munder Ross, Ph.D. (New York)
Sheldon Roth, M.D. (Waban, MA)
Anne-Marie Sandler (London)
Anita Schmukler, D.O. (Wynnewood, PA)
Edward R. Shapiro, M.D. (Stockbridge, MA)
Theodore Shapiro, M.D. (New York)
Sheila Sharpe, Ph.D. (La Jolla, CA)
Moisy Shopper, M.D. (St Louis)
Bennett Simon, M.D. (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Bruce Sklarew, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD)
John Steiner, M.D. (London)
Johanna Krout Tabin, Ph.D. (Glencoe, IL)
David Tuckett, M.A., M.Sc. (London)
Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. (Charlottesville, VA)
Ernest Wallwork, Ph.D. (Washington, DC)
Richard Waugaman, M.D. (Rockville, MD)
Brent Willock, Ph.D. Psych. (Toronto)
Arnold Wilson, Ph.D. (New York)
Robert Winer, M.D. (Bethesda, MD)
Harriet Kimble Wrye, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. (CA)
John Zinner, M.D. (Bethesda, MD)
Salman Akhtar, M.D. (Philadelphia)
Lewis Aron, Ph.D. (New York)
Stephen Bank, M.D. (Middletown, CT)
Katherine Burton, L.S.C.W. (Bethesda. MD)
Cecile Bassen, M.D. (Seattle, WA)
Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D. (New York)
Emanuel Berman, Ph.D. (Israel)
Dana Birksted-Breen, Ph.D. (London)
Harold P. Blum, M.D. (Roslyn Estates, NY)
Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. (New York)
Philip Bromberg, Ph.D. (New York)
Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Judith Chused, M. D. (Washington, DC)
Stanley J. Coen, M.D. (New York)
Teresa Conlin (Washington, DC)
Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D. (New York)
Norman Doidge, M.D. (Toronto)
Scott Dowling, M.D. (Cleveland)
Michael Eigen, Ph.D. (New York)
Sharon K. Farber, Ph.D. (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)
Irene Fast. Ph.D. (MI)
Gerald I. Fogel, M.D. (Portland, OR)
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. (Topeka, KS)
Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. (Chicago)
Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D. (New York)
Virginia Goldner, Ph.D (New York)
Jay R. Greenberg. Ph.D. (New York)
Fred Griffin, M.D. (Birmingham, AL)
Charles M. T. Hanly, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Elizabeth Hegeman. Ph.D. (New York)
James M. Herzog, M.D. (Newton Centre, MA)
Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D. (New York)
Irwin Hoffman. Ph.D. (Chicago)
Mardi Horowitz, M.D. (San Francisco)
Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D. (Washington, DC)
Jacob G Jacobson, M.D. (Boulder, CO)
Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. (Brookline, MA)
Otto Kernberg, M.D. (New York)
Martha J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. (CA)
Lewis A. Kirshner, M.D. (Cambridge, MA)
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New Directions
APPLICATION FORM
Name
Home Address
Office Address
Home/Cell Phone Office Phone
Fax E-mail
Please enclose a Curriculum Vita which includes educational and occupational histories,
postgraduate training, current professional activities, organization memberships, and (if
applicable) publications.
Place an asterisk beside your preferred mailing address.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
(Please ask your references to send a brief letter of support to the address below or by email at
ConfManagement@aol.com)
1.
2.
Reasons for seeking this training:
Mail application form and Curriculum Vita along with $100 application fee (check payable to
“Washington Center for Psychoanalysis”) to:
WCP – New Directions Program
P.O. Box 25112
Arlington, VA 22202
Applications will be processed as they are received.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to express our great thanks to the John Edward Fowler Memorial
Foundation for its most generous grant to cover the start-up costs of this Program.
Our deep appreciation to Dora Richardson for her kind assistance in supporting the
on-going work of our Program.
PREVIOUS WEEKEND CONFERENCES
2004
2010
Affect in Action
Loyalty and Betrayal in the Life of the
Family
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
How Therapy Works
Changing Times: Being a Therapist in the
21st Century
Singing (and Writing) with Tongues of
Wood: Bringing the Unsayable into Words
2005
2011
Group Process
Impasse
Witches, Wizards and Wild Things: Putting
Children’s Literature on the Couch
What Can Neuroscience Teach Us About
the Conduct of Therapy?
Time and Money in the Therapeutic Setting
The Bereft Therapist, The Grieving Writer
2006
Memory: Indispensable, Undependable,
Understandable
Desire: Lust and Sensuality in the
Transference
Creative Dialogues: Learning to Write,
Learning to Read, Learning to Listen
2012
2007
2013
Writers Block
Writers: Our Heroines and Heroes
Queering the Couch
The Mind of the Child in the Adult
Home
Surface to Depth
Madness
The Words to Say It
Fallen Shadows: The Many Faces of Grief
and Mourning
2014
2008
The Writing Alliance
Love and Hate in the Kitchen
Therapeutic Passages: Mid-Life and Beyond
Projection, Projective Identification and
Containment
The Writer and the Analyst
A Serious Look at Play
2015
The Writer’s Voice
Betrayal
2009
Psychological Trauma
Imagining A Life
Revenge and Forgiveness
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A PARTIAL LIST OF WORK PUBLISHED
BY OUR STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
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and Clinical Realms. Karnac.
Adelman, Anne (2014), Book Review: Starting Treatment with Children and Adolescents: A Process-Oriented
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Adelstein, Devra & Pitlick, Judith (2013). The Power of Conscience: Jiminy Cricket’s Legacy. In O’Loughlin, M.,
The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children’s Emotional Lives. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.
Ambrose, Catherine (2009). A Meeting of Minds. Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy. 45 (2): 24-27.
Arad, Hemda (2011). The Problem with Violence. Wise Women…Now. Online: May 12.
Arad, Hemda (2011). Bitter Skies. Wise Women…..Now. Online June 12.
Arenella, Jessica Just Accept it: The Voices are Real. Behavioral Healthcare: The Business of Treatment and
Recovery.
Arenella, Jessica (2005). In Search of Better Homes and Gardens. ISPS-US Newsletter. 6(1)
Baker-Pitts, Catherine (2013) “Precious Illusion”: Cosmetic Surgery as Compromise Formation. In Jean
Petruceli (Ed.), Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders.
Routledge: NY.
Baum-Baicker, Cindy & Sisti, Dominic (2012). Clinical Wisdom in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy: A Philosophical and Qualitative Analysis. The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Spring 2012: 13-27.
Baum-Baicker, Cindy & Sisti, Dominic (2012). Clinical Wisdom and Evidenced-Based Medicine Are (Indeed)
Complimentary: A Reply to Bursztajn and Colleagues. The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Spring 2012: 37-40.
Bergman, Linda S. (2014). Failure to Contain Unbearable Affect: Rupture and E-repair. In Willock, B. & Curtis, R.,
Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. London: Routledge.
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Reference, USA.
Blessing, D. & Black, K. (2013). Sewing on a Shadow. In Adamo, S.M.G. & Rustin, M., Young Child Observation:
A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation. London: Karnac Books, Tavistock Clinic Series.
Blessing, Deborah (2014). Casting a Long Shadow: Implications of Sibling Loss. In Skrzypek, K. & Maciejewska-Sobczak, B. (Eds.), Siblings: Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern. London: Karnac Books.
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Boldt, Gail and Valente, J. (2014). Bring Back the Asylum: Reimagining Inclusion in the Presence of Others. In
Bloch, M., Swadener, B. & Canella, G. (Eds.), Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education: Critical
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Borenstein, Lynn (2006). The Therapist’s Office. Smith Studies.
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Boxer, Edith (2009). Living Within the Surround of Death: Regulating Trauma/Dissociation/Self and Other in the
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Chase, Carola (2012). The Aging of the Anna Freud Diagnostic Profile: A Re-Examination and Re-Application of
the Psychoanalytic Assessment with Older Adults. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 65.
Chefetz, Richard. A. (2013). A Fluctuating Capacity to Mentalize: Affect Scripts and Self-State Systems As
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Cochran, Teresa (2008). “The Grey Cat” Pads Softly: Hearing Loss and Denial. Hearing Loss Magazine. 29(3).
Cummins, Mary. Self-published children’s book, Polly Peevish, illustrated by Irene Landsman’s daughter, Liz. Davis, Mary (2013). Language and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words Matter. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.
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Decker, Beverly (2004). Building Lesbian Sandcastles on the Shore of Relational Psychoanalysis. In J.
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DeGangi, Georgia & Kendall, Ann (2006). Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Mange Child. New York:
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DeGangi, Georgia A. and Nemiroff, Marc (2009). Kids’ Club Letters: A Narrative Therapy Tool for Stimulating
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and Science of Psychotherapy. 36.
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The Art and Science of Psychotherapy.
Dukes, Lee (2006). Pain Management – It’s Personal and Ethical. The 5th Vital Sign Bulletin of Lexington
Memorial Hospital. 2:1
Dukes, Lee (2007). Memories and A Blessing for Years to Come. United Methodist Endorsing Agency Bulletin.
January.
Durham, Mary (2000). The Therapist’s Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness. London: Jessica Kinglsley,
Ltd.
Earle, Karen (2011). This First Memory. Chaffin Journal.
Earle, Karen (2012). Mother Tongue. The GW Review.
Eill, Julie. There is Nothing Like That Here. Room Magazine.
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Felberbaum, Sheila (2014). Mourning and Creativity: Finding the Write Words. Psychoanalytic Social Work. 21
(1-2): 40-54.
Felberbaum, Sheila. (2010) Memory, Mourning and Meaning in a Psychotherapist’s Life. Clinical Social Work
Journal. 38(3): 269-274.
Flescher, Sylvia (2012). Googling for Ghosts. Psychoanalytic Review. 99:1
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Freed, Paula (2003). Finding a Voice as Writer. Newsletter: National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis
in Clinical Social Work.
Friedman, Sandie (2012). Writing with an Other: The Essay as Interpersonalized Fantasy. Other/Wise - The
Journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.
Friedman, Sandie (2013). Three essays on the literary website The Nervous Breakdown: The Flip-Turn: A
Lesson in Unlearning; Warhol’s Last Starlet: Notes on the Unlived Life; Fear to Step.
Gibbons, Martha Blechar. (2009). The Lullabye. In Herta B. Feely (Ed.) Enhanced Gravity II: Fiction By
Washington Area Women. Paycock Press.
Gibbons, Martha B. (2015). A Bitter Pill. Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy. 52(1).
Gozlan, Oren. (2011). Transsexual Surgery: A Novel Reminder and a Navel Remainder. International Forum of
Psychoanalysis. 20(1).
Gozlan, Oren. The Tenderness of Gender Meets the Harshness of the Clinic. DIVISION/Review. 1(4), Winter.
Greenman, Andrea (2013). Eating for Emptiness, Eating to Kill: Sadomasochism in a Woman with Bulemia.
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STUDENTS AND GRADUATES BY LOCATION
Graduates are listed by year of actual or anticipated graduation. If you would like to contact
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Alabama
Gregory Gray, Ph.D., M.Div., Montgomery, AL (2017)
Fred Griffin, M.D., Birmingham, AL (2003)
Elizabeth Trawick, M.D., Beverly Hills, CA (2010)
Susan O’Dell, Ph.D., Chicago, IL (2010)
Gregory Rizzolo, Chicago, IL (2012)
Erika Schmidt, MSW, Chicago, IL (2005)
Peter Shaft, MSW, Oak Park, IL (2004)
Arizona
Indiana
California
Kansas
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Ph.D., Bloomingdale, IN (2007)
Patricia Raya, Ph.D., Scottsdale, AZ (2012)
Karen Bellows, Ph.D., LSCSW, Topeka, KS (2012)
Michael Harty, Ph.D., Prairie Village, KS (2011)
Elizabeth McKamy, MSW, Topkea, KS (2014)
Gail C. Bates, Ph.D., Los Altos, CA (2008)
Sharon Bassett, Ph.D., Pasadena, CA (2006)
John Andrew Booth, M.D., Sacramento, CA (2006)
Edith Boxer, M.S.W., B.C.D., Psy.D., Santa Monica, CA (2011)
Rose Brancone, LCSW, B.C.D., C.G.P, Culver City, CA (2012)
Rita Karuna Cahn, MSW, San Francisco, CA (2009)
Scott Carder, M.D., Pasadena, CA (2000)
Susan Flynn, Ph.D., Sacramento, CA (2007)
Patricia Giermann, LCSW, Pasadena, CA (2007)
Lynn Goren, Ph.D., Los Angeles, CA (2008)
Toni Heineman, DMH, San Francisco, CA (2002)
Alitta Kullman, Ph.D., Laguna Hills, CA (2009)
Ursula Mahlendorf, Ph.D., Santa Barbara, CA (2002)
Catherine Mallouh, M.D., San Francisco, CA (2009)
Gay Carol Parnell, Ph.D., La Jolla, CA (2003)
Stephanie Pass, Ph.D., San Francisco, CA (2015)
Janet K. Smith, Ph.D.,Los Angeles, CA (2008)
Kentucky
Kelly Hill, M.D., Lexington, KY (2002)
Louisiana
Danna Halpin, LCSW, Lafayette, LA (2011)
W. Scott Griffies, M.D., New Orleans, LA (2001)
Elizabeth Rousselle, Ph.D., Belle Chasse, LA (2001)
Sylvia J. Schneller, M.D., New Orleans, LA (2010)
Carolyn A. Weyand, Ph.D., New Orleans, LA (2011)
Maine
Marsha Pilz, LCSW, Southwest Harbor, ME (2000)
Maryland
Anne Adelman, Ph.D., Chevy Chase, MD (2010)
Judy Alter, Ph.D., Bethesda, MD (2017)
Catherine Anderson, Ph.D., Bethesda MD (2010)
Ann Aukamp, MSW, Silver Spring, MD (2000)
Elizabeth Barrett, Ph.D., Chevy Chase, MD (2009)
Sharon Bisco, M.D., Cockeysville, MD (2008)
Joseph P. Collins, D.O., Bethesda, MD (2017)
Toni Cortellessa, MSW, Potomac, MD (2003)
Georgia DeGangi, Ph.D., Kensington, MD (2008)
Ann Devaney, MSW, Bethesda, MD (2007)
Diane Dowling, Ph.D., Chevy Chase, MD (2011)
Christine Erskine, CSW, Silver Spring, MD (2000)
Patricia Garcia-Golding, M.S.W., Chevy Chase, MD (2010)
Joanne Gold, M.A., M.A.Ed., Baltimore, MD (2000)
Samuel Goldberg, M.D., Columbia, MD (2006)
Dan Griffin, Ph.D., Takoma Park, MD (2008)
Patricia Hartman, MSW, Potomac, MD (2010)
Betty Ann Kaplan, Ph.D., Bethesda, MD (2006)
Liat Katz, MSW, Rockville, MD (2014)
Madeline Karpel, MSW, Columbia, MD (2003)
Karol Kullberg, LCSW-C, Gaithersburg, MD (2011)
Linda Gordon Kuzmack, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., Kensington, MD (2011)
Irene Landsman, Ph.D., Bethesda, MD (2010)
Jaedene Levy, MSW, Chevy Chase, MD (2008)
Esther Lipman, MSW, Chevy Chase, MD
Kris MacGaffin, MSW, Kensington, MD (2002)
Kerry Malawista, Ph.D., Potomac, MD (2008)
Martha Martin, M.D., Rockville, MD (2001)
Susan V. McClintock, LCSW-C, Baltimore, MD (2011)
Charles McCormack, MSW, Towson, MD (2006)
Barbara Mittleman, M.D., Bethesda, MD (2000)
Marc Nemiroff, Ph.D., Potomac, MD (2014)
Ruth Neubauer, MSW, Chevy Chase, MD (2003)
Shelley Singer, M.A., Bethesda, MD (2011)
Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D., Bethesda, MD (2009)
Kaja Weeks, BA, Silver Spring, MD (2013)
Michaele Weissman, Chevy Chase, MD (2005)
Cynthia Young, Psy.D., Gaithersburg, MD (2009)
Connecticut
Sybil Houlding, MSW, Hamden, CT (2009)
Jenifer A. Nields, M.D., Fairfield, CT (2016)
District of Columbia
Elise Blair, MSW, Washington, DC (2012)
Deborah Blessing, MSW, Washington, DC (2003)
Karen Bloomberg, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2015)
Mary Brennan, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2010)
Richard Chefetz, M.D., Washington, DC (2000)
Mary Cunningham Cummings, MSW, Washington, DC (2011)
Sophia Coudenhove, MSW, Washington, DC (2017)
Molly Donovan, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2001)
Sandie Friedman, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2008)
Martha Blechar Gibbons, Ph.D., RN, Washington, DC (2009)
Gina Hayman, LICSW, Washington, DC (2009)
Kris Johnson, M.A., Washington, DC (2008)
Natalie Korytnyk, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2017)
Nancy Lithgow, MSW, Washington, DC (2006)
Christie M. Platt, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2015)
Sarah Pillsbury, DSW, Washington, DC (2005)
William Pinney, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2004)
Sheila Resnick, DSW, Washington, DC (2003)
Diana Seasonwein, MSW, Washington, DC (2016)
Hiroko Taguchi, LGSW, Washington, D.C. (2009)
Barbara Wayne, Ph.D., Washington, DC (2003)
Douglas Wilkerson, M.D., Washington, DC (2017)
Deborah Wolf, J.D., Washington, DC (2016)
Martha Young Freedberg, MFA, Washington, DC (2017)
Florida
Helen Banta, Ph.D., Boynton Beach, FL (2008)
Holly Fiddelke, Psy.D., Sarasota, FL (2002)
Susan Furman, Psy.D., Miami, FL (2004)
Lynne Harkless, Ph.D., Coral Gables, FL (2014)
Eve Hershberger, M.D., Gainesville, FL (2001)
Jacqueline Roller, Psy. D, Sarasota, FL (2010)
Linda Sherby, Ph.D., Boca Raton, FL (2002)
Patti Thompson, M.A., C.A.P., Sarasota, FL (2002)
Massachusetts
Mark Steinberg, Ph.D., Swampscott, MA (2000)
Idaho
Michigan
Carla Jensen, Ph.D., Boise, ID (2011)
Loretta Polish, Ph.D., Bloomfield Hills, MI (2005)
Janet Robinson, Ph.D., Saginaw, MI (2000)
Sally Rosenberg, D.O., West Bloomfield, MI (2010)
Barbara Schiff, Ph.D., Birmingham, MI (2002)
Carol Stratman, Ph.D., Pleasant Ridge, MI (2013)
Lynne Tenbusch, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, MI (2013)
Susan Wainwright, M.D., Bloomfield, MI (2002)
Illinois
Marcia Adler, LCSW, Chicago, IL (2005)
Lynn Borenstein, LCSW, Northfield, IL (2006)
Kelly M Bradham R.N., LCSW, Champaign, IL (2008)
Holly Johnston, Ph.D., Chicago, IL (2003)
Janet Migdow, LCPC, Chicago, IL (2011)
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Minnesota
Garth Gillan, Ph.D., State College, PA (2010)
Linda Guerra, Ph.D., Philadelphia, PA (2009)
Pam Holliman, Ph.D., Elkins Park, PA (2003)
Marcia Kaufman, Ph.D., Allentown, PA (2006)
Annette Leavy, MSW, LCSW, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
Violet Cucciniello Little, M.Div., Philadelphia, PA (2004)
Julia Mayer, Psy.D., Media, PA (2010)
Suzanne Mayer, Ph.D., Springfield, PA (2009)
Joy Mills, M.A., M.Div., Philadelphia, PA (2003)
E. Chrisopher Payne, Ph.D., Bethlehem, PA (2000)
Deborah Reeves, MGPGP, BCLP, CGP, Bala Cynwyd, PA (2017)
Tova Tarr, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, PA (2004)
Shirley Tung, MSS, Upper Darby, PA (2017)
Stephen Whitworth, Ph.D., Bloomsburg, PA (2008)
Donna Wolf-Palacio, LCSW, M.F., Philadelphia, PA (2009)
Elizabeth Bohun, MSW, Minneapolis, MN (2008)
Cynthia Rollo Carlson, MSW, Walker, MN (2006)
Mary Ellen Jordan, Ph.D., St. Paul, MN (2007)
Jim Jordan, M.D., St. Paul, MN (2007)
Andrea Northwood, Ph.D., St. Paul, MN (2013)
Madelon Sprengnether, Ph.D., Minneapolis, MN (2001)
Montana
Celeste Sinton, M.D., Helena, MT (2001)
Nebraska
JoAn Rittenhouse, Ph.D., Lincoln, NB (2008)
New Jersey
Catherine Ambrose, MSS, L.C.S.W. Medford Lakes, NJ (2010)
Jeanine D. Dropkin, Ph.D., LCSW, Oradell, NJ (2017)
Sylvia Flescher, M.D., Ridgewood, NJ (2000)
Paula Freed, LCSW, Sea Bright, NJ (2000)
Patricia Seese, Ph.D., LCSW, Paramus, NJ (2014)
Gisela Zerykier, M.D., Teaneck, NJ (2004)
South Carolina
Robert Lovinger, Ph.D., ABPP, Charleston, SC (2001)
Sophie Lovinger, Ph.D., ABPP, Charleston, SC (2001)
Tennessee
Kate Daniels, Nashville, TN (2008)
Susan Ewing, LCSW Chattanooga TN (2013)
Cynthia Ezell, M.S., L.M.F.T., Lebanon, TN (2009)
Marilyn McCabe, Ph.D., Nashville, TN (2012)
Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D.,
Mary Fern Richie, DSN, Nashville, TN (2012)
New York
Jessica Arenella, Ph.D., New York, NY (2007)
Linda Bergman, Ph.D., Centerport, NY (2009)
Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. New York, NY (2013)
Kate Brown, Ph.D., Buffalo, NY (2016)
Carola Chase, MSW, Bronx, NY (2012)
Dorothea Crites, M.Div., Bronx, NY (2013)
Beverly Decker, MSW, New York, NY (2001)
Sheila Felberbaum, LCSW, A.P.R.N., Hauppauge, NY (2007)
Myra Fischman, MSW, Huntington, NY (2017)
Andrea Greenman, Ph.D., New York, NY (2012)
Brent Heath, MSW, New York, NY (2005)
Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D., New York, NY (2001)
Kent Jarratt, LCSW, New York, NY (2000)
Susan Kane, MSW, New York, NY (2014)
Susan Katz, MSW, MFA, MSEd, New York, NY (2017)
Maryann Kenney, LCSW, New York, NY (2015)
Libby Kessman, LCSW, New York, NY (2006)
Ona Lindquist, LCSW, New York, NY (2009)
Beverly Musgrave, Ph.D., New York, NY (2003)
Hattie Myers, Ph.D., New York, NY (2016)
Billie Ann Pivnick, Ph.D., New York, NY (2011)
Penny Rubinfine, LCSW, New York, NY (2010)
Kim Sarasohn, CSW, New York, NY (2005)
Robin Schindler, MSW, New York, NY (2001)
Elizabeth Schretzman, MSW, New York, NY (2017)
Lynn Somerstein, M.A., N.C.Psy.A., New York, NY (2007)
Margaret Spier Ph.D., New York, NY (2008)
Judith Stein, CSW, New York, NY (2002)
Hillary G. Volper, LCSW, Larchmont, NY (2011)
Deborah Washburn, MSW, New York, NY (2010)
Kate Wechsler, MSW, New York, NY (2014)
Michael D. Zentman, Ph.D., Centerport, NY (2015)
Texas
Karen Bieber, M.A., M.S., Dallas, TX (2008)
Michael Bieber, Ph.D., Dallas, TX (2002)
Penny Hooks, M.D., Houston, TX (2003)
Myrna Little, Ph.D., Dallas, TX (2004)
JoAnn Ponder, Ph.D., Austin, TX (2000)
Virginia
Mona Abu-Hamda, Psy.D., McLean, VA (2012)
Mika Barker-Hart, MSW, FIPA, Middlebury, VT (2016)
Ted Billings, MSW, Arlington, VA (2011)
Don Chiappinelli, MSW, Fredericksburg, VA (2010)
Teresa Cochran, Ph.D., Alexandria, VA (2008)
Mary Durham, Ph.D., Arlington, VA (2000)
Julie Eill, Psy.D., Alexandria, VA (2009)
David Evans, MSW, Vienna, VA (2000)
Cindy Galinski, Ph.D. Falls Church, VA (2005)
Linda Grey, MSN, Falls Church, VA (2003)
John Gualtieri, Ph.D., McLean, VA (2012)
Caroline Hall, Ph.D., MSW, Arlington, VA (2016)
Susan Horne-Quatannens, LCSW, Alexandria, VA (2013)
Jane Jones, MSW, Ph.D., Middleburg, VA (2016)
Elizabeth Lowe, M.S., MSW, Ph.D., Richmond, VA (2011)
Maureen Lyon, Ph.D., Alexandria, VA (2003)
Marion S. MacLean, MAT, Alexandria, VA (2008)
Michael Mason, M.Ed., Ph.D., Charlottesville, VA (2013)
Katherine May, MSN, Winchester, VA (2018)
Nora Minnies, MSW, Falls Church, VA (2006)
Bill Pinney, Ph.D., Alexandria, VA (2004)
Elizabeth H. Thomas, Ph.D., Bluemont, VA (2009)
Joan Turkus, M.D., Falls Church, VA (2010)
Cynthia Ward, J.D., Williamsburg, VA (2009)
Carole Weinstein, M.A., Richmond, VA (2009)
Evonne Young, M.A., Arlington, VA (2014)
North Carolina
Lee Dukes, D.Min., Lexington, NC (2006)
Mardy S. Ireland, Ph.D., Raleigh, NC (2016)
Robert Johnston, Th.D., Cornelius, NC (2006)
Jeanne Parr Lemkau, Ph.D., M.F.A., Chapel Hill, NC (2006)
Ohio
Washington
Devra Adelstein, LISW, Cleveland, OH (2011)
Anna Janicki, M.D., Cleveland, OH (2000)
Patricia Martin, M.D., Cleveland, OH (2002)
Judith L. Pitlick, M.A., L.P.C.C., Cleveland, OH (2011)
Miriam Weiss, M.D., Lyndhurst, OH (2008)
Catherine Adler, MA, Mercer Island, WA (2014)
Hemda Arad, M.A., Seattle, WA (2008)
Sandra Connell, M.D., Seattle, WA (2002)
Joanna Goodman, Ph.D., LiCSW, Seattle, WA (2015)
Rebecca Meredith, MA, Seattle, WA (2017)
Katherine Weissbourd, Ph.D., Bainbridge Island, WA (2001)
Oregon
Nicki Beiderman, M.S., Milwaukie, OR (2001)
Canada
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Barrett, Ph.D. move from MD to Toronto, Ontario
Rex Collins, Ph.D., North York, Ontario (2001)
Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., Toronto, Ontario (2012)
Betty Kershner, Ph.D., Toronto, Ontario (2007)
Judith Setton-Marcus, M.Ed., LPC, Vancouver, BC (2002)
Barbara Whelan, M.D., London, Ontario (2011)
Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D., LCSW, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
Cynthia Baum-Baicker, Ph.D., Carversville, PA (2000)
Chester M. Berschling, M.D., Pittsburgh, PA (2015)
Gail Boldt, Ph.D., State College, PA (2011)
Patricia Bowes, M.S., Rosemont, PA (2009)
Tory Butterworth, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, PA (2014)
Laura Cohen Hewitt, MSW, Bryn Mawr, PA (2017)
Mary Davis, M.D., Lancaster, PA (2005)
Karen Earle, MSW, Kennett Square, PA (2008)
Walter B. Earle, Ph.D., Kennett Square, PA (2008)
Doris Frydman, M.D., Haverford, PA (2002)
United Kingdom
Jeanne Magagna, London, England (2009)
Lesley McGown, Msc (Psych), Cheltenham, England (2010)
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Family Legacies: The Stories We Tell
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