Offerings by Date Offerings by Location Offerings by Type NCSPP Faculty Registration & Payment CE Credits Scholarship Fund Policies			NCSPP Faculty A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z NCSPP's distinguished faculty includes many of Northern California's most experienced psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychologists. Faculty members wishing to add or update their listings should send an email with an updated bio. Lynn Alexander, Psy.D., MFT, is Faculty, and Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC. She teaches courses on trauma, primitive mental states, and analytic theory and technique. She has a private practice in Palo Alto. Gene Alexander, MFT, has been practicing psychotherapy in San Francisco since 1976. He was a member of the Family Therapy Center where in trained in and taught couple and family therapy for over eighteen years. He has taught a number of courses in local colleges and universities and has been deeply interested in couple therapy during his professional career. Besides his involvement in psychotherapy, he has been actively writing both poetry and/or plays for the past fifteen years and his latest play, Illsa’s Choice, has been chosen as part of new play festivals in both Los Angeles and New York City as well as presented at the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in Boston last year. Paul U. Alexander, Ph.D., is a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has been on the faculty at Access Institute, St. Mary's Medical Center, California Pacific Medical Center, and the Boyer House Foundation, teaching courses on group dynamics and adolescent psychopathology. Dr. Alexander works as a consultant to healthcare and educational institutions. He has a private practice in San Francisco. Shelley Alhanati, Ph.D., is a supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC. She was on the faculty of UCLA, the Psychoanalytic Center of California, Duke University- UNC Chapel Hill and a supervisor at the Reiss Davis Child Study Center and the Wright Institute Los Angeles. She is the editor of the international book series, Primitive Mental States, editor and co-author of Psychobiological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Early Trauma and Personality Development, co-author of Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, and is working on a new book, The Origins of Meaning. She also lectures on various topics including fetal and infant attachment. Martine Aniel, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has taught widely on Lacan and his influence in psychoanalysis. Dr. Aniel’s current interests include the nature of psychoanalytic transmission, the role of the psychoanalyst in society and culture, and gender and sexuality. She is in private practice in San Francisco. Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has served as President of Division 39 of the A.P.A., founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). He has received the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA) Distinguished Service Award and the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Leadership Award. He holds a Diploma in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and of the Academy of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Aron is the author of A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1996). He is Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of The Legacy of Sandor FerencziM, Editor (with Frances Sommer Anderson) of Relational Perspectives on the Body, Editor (with Stephen Mitchell) of Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition, Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of Relational Psychoanalysis II: Innovation and Expansion, and Editor (with Melanie Suchet & Adrienne Harris) of Relational Psychoanalysis III: New Voices. He was one of the founders, and is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and series editor (with Adrienne Harris) of the Relational Perspectives Book Series, published by The Analytic Press. Dr. Aron is in private practice in New York City and Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y. Michael Axelman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist specializing in child development, and child, family, and parental therapy. He developed CARE (Caring Adults, Respectful Environments) Parent Therapy and has trained hundreds of students and mental health professionals in this strength-based approach to child and family therapy. He currently consults with parents, teachers, and childcare providers. Dr. Axelman has a child and family practice in Palo Alto. back to top Michael Bader, DMH, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in San Francisco. His book "Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies" was praised by such diverse authors as Nancy Friday, Robert Wallerstein, M.D., and Rabbi Michael Lerner. Dr. Bader has published extensively in professional journals contributing articles intended to humanize psychoanalysis and has contributed to popular journals--in particular Tikkun Magazine--with the aim of examining the intersection of psychology and politics. In addition in 2002, Dr. Bader helped found the Institute for Change, a politically progressive leadership development program currently affiliated with the labor union, SEIU. Robert Bartner, Ph.D., MFT is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has taught at JFK for many years and currently teaches at CIIS. Robert has had a private practice in Oakland for the last 18 years, where he practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with adults, adolescents and couples. Sharon R. Bass, Ph.D., is the Clinical Training Director at Rubicon Programs, Inc., where she teaches, supervises, and coordinates the training program for psychologists. Dr. Bass has also served for many years as clinical faculty at the Ann Martin Center. She is a longstanding member of the editorial board of fort da, and has published on creativity and film. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland. Donna Bassin, Ph.D., is faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she is also a founding member of the Doris Bernstein Memorial Section on Gender Issues in Psychoanalysis. She is also faculty in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of numerous papers and reviews on gender and female sexuality, and most recently, has written on memorialization, rituals and mourning. She is in private practice in New York. Leora Benioff, Ph.D., has completed the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations Advanced Training In Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy and is a candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. A member of The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, Dr. Benioff has taught at The Wright Institute and Access Institute and supervised at CPMC. She is in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco. Joanna L. Berg, Ph.D., is in private practice in Oakland. She has specialized in psychodiagnostic assessment, consultation, and psychotherapy with adolescents, adults, and couples. She has taught at several Bay Area graduate schools in the areas of personality development, psychopathology, and psychological assessment. Dr. Berg's practice involves significant work in criminal courts and in civil litigation. Adam Beyda, Psy.D., is Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Holy Names University in Oakland. He is on the clinical faculty at the Wright Institute and also supervises at The Institute on Aging, San Francisco. Dr. Beyda is in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco, working with adult individuals and couples. Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., is Past President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and on the faculty at PINC, NCSPP, and Lutecium. She is a contributing editor to Psychoanalytic Dialogues and on the editorial board of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bernstein was the 2008 Fulbright Scholar at the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation and Museum in Vienna. She maintains a private practice in Berkeley. Barbara Blasdel, Ph.D., is a Member and Instructor at PINC, Faculty at Access Institute and has taught for NCSPP's San Francisco and Peninsula / South Bay Intensive Study Groups. She has a private practice in San Francisco. Christopher Bollas, an internationally known psychoanalyst, is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He has been the Director of Education at the Austin Riggs Center, Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Diane Borden, Ph.D., is professor of Film and Literature, Director of Film Studies, and chair of English at University of the Pacific. She has published books, chapters, and journal articles on cinema and psychoanalysis and given papers and workshops at professional conferences in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She conducts study groups on film and psychoanalysis in San Francisco and the South Bay and has been a guest faculty at SFCP. Elizabeth Bradshaw, M.Sc., has a Masters of Science in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Theory from the University College London. She previously studied comparative literature and literary theory. Currently, she is a second year student at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, where she is pursuing a PsyD in clinical psychology. Mary Brady, Ph.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) where she teaches in both the child and adult curricula. Dr. Brady’s most recent paper was published in The Journal of Child Psychotherapy (2011, 37 (1)) entitled Invisibility and insubstantiality in an anorexic adolescent: phenomenology and dynamics. In 2010 she won the APS’s Ralph Roughton Award for her paper: Sometimes we are prejudiced against ourselves': Internalized homophobia and coming out in an adolescent boy, which has been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2011, 47 (4). She co-leads, with Robert Tyminski, D.M.H. a consultation group on "The Treatment of Adolescents and Young Adults" and teaches on a variety of topics including dreams, eating disorders and bodily symptoms in adolescence. Jason Brand, MSW, is an Associate Clinical Social Worker providing psychotherapy and consultation with individuals, groups, families, and couples. Mr. Brand specializes in working with families to build positive technology relationships around internet, video game and cell phone use. He works with children, adolescents and adults in Berkeley and San Francisco. Jane Burka, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and has taught previously for the ISG. She has published papers on group dynamics in teaching and on ethical violations. She is in private practice in Oakland. Judith Butler, Ph.D., is Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Among her books are Undoing Gender, Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, and Excitable Speech. back to top Kristen Carey, Psy.D., is in private practice in Oakland, where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. She is also a clinical supervisor at the Ann Martin Children's Center and consultant to Bayhill High School in Oakland. Robert Carrere, Ph.D., ABPP, is a member, Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He received his training from Adelphi University’s Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, and is board certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Carrere has taught psychoanalytic courses at PINC and ICP for many years and presented and published papers on psychoanalysis, the treatment of aggression and psychotic states, and the psychology of tragedy. He is in full time private practice in San Francisco. Peter Carnochan, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty for the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). His 2001 book, Looking for Ground: Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis was published by the Analytic Press. Dr. Carnochan has written numerous papers on analytic theory and technique. His most recent article, Containers Without Lids was published in 2006 by Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is a senior consultant to Early Childhood Mental Health in Richmond, California, and has a private practice in San Francisco working with children and adults. Leslie Carr, Psy.D., serves on the NCSPP Board as Chair of the Community Events Committee. Dr. Carr is a psychological assistant in private practice in San Francisco, where she works with adults. She also treats patients outside the Bay Area via Skype. In addition to her passion for psychoanalytic thought, she is devoted to thinking about mental health in an integrative, holistic fashion and is a regular contributing writer for the online wellness magazine www.crazysexylife.com. More information about Dr. Carr can be found at www.lesliecarr.com. Dr. Carr is a psychological assistant in private practice in San Francisco where she works with adults. She also meets with people via Skype who are outside the Bay Area. Margo Chapin, MFT, is a member of The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis where she serves on the faculty. Ms. Chapin has a private practice in Oakland, CA. Susanne Chassay, MFT, is an advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and has presented and published papers on trauma, suicide, and the death drive. Her most recent paper, “Death in the Afternoon,” won the Tyson prize awarded by the IPA for best clinical paper written by a candidate in 2005.. Christopher Clulow, is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Founding Member and Vice Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Honorary Research Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington. He is the author or editor of nine other books and over a hundred published papers that consider marriage, partnerships, parenthood, and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He was Therapies Editor of the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy from 1996 to 2008, and Chair of the International Commission for Family and Interpersonal Relationships between 1987 and 1994. Mr. Clulow teaches in this country and overseas, and lives with his family in St. Albans, where he has a private couple psychotherapy practice. John Conger, Ph.D., is an international trainer in bioenergetic analysis and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow (1988; 2002) and The Body in Recovery: Somatic Psychotherapy and The Self (1994). Dr. Conger trains and credentials students and professionals in an analytically based Bioenergetic Analysis and teaches locally. He maintains a private practice in Berkeley. Rachel Cooke, Psy.D., is a member of the Bay Area’s Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Study Group which has studied intensively over the last few years with clinicians from the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London. She has taught Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy for NCSPP and Access Institute in San Francisco. She is in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. Stephen H. Cooper, Ph.D., is Joint-Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Clinical Associate professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Author: Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis (2000, The Analytic Press). Joan Copjec, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, at State University of New York, Buffalo. Her publications include Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT, 2002), Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (MIT, 1992), and, as editor, Shades of Noir (Verso, 1993). Ken Corbett, Ph.D., is a New York City analyst in practice with adults and children. He is an associate editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the New York University Postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. In April, 2006, Dr. Corbett was keynote speaker at the Spring Division 39 Conference in Philadelphia. He has published numerous papers, including: "Nontraditional Family Romance" (2001); "More Life: Centrality and Marginality in Human Development" (2001); "Faggot = Loser" (2001); and "Cracking In: The Psychotherapeutic Action of Comedy" (2004). Reyna Cowan, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has taught classes on film and the dream, psychoanalytic thinkers; how to use one‚s countertransference and intuition in the clinical hour, and child and adolescent issues for ACCESS Institute, NCSPP, PINC and SFCP. She is the film critic for the Morning Show on KPFA Radio. She consults to ACCESS Institute and A Home Within. She has a private practice in Oakland where she works with adults, couples, adolescents and children. back to top Karim Dajani, Psy.D., is a psychotherapist, published writer, and advanced candidate in psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. In 2009, he won the North American IPSO writing award for an article on psychological resilience. In addition to psychoanalytic psychotherapy, he specializes in couple therapy and forensic evaluations. He is in private practice in San Francisco. Vivian Dent, Ph.D., teaches at Access Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. She has a private practice in San Francisco. Marcia Dillon, M.D., is a Member and Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. She is also on the faculty at the Ann Martin Center and she has a private practice in Berkeley where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. Charles Dithrich, Ph.D., personal and supervising analyst and core faculty, PINC. Private practice in the East Bay. Nancy Drooker, Ph.D., is a former member of the Bay Area’s Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Study Group which has studied intensively over the last few years with clinicians from the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London. Dr. Drooker has taught Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy for NCSPP and graduate courses in Human Sexuality. She works with adults, couples, and seniors in a private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. Dori Dubin, Psy.D., is a personal and supervising analyst, faculty member, and chair of the Psy.D. program at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She is a faculty member and a clinical supervisor at The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI) and the Wright Institute and teaches courses on contemporary psychosomatic concepts and primitive states throughout the Bay Area. Her private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, couples therapy, and consultation is located in the Rockridge area of Oakland. Stephen J. Ducat, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at New College of California and a fourth year candidate at PINC. His most recent book, The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity, examines how men's terror of the feminine informs their political attitudes and behavior. He is in private practice in San Francisco and San Rafael. back to top Jeffrey L. Eaton, Ph.D., is a member of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society in Seattle and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is a clinical faculty member of the department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington Medical School and teaches at many institutes. Dr. Eaton is founder and past chair of The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic and in private practice in Seattle. Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is a developmental and clinical psychologist with a private practice in Oakland, California and a faculty member at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is a senior clinician and founding member of A Home Within, a non-profit organization serving the emotional needs of children in foster care, and co-editor with Toni Heineman of Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care (Brookes Publishing Co., 2005). She is also a supervisor/consultant at Westcoast Children's Clinic. Dianne Elise, Ph.D., is a Supervising and Personal Analyst and on the Faculty of PINC. She is an Associate Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and past Editorial Associate of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has published numerous psychoanalytic papers on gender and sexuality and is in private practice in Oakland. back to top Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., is a graduate and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Facchino is a group process consultant at PINC and UCSF and a graduate-level intern supervisor at the Center for Healthy Development (CHD). He has six years experience in the Tavistock model Infant Observation group and serves on the Peninsula|South Bay Education Committee NCSPP. Dr. Facchino is in private practice in Los Altos and Palo Alto. Brian Feldman, Ph.D., is a faculty member of the Jung Institute and the Inter-regional Society of Jungian analysts. He is a child, adolescent, and adult analyst and lectures in the areas of infant observation and child/adolescent analysis. Dr. Feldman has been Chief Psychologist in the Department of Child Psychology at Stanford and visiting scholar at the University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Institute of Psychology, Moscow. He maintains a private practice in Palo Alto. April Fernando, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Training at Westcoast Children's Clinic and a tenured faculty member at Holy Names University. Dr. Fernando has focused much of her professional career on the training and professional development of psychologists. She recently co-authored the paper titled, "The 'How To' of Half-Time Internships: Exemplars, Structure, and Quality Assurance," which appeared in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Dr. Fernando is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Psychology Internship Council. Her other professional interests include child psychoanalysis and ethnic identity development. Maureen Franey, Ph.D., MFT, is a Personal and Supervising Analyst, member of the Progressions Committee, and past Secretary to the Board at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has also taught at PINC and various Bay Area graduate schools and currently teaches an on-going case conference seminar. She has published a paper on apology, and a book review on maternal desire in fort da, and lectured on the impact of the pregnant therapist in psychoanalytic treatment. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis and consultation in Albany, CA. Julie Friend, LCSW, is a supervisor at California Pacific Medical Center and has taught at The Psychotherapy Institute and Access Institute. She is an original member of The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group and is program coordinator of their yearlong study program. She is in private practice in Berkeley. Velia Frost, LCSW, is assistant professor of Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco , where she leads ongoing post-doctoral seminars on the theory and practice of individual and family therapy. She has lectured extensively on Working with the Difficult Couple." Ms. Frost is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and a Fellow of the California Society for Clinical Social Work and is in private practice in San Francisco. back to top Amy Gentile, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Oakland and Pleasanton/Dublin since 1990. Dr. Gentile works extensively with Lesbians and Gay men involving parenting and relationship issues. She is adjunct faculty at Alliant University/CSPP and is a clinical supervisor and consultant for mental health professionals. Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Gerhardt has taught widely and publishes in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto.. Sam Gerson, Ph.D., is a Founder and Past President of both NCSPP and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, where he currently serves on the faculty and as personal and supervising analyst. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and an editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. In 2007, Dr. Gerson received the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust from the International Psychoanalytic Association in Berlin. Kelley Bryan Gin, Psy.D., is the Director of Clinical Services at Westcoast Children's Clinic. He is also core faculty in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Holy Names University. Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., is faculty and chair of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, a personal and supervising analyst for the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, faculty at the Wright Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Laurie Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Oakland. She is a candidate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and has supervised and taught at the Ann Martin Center. Francisco J. González, M.D., is a graduate member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has taught widely in the Bay Area, including at PINC, NCSPP, and Access Institute. Dr. Gonzalez has published and presented on a variety of topics, including film, socio-cultural processes, sexualities, and primitive states. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation in San Francisco. Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., MS, is a psychoanalytic psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the Access Institute, the McAuley Institute, and UCSF Medical School and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. She is the author of The Psychological Impact of Acute and Chronic Illness (Springer, 2007) and an author of the chapter Meaning and Illness in the forthcoming Praeger publication, Mind-Body Medicine: The Art of Healthcare. Francis Grier, Ph.D., is editor of Brief Encounters with Couples: Some Analytical Perspectives (2001), Oedipus and the Couple (2005), and author of “Lively and Deathly Intercourse,” in Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009). Dr. Grier is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, and has been a lecturer at the Tavistock Centre. He has a private practice in London. Gary Grossman, Ph.D., is a ember and faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP), where he also serves as Chair of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco and is a faculty member at Access Institute for Psychological Services and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). He is in private practice of Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy & Consultation in San Francisco. Hugh Grubb, Psy.D., MFT., is a graduate and personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His classes and presentations on subjects such as supervision and mentoring, theoretical independence and inclusivity, and psychoanalytic work in the Silicon Valley have focused on the personal transformative journey of becoming a therapist. He has a private practice in Los Gatos where he offers individual and group consultations. back to top Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW, is a Member and Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Faculty and Chair of their Seminars for Scholars and East Bay Extension Programs, and Faculty of the Wright and Access Institutes. Interested in psychoanalysis as a creative process, she is on the editorial board of fort da, where she has published on psychoanalysis and the arts. She practices in the East Bay. Andrew Harlem, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Doctoral Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also past-president of NCSPP and an assistant editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Harlem completed postdoctoral training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland. Stephen Hartman, Ph.D., is faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC, an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Dr. Hartman has written about the manner in which social, political, and psychic life shape one another and recently wrote on traditional psychoanalytic constructs from the perspective of cyberspace. He is in private practice in San Francisco. Toni Heineman, D.M.H., is Founder and Executive Director of A Home Within. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and was selected as a Fellow by ZERO TO THREE for the 2003-2004 National Leadership Initiative. She has a private practice treating children, adults, and families in San Francisco. Kali Hess, MFT, is the Director of Training at the Center for Healthy Development (CHD) in Santa Clara, where she teaches and supervises interns and trainees. She is a post-seminar candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), studied for ten years at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses, and participated in a Tavistock model Infant Observation group. She is also a member and past-chair of the Peninsula|South Bay Education Committee of NCSPP. Ms. Hess is in private practice in Redwood City, working with individual adults and adolescents, couples, and providing consultation to clinicians. Melissa Holub, Ph.D., is the former president of NCSPP. She is a faculty member at Access Institute for Psychological Services, and adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), the Wright Institute, and the Women's Center. Dr. Holub specializes in psychoanalytic understanding of adoption, supervising and speaking on the topic throughout the Bay Area. She has a private practice in Berkeley. Mardy S. Ireland, Ph.D., is Faculty and Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC and visiting faculty at SFPI. Her most recent book is Art of the Subject: Between Necessary Illusion and Speakable Desire. She has a psychoanalytic practice in Berkeley. back to top Jana Kahn, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. Co-director, SFPI Eating Disorder Resource Center. Private Practice, Los Altos Hills. Mauren Katz, M.D., is a board certified psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. She was the former medical director of Children’s Crisis in San Francisco and is on faculty at the UC Berkeley, UCSF and SFPI since 1986. She has a private practice and works with adolescents and adults in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in North Oakland. Eileen Keller, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, Member and Faculty of San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (formerly SFPI), Chair of the Child Development Program of SFCP, consultant to the Children's Psychotherapy Project, and in private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Oakland. Adam Kremen, Ph.D., practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic couples therapy in Oakland. He held a position for many years as a psychotherapist at the Boyer House Foundation, where he worked analytically with psychotic and personality disordered patients. He currently serves as President of NCSPP. back to top Ann Langley, Ph.D., has been a Marriage Family Therapist for over 20 years and is currently an Advanced Candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has specialized in addiction recovery, couples therapy and working with sexual issues. She has taught graduate courses at John F. Kennedy University, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Center for Professional Development at Santa Clara University. Her private practice is in Redwood City. Julie Leavitt, M.D., is a psychiatrist and advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has taught and presented on various topics including gender and sexuality, feminism, interdisciplinary collaboration, and creativity in psychoanalysis. Dr. Leavitt is Medical Director at Access Institute for Psychological Services and has a private practice in San Francisco. Alessandra Lemma, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Visiting Professor of Psychological Therapies at Essex University. She is the Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where she has worked since 2002 and until recently she was the Trust-wide Head of Psychology. Since 2008 she has been the Collaboration Lead for joint projects between the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the Anna Freud Centre. She is the Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research centre at UCL. Originally trained with the British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP) as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, where she is now a Senior Member, she then went on to train as a psychoanalyst and is now a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is the General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis Book Series. Since 1999 she has also been the Editor-in Chief of the Journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Applications, Theory and Research. She was recently appointed as the incoming Regional Editor (London) for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has a strong interest in psychological therapies. Along with Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, she has been leading on the development of a new protocol for a brief psychodynamic intervention for mood disorders ? Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) - which has now been adopted as the psychodynamic model being delivered within primary care services nationally in the UK. Her clinical and theoretical interests centre around body image disturbances (particularly body dysmorphia and body modification practices), transsexualism, trauma, and adolescent development. Scott Lines, Ph.D., is an advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), on the clinical faculty at Access Institute and The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, and Past President of NCSPP. He is in private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, consultation and forensic evaluation in San Francisco and Berkeley. Era Loewenstein, Ph.D., is an adult, child, and adolescent psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. A past president of NCSPP, Dr. Loewenstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) At SFCP she serves on the faculty of the adult and child analytic programs and Extension Division. Dr. Loewenstein was an associate board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She presents frequently in local and national venues on issues relating to trauma, perversion, primitive states, the capacity to dream, creativity, and child analysis. back to top Mali Mann, M.D., is in private practice in Palo Alto and is a member of San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. Her publications include: "Immigrant Parents and their Immigrant Adolescents: The Tension of Inner and Outer Worlds." (American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2004). Ann Martini, LCSW, Member and Faculty, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. Co-director, SFPI Eating Disorder Resource Center. Private Practice, Los Gatos. Terrance McLarnan, MFT, has been providing supervision in the community mental health setting since 1995 and completed the California Marriage and Family Therapist Associations Certified Supervision Program in 2005. Mr. McLarnan is Executive Director of The Center for Healthy Development (CHD) and a post-seminar candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). He has experience with a Tavistock model Infant Observation group and serves on the Peninsula|South Bay Education Committee of NCSPP. Mr. McLarnan is in private practice in Santa Clara, working with adults, adolescents, and children. Deborah Melman, Ph.D., is on the faculty at the Wright Institute and PINC. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Albany. Judith L. Mitrani, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of California. A full active member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, Dr. Mitrani has published numerous papers in the area of primitive mental states in both international and American journals, and her work is translated in five languages. Mary Morgan, Ph.D., has worked at the Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships for the last 20 years, where she is a Senior Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Programme Leader of the Professional Doctorate and Clinical Training in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has a particular interest in the theory and technique of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has published widely in this area. In addition, she has taught extensively in the UK and abroad. She is a psychoanalyst and Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has a private analytic practice which includes couples. Negar Mottahedeh, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. She has published numerous articles on cinema, gender, and Iranian culture, including "Female Body as Metaphor," in the Encylopedia of Women and Islamic Studies (2005), and is currently completing a book on contemporary Iranian cinema. Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and on the Clinical Faculty at California Pacific Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and at Access Institute. She was founding president of PINC, past president of NCSPP and Division 39, and currently serves as publication chair for the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She teaches courses on contemporary psychosomatic concepts and maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in San Francisco. back to top Shelley Nathans, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in both San Francisco and Oakland. She has trained with the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute for Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples. She has taught psychoanalytic couple therapy at NCSPP, the Wright Institute, and Access Institute. She is currently teaching Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and in consultation groups in her private practice. Dorian Newton, Ph.D., is the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Mills College. A member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) and NCSPP, she maintains a private practice in adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland. Dr. Newton’s clinical and teaching interests include the dynamics and treatment of self-injurious behavior. back to top Mary Jane Otte, Ph.D., is a training analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) and a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She is certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association in child and adult analysis and is a member of the Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Dr. Otte has a private practice in Palo Alto. back to top Andre Patsalides, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst; Founding Member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, Berkeley; Emeritus Professor University of Louvain, Belgium; and Member of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis, Brussels. He is in private practice in Paris, France. Rachael Peltz, Ph.D., is on the faculty of PINC and SFPI and is a Personal and Supervising Analyst, and Chair of the faculty at PINC. She is past president of Section 9 – Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Division 39. She has been teaching and writing about “Ways of Hearing” in psychoanalysis, drawing on the ideas of Bion, Ogden, Ferro and others and also writing about the interface between psychoanalysis and social life. Karen Peoples, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco and Marin County. She is a member and graduate of PINC, and formerly Associate Professor in Doctoral Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has taught widely and written on trauma, identity and the interface of psychoanalysis and religion. Ethel Person, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytical Training and Research. Dr. Person along with Dr. Arnold Cooper and Dr. Glen Gabbard, edited the APPI Textbook of Psychoanalysis published in 2005. She is the author of Feeling Strong: The Achievement of Authentic Power, The Sexual Century and By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives. In 2006 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. reprinted her book Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion. Dr. Person has edited 11 other books and contributed over 100 papers to the psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature. Ilene Philipson, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland. She is a member and faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Her books include On The Shoulders of Women: The Feminization of Psychotherapy; Married to the Job, and Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths. She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and NYU. Piera Piagentini, RN, MFT, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley working with children, adolescents, and adults. She has been part of a Tavistock Infant Observation group for the last six years and is a Preschool Consultant through the Preschool Consultation Project at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). back to top Lee Rather, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and on faculty at PINC and a faculty member at SFCP. Dr. Rather has published on maternal and paternal function, primal scene phantasy, and the unconscious aspects of creativity. He has taught widely and presented nationally and internationally with an interest in integrating disparate schools psychoanalysis. Dr. Rather is in private practice in San Francisco. Tom Rosbrow, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP). His writing and teaching interests include dreams, creativity, trauma, attachment theory, and shame. His most recent paper, "Murakami's After the Quake - The Writer as Waking Dreamer and Trauma Analyst" is in the March/April 2012 issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He practices in San Francisco. Gillian Isaacs Russell, Ph.D., trained at the London Centre for Psychotherapy. For 20 years she had a private practice in London, where she was also Book Review Editor of The British Journal of Psychotherapy and Assistant Editor of the Association for Infant Mental Health Newsletter. After moving to South Dakota in 2008, Dr. Isaacs Russell continued her supervision and clinical work via SKYPE. Since 2009, she has taught, supervised, and treated patients through the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alilance (CAPA). Dr. Isaacs Russell makes her first trip to China this October. back to top Laurel Samuels, Ph.D., is a member and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and studied at the Tavistock Clinic. She has taught courses on Winnicott for PINC and NCSPP. Her paper on D.W. Winnicott’s “The Use of An Object” was published in fort da in 2001. She is in private practice in San Francisco. Susan Sands Ph.D., is on faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and is Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley. She has published in the areas of eating disorders, dissociation, female development unconscious communication, dreams, and aging. She is in private practice in Berkeley. Sue Saperstein, Psy.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC. She supervises for NCSPP, Access Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, and Chinese American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Saperstein is interested in the study and treatment of psychoses and other forms of madness. She has written on psychoanalytic ethics, and has taught in the areas of trauma and group psychology. She maintains a private practice in San Francisco. Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP,, is a personal and supervising analyst and a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Sarnat has co-authored, with Mary Gail Frawley O’Dea, The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach (Guilford Press, 2000), and articles on supervision, a Bionian model of case conference, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and treating survivors of sexual abuse. She is in private clinical and supervisory practice in Berkeley. Jed Sekoff, Ph.D., is on the faculty at NCSPP, PINC, SFPI, and the Wright Institute. His latest writing is on the concept of .savage melancholia' exploring the relation of shame, grief and vengeance. He has a private practice in Albany. Ruth Simon, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytically oriented psychologist with a special interest in teaching and supervision. She maintains a private practice in Oakland where she sees individual adults and couples in addition to serving as a consultant and supervisor. She is on the staff at the Mills College Counseling Center where she teaches in the pre-doctoral training program. Lee Slome, Ph.D., is in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco, where she treats adults, adolescents, and couples. She is adjunct faculty at Access Institute and serves on the Board of NCSPP. Angela Sowa, Psy.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and an assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sowa supervises Tavistock-model infant observation groups and is a consultant to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and parent consultation related to perinatal loss, pregnancy, and early parenting. Charles Spezzano, Ph.D. is a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is the author of Affect in Psychoanalysis: a clinical synthesis; co-editor of Soul on the Couch: Morality, Religion, and Spirituality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; co-editor of Psychoanalysis at its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn. He has published in and served on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is a recipient of the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for “outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.” Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT, is Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC. She teaches at the California Pacific Medical Center and in Israel, as well as private groups in Cupertino and San Francisco. She has a private practice in Cupertino. Beth Steinberg, Ph.D., is Past President of NCSPP; a consultant to The Boyer House Foundation and a candidate at SFPI. She is in private practice in San Francisco. Mark Sullivan, Ph.D., MFT, is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a member of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. Dr. Sullivan teaches in the analytic training program of the Jung Institute and in their programs for professionals, as well as for the larger public. He practices in Oakland and San Francisco seeing adults, adolescents, couples, and clinical consultees. Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and NCSPP and past editor of fort da. She has published on numerous psychoanalytic topics, including the capacity to experience beauty and most recently how patient and analyst change together. She has a private practice in Berkeley and Oakland, where she facilitates writing groups for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Diane Swirsky, Ph.D., is in private practice in Oakland working with adults and couples. She supervises and teaches at The Psychotherapy Institute, was formerly Associate Professor at California Institute for Integral Studies, and was adjunct faculty at the Wright Institute and Alliant University. Dr. Swirsky has taught widely throughout the Bay Area and published on the topic of trauma. She is currently President-Elect of NCSPP. back to top Nadine Tang, LCSW, is a social worker in private practice in Berkeley. Her career has included 10 years in the psychiatry clinic at UC Berkeley, and 12 years at the counseling and psychological services at Mills College. She is an instructor at the Ann Martin Center and Access Institute. In addition, she is an assistant clinical professor in the clinical sciences program at UC Berkeley. She has published a number of papers on cultural differences with Chinese, and on transference and treatment issues on various racial dyads in the therapy setting. Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D., is Personal and Supervising Analyst and on the faculty at PINC, and former President of N.C.S.P.P. and the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (I.F.P.E.). He is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and book reviews on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and schizophrenia. He has a private practice in San Francisco. Drew Tillotson, Psy.D., is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with a private practice in San Francisco. He is a graduate and member of PINC, past-president of NCSPP, and North American vice president for the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO). Dr. Tillotson is faculty for NCSPP, faculty and a supervisor for California Pacific Medical Center and Access Institute, and a supervisor for California Institute of Integral Studies. He also sits on the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Psychoanalysis and Culture. Robert Tyminski, DMH, is an adult and child analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He worked as the director of the Oakes Children’s Center for 14 years, where he supervised a day treatment program and school for children and adolescents with emotional and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Tyminski is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. His most recent publications are in the: International Journal of Jungian Studies (2011), "Medea, Jason, and their illusions of the Golden Fleece: a Jungian contribution to transference dreaming," and Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (2009), “Fleeced: A Perspective from Antiquity on Contemporary Addictions.” Sharon Tyson, Ph.D., is the Chief Psychologist and Director of the Psychology Internship Program at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), a position she has held for the past 7 years. Previously, she was the Director of Psychology Training at St. Mary’s Medical Center since 1989. Her professional areas of interest include women’s mental health, supervision and psychology training issues, and psychoanalytic theory and practice. Dr. Tyson has had a private practice in San Francisco for the past 22 years.. back to top Dana Wideman, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is also on faculty at the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program and adjunct clinical faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto. Katya Woodmansee, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley who works with children, adolescents, and adults, and provides parent consultations. Dr. Woodmansee is a clinical supervisor at the Psychological Services Center at Alliant International University and is a member of the Preschool Consultation Group at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) and the Neuropsychoanalysis Planning Committee at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). back to top Enid Young, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is a personal and supervising analyst and on the faculty at PINC. She has written on such topics as a psychoanalytic approach to addiction and a neuropsychoanalytic approach to memory. Dr. Young currently teaches a study group on Bion and Neuropsychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Berkeley.. back to top Mike Zimmerman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University (SFSU); Professor of English at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco (USF); a graduate of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (SFPI); and a faculty member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). back to top
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