Offerings by Date Offerings by Location Offerings by Type NCSPP Faculty Registration & Payment CE Credits Scholarship Fund Policies			NCSPP Faculty 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. Paul U. Alexander, Ph.D., is a supervisor and group therapist at the Boyer House Foundation. He has been a group therapist and/or faculty at the McAuley Adolescent Inpatient Unit, the CPMC Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, and the Edgewood Center for Children and Families. He has a private practice in San Francisco. Martine Aniel, Ph.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and on the faculty at PINC. She is a co-founder and former member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the NCSPP Interdisciplinary Education Committee and a supervisor at the California Pacific Medical Center. She has a 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 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. 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. 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. 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. Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., is a member, Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC and on the faculty of PINC and the Wright Institute. She is president of PINC and past president of NCSPP. Dr. Bernstein has written on psychoanalysis and the arts and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals. She has 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. 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. Peter Carnochan, Ph.D., is a graduate of and instructor for the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has written numerous papers on analytic theory and technique. He is a senior consultant to Early Childhood Mental Health in Richmond, California. He has a private practice working with children and adults in San Francisco. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., is a graduate analyst from PINC. He is a graduate level supervisor of interns at the Center for Healthy Development in Santa Clara. In 30 years of practice he has worked with adolescents, adults, and couples. His practice is in Los Altos and 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. 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. 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. 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 Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCSF and previously Medical Director at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, where he directed Calmecac, a cultural training program. He has written and taught on questions of culture, homosexuality, HIV, film and gender. He is currently a candidate at PINC and maintains a private practice 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. Gary Grossman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco who has been teaching about gay and lesbian development for 25 years. As Chair of the Gay/Lesbian Issues committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 2001-2006, Dr. Grossman spearheaded the Association’s Position Statement supporting same-sex parenting. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, on the faculty of Access Institute, and member and faculty of SFPI&S. Hugh Grubb, Psy.D., MFT., is a graduate of PINC and editor of its newsletter. He has taught for NCSPP, CAMFT, and others on theoretical diversity. He has a private practice in Los Gatos. 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. 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. 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. Scott Lines, Ph.D., is Past President of NCSPP, an analytic candidate at PINC, on the clinical faculty at Access Institute, and is in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco. 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. 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. 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. 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 Director of Counseling and Psychological Services and Associate Dean of Student Life at Mills College. She is a staff psychologist at UC Berkeley, Past President of NCSPP and a member of San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Newton has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland. 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. Lee Rather, Ph.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and on the faculty at PINC. He has taught numerous NCSPP courses, and published and presented on Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Fairbairn, and Matte-Blanco. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation in San Francisco. 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. 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 Faculty and Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC. She supervises Tavistock model infant observation groups and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Infant Observation. She is a perinatal consultant and has a private practice in Palo Alto. 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. Ruth Stein, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Training Analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Member, the American Psychoanalytic Association; Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; and Faculty, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. She is International Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality; Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on affect, sexuality, perversion, the philosophy of psychoanalysis, religious terrorism, and other topics. She currently lives and practices in New York City. 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. Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., is faculty at PINC and teaches and facilitates consultation groups in the Bay Area. She has published various psychoanalytic articles including most recently on clinical process and dissociation and aesthetic experience (in press). She is associate editor of Gender and NCSPP Sexuality and past editor of fort da. She is in private practice in Berkeley. 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.
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