Towards a New Chestnut Lodge

Ann-Louise S. Silver, M.D., is an expert in the history and development of interpersonal psychoanalysis, studying the lives and works of Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Harold Searles, and others. She has written extensively on this subject and on the subject of Chestnut Lodge Hospital, where she was on the medical staff for 25 years. She is a retired teaching analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, a member of the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry, and is the founder of the Columbia (Maryland) Academy for Psychodynamics. She was the founding president of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis-US (ISPS-US). Dr. Silver was born in Syracuse, NY, grew up in Albany, and attended Mount Holyoke College and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. At Johns Hopkins, she met her husband of 58 years (Stu), who is a former director of mental hygiene for Maryland. Dr. Silver has three children, seven grandchildren, and lives and practices in Columbia, Maryland.
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