Rosemary Balsam, M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh), F.R.C.Psych. (London). Psychoanalyst. Yale School of Medicine, Psychiatry; Training and Supervising Analyst, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis; Presenter on topics of interest to psychoanalysts at numerous conferences; Author of various publications including Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis. Mary Sigourney Award recipient (2018).
Sandra E. Cohen, Ph.D.; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles; Private practice in Beverly Hills. She has recently published a chapter on the film Broken Embraces (2009) entitled: “Voyeurs. Vampires and Going Blind: Trying to Survive Oedipal Exclusion and Loss” in Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion, and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky. Dr. Cohen writes a blog about the real human struggles of characters in contemporary and classic films at charactersonthecouch.com.
Paula Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP.; Training, faculty and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis; Overall Chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis; Editorial Board of the IJP and Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation; Assistant Professor of psychology at the George Washington University Center for Professional Psychology; Visiting Professor at the Sino-American Continuing Training Project for Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, China. Writes and and presents on femininity and female psychology, unconscious fantasy, sadomasochism, trauma and enactment. Co-Editor and Contributor: The Courage to Fight Violence against Women: Psychoanalytic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (with N. Goodman 2017).
Alison Feit, Ph.D., Faculty St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. Editor and Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a member of the Artist Group, the Sexual Abuse Service and the LGBTQ Service at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. Her most recent work appears in R. Gartner's Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts (2016) and R. C. Curtis' Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective (2018). Recently co-edited (with A. Slomowitz) Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism (2019). Although her physical offices are in NYC and Atlanta, she can most easily be found at freudina.com, where her online self hosts a podcast, runs workshops and generally promotes psychoanalytic ideas and self-knowledge.
William Fried, Ph.D., FIPA, Member IPTAR. Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, editor, teacher, and supervisor. He is also a photographer and poet. The office in which he conducts his practice is in Manhattan, close to Lincoln Center. Published on various topics including: Critical Flicker Fusion (Karnac, 2017), a study of film from a psychoanalytic perspective; Frida: Portrait of a self. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, 76, 8 (In press). Seiden, H.M., Lin, P. & Fried, W. (2020). “Ox Herding” and the art of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. DIVISION Review. 20, Winter Edition. 36-44.
Nancy Goodman, Ph.D., Training and supervising analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the IPA. Served as Chair of all Institute Committees and is now faculty in the Wuhan, China Training Program. Her many publications reflect her interest in trauma and symbolizing processes as well as female development and enactments. Publications include the following edited volumes: Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide (2017)(with Paula Ellman); The Courage to Fight Violence against Women (2017) (with Paula Ellman); Battling the Life and Death Forces of
Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives (2013) (with Basseches & Ellman); and The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust (2012) (with Marilyn Meyers). Founder and Director of the online Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum: with IPBooks. She maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Bethesda, Maryland.
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Ph.D.: Training and Supervising Analyst of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society. She has published numerous papers and three books on metapsychology, clinical issues and applied psychoanalysis. Her 2018 publication of Driven to Survive at IPBooks was a finalist of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize. She has published her first novel, Rousseaus Traum, in German and will publish her second novel, Memory's Eyes, in 2020 at IPBooks. She works in private practice in Chestnut Hill by Boston.
Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP. Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Bluffton, SC.; Teaching, Training, and Supervising Psychoanalyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas; Professor and Program Director Emerita of the PsyD Professional Psychology Program, The George Washington University; Teaching, Training, and Supervising Psychoanalyst Emerita of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Recent publication: Our country 'tis of we and them: psychoanalytic perspectives on our fractured American identity (2019) American Imago. Honored (2017) American Psychological Association's Division 39 Diversity Award; Honored Presenter (Jan. 2016) American Psychoanalytic Association Plenary Address; Served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Kimberly Kleinman, LCSW, FIPA. Adult, Adolescent and Child training and supervising analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society. Visiting Professor at the Sino-American Continuing Training Project for Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan China. Published and presented on race, developmental theory, learning problems, gender and sexual object choice. Recent publications include: From Cradle to Couch: Essays in Honor of the Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology of Sylvia Brody, Edited by B. Seitler and K. Kleinman, 2017 IPBooks; The Plumsock Papers, Giving New Analysts a Voice, Edited by P. Ellman and K. Kleinman, 2020 IPBooks.
Nancy Kulish, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Detroit/Mercy and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Chosen as the National Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar for 2005 of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Currently on the Editorial Boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published and presented on topics ranging from female sexuality, gender, transference/countertransference, adolescence to termination. With Deanna Holtzman, she is the co-author of the 2008 book, A Story of Her Own, The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed and most recently, The Clinical Problem of Masochism.
Merle Molofsky: MFA (Columbia University School of the Arts; Psychoanalyst, fiction writer and poet, a produced playwright, and the recipient of the 2012 NAAP Gradiva Award for Poetry. She serves on the faculty of the Training Institute of NPAP, on the faculty and the Advisory Board of the Harlem Family Institute, and as a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Review and of the International journal of Controversial Discussions. She has published numerous psychoanalytic articles in various journals, chapters in psychoanalytic books, and a novel, Streets 1970 and a collection of short fiction, Necessary Voices, both published by International Psychoanalytic Books.
Kerry Kelly Novick, Psychoanalyst Child, adolescent and adult Training and Supervising Analyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Serves on the faculties of numerous training centers in the United States. First trained with Anna Freud in London, England. Active in teaching, research, professional organizations and the community. Joined with other colleagues to found the award-winning non-profit Allen Creek Preschool in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the international Alliance For Psychoanalytic Schools. Served as Chair of the Child and Adolescent Analysis Committee at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute; Instrumental in starting the first integrated child and adult training curriculum. Elected a Councilor-at-Large on the Board of the American Psychoanalytic Association; past President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and is Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Written many book chapters and articles published in major professional journals. Recent Books: Emotional Muscle:Strong Parents, Strong Children (2010); With Novick, J., Barrett, D. & Barrett, T (2020). Parent Work Casebook. New York: IPBooks.
Jack Novick, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst Child, adolescent and adult Training and Supervising Analyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Serves on the faculties of numerous training centers in the United States. Trained with Anna Freud in London, England. Active in teaching, research, professional organizations and the community. Joined with other colleagues to found the award-winning non-profit Allen Creek Preschool in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the international Alliance For Psychoanalytic Schools. Served as Chair of the Child and Adolescent Analysis Committee at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute; Instrumental in starting the first integrated child and adult training curriculum. Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Written many book chapters and articles published in major professional journals. With Kerry Kelly Novick: Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism (1996); Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong
Children (2010). Served two terms as North American Representative on the Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and is President-Elect of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis.
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D., Psychoanalyst and a poet. Training and Supervising Analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association; Fellow of IPTAR. Faculty at the CFS and Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. Publishes on female development, perversion, loneliness, and the internal world of artists and poets. “The Skin I Live” In In A.K. Richards, L. Spira and A.A. Lynch (Eds.) Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely (2013) and a book of her papers, Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand: Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards (IPBooks, 2012) Myths of the Mighty Women edited by Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira (Karnac, 2015), Psychoanalysis in Fashion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards and Anita Weinreb Katz (IPBooks, 2019); Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Richards and Lucile Spira with Merle Molofsky (IPBooks, 2019). The Laundryman's Granddaughter: Poems by Arlene Kramer Richards, (IPBooks, 2011). Former representative from North America to the IPA.
Lucille Spira, Ph.D., LCSW: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Member NYSPP, AAPCSW. Gradiva Award recipient (2014) with Arlene Kramer Richards and Arthur A. Lynch: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely (IP:Books). Co-Chair APsaA Discussion Group on Loneliness and Aloneness; Published in various psychoanalytic journals and taught in numerous settings including NYSPP and AIP. Facilitator NYSPP Literary Group. Recent publication: Co-Editor and Contributor, Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion (2018, IPBooks).
Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D., Faculty, The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, past President The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Associate Editor for the Annual of Psychoanalysis, Visiting Professor at Wuhan University, China. Publications on self psychology, Shakespeare, literature and film. Recent Publications: “Desperately Seeking Ivan or Healing the Vertical Split in Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” in Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion, edited by A.K. Richards, L. Spira with M. Molofsky (2018) IPBooks, and “The Pilgrim's Progress: A Therapist and Patient Journey to London” in Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.