Daniel S. Benveniste, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Sammamish, Washington, near Seattle. He is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Wuhan Mental Health Center, in the People's Republic of China. He is the author of The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis (2015). In 2016 he was named Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association for his clinical work, his books on psychoanalytic history, his dedication to psychoanalytic education, and his writings that have brought psychoanalytic concepts and theories to professional and lay audiences on two continents in both English and Spanish.
Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising analyst and graduate, William Alanson White Institute. Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, Analytic Press, 2004, examines hope, courage, and other values. Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Routledge, 2008) discusses therapeutic process. Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012) explores clinicians' shame, sorrow, and resilience. Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge, 2015) uses short stories to illuminate coping styles. Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IPBooks, 2017) examines the process of becoming and being a psychoanalyst. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical Practice (Routledge, 2019) asks how analysts can help their patients cope with life's recurrent difficulties, and Poetic Dialogues (in press, IPBooks) creates emotionally expressive “conversations” between poems.
James Tyler Carpenter, Ph.D., is a Clinical-Forensic Psychologist-graduate of CWRU, Long Island (MA) and St. John's (PhD) Universities, former Clinical Fellow of Harvard Medical School, in practice since 1986, he works as a Member of Metis Psychological Associates, LLC outside Boston, is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, and a member of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, the Program in Psychiatry and the Law and has served as an Instructor and Research Associate at Harvard University, Harvard Extension School, and Harvard Medical School, Instructor at Harvard Law School-Trial Advocacy Program, and Boston University, Boston University Law School and Suffolk Law School, and as a Lecturer at Rodger Williams University, Lesley College, China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance, and Tufts University, as well as a Board Member of the Massachusetts Psychological Association and the Correctional Association of Massachusetts, and a member of the Massachusetts Governors Commission on Criminal Justice Innovation. He currently serves on the Executive Board of ISPS (the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis). He has served as a Clinical Supervisor and Trainer for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center, the Psychology Lab of the Mailman Research Center at McLean Hospital, the Bedford Policy Institute. He has published and presented on the topics of psychotherapy integration, group therapy, meditation based therapies, integration of psychotherapeutic technique, uses of translators in civil disability assessments, the psychometric assessment of thought disorder, and treatment in correctional environments. He serves as an In-House Psychology Consultant for the Disability Determination Service of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (SSA), the Disability Evaluation Service of the University of Massachusetts Medical school and a staff correctional psychologist and the United States Postal Inspection Service, and has been on the editorial Board and as an editorial consultant/reviewer and or contributor to the Journal of Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia Research, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Adolescent Psychiatry, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Controversial Discussions. He has been qualified as an expert in New Hampshire and the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and served as an Independent Medical Examiner. He is a Past Master of The Harvard Lodge, AF and AM.
Sandra E. Cohen, Ph.D. () is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, and in private psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills with adults and teenagers. Her areas of specialization include early trauma, panic disorder, persistent depression, anxiety, eating disorders, creative blocks, relationship fears, and failed previous therapies. Through her blog Characters on the Couch (), Dr. Cohen uses her clinical experience to analyze the fictional characters in film and television.
Jane S. Hall, CSW, FIPA, is a former President of the Contemporary Freudian Society; former Board Representative IPA; former board and member ApsaA; member AAPCSW. Activities: teach, supervise, and consult nationally and internationally on deepening psychoanalytic work and related topics via zoom and in person. Author of: Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004) and Deepening the Treatment in English and Mandarin (1998). Journal articles. Former editor psychoanalysis. today and TAP. Editorial board: IJCD; Internationalpsychoanalysis: book editor. A founder of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Jane created and served as the first director of the Psychotherapy Track at CFS.
Alan Karbelnig, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist engaged in private practice in Pasadena, CA since 1988. He has two Ph.D.s, one in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California and one in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Karbelnig served as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Psychological Association and as President of the San Gabriel Valley Psychological Association. He is an Expert Reviewer for the State of California's Board of Psychology and Board of Behavioral Sciences. He teaches and lectures widely, and founded Rose
City Center (RCC), a non-profit clinic offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to economically disadvantaged persons, in 2004. Dr. Karbelnig was President of its Board of Directors through 2014 and is currently Chair of the RCC Training Committee.
Joseph F. Meyer, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Instructor of Psychiatry (Harvard Medical School) working in the General Mental Health Clinic and Behavioral Medicine services on the Brockton campus of the VA Boston Healthcare System. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The University of Rhode Island, completed his predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and received Masters' degrees from The College of William & Mary (experimental psychology) and Columbia University. His clinical duties include individual and group cognitive-behavioral treatment for a variety of mental health conditions (e.g., mood and anxiety disorders, OCD, insomnia, and chronic pain) as well as diagnostic interviewing. He also supervises clinical psychology trainees. In addition to clinical services and supervision, Dr. Meyer serves on the MIT Catalyst Fellows Access Team and consults on process improvement projects. His scholarly interests over the years have included mental health stigma, differentiating science from pseudoscience in clinical psychology, clinical decision making, philosophy of science, and psychometrics.
Jon Mills, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. Mills is on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto, chief psychologist at a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, his Psy.D. in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology-Chicago, and was a Fulbright scholar in the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and York University. He is a Diplomate, Fellow, and is board certified in Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology with the American
Board of Professional Psychology, and is a registered psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
Merle Molofsky, MFA, NCPsyA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She serves on the faculty of the Training Institute of NPAP, and on the faculty and Advisory Council of Harlem Family Psychoanalytic Institute. She is a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Review, and of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Controversial Discussions. Her play, Koolaid, was produced at Lincoln Center, directed by Jack Gelber. She is the recipient of the Gradiva Award in Poetry, 2012, from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She has many professional publications, including journal articles and book chapters. Her novel, Streets 1970, was published by IPBooks in 2015, and her collection of short fiction, Necessary Voices, was published by IPBooks in 2019.
Trevor Pederson, Psya.D., is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Laramie, Wyoming. Dr. Pederson is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Controversial Discussions and is the author of The Economics of Libido: Psychic Bisexuality, the Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex (Routledge, 2015), which won the Gradiva award for Best Book. His most recent book Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018) introduces both new psychoanalytic techniques for working with the body and a new methodology for interpreting film and literature.
Arnold Richards, M.D., was Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and, prior to that, Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and an honorary member of the Karen Horney Clinic. Dr. Richards is currently on the faculty at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. He is planning a series of five volumes of his selected papers, the first
two of which have been published: Volume I: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Volume 3: The Psychoanalyst at Work, Volume 4: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst, Volume 5: The World of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts. He is also writing a memoir, Unorthodox: My Life in Psychoanalysis, and he has co-edited four books. Dr. Richards is the publisher of internationalpsychoanalysis.net and ipbooks.net. He is retired from private practice in Palm Beach, Florida.
Burton N. Seitler, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist/Psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of J.A.S.P.E.R., the Journal for the Advancement of Scientific Psychoanalytic Empirical Research, published by IPBooks. For over 20 years, he was the Executive Director of the former Counseling and Psychotherapy Services center in Ridgewood and Oakland, NJ and the former Director of the Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Studies program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis (NJI). He currently serves as a Supervising Training Analyst, Chair of the Training Board, and member of the faculty of NJI. Dr. Seitler is also on the Editorial Boards of the journals, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, and Journal for Controversial Discussions. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry. In addition, he is a faculty member of the Gordon Derner Postdoctoral program at Adelphi University. Dr. Seitler has presented and published over 100 scientific papers and chapters locally, as well as internationally, on psychosis, paranoia, suicide, ADHD, autism, resilience, myopia, soma-psyche, neuroscience, forced hospitalization, the DSM, Randomized Controlled Trials, ethnic humor, and a host of other topics.
Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is Professor of psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University. He completed his Postdoctoral training in motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 8, 12, and 29). His research has largely focused on unconscious processes. He
received the Ulf Kragh Award from the University of Lundh, Sweden, for his work on unconscious processes. As a founding partner of Implicit Strategies, Dr. Weinberger helps political campaigns, non-profits, and businesses discover what consumers unconsciously think and feel about their candidate, product, or brand. His political and business commentaries have appeared in various media outlets, including the Huffington Post, Anderson Cooper 3600, and Good Morning America. He has been featured in numerous podcasts and given many talks about the unconscious. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist.