Developing and Implementing Initiatives to Enhance Psychoanalytic Education

Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) and Chair of the Progression Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education. Deeply committed to psychoanalytic education at PANY, she was a member of the Education Committee for decades; served as Chair, Psychology Outreach (1989–1999); Chair, Scholarship and Research (2001–2005); Chair, Academic Affairs (2005–2009); and Chair, Student Progression Committee (2011–2017), as well as Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center. Prior to psychoanalytic training at PANY, Dr. Rothstein earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University and a BA in Social Relations at Radcliffe College, Harvard University. She is the first author of four books and numerous papers on topics such as psychoanalytic education; integration of psychoanalytic and neuropsychological perspectives on learning disabilities and AD/HD; men’s responses to their partners’ elective abortions; and a variety of other clinical psychoanalytic topics.