On Being a Supervisee: A Roundtable Discussion

Matt Aibel, LCSW, received his psychoanalytic certification from National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where he serves as Associate Director of Continuing Education. His article “Being Railroaded: A Candidate’s Struggle to Stay on Track” appeared last year in Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He practices privately in New York City and on Long Island in Stony Brook, NY.

Deborah Browning PhD, is a recent graduate of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. An Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU, she has edited two books: Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings and Memory Myth and Seduction: The Collected Papers of Jean-George Schimek. She has published in JAPA and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and is presently writing the biography of the School of Paris painter, Hans Reichel.

Allison Katz, LCSW, is a recent graduate of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives, for which she has published a paper on the trials of analytic training. Allison currently co-chairs the Webinar Committee for The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Stephen Malach, MD, is a graduate of, and on the faculty of, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, which until recently was known as the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine. He is also a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Malach is in private practice in New York City.

Barbara Nusbaum, PhD, is a candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has been in private practice in NYC since 2000. In her practice, Dr. Nusbaum works with adults and specializes in adolescent psychotherapy and money psychology. Dr. Nusbaum is a psychoanalytic candidate at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and has trained at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and the Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies.

Therese Rosenblatt, PhD, is a recent graduate of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has private practices in New York City and Westchester, where she treats individual adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She also supervises clinical psychology doctoral students. She runs developmental education and support groups for mothers and babies, as well as for mothers of children with learning differences. Dr. Rosenblatt is a founder of the Alma Maters program at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she frequently addresses graduates on topics concerning the integration of motherhood and female identity. One talk was filmed for the CBS program 60 Minutes. Dr. Rosenblatt has published and presented on topics of infertility, as well as presented clinical papers at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (NYU Postdoc). She presented a paper on the intersection of the development of psychoanalytic and personal identity and voice at the 2012 Division 39 Conference in Santa Fe. Dr. Rosenblatt, who is also a psychologist, received her certificate in psychoanalysis in 2011 from NYU Postdoc where she has been active in institute governance and moderated and organized numerous panels and conferences.

Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives, where her most recently published interview was with Adam Phillips. She is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City, where she treats individuals, couples, and groups, and she is a clinical supervisor and advisor for NIP. She devotes a part of her practice to those in the arts, having also had a successful career as a performer for 20 years.
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