Jodi H. Brown, a candidate at the Philadelphia Association, is a Child Fellow at Jefferson, where she was Chief Resident. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.D. from Emory. Her interest in psychoanalysis joins interests in James Joyce (particularly Finnegans Wake), neuroscience, and music. She has studied melodic intonation and how song sense helps restore lost language function. “Often I struggle between two very different frameworks for understanding the workings of human behavior. Because I have found a way of traveling two opposing passages, I look to the future with the excitement of uncertainty coupled with possibility.”
Galina Bunina-Bass is a Research Fellow at Einstein. She was born of an American mother and a French father in the former Soviet Union, where she received her medical training and did a residency in endocrinology. She traveled extensively in the USSR, “tried her hand at archeology, did some acting, read and wrote a lot of poems.” When finally allowed to leave, she entered residency at Einstein, where she has been both Chief Resident and Senior Chief Resident for Residency Training. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural psychiatry and the psychopathology of immigration. She is a candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is looking forward to an academic career combining teaching, research, and clinical work.
Cynthia G. Ellis, a PGY 4 at UCSF–Langley Porter, received her M.D. from Case Western Reserve and her B.A. from Stanford. After college she worked with adolescent mothers. Her questions about their motivation led her to medical school, where all of her electives concerned aspects of psychiatry related to psychoanalysis. Unfortunately, “psychoanalytic theory was aesthetically pleasing, but impractical.” Now, during residency, her psychoanalytic interests have flowered. “I can't imagine an experience more rich, full, stimulating, and rewarding.” Early interests in child and adolescent development have expanded to include adult development. She is looking forward to an academic career—teaching, writing, and researching topics related to psychotherapy and parenting—and to becoming a psychoanalyst.
Michael J. Feldman, who received his B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Wesleyan and his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati, was Chief Resident in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Currently he is a Child and Adolescent Fellow at Columbia's Psychiatric Institute. His interests include the influence of sexuality and gender on the therapeutic relationship, and the integration of psychodynamic and psychobiological aspects of normative ego development in gay men, couples, and families. He has published several papers in physiology and one on Alexander Kosolopov that appeared in Artnews. He hopes to combine clinical work with research and to become a psychoanalyst.
Kenneth Edwin Fleishman, whose application took the form of a letter to Freud, is a Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Emory. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina and an M.D.' from East Carolina University. He has published several papers on neurotransmitters and on existentialism. He spent a year studying speaking in tongues and faith healing at a rural fundamentalist church and several more working with disturbed adolescents. He is deeply concerned about children, particularly those with chronic physical illness. He plans to apply for analytic training and hopes to be a teacher of medical students, physicians, and young psychiatrists, as well as a practitioner.
Andrew C. Furman is Chief Resident at Emory, where he received his M.D. He first became interested in psychoanalysis at Williams College (B.A. in Religion/History of Ideas), where he used psychoanalytic ideas in literary critical studies. As an undergraduate he did research on tricyclics. “Originally fascinated by applied analysis, only later did I become interested in the therapeutic aspects of the pursuit.” He is a candidate at Emory and looks forward to remaining in the academy, continuing his literary and philosophical studies and combining teaching with a psychoanalytic practice. “While this is the Decade of the Brain, there is still the need for the physician of the mind.”
Peyton Hurt, a graduate of Haverford (B.A. in French Literature) and Case Western Reserve (M.D.), is a PGY 4 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He hopes to continue doing “hard science” research; currently he is conducting the first-ever drug trials at Walter Reed. Before medical school he founded and managed a microcomputer retail store. Deeply interested in psychoanalytic thinking, he would like to use his knowledge of computer technology to quantify the effects of therapy. He prepared other psychiatric residents for the PRITE with a game of Psychiatric Jeopardy he invented. He hopes to enter analytic training and to maintain an analytic tradition in military psychiatry—“a daunting task.”
Margaret R. Karp, a PGY 3 at California Pacific Medical Center, received her B.A. from Stanford (English Literature) and her M.D. from UCSF. Board certified in pediatrics, her work in that field included extensive teaching and the running of a foster care clinic. “My true interests and talents lay beyond the strictly medical concerns of my patients, and more in their psychological issues.” Just prior to beginning her psychiatric residency, she was a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology. During her doctoral studies, she felt “that the analytic position embodied a quality of thought that was a durable and versatile reference point.” She hopes to practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy and to continue teaching.
Ubaldo Leli was born in Italy and received his medical education at Perugia. After five years of surgical training he came to Harvard, where he was a research associate, first in biochemistry, then in surgery, and eventually in psychiatry. Currently a PGY 4 at Cornell-Westchester, he has more than fifty publications to his credit. But a research career, he says, “did not satisfy my needs for human contact—and for the less quantifiable aspects of reality. My interest in psychoanalysis can be traced back to my classical education.” He is a candidate at Columbia and hopes to continue basic neuroscience, clinical, and psychoanalytic research, combined with a limited private analytic practice.
Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby is a PRITE Fellow and Executive Chief Resident at Duke, where she received an M.D. and a B.A. Her interests include American Sign Language, graphic arts design (she runs her own business), and writing poetry. She has worked as a designer, systems manager, and consultant in the computer field since 1984. Currently she does neuroimaging research on anatomic correlates of psychiatric disorders. Over the years her research, which has generated several articles, has evolved from the cellular to the organismic (brain pathways, mathematical models of neuronal interaction, studies of perception in art and risk-taking behavior) and, finally, to the psychoanalytic. She hopes to “build bridges between psychoanalytic and neurobiological approaches.”
Adam Frederick Lowy is a PGY 5 at Shepard Pratt, having done his residency at the Cambridge Hospital. Both his B.A. and his M.D. are from Harvard, where he was a Harvard Scholar. His interests were initially in biomedical and molecular biological research, a field in which he has published extensively. He is deeply interested in poetry and in the treatment of psychotic patients. “When I apply biomedical thinking to schizophrenia, much is left unexplained.” In his work with these patients, he attempts to integrate his knowledge of psychoanalysis with his knowledge of poetry and fiction. He plans a career of working with the chronically mentally ill in a manner informed by psychoanalytic ideas.
Jonathan Michel Metzl, born in Turkey, is a PGY 4 at Stanford and a candidate for a master's degree in literature; his thesis deals with repetition in poetry and psychiatric patients. The holder of a B.A. and an M.D. from the University of Missouri, he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Israel, during which time he researched mental health care in a socialized system, did clinical research on posttraumatic stress disorder (with both Intifada and Yom Kippur War victims), and studied psychoanalytic literary criticism. He has published papers on group therapy, literary essays, and numerous poems. He plans to continue his study of both psychoanalytic theory and literature and to combine these interests in his writing and clinical work.
Annette Carol Stevens, the first Canadian to be named a Fellow, is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A.) and McMaster University (M.D.). Currently a Child Fellow at the Hincks Treatment Center, she was a music conservatory student and took a year of operatic training at the University of Toronto. She is interested in clinical work, teaching, and research, and is at present developing a teacher training program for residents. During her fellowship year she will spend six months at Columbia University studying psychoanalytic outcome research in a joint project of The American and the Clarke Institute. She will then go on to a two-year research fellowship at Clarke.
William Craig Tomlinson, a graduate of Swarthmore and Cornell Medical College, has held numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright. He has published many papers, reviews, and translations. Currently he is a PGY 4 at Columbia and a Ph.D. candidate at Yale, where his dissertation topic is “Literary Psychology and Psychiatric Literature in Germany: 1775–1815.” He believes that “many of the debates polarizing modern psychiatry (e.g., mind vs. brain) have been recurrent themes since the eighteenth century.” He is a candidate at Columbia and envisions a career combining clinical work, teaching, and research on such topics as “cultural differences in the formulation of illness descriptions,” differences which may hinder clinical research in psychoanalysis.
Sandra Clement Walker holds a B.A. from Harvard University/Radcliffe College and an M.D. from the University of Washington. In the years between college and medical school she conducted cancer research, worked for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and held various positions with Seattle Public Television, where she was project director for a number of documentaries on science, technology, human values, and ethics. She is also a poet. Her current research project is a comparative study of African-American and white nursing-home residents. She hopes to combine clinical work (particularly with people of color) with teaching and research that explores “racial and cultural differences and their clinical and public policy implications.”