Anne J. Adelman, Ph.D., is director of children's services and training at West Haven Mental Health Center and an instructor at the Yale Child Study Center, where she is also a consultant to the Holocaust Project. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Herself a child of Holocaust survivors, she has published on the subject of traumatic memory. She found her way to being a psychotherapist through her interest in language and literature, particularly children's literature. Currently, she says, “the thread that runs through my activities is that of offering psychological services to a community beset by violence, trauma, and deprivation. As my experiences expanded, so has my perception of the power of psychoanalysis to promote deep change and growth.”
Stephen Houran Behnke, Ph.D., J.D., is currently team chief in psychology at Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Before law school he spent time in a monastery at the Vatican, where, he recalls, “the attention paid to every letter of every word” in reading Latin texts “seems particularly psychoanalytic.” At law school he studied with Professor Joseph Goldstein and worked at the Yale Child Study Center. He has published on psychiatric symptoms in the homeless. At present he is working on an article on legal views of dissociative disorders and the problems of assessing criminal responsibility in individuals suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Andrew B. Clark, M.D., a child fellow at Massachusetts General, graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and is board certified in pediatrics. He also has a Certificate of Theological Studies and is a Massachusetts Designated Forensic Psychiatrist. After his freshman year of college, he worked in Chiapas as a volunteer field engineer for twenty-one months and later did a subinternship in Nicaragua. During his residency, he found that “psychoanalytic theory, thorny though it may be, provides an unparalleled depth of understanding of the inner lives of our patients.” In the coming year he hopes to study a group of men incarcerated for domestic violence and explore the contribution of their developmental histories, particularly the role (real or fantasied) of their fathers, to their violent behavior.
Lev G. Gertsik, M.D., a PGY 2 at UCLA-San Fernando, was the medical director of the Moscow Center for Psychoneuro-endocrinology and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist before coming to the U.S. in 1994. He was one of the founders and the first executive director of the Russian Psychoanalytic Association. His coming here was sponsored by the Committee on Russian-American Psychoanalytic Exchange of the American Psychoanalytic Association. “As a medical student,” Gertsik says, “I was force-fed excessive amounts of critique of Freud's theories. Every time they tried to preclude us from getting interested in something, they achieved the opposite.” Gertsik plans to remain in the U.S. and do research that will integrate psychoanalytic and biological approaches to affective pathology.
Roman Gleyzer, M.D., is a graduate of the First Leningrad Medical Institute, a PGY 4 at UTMB-Galveston, and a former Lilly fellow. His uncle, a psychiatrist, managed to safeguard his library (which contained early Russian translations of Freud and other psychoanalytic works) during the siege of Leningrad Reading these books enhanced Gleyzer's interest in psychodynamics. “The term ‘psychotherapy’ was almost illegal at that time,” he notes. Gleyzer set up various counseling and crisis intervention centers, organized seminars for psychotherapists, and in 1988 (with a team of psychologists and psychiatrists) opened the first private cooperative for outpatient treatment. At present he works with medical students interested in psychiatry: “I want to be involved in the preservation and strengthening of the rich traditions of psychoanalysis.”
Geoffrey David Goodman, Ph.D., who took his degree at Northwestern University, is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell-Westchester and an adjunct assistant professor at Teachers College, Columbia. He has written extensively on theories of psychological development, borderline patients, clinical implications of Kleinian theory, attachment theory, and many other topics. He teaches psychoanalytic theory to graduate and undergraduate students and has consulted to students who work with homeless preschoolers. His own research is grounded in psychoanalytic theory, and he is involved in the application of psychoanalytic theory to other disciplines and to social policy. (New Jersey will be using the results of one of Goodman's studies to evaluate the impact of welfare reform on children.) Finally, he is “deeply committed to psychoanalytic scholarship.”
Avak Albert Howsepian, M.D., is a PGY 2 at UC-Fresno and a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Notre Dame, where he expects to receive his degree in 1997. In his first year of residency, he began independent research in the philosophy of science and detoured from psychiatry for six years. He has taught philosophy and published numerous papers on ethics, consciousness, mind/brain, family medicine, the cinema, coma, object relations theory, euthanasia, hypnosis, and other topics. He is the recipient of prestigious fellowships in both medicine and philosophy. His current interests include the connections between object relations theory and ethical discourse, nosology, borderline pathology, and sexual perversions. He is currently at work on a critique of DSM-IV.
Martha Brewer Koo, M.D., a graduate of UCLA and chief resident in geriatric psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, began to study ballet at the age of six. She traveled extensively and pursued her interest in ballet and theater. In the process, she acquired competence in a number of languages. “I believe that my artistic and travel background has allowed me to approach psychiatry and the psychiatric patient in a unique and special manner,” she says. As a result of her interest in dance, she is especially interested in patients with eating disorders and disorders of body image. Other interests include the uses of creative expression in the treatment of the chronically mentally ill.
Kimberlyn R. Leary, Ph.D., a former National Merit Scholar, received her doctorate from the University of Michigan, where currently she is an adjunct assistant professor. A staff psychologist at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute Clinic, she has published extensively on race and ethnicity; psychoanalytic process and narrative process; critical race theory and postmodernism; feminism; and race and psychoanalysis. “Psychoanalysis has been a vital, energizing, and creative companion in my intellectual, clinical, and personal life,” she says. She is active in establishing new areas of dialogue between psychoanalysis and the humanities. She views herself as a researcher-academic and a clinician, a view that informs both her research and her teaching. Recently, her formal research has centered on empirical validation of psychoanalytic concepts and on devising methods to study the psychoanalytic process.
Catherine Fiona Lewis, M.D., a PGY 4 at the University of Michigan, returned to psychiatry, her earliest interest, after a surgical residency. Research during college was focused on the history of psychiatry, on laws establishing asylums for drunkards in Victorian England, and on the impact of attitudinal change on legislation. She has published in surgical journals and written papers on neurophysiology, Huntington's disease, and biological aspects of schizophrenia. Currently, she is particularly interested in the interface between psychoanalysis and forensic psychiatry and is planning to become a forensic psychiatrist. She hopes to work on elucidating the determinants of violent behavior and on developing effective treatments for substance abusers who have been victims of physical abuse.
Reinaldo Matias, Jr., Ph.D., whose degree is from the University of Pittsburgh, is an assistant professor at DePaul University. He has a small private practice and has published on speech anxiety, depressed mothers and their infants, infant facial expression, attachment, and the beginnings of affective expression. In graduate school he worked to have psychoanalytic theory included in the curriculum. Later, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Menninger Foundation. Since leaving Topeka, he has again labored against odds to introduce analytic theory into the graduate curriculum at DePaul. “I believe that a scientist-practitioner with an analytic orientation is a viable professional option and am determined to help clinical psychology graduate students gain an appreciation of psychoanalytic concepts.”
Doane Motsinger, M.D., published a series of restaurant guides and worked as an editor, as an art and dance reviewer, and at a variety of jobs in museums and galleries before going to medical school. She is now a PGY 2 at the University of Washington. Her interest in psychoanalysis began when she was a graduate student in art history. During medical school she went to Nepal, where she compared Nepalese patients to those she saw in Seattle, focusing on their relative willingness to regard symptoms as having a psychological basis. She wants “to weave together strands of personal, cross-cultural, and intellectual exploration into a coherent conceptual framework.” Her interests include research, the chronically mentally ill, cross-cultural psychiatry, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Kirsty Jane O'Donovan, M.D., graduated from Louisiana State Medical School and is a child fellow at the University of Colorado. In college she majored in art history and studied studio art abroad for a year. When she was eleven years old, she moved from South Africa to New Orleans. Finding that she could not blend completely into her new culture, she capitalized on her accent and became “worldly.” Now, once again, she is “different,” the only person in her residency program in analysis. She is actively engaged in facilitating her peers' learning more about analytic concepts: “I have been surprised to find how valuable a tool psychoanalysis has become in my own practice of psychiatry.” Her interests include early neglect and abuse.
Lucy J. Puryear, M.D., a graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine, is now chief resident there. When she was an undergraduate, her interests were split between medicine and the theater. “I was the only theater major taking physics,” she recalls. Her commitment to these apparently disparate fields was informed by her desire to understand human nature. Also a nurse, she worked for several years on a neonatal intensive care unit. Currently, she is particularly interested in the relation between the creative process and psychopathology, and in the dynamics of medication as it is introduced into the therapeutic process. Her career goals include teaching, work in neuropsychiatry (she is publishing a paper on temporal lobe epilepsy), and research.
Thomas Lee Reynolds, M.D., is a graduate of Case Western Reserve Medical School. A child fellow at Cambridge Hospital and a 1992 Mead Johnson fellow, he has published on rheumatology (winning a national research prize), religious experience and psychotherapy, and story-telling as a means of preventing violence in children. In his software business, he developed applications for medical use and for integrating computers in primary care clerkships. In his church work, he developed outreach and other programs. He was also the artistic director of a puppet theater. Reynolds is interested in “understanding the intrapsychic and interpersonal complexities of violence. Psychoanalysis is the domain in which such processes can be explored in the most detail.” He hopes eventually to work in community psychiatry and children's television, particularly in the area of violence prevention.
Alessandra Scalmati, M.D., Ph.D., received her doctorate in pathology from the University of Modena before attending medical school there. She published extensively in that field and currently is a PGY 4 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1994 she held a fellowship at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. “I decided to become an M.D.,” she reports, “when I was eight, and to become a psychiatrist before turning twelve. It was the most logical choice, one that would allow me to pursue my multiple passions and to satisfy my omnivorous curiosity.” Scalmati ascribes to her Italian education her view of psychiatry as the point of encounter between artistic creation and scientific curiosity. An understanding of the patient's psychodynamics has always been her main focus.
Daniel Scott Schechter, M.D., a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a PGY 4 and a candidate at Columbia. He received an M.A. in music theory and composition from Columbia and won many national awards in that field. He has also worked as a biomedical journalist, writing and editing for Third World publications. While an undergraduate, he doubted “whether the psychoanalytic method was anything more than theory of historical interest.” Later, his curiosity led him to work with several psychoanalysts on research projects. In medical school be completed a pilot research project exploring mother-daughter relationships in Latino families. He is now a resident on the research track and hopes to combine clinical work and research in an academic setting.
Hugh Brent Solvason, M.D., Ph.D., is a PGY 3 at Stanford and a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he received a doctorate in cellular and molecular biology. He has published extensively in that field. He hopes to “integrate the view of the patient as the sum of clinical signs and symptoms, as the self perceived by the patient, and as an organism with a phylogenetic history revealed in the structures and functions of the brain.” He is interested in the ways therapy can modulate immune function and survival in cancer patients. He would like to bring a wide base of psychoanalytic knowledge, as well as his biological background, to his clinical interactions with patients and to the academic and research career he will pursue.
Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the University of Michigan. Currently an assistant professor and assistant director of clinical training at the New School for Social Research, she also has a private practice. She has published on language in psychotherapy, metaphor, the working alliance, and object relations in Rorschach responses. “My current work is driven,” she says, “by an effort to unite the narrative form I find most compelling with reasonable research methodology.” She is exploring qualitative methodologies “to harness the richness of the traditional analytic case report without inviting the criticisms that usually attend it.” A research group organized by Stuart is exploring the possible adaptation of narrative analysis and discourse analysis to the study of psychoanalysis.
Mary Eugenia Theodore, M.D., a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a PGY 3 at Cornell, holds an M.P.H. from Harvard. She was a medical journalist and a writer and editor for Lifetime Medical Television. In 1990 she went to a Nepalese village to provide basic health care and perform an epidemiological survey. In 1990–1992, she conducted a comparative study of two thousand medical students in Moscow and from 1987 to 1992 conducted research on the restructuring of Soviet health care under perestroika. Her interests include the effects of politics and culture on medical practice: “two regulators of human activity, law and culture, have a profound effect on defining and treating psychiatric illness.” She hopes to train in both forensic psychiatry and psychoanalysis in order to understand better the hidden variables that affect the therapeutic process.