Michele Baker, M.D., is a PGY4 resident at the Harvard-Longwood Residency Program in Boston, where she is chief resident on an inpatient unit and instructs medical students. Her outpatient work at Massachusetts Mental Health Center focuses on community mental health; she plans to apply psychodynamic principles in this work. A recipient of the 1999–2000 APA/Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship, Baker serves on the APA Commission on Psychotherapy and the board of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. During medical school at Yale she was student director of the Student Psychiatry Society, co-directed the student show, and published poetry and cartoons in the literary magazine. She is writing a book on the life of a psychiatry resident and plans to pursue analytic training.
David Brendel, M.D., PhD., is a PGY4 resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Psychiatry Residency Program. He is chief resident at McLean and a preceptor for Harvard medical students. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago during and following medical school at Harvard. His thesis is “Psychoanalysis, Neuropsychiatry and the Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Contemporary Status of Psychological Explanation.” Brendel has published on the application of philosophy of the mind to clinical psychiatric practice, sleep physiology, and serotonin syndrome. He received the Laughlin Fellowship from the American College of Psychiatrists and a faculty fellowship in ethics and the professions from Harvard.
June Cai, M.D., is a senior staff fellow at NIMH, studying depression and its relation to cardiovascular disease. As the daughter of a psychiatrist during the Cultural Revolution in China, she learned about the difference a psychiatrist can make in patients' lives. After medical school and a residency in internal medicine in Shanghai, Cai completed a residency in psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Georgetown University. She has published extensively on phenomenologic and biologic aspects of depression, psychopharmacology, and psycho-oncology. The sole recipient of the new Seymour Kety Fellowship Award for Research Excellence, Cai also received the William Webb Fellowship for Potential Leadership from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. She is an editorial referee for the journal Psychosomatics.
Roger Frie, Ph.D., is a psychology intern at St. Lukes–Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City working toward completing his Psy.D. at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in phenomenological psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge University, England. He taught psychoanalytic history and theory at Harvard and the New School for Social Research and completed two years of psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute. His Ph.D. dissertation, “Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity in the Work of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan, and Habermas,” was published as a book and widely reviewed. Frie has published and presented on interrelationships between psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, with an emphasis on language and subjectivity. He plans a research and teaching career and the completion of psychoanalytic training.
Edward Gamarra, Jr., M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in film studies and psychoanalytic studies at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and has a masters degree in cinema studies from New York University. His dissertation on film comedy from a psychoanalytic point of view will juxtapose current psychoanalytic theory about perversion with critical theories about film comedy. He has been deeply involved in organizing the psychoanalytic studies program at Emory and psychoanalytic conferences in Atlanta. He has been a vital assistant to the APsaA Committee on Psychoanalytic Studies programs. He is also an associate editor of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. After graduation he plans a career in academia and film production.
Ann Marie Garran, M.S.W., is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical social work at Smith College. She is a clinical coordinator at Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City, where she supervises, teaches, provides clinical care, and coordinates prevention/intervention services for thousands of adolescents annually. Her masters is from Hunter College. Her multicultural experience and fluency in five languages led her to a dissertation proposal to examine Winnicott's notion of the true self and false self from the perspective of bicultural identity development in an inner-city, college-bound population. Garran has taught at Smith and Fordham on psychoanalytic theories of development, racism, and assessment of adolescents and presented nationally on service delivery to innercity adolescents. She received Mt. Sinai Medical Center's Team Excellence Award.
Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., recently relocated from New Haven to Minneapolis. She teaches child psychotherapy and conducts research at the University of Minnesota and continues as an associate research scientist at Yale Child Study Center. Gewirtz received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has been director of operations on a Justice Department grant enhancing public education on the impact of violence in childhood and has conducted research on HIV-affected children and families and on violent juvenile offenders. Born and raised in England, she obtained a masters degree in Israel in vocational counseling psychology and was training director of a hotel in Israel when the Gulf War broke out. Her war experience stimulated her career interest in crisis and trauma.
Andrew Klafter, M.D., relocated from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he completed his psychiatry residency, to the University of Cincinnati, where he is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry. He teaches and supervises residents in psychotherapy and teaches general psychiatry to medical students. After receiving his medical degree from SUNY — Buffalo, Klafter spent a year studying medical ethics at David Shapell College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. During residency he was editor in chief of the Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry while teaching and conducting research. He was awarded the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Fellowship, the Glaxo-Wellcome Fellowship, and the
Bristol-Myers-Squibb Fellowship. He has published on marriage and Jewish law.
Sylvia Lavin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of architecture and urban design at UCLA and chair of her department. Her dissertation on “Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture” for Columbia University was later published as a book. An architectural historian, she is interested in “how theories of mind shape those who shape the environment we live in.” Lavin has studied how eighteenth-century understanding of mental processes influenced design and style of the period. She has taught courses on the Enlightenment and explored how ideas of mental health have influenced the design of mental hospitals. Lavin is completing a book on architect Richard Neutra and how his ideas about architectural therapeutics show the influence of psychoanalysis in American culture.
Kenneth Levy, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the City University of New York where he is now an assistant professor of psychology. He is also an adjunct assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Medical College, Cornell University; an attending psychologist at the New York Presbyterian Hospital; and a member of the Cornell Personality Disorders Institute. His work on attachment theory, borderline personality, and psychoanalysis led to numerous publications, grant funding from the IPA and NIMH, nomination for outstanding early career research from the Society of Personality Assessment, and a research award from the American Psychological Association's Society for Scientific Clinical Psychology. He is also in part-time private practice and plans to begin psychoanalytic training.
Maria Longuemare, M.D., Ph.D., completed medical and graduate school at U.Cal.–San Francisco, where she is a senior resident in psychiatry. Her original productive research career in glutamate metabolism and the sensitivity of neuronal tissue to ischemia was supplanted during her clinical training by an interest in the sensitivity of the human psyche to trauma and meaning, and she now plans an academic teaching career that incorporates psychoanalytic thinking. Her leadership roles at UCSF include founding the UCSF Medical Student Volunteer Project providing volunteers at the Youth Guidance Center in San Francisco, founding the UCSF Women Student's Mentoring Program, and teaching medical students and residents about psychotherapy. Longuemare received the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Award.
Robert Erne McCullumsmith, M.D., Ph.D., is a PGY4 resident at the University of Michigan, where he completed medical school and graduate school in pathology. McCullumsmith's interests include his research on abnormalities in the glutamate synapse of the schizophrenic brain, a love of teaching, and a keen interest in psychodynamics and psychoanalysis. He recently co-taught a year-long seminar introducing freshmen to psychiatric disorders and psychoanalytic ideas and was cited as resident teacher of the year. McCullumsmith has published widely on biologic inflammatory processes and clinical case reports. His awards include the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Award. He plans to continue an academic career of research, teaching, and clinical care and has begun writing an autobiographic serial which he hopes will become a book.
Anita McLean, Ph.D., Psy.M., is a psychology intern at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and is completing her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She was raised and schooled in India before moving to the United States, where she earned a Ph.D. in economics and became an academic economist. Interested in the processes of human thought and action, she specialized in labor economics, focusing on human problems and intra-family resource allocation. Increasingly drawn to the psychological aspects of interpersonal interactions, McLean began graduate school in psychology. Her current dissertation, “A Collision of World Views: Theory and Implications for Therapy with Asian Indians,” examines psychological factors unique to immigrants from India to facilitate therapeutic interventions for this group.
Esther Rashkin, Ph.D., M.S.W., is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Utah, where she completed a masters in social work and now works as a psychotherapist. Rashkin received her Ph.D. from Yale and taught at Dartmouth before moving to Utah. She has received several teaching awards, grants, and career development awards. She has published and presented on trauma and mourning, perversion, anti-semitism, secrets, and psychoanalysis and popular culture. She received a Kanzer Fellowship in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities and studied at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute while writing her thesis on psychoanalytic interpretations of nineteenth-century French literature. Her book Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative explores how the transgenerational transmission of haunting secrets can produce pathological behaviors in fictional characters.
Mimi Rose, J.D., is a chief assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University School of Law, she supervises attorneys in criminal prosecutions of child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, and sexual assault. Rose has lectured on interviewing children, cross-examination, stalking, domestic violence, and children who witness violence and has published on child abuse. She advises and consults to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National Institute of Justice, the Urban Institute, and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. After a fellowship at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis and the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Thought, Rose became a candidate at the institute and is now in her third year. She plans to promote psychoanalytic thinking in criminal justice policy and practice.
Louis Sanfilippo, M.D., is a clinical fellow at Yale University Health Services and completed a residency at Yale. A paper for the New York University School of Medicine, “Identity and Experience: Recasting the Ontology of Mind,” was judged an outstanding resident submission and published by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He posits that Freud's use of a Cartesian language of energies and forces to explain insight in psychoanalysis should be reformulated to accommodate advances in neuroscience and linguistic philosophy. Sanfilippo has served on the editorial board of the biannual journal publication of Yale's Department of Psychiatry and co-founded the Yale graduate seminar of consciousness studies. He has written a chapter each on language disorders in psychoses and forensic psychiatry and medical ethics.
Suzanne Yang, M.D., is a PGY3 resident at the Columbia University residency program. After beginning a Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins, which she intends to complete after residency, Yang decided that psychiatry would provide the better base she sought for addressing societal problems. During medical school at U.Cal.–San Francisco, she studied at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, where she chaired the Scientific and Research Committee, co-edited of the journal, and was vice-president of the psychoanalytic society. She brought together professionals from various disciplines and points of view to address psychosocial problems such as homelessness and the treatment of psychosis. Yang has continued at Columbia to bring the study of Lacan to the psychiatric community and is pursuing empirical research in psychoanalytic topics.