Jeffrey Bass, Ph.D., is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California-San Diego. A graduate of the doctoral program in cultural anthropology at UCSD, he has conducted research on human rights, political culture, transnational migration, and national identity in Latin America. His interest in psychoanalysis was strengthened by an internship at New York Hospital, Westchester Division. It led him to research psychoanalytic practice, ethics, and the involvement of psychoanalysts in Latin American political issues. For his dissertation, “In Exile From the Self: Identity, Politics, and Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires,” Bass conducted fieldwork among psychoanalysts in Argentina to study the unusually prominent political role psychoanalysts have played in the human rights movement.
Anthony Bram, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the Heritage Mental Health Clinic in Topeka, Kan., and a psychoanalytic candidate at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the Menninger Clinic. He was a clinical and research psychologist at Menninger, where he taught seminars on Rorschach data and psychoanalytic understanding. Bram has published on developmental antecedents of adult object relations, popular perceptions of psychotherapy, and ethical issues for therapists coping with physical illness. His recent paper with Glen Gabbard on the conceptual and clinical interface of the constructs “potential space” and “reflective functioning” was published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and received the Scientific Writing Award from the Menninger Alumni Association.
Gabriela Fried Amilivia, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California — Los Angeles. Her dissertation proposal, “When the Past Becomes Part of Us: The Transmission of Memories of Political Repression in Uruguay,” drew upon her family's experience. After her return to Uruguay in 1985, Fried studied psychoanalytically based social psychology and became involved with the human rights movement. As a part of her studies in cultural and clinical sociology at the University of Paris VII, Fried integrated psychoanalytic theory and qualitative research methods to analyze life histories. Further human rights work in New York led her to a second masters in sociology at UCLA and to her doctoral studies. Fried is the recipient of several awards including the Stoller Student Fellow Award.
Vicki Kirsch, M.S.W., Ph.D., is clinical coordinator of the Center for Women's Development at Arbour HRI Hospital in Boston, a clinician in psychotherapy at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and a visiting professor in women's studies at Clark University. She received a master's in history of religions from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Emory University's Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, with a focus in women's studies. Kirsch received an M.S.W. from Boston University. Interested in the intersection of the erotic and sacred in multiple cultural contexts, she writes, teaches, and presents extensively on feminist theory, religion and spirituality, language, and psychoanalysis. She spoke on “The Transference, Eros and the Sacred: Two Women” at the Atlanta conference on Women and Power co-sponsored by APsaA.
Miriam Korn, M.D., is a PGY4 resident at Cambridge Hospital's Residency Program in Boston. Born and raised in Canada, she received two bachelor's degrees, in physiology and philosophy, before completing medical school at Dalhousie Medical School in Halifax. Korn has a long-standing interest in the ethics and influences of medical training and practice. While in medical school and residency, she founded and edited a student newspaper, organized a student group addressing issues in medicine and health, and developed a well-being program for medical students, which included a course on “Stress, Coping, and Personal Awareness.” She has presented original papers at the American Osler Society and Canada's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received the William Bean Award for the History of Medicine from the American Osler Society.
Margaret Lanca, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and clinical psychologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston. Growing up in a Portuguese immigrant family in Canada stimulated her interest in psychology and ultimately in psychoanalysis. Lanca received a master's degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in psychology from Northeastern University. After several years as an academic in cognitive psychology with multiple publications on spatial memory and visual imagery, Lanca respecialized through a fellowship in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts and a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Harvard. Her interests, writing, and presentations continue to integrate neuropsychology, memory, psychoanalysis, and ethnicity and include the development of culturally fair neuropsychological assessments.
Jacqueline McGregor, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of Texas at Houston. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine. She has been extensively involved in organized medicine and psychiatry and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, and the Texas Medical Association. McGregor has presented nationally at the American Psychiatric Association on supervision and community outreach, and locally on systematic training for effective parenting. She has been recognized for her work in community psychiatry, teaching, and child and adolescent psychiatry with numerous awards including the Laughlin and APA/Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships. McGregor is in her second year of psychoanalytic training at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Sergio Paradiso, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, received his M.D. from the University of
Catania Medical School and his Ph.D. from the Italian Ministry of Research and Technology. Paradiso recognized the divide between biological and psychoanalytic psychiatry during his first psychiatric residency. His desire to learn more about both led to research in neuro-psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuro-imaging at the universities of Tennessee and Iowa. His studies focused on brain injury and stroke, functional neuroanatomy of emotion processing, and neuropsychiatric applications of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Paradiso's accomplishments have brought him the George Winokur Award for psychiatry resident research from the University of Iowa and Young Investigator Awards from the Health Emotion Institute.
Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University and a recent graduate of its residency program. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard. His graduate work in molecular neurobiology contributed significantly toward understanding how olfactory information is encoded in the brain. His clinical work has stimulated further interest in the neurobiology of how the individual's historical experience informs the present. Ressler's current research focuses on the limbic system and emotional learning to understand the mechanisms by which emotionally charged experience mediates the learning of fear memories. Ressler plans a career in academic psychiatry and has received the Culpepper Medical Scholarship and the Laughlin Fellowship.
Hilary Rubenstein is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the City University of New York and a psychology intern at the Karen Horney Clinic. Her interest in mental health was fostered through her experiences as a dropout prevention counselor in a New York City junior high school and as a therapist at Bellevue Hospital in a program for child and adolescent victims of violence. Her dissertation addresses psychotherapists' experiences of their patients' suicides. Her results suggest that the therapists may have been unconsciously invested in maintaining the patient's positive transference and avoiding the patient's negative transference. She also found that therapists might have unconsciously given up hope that therapy could help the patient. Rubenstein co-authored The Barnard/Columbia Women's Handbook.
Michelle Schuder, Ph.D., received her doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. She is a second-year clinical fellow at Cambridge Hospital in Boston, having completed her internship in the same department. During graduate school, Schuder was steeped in empirical research. She participated in and presented on projects that included examining the effects of deprivation on stress reactivity and on cognitive and socio-emotional development in children adopted internationally; evaluating the effects of daycare; and understanding the impact on children and adolescents of violent death of a loved one. Eager for immersion in a clinical setting, Schuder chose her clinical training in a psychodynamic program. She is especially interested in psychoanalytic therapy and its relationship to mother-infant dyadic regulation.
Ann Smolen, M.S.S., L.S.W., is a psychotherapist at Project Rainbow in Philadelphia, a transitional residential facility for homeless women and children. She teaches child development and parenting skills to staff and residents and consults to staff on the impact of trauma and acting-out behaviors of many of the children. After a career as a professional ballerina, Smolen completed college and graduated from the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Having completed the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society's Child Psychotherapy Educational Program, Smolen is a first-year psychoanalytic candidate. She recently received the Mary Montague Award from the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work and an award from the Board of Examiners for Clinical Social Work for her essay about a homeless two-year-old.
Susan Stern, M.D., is a PGY4 resident at Columbia University. She received her M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. A pianist and flautist, Stern studied English in college while continuing her involvement in music. She volunteered as a literacy tutor and music instructor and was awarded a Masaryk Fellowship to travel to Slovak Republic to teach English. Her interest in English literature and life narratives reflected a keen interest in character and motivation that soon would be directed to medical school and psychiatric residency. During a geriatric internship, she appreciated the richness of talking with patients about their lives rather than their medical problems, an experience that foreshadowed her choice of psychiatry. Stern is the recipient of a Rock Sleyster Scholarship.
Thomas Svolos, M.D., is an adjunct instructor at Creighton University's Department of Psychiatry, where he completed his psychiatric residency. Committed to learning about psychoanalysis long before his psychiatric training, Svolos co-founded a Lacan Study Group during college and wrote a paper on the application of psychoanalytic theory to medicine before entering medical school at the University of California-San Francisco. After medical school, Svolos trained in family practice and worked as a family and emergency room physician while pursuing his interest in psychoanalysis. He subsequently trained in psychiatry and furthered his training in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has brought psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice to the attention of the Omaha community though seminars, discussion groups, and workshops. Svolos has published on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
Pamela Swedlow, M.D., is a PGY4 resident at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco. Interested in philosophy and English literature as an undergraduate, she became intrigued with neurological surgery while working in a lab.
Swedlow entered medical school with the intention of pursuing this specialty, but a clerkship in psychiatry changed her career direction. Swedlow then volunteered as a student physician at UCSF's homeless clinic and organized attending supervision and a seminar on substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. During her psychiatry residency, Swedlow and a psychoanalyst designed a course on psychoanalytic theory. She has presented her clinical and scholarly work on pregnancy and psychosis and has been awarded the APA/Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship for her work with the under-served.
Nilufer Yalman Barbour, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in counseling psychology at Tennessee State University and adjunct faculty at Middle Tennessee State University. Born and raised in Turkey, Yalman Barbour completed her undergraduate degree and most of a doctorate in biochemistry at the University of London. There she was involved in research on human growth factors. After returning to Turkey and working for several years as a liaison for cardiac and neurology patients traveling to the Cleveland Clinic, Yalman Barbour entered a graduate program in clinical psychology at Middle Tennessee State University. Upon receiving her master's degree, she moved to Nashville, where she teaches courses on the psychology of social behavior; thinking, intelligence and creativity; and introduction to psychology. She recently developed a new walk-in clinic.
Alysa Zalma, M.D., is a PGY4 resident at Oregon Health Sciences University. A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and a flautist who studied with Jean-Pierre Rampai, Zalma was a fellow in pharmacology before entering psychiatric residency in the Harvard-Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program. She co-authored several publications on clozapine and pharmacokinetics and has lectured to faculty and residents on the application of psychoanalysis to the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy. The relationship between the Oregon Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Oregon Health Sciences University Residency Training Program has been greatly strengthened by Zalma's persistence and determination. She is the recipient of the Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholarship.