Faculty

Gene Alexander, MFT, has been practicing psychotherapy in San Francisco since 1976. He trained at the Family Therapy Center, where he taught couple and family therapy for over 18 years, and has offered courses in local colleges and universities. In addition to his work in psychotherapy, he has written poetry and plays for the past 15 years.

Paul U. Alexander, Ph.D., practices psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation with in­div­iduals, couples, and small groups. He teaches in post-graduate programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and consults on group processes in private practice and institutional settings.

Martine Aniel, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. She has taught widely on Lacan and his influence in psychoanalysis. Dr. Aniel’s interests include the nature of psychoanalytic transmission, the specificity of the analytic discourse, the psychoanalyst’s role in society and culture, and gender and sexuality. She is in private practice in San Francisco.

Michael Axelman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist specializing in child development, and child, family, and parental therapy. He developed CARE (Caring Adults, Respectful Environments) parent therapy and has trained hundreds of students and mental health professionals in this approach to child and family therapy. Dr. Axelman has a child and family practice in Palo Alto.

Andrew Balfour, M.Sc., is a clinical psychologist, adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a couple psychotherapist. He is Clinical Director and longtime staff member of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. Previously, Dr. Balfour trained and worked in the adult department of the Tavistock Clinic, London, where he developed a special interest in the area of old age. He is currently researching ways of working with couples when one partner has dementia.

Robert Bartner, Ph.D., MFT, is a faculty member and personal and supervising psychoanalyst at PINC and adjunct faculty member at SFCP. Dr. Bartner has a private practice in Oakland where he practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psycho­therapy with individuals and couples. He teaches widely, provides clinical consultation, and leads private study groups. 

Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW, is a clinician and sociologist specializing in women’s development and sexuality. She maintains a private practice in Berkeley and supervises at TPI and the Women’s Therapy Center. Dr. Bell is the author of Hard to Get: 20-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom and is an esteemed lecturer on women’s development, gender inequality, and sexuality. 

Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst, supervising faculty member at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and a founding board member and faculty of the Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She was a co-founder of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and sits on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.

Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., is past president of PINC and on the faculty at PINC and Lutecium. She is a contributing editor to Psychoanalytic Dialogues and on the editorial board of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bernstein maintains a private practice in Berkeley.

Danni Biondini, MA, LMFT, works as a therapist in a San Francisco public high school and as an adjunct professor at CIIS, in addition to her private practice. She is interested in various psychoanalytic schools, especially Lacanian, and in crafting the perfect Freudian joke.

Adam Blum, Psy.D., has written about psychoanalysis and the music of Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Sondheim, Copland, and Michael Jackson. He has a private practice in San Francisco.

Elizabeth Bradshaw, Psy.D., a graduate of the Wright Institute, sees children, adolescents, and adults in her San Francisco psychotherapy practice. Dr. Bradshaw, who previously studied comparative literature and literary theory, has a Masters in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies from University College London. She has published on psychoanalytic writing and Freud's drive theory. 

Jason Brand, LCSW, leads workshops in schools and organizations about safety, trust, awareness, and respect in the digital age. His book, 1 to 1 at Home: A Parent Guide to School Issued Laptops and Tablets, will be published in 2013. He has a private practice in Berkeley, where he sees families with children and adolescents.

Maria Pilar Bratko, MFT, Ph.D., is a bilingual (Spanish–English) MFT in private practice working with individuals, couples, and adolescents who are bi- and multiracial, bilingual, and immigrants. She holds an M.A. in Feminist Clinical Psychology from New College and a Ph.D. in  Clinical Social Work from Smith College, where she is adjunct faculty. 

Jane Burka, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC and has taught previously for the ISG. Dr. Burka has published papers on group dynamics in teaching and on ethical violations. She is in private practice in Oakland.

Daniel G. Butler, MFTi, is a second-year intern at Access Institute. Before graduating from Santa Clara University’s School of Counseling Psychology, he concentrated in continental philosophy and cultural studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Forthcoming publications include a book chapter on the first American-born psychoanalyst, Trigant Burrow, and a chapter on Ferenczi’s radical reconceptualization of the child in psychoanalytic theory.

Kristen Carey, Psy.D., is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland, where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. She also teaches at the Access Institute and supervises clinicians in training at the Ann Martin Center in Oakland. She co-founded Kids Connect, a bereavement group therapy program for children who have lost a parent or sibling.

Robert Carrere, Ph.D., ABPP, is board certified in psychoanalytic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is faculty, supervising and personal analyst, and Board director at PINC. Dr. Carrere is in full-time analytic practice in San Francisco specializing in process consultation groups for therapists and analysts.

Stephanie Z. Chen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and faculty at the Wright Institute. As a bicultural psychologist, she addresses race, gender, immigration, acculturation, and the tension of navigating between conflicting worlds. Her interests include ethnic/cultural identity formation and the integration of relational psychodynamic theories with a multicultural, social justice lens.

Lani Chow, Ph.D., has been the Program Chair of the Psychology Doctoral Program since 2017 and she was the program’s Director of Clinical Training from 2014-2017. She has been the Director of the Psychological Services Center since 2008. Dr. Chow is a founding member of Reflective Spaces/Material Places and is a core seminar member of the Community Psychoanalysis Project at PINC. She maintains a practice in San Francisco.

Greg Clinton, Ph.D., a past president of NCSPP, is a psychologist with a specialty in Internet porn addiction. He maintains a private practice in San Francisco, where he sees adults in individual and couples therapy.

Rachel Cooke, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. A founding member of the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group (PCPG), she has taught courses in psychoanalytic couple therapy at various training programs in the Bay Area. Her discussion of Stanley Ruszczynski's paper, “Couples on the Couch,” is published in a book of the same name (Routledge, 2017), edited by PCPG colleagues Shelley Nathans and Milton Schaefer. Dr. Cooke sees couples and individuals and provides consultation.

Candis Cousins, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytic psychologist who has published articles on clinical work with parents and lectured on the impact of parents’ relationship on child development. Dr. Cousins recently completed the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group three-year training program and is on the editorial board of fort da. She is in private practice in Oakland.

David Cushman, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist. He is a core faculty member of the PsyD program at CIIS and has a private practice in Oakland where he sees children, teens, adults and couples. He worked in community settings for several years and has written and published on community mental health from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Karim G. Dajani, Psy.D., MFT is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bicultural individuals. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and on culture, where, his work examines the role culture plays in determining an individual's role within a collective, and on the experience of cultural dislocation.

Vivian Dent, Ph.D., began working psychoanalytically years ago, with a particular interest in object relational and attachment-based perspectives. She later studied trauma therapies, becoming an EMDR Approved Consultant and training in Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and MDMA- and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Dent has taught in analytic institutes and many training programs. She practices in Oakland.

Gregory Desierto, Psy.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at Psychological Services Center in Oakland and City & Arts Technology High School in San Francisco. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Access Institute for Psychological Services. He has strong interests in the intersection of psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, social justice, and trauma.

Robin A. Deutsch, Ph.D., maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation in Oakland. She is a training and supervising analyst at SFCP, and a personal analyst at PINC. Dr. Deutsch has presented on analytic identity, termination of treatment, and the analyst’s death.  Her book, Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship, was published in 2014.

Diane Donnelly, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst on the SFCP Faculty. She practices in San Francisco and Marin, where she sees adults and children. In 2012, she received JAPA’s New Author Prize for her paper “The Function of Suffering as Portrayed in The Scarlet Letter and Reflected in Clinical Work.”

Stephen J. Ducat, N.D., Ph.D., is a naturopathic doctor and a clinical psychologist practicing in San Francisco and Marin. Dr. Ducat is currently a full-time clinician specializing in integrative mental health, an approach that joins science-based natural medicine, nutrition, and psychotherapy. Learn more about his clinical work at themindbodyclinic.com. 

Genie Dvorak, Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco, where she sees adults and couples as well as children and adolescents. She is a faculty member at SFCP and teaches, supervises, and provides consultation on clinical work and teaching. Her award-winning paper, “The Persistent Past: Listening for the Logic and Potentials of the Repetition Compulsion”, will be presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association conference in Chicago in June 2020.

Milena Edwards, Psy.D., has spent her career focusing on issues of female identity from early adulthood to navigating choices around work, family, and partnerships. Dr. Edwards is the Director of Training at Access Institute and has a private practicein Oakland.

Esther Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is in private practice in San Francisco and has particular expertise in the area of adoption and interfaith and transracial couples therapy. She has taught and presented on the psychology of adoption locally and abroad and created the mandatory adoption preparation workshops for local and international organizations. 

David L. Eng, Ph.D., is a Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an author of three books, most recently Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (co-authored with Shinhee Han, LCSW, Ph.D.), as well as co-editor of numerous collections. Dr. Eng is an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).

Mary J. Ewert, DMH, is a member and faculty at SFCP and on the clinical faculty at UCSF. She practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adults in San Francisco and Walnut Creek.

Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT, practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland, with individuals and couples. She has been a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of PINC. Dr. Farber teaches widely in the community, and is especially interested in clinical consultation and in ongoing case consultation groups. She enjoys both analytic and personal writing and has published poetry, autobiography, and book and film reviews.

Kristin Fiorella, Psy.D., MFT, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She sees adults, adolescents, and children in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. 

Robi Friedman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and group analyst based in Israel. Dr. Friedman is the former president of the International Group Analytic Society and co-founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis.

Velia Frost, LCSW, is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Pediatrics at the UCSF, where she leads ongoing post-doctoral seminars on the theory and practice of individual and family therapy. Ms. Frost, board certified in Clinical Social Work and a Fellow of the California Society for Clinical Social Work, is in private practice in San Francisco.

Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty member at PINC. Dr. Gerhardt has taught widely and publishes in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto.
 

Kelley Bryan Gin, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Berkeley. He has worked in child, adolescent, and family community mental health; juvenile justice; and residential treatment for adolescents. He is the Director of Clinical Services at WestCoast Children’s Clinic in Oakland.

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Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst at PINC, Chair of Faculty at SFCP, and teaches at the Wright Institute. He has written on a range of topics, including dissociative states, sensory experience and the concept of the analytic frame, and the impact of social trauma on individual psychology.

Laurie Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP, where she is a co-chair of the Child Psychotherapy Seminars. Dr. Goldsmith is an instructor and supervisor at the Ann Martin Children’s Center in Piedmont and has a private practice in Oakland, where she sees children, adults, and couples.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., MS, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. As an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, Tamara has been teaching and providing supervision for the past 17 years. Her most recent book is the second edition of Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness.

Hugh Grubb, Psy.D., MFT, is a graduate and personal and supervising analyst at PINC. His classes and presentations on supervision, mentoring. and psychoanalytic work in Silicon Valley focus on the transformative journey of becoming a therapist. He has a private practice in Los Gatos, where he offers individual and group consultations.

Orna Guralnik, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, and the Stephen Mitchell Center; visiting scholar at PINC; co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Dialogues Blog; and associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. Dr.

Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW, is a member and faculty of SFPC, faculty and chair of their Seminars for Scholars and East Bay Extension Programs, and faculty of the Wright and Access Institutes. She is on the editorial board of fort da, where she has published on psychoanalysis and the arts. She practices in the East Bay.

Stephen Hartman, Ph.D., is faculty at PINC, an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Dr. Hartman has written on how social, political, and psychic life shape one another and 
recently wrote on traditional psychoanalytic constructs in cyberspace. He is in private practice in San Francisco.

Kali Hess, MFT, is the Director of Training at CHD in Santa Clara, where she teaches and supervises interns and trainees. She is a post-seminar candidate at PINC and studied at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses. Ms. Hess is in private practice in Redwood City.

Peter Hobson, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of London and a psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society and SFCP. For many years he worked at the Tavistock Clinic, London. His books include The Cradle of Thought (2004), Consultations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2013), and Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy (OUP, in press).

Earl Hopper, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, and organizational consultant in private practice in London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis and the Group Analytic Society International, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Dr. Hopper is the author and editor of numerous books and articles.

Mardy S. Ireland, Ph.D., is faculty and a personal and supervising analyst at PINC and visiting faculty at SFPC. She is the author of Art of the Subject: Between Necessary Illusion and Speakable Desire. She has a psychoanalytic practice in Berkeley.

Shanta Jambotkar, LCSW, provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and mentorship with BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) and intersectional identified communities. She has a San Francisco-based private practice and works at a trauma specialty counseling clinic at UC Berkeley. She is an organizational consultant to behavioral health agencies and an educator at postgraduate clinical training programs.

Meiyang Kadaba is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. As a "third-culture kid," she pays particular attention to the profound way that our sociocultural contexts shape our sense of self and our experiences in the world. Her practice is at the intersection of psychoanalytic and liberation psychologies.

Laura Kasper, Ph.D., CGP, is a licensed psychologist in San Francisco. Dr. Kasper is Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford Medical School where she teaches residents group therapy and is a group facilitator for Stanford Business School’s Interpersonal Dynamics course. She has led trainings at group therapy conferences (AGPA, NCGPS, COGPS, MAGPS) from 2016–2022.

Israel Katz, M.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP. He has taught on Freud and psychoanalysis in France, Spain, and Latin America and, more locally, at SFCP, NCSPP, and Access Institute. Dr. Katz has a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychiatry in San Francisco.

L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D., is faculty at SFCP, a consultant for A Home Within, and a supervisor for Access Institute. Dr. Keller’s private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is in Oakland. For her publications on topics ranging from addiction to mourning and applied psychoanalysis, visit www.kellerphd.com.

Starr Kelton-Locke, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and psychoanalyst who has been in practice in Marin for 27 years. She specializes in the treatment of individuals, families, and couples. Dr. Kelton-Locke trained in Mentalization with its founders, Fonagy and Bateman, and UCLA’s Semel Institute. 

Thomas Kirsch, M.D., a Jungian analyst in private practice in Palo Alto, is past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of A Jungian Life: A Memoir and The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective as well as many published papers on dreams, the history of analytical psychology, and the analytic relationship.

Lisa Koshkarian, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytic psychologist with graduate school foundations from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. She/they specialize in working with socio-culturally-economically diverse adolescents and adults in private practice, community mental health, and college counseling center settings. 

Brian Kuennemeier, Psy.D., completed his doctorate at the Wright Institute. His training has included work with a variety of populations throughout the Bay Area, but has primarily focused on the LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive communities. He is currently completing his postdoctoral fellowship in an integrated health psychology setting providing brief treatment to underserved communities in Contra Costa County.

Loong Kwok, Psy.D., is the Director of Child Services at Access Institute, where he teaches and supervises school-based therapy. He works with adults, children, and couples at Baywell Psychiatry Group. He also serves on the Editorial Committee of fort da, NCSPP’s journal, and the Neuropsychoanalysis Committee of PINC.

Tara Bredesen, ASW, obtained her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2018. She completed her internship at UCSF’s Infant-Parent Program and currently works as a Birth-to-Five mental health clinician with A Better Way, Inc., in San Francisco. As a Scholar of the Multicultural Concerns Committee, she presented at the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology’s (Division 39) Annual Spring Meeting in 2019.

Julie Leavitt, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco. Staff psychiatrist at Access Institute, Dr. Leavitt is Chair of Curriculum, president-elect, and faculty at PINC. Besides robots, her current areas of interest and writing include geographic palimpsests, ghosts, intuition, and rethinking fe/male sexuality.

Scott Lines, Ph.D., is psychoanalyst and forensic psychologist in Berkeley, graduate of PINC and Past President of NCSPP. He is on the clinical faculty at CIIS, and has previously taught at Access Institute, CPMC, The Psychotherapy Institute. Current writing includes malignant narcissism, a memoir of alcoholism in the family, and a musical theater piece on Jim Jones and Jonestown.

Sheila Longerbeam, Psy.D., LMFT, is a psychoanalyst, licensed since 1991. She trained at The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group and The Couples Institute and devotes most of her practice to work with couples. Dr. Longerbeam has taught and supervised couple therapy widely in the community.

Stephen Lugar, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist who works with adults, adolescents, and children in San Francisco. He worked for many years in community mental health at RAMS, Inc. in its outpatient, school-based, and residential programs and has also supervised and taught at both RAMS and Access Institute. Dr. Lugar is currently a candidate in psychoanalytic training at PINC.

Mali A. Mann, M.D., is a child and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who practices in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Dr. Mann is SFCP faculty, training and supervising analyst, and a clinical professor at Stanford, where she teaches medical ethics. She is also the Chair of IPA’s Inter-committee on Child Abuse. Her most recent book, Psychoanalytic Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology, received several awards.

Jimena Martí-Haik, M.A., is a psychoanalyst from Mexico City. She majored in Latin American Literature and Literary Criticism and has a Master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Theory. A trained analyst, she has a private practice and has worked in psychiatric institutions. Her interest is the intersection of cultural productions, social discourses, and subjectivity.

Ann Martini, LCSW, is member and faculty of SFCP and the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program. She works extensively with eating disorders and has conducted two workshops on the subject for NCSPP. She has a private practice in Los Gatos treating children, adolescents, and adults. 

Mary Margaret McClure, DMH, is a psychoanalyst with a practice in Mill Valley. Most recently at SFCP, where she was trained, she has taught the class “Early Childhood Development with Culture in Mind”. She also works as a consultant to Canal Alliance, a non-profit in San Rafael, serving the Latino immigrant population.

Molly Merson, LMFT, is in independent practitioner working with adults and adolescents in psychoanalysis and talk therapy. Whether through writing, presentations, blogging, or in her work with patients, Molly interrogates whiteness and other systems of power and aims to incorporate decolonial approaches to healing. https://www.mollymerson.com/

Ronna Milo Haglili, Psy.D., is a bilingual (English-Hebrew) clinical psychologist working at the the Bay Area Clinical Associates (BACA) mental health clinic and in private practice in San Mateo and virtually. She sees children, adolescents, and adults. She has presented and published on her dissertation research exploring the potential links between trauma and social activism. 

Donna Moriguchi, Ph.D., has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and seniors for over 25 years in community mental health organizations and her private practice. During that time, she has also taught and provided multicultural relational supervision. Trained as a psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychotherapist, Dr. Moriguchi’s philosophy in her collaborations is that all are striving to be their best selves as they navigate their way through familial, societal, cultural, and innate challenges.

Mahima Muralidharan, Psy.D., has extensive experience providing program management, clinical supervision and training, and psychological care for underserved adults, children, and families in the U.S. and India. Dr. Muralidharan coordinated the school-based clinical training program at the Ann Martin Center, served as President of the NCSPP, and is co-founder of Cohear SF, an organizational consulting firm promoting workplace well-being. She teaches throughout in the Bay Area.

Shelley Nathans, Ph.D. is on the faculties of CPMC, PCPG, and PINC. She is the director/producer of the film Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis. Her most recent publication is “Whose Disgust is it Anyway?: Projection and Projective Identification in the Couple Relationship” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2016). She is co-editor (with Milton Schaefer) of Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model (Routledge, 2017). Dr.

Dorian Newton, Ph.D., is the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Mills College. A member of SFCP and NCSPP, Dr. Newton’s clinical and teaching interests include the dynamics and treatment of self-injurious behavior. She maintains a private practice in adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland.

D. Steven Nouriani, Ph.D., MFT, is a multicultural Jungian Analyst who has presented at conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He teaches in the analytic training program at the Jung Institute of San Francisco and various universities. Dr. Nouriani is in private practice in San Francisco and San Jose, working with children, adults, couples, and groups: www.jungianpsychoanalysis.com.

Natasha Oxenburgh, M.A., is a clinical psychologist in training with a background in psychodynamic community mental health, working with complex trauma and SMI. Natasha's dissertation research concerns the psychological responses to the climate crisis viewed through a psychoanalytic lens, specifically utilizing Harold Searles' writings on the nonhuman environment in psychic development.

Rachael Peltz, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in Berkeley working with adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She is a faculty member, supervising and personal analyst at PINC and past president of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility — Division 39. Dr.

Karen Peoples, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. Dr. Peoples has published and presented papers on the uncanny and the relational unconscious, incest trauma, social trauma, traumatic and transcendent forms of emptiness, and sensory communication in analytic work. She has offices in San Francisco and San Rafael.

Ilene Philipson, Ph.D., holds doctorates in sociology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis and has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and NYU. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. In addition to On The Shoulders of Women: The Feminization of Psychotherapy, her books include Married to The Job; Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths; and Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination (Ed.). Dr.

Lee Rather, Ph.D., is a faculty member at SFCP and PINC where he is a personal and supervising analyst. He has published and presented widely, focusing on avoiding orthodoxy in pursuit of creatively integrating diverse clinical approaches. Dr. Rather provides psychoanalysis, individual and couples therapy, and consultation in San Francisco.

Tom Rosbrow, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC ICP. His most recent paper, “Murakami’s After the Quake: The Writer as Waking Dreamer and Trauma Analyst,” was published in the March/April 2012 issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He practices in San Francisco.

Terri Rubinstein, Ph.D., LMFT, is a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice in Berkeley. She supervises and teaches at The Psychotherapy Institute and is on the Supervision Study Program faculty. She has published and taught continuing education courses on relational psychotherapy, clinical supervision, couple therapy, and alienation.

Stanley Ruszczynski, B.Sc., is the former Deputy Director and Clinical Training Coordinator at the Tavistock Center for Couple Relations. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London), a psychoanalyst, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (British Association of Psychotherapists), and a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist (British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counselors).

Susan Sands, Ph.D., is faculty at PINC and is Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley. She has published in the areas of eating disorders, dissociation, female development, unconscious communication, dreams, and aging. Dr. Sands is in private practice in Berkeley.

Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP, is a personal and supervising analyst and member of the faculty at PINC. She co-authored, with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, The Supervisory Relationship (Guilford Press, 2001) and authored Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies (APA, 2016). Dr. Sarnat is in clinical and supervisory practice in Berkeley.

Jed Sekoff, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising psychoanalyst at PINC, and on the faculties of SFCP and the Wright Institute. His writing, teaching, and presentations interweave clinical theory, the arts, social history, and politics. His most recent paper is “Precious Bodily Fluids: The Secretory Imagination from Shakespeare to Strangelove.”

Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., is an author, consultant, and master clinician and teacher. His article “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” won worldwide acclaim for establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment. A leading expert on personality styles and disorders and their treatment, Dr. Shedler leads professional workshops nationally and internationally and consults with clinicians, organizations, and U.S. and international government agencies.

Regina Shields, Ph.D., has a private practice in Oakland, where she works with children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Shields has taught at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, the Access Institute for Psychological Services in San Francisco, and TPI in Berkeley and has supervised at Ann Martin Children’s Center and the Women’s Therapy Center.

Ruth Simon, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, a parenting consultant to parents of multiples, and the Director of Training at Access Institute. She has written and presented nationally on the psychology of twins and recently published an article on parenting twins in the September 2014 issue of Psychology Today online.

Mark Solms, PhD is a psychoanalyst and a lecturer in neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London School of Medicine, Chair of neuropsychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is the Founding Editor of the journal, Neuropsychoanalysis and winner of the Sigourney Award for outstanding achievement in psychoanalysis (ht

Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT, is personal and supervising analyst at PINC. She teaches at CPMC and in Israel, as well as private groups in Cupertino and San Francisco. Dr. Spieler has a private practice in Cupertino.

Beth Steinberg, Ph.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP and is on the faculty at Access Institute and CPMC. She is in private practice in San Francisco.

Barbara Stevens Sullivan, MSW, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley. She is the author of two books on psychotherapy – Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle (Chiron, 1989) and The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion (Routledge, 2010) – as well as two novels.

Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., is a faculty member at PINC and NCSPP and past editor of fort da. She has published on numerous psychoanalytic topics, including the capacity to experience beauty and how patient and analyst change together. Dr. Sweetnam has a private practice in Berkeley and Oakland, where she facilitates writing groups for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

Neil Talkoff, Ph.D., is a faculty member at SFCP, has taught American Relational Psychoanalysis and currently is teaching a case conference. He’s instructed at CPMC, where he was awarded Outstanding Teacher of the Year three times, and has presented at NCSPP and the IPA’s 2016 convention. Dr. Talkoff’s psychoanalytic private practice includes couples therapy and peer consultation.

Monika Telichowska, Psy.D., has worked extensively with children, adolescents, and adults in individual, group, and family psychotherapy. Dr. Telichowska has a passion for working with clients who are traditionally underserved and applies an integrated approach in her work, informed by relational, intersubjective, socio-cultural, developmental, trauma, and attachment theories.

Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D., is personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC, and former president of NCSPP. He is on the adjunct faculties of CSPP and CIIS and has lectured in numerous countries. Dr. Thompson has written articles, books, and book reviews on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and schizophrenia. He practices existential psychoanalysis in San Francisco.

Amber Trotter, Psy.D., is a graduate of Middlebury College, Access Institute, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she currently teaches. She has a background in sociology and political activism and thinks and writes about the nexus of psychoanalysis and contemporary society. She recently published a book, Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon (Lexington Books, 2019) and is a founding editor at Damage Magazine. She has a private practice in San Francisco.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. Dr.

Michael Wachter, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is interested in the use of Narrative Medicine in psychotherapy to enhance embodiment in the clinical setting. Dr. Wachter has taught about addiction in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from this perspective and is board certified in Addiction Medicine.

Jamieson Webster, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in New York. Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Founding member of the psychoanalytic collective - Das Unbehagen. Author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2011) and - with Simon Critchley- Stay, Illusion! (Patheon, 2013). She has published in Apology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The New York Times, Playboy, and many psychoanalytic publications.

Deborah Weisinger, Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco, where she sees individual adults. She is on the faculty of SFCP and teaches and supervises at local clinical training sites, most recently Access Institute and CPMC.

Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., provides psychotherapy and marriage counseling, consults on mental health related matters, and writes on political and psychological issues. His first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, was published in 2008. He currently blogs for The Huffington Post. Dr. Welch practices in San Francisco.

Dana Wideman, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC. She is also faculty at the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program and adjunct clinical faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto.

Katya Woodmansee, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley who works with children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Woodmansee is a clinical supervisor at the Psychological Services Center at Alliant International University and is a member of the Preschool Consultation Group at SFCP and the Neuropsychoanalysis Planning Committee at PINC.

Enid Young, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and a graduate of PINC and on the faculty. She has written on a psychoanalytic approach to addiction and a neuropsychoanalytic approach to memory. Dr. Young teaches a study group on Bion and Neuropsychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Berkeley.

Daniel Yu, LCSW, is on the faculty for the Coalition for Clinical Social Work at SFCP. A former board and faculty member for the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, he has been adjunct faculty in the MSW Program at SFSU and currently supervises for Access Institute in San Francisco. He is in private practice in San Francisco.

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University; Professor of English at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco; a graduate of SFPI; and a faculty member of SFCP. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berkeley.