Biographies of National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute Administration
Judy Adkins, L.C.S.W.
Columbia University, Certificate, Director, Adult Treatment Center, NIP TI; Certificate, Couples Therapy, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations Theory and Practice.
David Altfeld, Ph.D.
New York University, Co-Director, Supervisory Training Program, Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI, Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center, Faculty and Group Leader, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Training Program, Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Fellow Emeritus, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.
Neil Altman, Ph.D.
New York University; Certificate, New York University Postdoctoral Program; Adjunct Clinical Supervisor, Clinical Instructor, Associate Faculty, Yeshiva University; Faculty, NIP TI.
Claire Arditi, M.A., M.S.W.
Hunter College City University, Faculty, EGPS Group Program; Group Analytic Society (London); Coordinator, Supervisor, NIP TI.
Lewis Aron, Ph.D.
Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association; founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research, and is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. For more information Dr. Aron, please visit his website at www.lewaron.com.
Jillen Axelrod, Ph.D.
New York University; Certificate, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University, Faculty, Supervisor, Director of Extern Training in Psychology, NIP TI, Faculty and Supervisor, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center.
Ron Balamuth, Ph.D.
New York University; Certificate, New York University Postdoctoral Program, Faculty, NIP TI; Clinical Assistant Professor New York University; Clinical Psychology Program, Clinical Assistant Professor, Columbia University; Teachers College, author, Re-Membering The Body, A Psychoanalytic Study of Presence and Absence of the Lived Body
Arthur Baur, M.S.W.
Hunter College; Certificate, Supervisor, Faculty, NIP TI; Associated with Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy.
Gale Bayer, M.S.W.
Columbia University, Certificate, NIP TI; Director of Marketing, NIP TI.
Bonnie Beck, M.S.W.
Wurzweller School of Social Work, Yeshiva University; Certificate, Supervisor, Co-Director of One-Year Evening Program, NIP TI
Bruce H. Bernstein, Ph.D.
New York University, Supervisor New York Postdoctoral Program, NIP TI ICP, Postgraduate Center Group Department.
Margaret Black, M.S.W.
Columbia University; Director of Continuing Education, Supervisor, Board of Directors, NIP TI; Training Analyst, Supervisor, Faculty, Postgraduate Center; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Editorial Board, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, author (with Stephen A. Mitchell) Freud and Beyond, A History of Psychoanalytic Thought.
Gail Bodzin, M.S.W.
Hunter College; Certificate, Supervisor, CoDirector of One-Year Evening Program, NIP TI; Faculty Mt. Sinai Medical Center School of Community Medicine.
David Brand, Ph.D.
Adelphi University, Derner Institute; Certificate, Postdoctoral Program Adjunct Faculty, Derner Institute Adelphi University; Clinical Assistant Professor, New York Medical College; Faculty, Supervisor, Coordinator of Final Project, NIP TI; Program Coordinator in Psychology, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center.
Carolyn S. Clement, Ph.D.
University of Houston, Certificate, New York University Post Doctoral Program; Adjunct Clinical Supervisor, Yeshiva University; Faculty, NIP TI
Michael Clifford, MDiv, L.C.S.W.
Union Theological Seminary, Masters Degree; Rutger University, Masters Degree; NIP TI, Certificate; Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York University School of Social Work. Director of Training in Child/Adolescent Training Program, NIP TI.
Alan Dolber, Ph.D.
Florida Institute of Technology; L.C.S.W. Member, Supervisor, Training Analyst, NPAP; Faculty, Supervisor, Fifth Avenue Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy; Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI.
Pamela Feldman, M.S.W.
Rutgers Graduate School S.LO, Certificate in Group Psychotherapy, Post Graduate Center for Mental Health; Certificate, Director of Supervision in Adult Training, Supervisor, Board of Directors, NIP TI.
James L. Fosshage, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Board of Director, Faculty, NIP TI; Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Co-founder, Relational Track); Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center; Faculty and Supervisor of 10 additional institutes including Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of Washington D.C., Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis of Los Angeles, Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Training Institute for Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis, Rome; Past President, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; Editorial Board Member of 7 psychoanalytic journals; Author and Co-author of over 100 psychoanalytic publications, including 7 books; website: www.jamesfosshage.net.
Hannah Fox, M.S.W.
New York University; Faculty, NIP TI, Co-Director of Metropolitan Center for Object-Relations Theory & Practice.
Kenneth A. Frank, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Co-Founder, Director, Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI. Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Editor, "The Human Dimension In Psychoanalytic Practice", Author, "Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction, and Integration" (In Preparation), and author of approximately 30 other published book chapters, journal articles, and reviews.
Ellen Fries, L.C.S.W.
New York University; Certificate, Psychoanalysis, NIP TI; Director, National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Board of Directors, Supervisor, NIP TI.
Richard H. Fulmer, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Certificate, New York University Post Doctoral Program; Faculty, Urban Institute for Families & Family Therapy Training; Faculty, Steering Committee Child and Adolescent Program, NIP TI.
Janet Goldmark, M.F.A., M.S.W.
New York University, Faculty, Supervisor Child and Adolescent Program, NIP TI; Supervisor Adult Program, NIP TI.
Jacqueline Gotthold, Psy.D.
Yeshiva University, Co-Director, Supervisor, NIP TI; Child and Adolescent Program Coordinating Committee; Supervisor, Faculty, Institute for Psycho-Analytic Study of Subjectivity.
Henry Grayson, Ph.D.
Boston University; Certificate, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health; Founder, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Board Director, Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI; Founder, Co-Director, NIP TI's Center for Spirituality and Psychotherapy. Co-editor, author, Three Psychotherapies, A Clinical Comparison, editor, Short Term Approaches to Psychotherapy, and Changing Approaches to Psychotherapy, Finding your Limitless Self (in progress).
Dorothy Griffiths, Ph.D.
New York University, NIP TI, Faculty, Supervisor, Advisor, Annual Conference Coordinator.
Toni Heris, Ph.D.
New York University, Supervisor, Faculty, CUNY/Baruch; Director, Career Planning Services, NIP TI
Anita R. Herron, Ph.D.
Adelphi University; Certificate, New York University Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI Child Program.
Sarah Hill, L.C.S.W
MSW from Columbia University. Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision from NIP. Currently in training for Cranio Sacral Therapy. Faculty member, supervisor and training analyst at NIP; faculty member and supervisor, The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; lecturer, Union Theological Seminary.
Kent Jarratt, M.S.W.
Hunter College School of Social Work, Director, NIP TI Hypnotherapy Service; Faculty, Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, Faculty, New York Society for Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (NYSEPH); Member of Executive Board of NYSEPHA.
Amy Joelson, L.C.S.W.
New York University; Faculty & Coordinating Committee at Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Faculty & Supervisor at NIP Child & Adolescent Program; and Faculty, NIP TI. Recipient of NIP's 2005 Educators Award. Certificate in Adult psychoanalysis from Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and Certificate in Child & Adolescent from Institute for Child, Adolescent & Family Studies.
Judith Kaufman, L.C.S.W.
Hunter College School of Social Work; Certificate, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Board of Directors, Supervisor, Faculty, NIP TI CoDirector Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, NIP TI affiliate publications, "So little truth was told.- The meaning of the delusions of an Adolescent girl", Vol. 8, Progress in Self Psychology, Sex, Gender and Intersubjectivity. "The 2 Analysis of Mr. G", Vol. 14, Progress In Self Psychology.
Peter Kaufman, Ph.D.
Peter Kaufmann, Ph.D., gained his training as a clinical psychologist at C.U.N.Y. (Ph.D.--1985) and his psychoanalytic training at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (certificate--1993). He is faculty and supervisor at I.P.S.S. and N.I.P. At I.P.S.S., he currently teaches courses entitled "Kohut and His Critics" and "Freud and the Freudians". He has written papers and presented about traumatic loss in childhood and the process of accommodation and disaccommodation in development and treatment. He is in private practice in New York City.
Sidney Kleinman, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Prof. Psy. F.I.T. Certificate, Faculty; Supervision; Post Graduate Center, Training Analyst NPAP; Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI, Faculty, Supervisor Greenwich Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute; New York Counseling and Guidance Center.
Elizabeth Krimendahl, Psy.D.
New York University, Supervisor, Faculty, NIP TI Faculty, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University.
Elliot Kronish, Ph.D.
New York University; Supervisor, Faculty, Metropolitan Institute; Faculty, IPRAR, NIP TI.
Steven Kuchuck, L.C.S.W.
Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, is a graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), where he currently serves on the Board of Directors as Dean of Training. Faculty and supervisor, IEA and ICP. Trauma Committee Chair, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Former Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU School of Social Work. Co Editor of NIP journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives and author of articles on self disclosure and other topics within relational psychoanalysis published in The Psychoanalytic Review, Psychology and History, The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion and other publications.
Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D.
Northwestern University; Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, co-author, Self and Motivational Systems and the Clinical Exchange.
Clemens Loew, Ph.D.
University of Iowa; Certificates in Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health; CoFounder, Board of Directors, Supervisor, NIP TI; Co-author, Dream Interpretation A Comparative Study and others.
Eric Mendelsohn, Ph.D.
Yeshiva University; Faculty, Supervisor, NIP TI and KCICP; Clinical Professor, Supervisor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Demer Institute, Adelphi University; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology Cornell University Medical College; faculty, Connecticut Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Center; Supervisor of Psychotherapy, Doctoral Programs in Clinical Psychology, Yeshiva and Adelphi Universities.
Toni Mufson, M.S.W.
Hunter College, Certificate, Post Graduate Institute, Certificate, Supervisor, Manhattan Institute, Faculty PPSC & NIP TI, Supervisor PPSC; author, Issues Surrounding Sibling Death During Adolescence.
Rachel Newcombe, M.S.W.
Hunter College; Certificate, Co-Director, Programs for Educators, NIP TI.
Valerie Oltarsh-McCarthy, L.C.S.W., M.P.H.
University of Wisconsin; New York University and Queensland University of Technology (Australia); National Institute for the Psychotherapies Certificate, Faculty and Supervisor, NIP TI.
Michelle Price, L.C.S.W.
Yeshiva University, Faculty, Supervisor, Karen Homey Psychoanalytic Institute; Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Faculty, NIP TI; Director, Treatment Center for Incest & Abuse, Karen Horney Clinic.
Sheila Ronsen, M.S.W.
Adelphi University; Certificate, NIP TI 4yr Training Program; Supervisor, Faculty, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center; Supervisor NIP TI; Coordinator of Continuing Education, NIP TI.
Roger Rosenthal, M.S.W.
New York University; Certificate, CoDirector, Programs for Educators, NIP TI.
Merrill Schneiderman, L.C.S.W.
Columbia University; Certificate, Supervisor, Faculty, Board President, NIP TI.
Sandra Shapiro, Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr; Certificate, Board of Directors, Director of Biofeedback Services, Biofeedback Supervisor, NIP TI; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Queens College (CUNY).\
Caryn Sherman-Meyer, L.C.S.W.
Columbia University; NIP Certificate, Vice President of Board of Directors, Faculty, Supervisor, Co-Director of Curriculum, Co-Director of License Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis, NIP.
Dennis G. Shulman, Ph.D.
Harvard University; Certificate, Faculty, Supervisor, Director of the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, NIP TI; Faculty, Supervisor, Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Supervisor, Training Analysts, Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey.
Neil Skolnick, Ph.D.
University of Delaware; Certificate, New York University Postdoctoral Program; Assistant Professor, Ferkaut Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University; Faculty, Supervisor, Co-Director of Regional Training Program, NIP TI.
Larry Zelnick, Psy.D.
Professional Child and School Psychology, New York University, Supervisor, Faculty, Child and Adolescent Program, NIP TI; President Elect, Section 2 Children and Adolescent Program, NIP TI.
