This page includes brief bios of the editors ands commentators on the International Psychoanalysic blog site.
Editor-In-Chief: Arnold Richards, MD was Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) from 1994 to 2003 and before that he was an editor of TAP. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the faculty of the NYU and Mount Sinai Medical Schools, Departments of Psychiatry. He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and received its Distinguished Contributor award in 2004. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Division 39, Section 10, the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the New York Freudian Society, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York the Western New York Psychoanalytic Society, the Lake Oscawana Psychoanalytic Society and Honorary Member of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis/Karen Horney Clinic and the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society.
Topic Editors
Theatre: Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. retired from a highly successful Manhattan practice as a psychoanalyst in 1991 to write full time. She belongs to the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychological Association, and is a fellow and former faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She also is a member of the Dramatists Guild, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Florida Freelance Writers Association.Since her “retirement” Dr. Bond has had thirteen books published, including Camille Claudel, a Novel, Tales of Psychology: Stories to Make You Wise, Old Age is a Terminal Illness, The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel, Who Killed Virginia Woolf?, On Becoming a Grandparent, and is senior author of “Dream Portrait: A Study of 19 Sequential Dreams as Indicators of Pretemination,” with Arlene Richards and Daisy Franco. Her fourteenth book, a biography of Dr. Margaret Mahler, is presently in publication with McFarland Publishers. Dr. Bond serves as dramaturge of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her play “Maria” (about Maria Callas) was presented off-off Broadway a few years ago and was touted by the television program, Entertainment E! Her play in progress, “Bella!”, about the life and career of Bella Abzug, recently received a reading at Hunter College. Dr. Bond is the widow of the late stage, screen, and TV actor, and author, Rudy Bond.
OP ED: Jane S. Hall, L.C.S.W., F.I.P.A, a founder of the New York School for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and past president of the New York Freudian Society, is a member of the IPA, ApsaA, American Association for Psychoanalysis on Clinical Social Work/NMCOP, and Division 39. A training and supervising analyst who has taught, lectured, and consulted on how to deepen psychoanalytic work for the past twenty-five years, she is the author of two books on the subject (”Deepening the Treatment” and “Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy“). Currently on the faculties of NYFS, NYSSP, and the Metropolitan Institute. A graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work, the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy, and the New York Freudian Society, Jane Hall is in private practice in New York City.
Movies: Anita Katz, Ph.D., Faculty of NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; faculty of the Object Relations Institute and the Metropolitan Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and member of IPTAR and fellow of IPA. Published on Masochism, Fathers and Daughters and many movie reviews, including: The Vanishing, A Woman Under the Influence, Proof, American Beauty and Utz. Pending publication: chapter in Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue on psychosomatic problems. Pending publication: “Rupture and Repair.” Various committee work, including the colloquium committee and the Admissions Committee at NYU Post Doc.
Art: Danielle Knafo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Long Island University’s C.W.Post Campus. She is Associate Clinical Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Faculty and Supervisor at Derner’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Knafo is the author of Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation, co-author of Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World, and editor of Living with Terror, Working with Trauma: A Clinician’s Handbook. Soon to be published is By Herself: Women’s Self-Representation in Art. She has written and lectured extensively on the topic of psychoanalysis and creativity. Dr. Knafo maintains a private practice in Great Neck, NY.
Music: Julie Jaffee Nagel holds the MSW, MA (psychology) and Ph.D. (psychology and social work) from The University of Michigan. She earned her BM and MS in piano performance at The Juilliard School. She has presented nationally and internationally on the topics of performance anxiety and music as a point of entry into affect and unconscious processes. She is on the Editorial Boards of The American Psychoanalyst, American Imago, and Medical Problems of Performing Artists. She is a faculty member at The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Nagel has a private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Books: Joseph Reppen PhD, ABPP is the editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the formed editor of Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews and the former Book Review Editor of The Psychoanalytic Review. He is the editor or co-editor of nine books including Beyond Freud and Analysts at Work. He serves on the editorial board of several journals and is on the faculty of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, NYU Medical Center.
Group Psychology: Bennett Roth received his PhD from NYU . He completed training both in Psychoanalysis and in group therapy . he is a faculty member and fellow at IPtAR , an ABEEP in Division 39 Psychoanalysis and formerly a Fellow of American Group Psychotherapy Association . He has Served on three editorial Boards in Group therapy and group relations . He is a member of the IPA and will be sitting for his ABEEP in Group therapy. He has presented demonstrations group nationally and internationally. Authored more than 12 articles in juried journals on Group therapy including Group analysis and film , Schindler’s List , Second Thoughts at Ground Zero , ( Psychoanalytic Review) and is Senior Author of , The Difficult Patient in Group, AGPA Mongraph.
Movies: Herbert H. Stein, M.D. is a graduate and faculty member of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute at NYU Medical Center. He has been the Editor of the PANY Bulletin for over ten years and writes a column on Psychoanalysis and Film for each issue. He has published a compilation of some of those film essays, Double Feature: Discovering our Hidden Fantasies in Film. Dr. Stein has published film review essays as well in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Projections and has given audio-visual presentations on films at several venues. He has also written and spoken about combat trauma. Dr. Stein lives and practices in New York.
Religion and Mythology: Alan Miller, Rabbi Emeritus, Ph.D, psychoanalyst (New York Freudian Society, 1985) in private practice, educated Peter Symonds’ Winchester, Balliol College, Oxford and Jews’ College, London. Served as Chaplain to HM Forces in Egypt and the United Kingdom (1951-54) and also congregations on both sides of the Atlantic. Clinical Associate Professor of Theology in Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College (1992-95). Author of “God of Daniel S.: In Search of the American Jew” (University Press of America, 1986); “Claude Levi Strauss and Genesis 37 – Exodus 20” (Ktav, 1977) and sundry articles.
Poetry: Irene Willis is the author of two highly-regarded books of poetry, They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida) and At the Fortune Cafe, which was awarded the 2005 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize by Snake Nation Press. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Book Notice Editor: Michael Holquist is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literate at Yale University and a Senior Scholar at Columbia. He has authored, translated, or co-authored eight books on Russian literature and literary theory and over a hundred articles on a wide variety of topics in other national literatures. He has given named series of lectures at Princeton (Gauss Lectures), Toronto (Northrop Frye) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Wei Lun). He was awarded Yale’s highest teaching honor (Byrnes-Sewell Prize) and holds a Ph. D. honoris causa from the University of Stockholm. He is currently President of the Modern Language Association of America.
Letters to the Editor: Leon Hoffman, Director of the Pacella Parent Child Center and Training and Supervising Analyst and Supervisor in Child/Adolescent Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He has written for the general public, including dozens of letters to the Editor, and developed “Ask an Analyst” on www.apsa.org
Law and Psychoanalysis: Stephen L Richards, criminal defense lawyer, Winner of 2003 Kutak-Dodds Award for Outstanding public defender in the United States. Author of numerous articles and treatises on death penalty defense.
Oral History Editor: Sheldon Goodman has practiced in a variety of settings including a private practice of about twenty years and in psychiatric hospitals in New York and California, private and public clinics and in schools.Publications include, but are not limited to the following: with Arnold Richards a paper on motivation was delivered at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting in Canada in 1993; book review of Fred Pine’s Drive, Ego. and Self in the 1993 PANY Bullletin; with Arnold Richards and Glen O. Gabbard -A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics in the 1995 Psychoanalytic Books. Book reviews done independently: The Psychology of Difference by Otto Rank in the 1997 Psychoanalytic Books; also in Psychoanalytic Books: Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson and in the 1999 Psychoanalytic Quarterly a review of Warren Poland’s Melting the Darkness. He was asked by Jacob A. Arlow,M.D. to be the Literary Executor to his Estate.
Editor for Psychoanalytic Research: Joseph Schachter, M.D., PhD., in midcareer engaged in neurophysiologicl/developmental studies of offspring of schizophrenic mothers. Later he was training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published numerous papers and two books. Currently retired in New York City, he is a faculty member of the Clumbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, and an honorary member of the William Alanson White Society.
Editor for New Philosophical and Clinical Horizons: Robert D. Stolorow is a psychoanalytic author with doctorates in both psychology and philosophy who, with collaborators, has been seeking for more that three decades to rethink psychoanalysis as a form of existential-phenomenological inquiry. He is the author of Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (Routledge, 2007) and coauthor of Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (Basic Books, 2002) and seven other psychoanalytic books
Regional Editors:
Argentina: Samuel Arbiser Médico, egresado de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires; Miembro titular con función didáctica de la Asociación Psicoanalítica de Buenos Aires (Apdeba); Miembro de la Comisión de Admisión y Promoción de Socios (CAPS) de la Apdeba; Profesor titular del Instituto Universitario de Salud Mental de Apdeba (IUSAM); Profesor invitado para los cursos de Mediación del Colegio Público de Abogados; Miembro de la Comisión de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Historia del Psicoanálisis; Miembro de la Comisión de Historia del Psicoanálisis de la Asociación Psicoanalítica Internacional (API).Artículos publicados en las revistas de la Asociación Psicoanalítica de Buenos Aires, de la Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina, de la Asociación Chilena, de la Uruguaya, de la de Madrid, de la Escuela de Psicoterapia para Graduados, de Psychoanalysis International, de International Jour. of Psychoanal., de la American Psychoanal. Association. Capítulos en varios libros.
Australia: Ron Spielman, Training and Supervising Analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, living in Sydney. He has been Secretary of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society and, recently, Chair of the Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis. His on the Editorial Board of “Psychoanalysis Downunder“, the eJournal of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society.
Brazil: Leopold Nosek is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo and a Past Editor of International Psychoanalysis the Newsletter of the International Psychoanalytical Society.
Puerto Allegre: Mauro Gus Psychiatrist; . Psychoanalyst; IPA Full Member and Training Analyst of Porto Alegre Psychoanalysis Society and of Brazilian Psychoanalysis
Association; Member of the Committe of the Libro Anual de Psicoanálisis,
Latin America; Former Editor of Revista Latinoamericana de Psicanálise, Revista de Psicanálise da Sociedade Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre and Member of many Latin-American Reviews in Latin America and former FEPAL Director of Publications; Member of IPA ING Committee ( New Groups).
Canada: Cyril Levitt, Ph.D. is a Professor in and former Chair of the Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada having earned a doctorate in anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He trained as a psychoanalyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Canadian and Toronto Psychoanalytic Societies. He is an Editorial Reader for and contributor to the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, a member of the IPA’s Committee on Racism and Antisemitism, and has published numerous books and articles in the areas of social movements and collective behavior, race and ethnicity, and social theory and is currently working on aspects of the history of psychoanalytic thought. Professor Levitt also maintains a private practice in Toronto.
China: Co-editor: Elise Snyder, MD is a graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, member of APM, Councillor-at Large of APSAA, President of the American College of Psychoanalysts and President of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. This latter group provides psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and supervisions for Chinese mental health professionals and is in the process of arranging for 2 year psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at a variety of Chinese universities, hospitals and clinics using “virtual classrooms.”
China: Co-editor: Siyi Zhang was born in Hunan province in China. She received a medical degree and psychology masters degree in China. She is currently studying psychoanalysis in a four-year program in Toronto.
Denmark: Bent Rosenbaum is a Specialist in Psychiatry, MDsci., Associate Clinical Research Professor, Copenhagen University. Positions in the Danish Psychoanalytic Society: Teacher in the theoretical courses for candidates since 1999; chairman of the research committee 2001-2006; member of the executive board since 2001; treasurer 2002-2004; training analyst since 2003; president of the society since 2004. Member of the EPF working party on “conceptual research” (2000-2005) and the EPF working group on “trauma” (2000-).
France: Paul Denis is a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and a past editor of Revue Française De Psychanalyse.
Germany: Werner Bohleber is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Frankfurt/Main . He is a member of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPV). Since 1988 he has been the editor of PSYCHE. His areas of interest include adolescent identity, the psychoanalytic study of the National Socialist past, Stranger hate and Antisemitism; research on trauma. He the author of Anti-Semitism (with John Kafka); Adolesence and Identity.
Greece: Ioanna Panagiotopoulou, Psychiatrist; Member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society; Psychoanalytic Society website manager.
Holland: Bien Filet, Training and Supervising Analyst at Netherlands Psychoanalytic Group, Member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Holland: H.C. Halberstadt-Freud, Psychologist-psychoanalyst Private practice in Amsterdam. Member of the Association for Child Analysis and The International Psychoanalytic Association. Working as a training analyst for the Dutch Society and Dutch Association for Psychoanalysis
Publications in several international PA journals and writer of several books, one in English: Proust,Freud,Perversion and Love, Harcourt.
India: Madhu Sarin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Delhi. Formerly she taught philosophy at the graduate faculty, University of Delhi, New York University and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. She also has a degree in clinical social work from New York University and is a member of the Indian Psychoanalytic Association and IPTAR, New York where she did her training. She has done clinical work with political refugees and torture victims from neighbouring countries. She conducts and co-ordinates trainings in mental health for the Health Department,Tibetan Government in Exile, Dharamsala. She has written in academic journals, newspapers, magazines - articles on psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, feminism, film and travel.
Israel: Emanuel Berman, Training and supervising analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa; member, IPTAR; chief international
editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; author, “Impossible Training” (Analytic Press, 2004).
Italy: Riccardo Lombardi, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. He published papers on the body-mind relation, time, psychosis and other severe thought disorders in international peer-reviewed journals as International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, etc. He is co-author of the book: ‘Emotion as infinite experience’ (Milan, Angeli, 2007). He is in full-time private practice in Rome.
Japan: Osamu Kitayama, M.D., Secretary and Training and Supervising Analyst of Japan Psychoanalytic Society, and President of Japan Psycho-Analytical Association. He has been Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology, Kyushu University, and author of more than 100 articles, including publications in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, and about 15 books on Psychoanalysis and Culture.
Mexico: Raquel Berman, M.A. in clinical Psychology, Ph.D. in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, degree in criminology, exprofessor in master and doctor programs of clinical psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico City, visiting professor in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Universidad Anahuac. A founding member of the first lay psychoanalytic society in Mexico (Asociacion Mexicana de Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica) that offered since 1965 psychoanalytic training to psychologists and allied professions. Expresident (2) and exdirector(2) of Institute Sigmund Freud (Mexico City) Since l992, member of IPTAR, New York, fellow of IPTAR, training analyst of IPA. Pioneered the affiliation process of Asociacion Mexicana de Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica as a Provisional Society of IPA (1999-2007) now called Mexican Association for Psychoanalytic Practice, Training and Research (MAPPTR). Liaison person MAPPTR-IPA. Teacher, supervisor, and training analyst of Sigmund Freud Institute. Member of CIPS, FEPAL. Founder and member of Study Groups (MAPPTR): Couple Rupture and its Effects on Children; The Father-daughter relation(s);Psychoanalytic dynamics of Organizations. Author of articles and chapters in books: On machismo and unconscious female complicity, Women analysts treating Women Patients, Women in Ciudad Juarez, Ethics on the Couch, Women leaders in psychoanalytic organizations, Power Struggles in psychoanalytic organizations headed by women, Sexual addiction in men, Cooperation and Rivalry in Organizations, The Favorite, The Orphaned Mother and her Daughter, The Psychopathic Ingredient in the Individual and Group, A Castle can be a Concentration Camp, etc.
Norway: Sverre Varvin, M.D., Dr. Philos, Training and supervising analyst, Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society Psychiatrist. Psychoanalyst in Private practice. Senior researcher at Norwegian center for studies on violence and traumatic stress, affiliated to the University of Oslo. Former president of Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, former Vice president IPA, former Member of the Board IPA. Member of several committees of IPA and EPF.
Panama, the Caribbean and Central America: Alfredo Suescum, M.D. George Wash. Med. School; Res Psych. and Adolescent and Psychiatry 5 yrs. McLean Hospital and M.G.H;. Post Doc fellow Adolescent Psych. M.I.T. 2yrs.; Graduate Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; Assoc. Psychiatrist McLean Hosp. Psych. in chief Psychosocial unit, McLean Hosp.; Founder and past President Austin- San Antonio Psyanalytic Society. Member Boston Psichoanalytic Soc. and Ins.; ApsaA; IPA; Life member American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psych.; Distinguished Life Fellow APA.
Peru: Augusto Escribens, Ph. D. Linguist: MA Cornell University, Ph. D. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima. Psychoanalyst, Full Member and Training Analyst, former Director of the Library, Scientific Secretary, Vice President and Director of the Institute, Perú Psychoanalytic Society. Poet, awarded FEPAL Cyro Martins Prize for Literary work of Latin American Psychoanalysts, 2000. Former Profesor Principal at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima. Has given the course on Epistemological Foundations of Psychoanalysis in the Masters program on Theoretical Studies on Psychoanalysis at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Spain: Cecilio Paniagua, M.D., Sc.D. by Madrid Medical School. Psychiatric Residency at T. Jefferson Medical College. Trained in Psychoanalysis at the Baltimore-Washington Institute. Honorary Professor Dept. Psychiatry Madrid University.
Sweden: Imre Szecsödy, MD, PhD. Training and supervising analyst, Swedish Psychoanalytic Society; Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist in private practice. Attached to Karolinska Institute’s Medical Schoool, IPA Research Advisory Board; EPF Working Party on Education. Former president of Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, former Vice president EPF. Has published significant research on psychoanalytic supervision and education.
United Kingsdom: Andrea Sabbadini, C. Psychol. is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the current Honorary Secretary of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works as a psychoanalyst and supervisor in London, and is a Senior Lecturer at UCL and at Regent’s College. He is the founding Editor of Psychoanalysis and History and the Book Review Editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in the major psychoanalytic journals, and edited Time in sychoanalysis (1979), Even Paranoids Have Enemies (1998), The Couch and the Silver Screen (2003) and Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema (2007). He is also the chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of a programme of films and discussions at the ICA.
Uruguay: Dr. Ricardo Bernardi, Member of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association. Psychiatrist, Ex-Head of the Department of Medical Psychology of the School of Medicine, National University of Uruguay. Ex Vicepresident of the IPA. Chair of the New Orleans Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association Member of the Latin American Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Venezuela: Rómulo Lander, MD, is a Full time Psychoanalyst dedicated to teaching and private practice. Full member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and activeTraining Analyst in their Institute. Full member of IPA and FEPAL. Ex-President of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society, two terms. Founder and present contributor of T®OPICOS, the official Psychoanalytic Journal of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society. Active participant in FEPAL and IPA administrative mandates for many years. Author of many journal papers and three books en Spanish and one in English.
Organizations, Societies, and Institutes:
Liaison to American Institute of Pyschoanalysis: Arthur A. Lynch, D.S.W., is a senior faculty member, training and supervising analyst at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and on faculty at the National Institute for Psychotherapies. He holds the rank of Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work where he has taught for the past 25 years. He has co-authored numerous articles on comparative and historical psychoanalysis including “Merton Gill: A View of His Place in the Freudian Firmament,” and “From Ego Psychology to Contemporary Conflict Theory: An Historical Overview.” He is in private practice in New York City.
Liaison to National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis: Elizabeth Ronis, LCSW, BCD, Faculty, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Training and Supervising Analyst, NPAP.
Laison to the American Psychoanalytic Association: Alexandra K. Rolde, M.D. Born in Czechoslovakia, graduate of McGill University Medical School in Canada, Instructor in child and adult psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center), on faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, and in full time private practice in psychoanalysis and adult and child psychiatry. Also a past councilor on the Executive Council of APsaA and current member of the Committe on Continuing Education at APsaA.
Laisons to Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute:
Lana Fishkin is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. She is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, and is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Bala Cynwyd, PA. She is very involved in outreach efforts for psychoanalysis.
Ralph Fishkin is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University. He practices psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Philadelphia and is the representative of the Philadelphia Center to the Executive Council of the American Psychoanalytic Association where he also serves on several committees.
Laison to Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Depatment of Psychiatry:
Dr. Ahron Friedberg is a psychoanalytically-trained psychiatrist in private practice. He coordinates the Case Conference Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where he is integrally involved with the Division of Psychotherapy. He recently co-authored the critically acclaimed, Between Us: A Father and Son Speak and has conducted an interview series call “Getting Personal” at the Makor Center of the 92nd Street Y. He has appeared a cultural expert on CNN and Fox 5 as well as been cited in the Wall Street Journal.
Liaison to Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Javier Glavez, after earning M.D. degree (1965) and Psychiatric training (1966 - 1969) in Lima, Peru had further training in United States in Child Psychiatry and then Psychoanalysis (graduated 1989). Private practice in Cleveland began in 1977 through the present. In addition; supervision of med. students and psych. residents since 1976. Current member of Cleve. PsA Center since 1990.