The Wedding of Psyche, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1895. Original from Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. Image: Gallerix
Board of Trustees
Vaia Tsolas, PhD, Chair, Trustee
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Vice President, Trustee
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, Secretary, Trustee
David Lichtenstein, PhD, Treasurer, Trustee
Panos Aloupis, MD, PhD, Trustee
Michael Civin, PhD, Trustee
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD, Trustee
Andjela Samardzic, LP, Trustee
Jamieson Webster, PhD, Trustee
Institute Officers
Vaia Tsolas, PhD, President
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Vice-President
David Lichtenstein, PhD, Treasurer
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, Secretary
Vaia Tsolas, PhD
Board Chair
Vaia Tsolas is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she teaches Freud and Lacan. She is the co-founder/director of Rose Hill Psychological, a mental health center in NYC and the Bronx since 2006. She received her Ph.D. from the Derner Institute and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was the 2007 winner of the IPA’s Sacerdoti Prize. In addition, Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research honored Dr. Tsolas with the 2013 Klar award for teaching excellence. Dr. Tsolas has devoted herself for fifteen years to the transmission of psychoanalytic thought and practice, training young clinicians at Rose Hill Psychological, NY. Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research granted the 2010 Lionel Ovesey award to Dr. Tsolas for her entrepreneurial work at Rose Hill Psychological Services and her innovative idea of bringing psychoanalytic therapy to patients from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Dr. Tsolas is the co-editor with Dr Anzieu-Premmereur of two books, “The Psychoanalytic Exploration of Today’s World” (Routledge, 2017) and “a Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure” (Routledge upcoming). She in private practice with adults in New York City.
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD
Board Secretary
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur received her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Paris University in and graduated as Adult and Child Psychiatrist at Paris Medical School. She trained at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris where she is member, and she moved to New York in August 2000 where she has a private practice as an adult and child psychoanalyst. She is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research; she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the chair of the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.
She published two books in French, on Play in Child Psychotherapy in 1999, and on Psychoanalytic Interventions with Parents and Babies in 2003, and papers in English on Child psychoanalysis, motherhood, the Symbolization Process and Psychosomatics, and chapters on “The Process of Representation in Early Childhood”, on “Capacity to Dream and Night Terrors in Children”, on “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children”.
She co-edited with Vaia Tsolas the 2017 book “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World: On the Body” and recently “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure” (Routledge upcoming).
Faculty
Pulsion’s academic and training missions incubate the fervent hope to foster a new and renewed appetite within the younger generations for Freud with his revolutionary discoveries of sexuality and the unconscious. We bring together Freudians, post-Freudians and Lacanians as faculty and aspire to attract young candidates, practicing clinicians of course, but also academics from a wealth of related disciplines.
The Pulsion faculty is truly international, comprised of distinguished psychoanalysts from around the world.
Honorary Faculty Member
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Julia Kristeva, PhD is one of the most celebrated philosophers, literary critics, semioticians, psychoanalysts, and feminists of our times. She is a professor emerita at the University Paris Diderot. She is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Texts and Documents at University of Paris VII and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Kristeva is the author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius. She has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation. She is the recipient of France’s distinguished “Chevalière de la légion d’honneur” and in 2004 won the Holberg International Prize for her “innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture and literature [that] have inspired research across the humanities and the social sciences throughout the world. As a practicing psychoanalyst, she is a careful reader of Freud, and finds his voice in such contemporary concerns as desire, love, revolution, the poetic, the soul, and faith.
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Pulsion Faculty
Gracila Abelin-Sas Rose, MD is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the Center for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (CAPS), and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). She founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Colloquium with Visiting Authors. Her papers include To Mother or Not to Mother: Abortion and its Challenges, The Headless Woman: Scheherazade’s Syndrome, Discovering One’s Own Responsibility in a Judgmental System, The Internal Interlocutor, Malignant Passionate Attachments, Coupledom, and A Perilous Road to Hope. Dr. Abelin-Sas Rose has co-authored, with Peter Mezan, Ph.D., numerous papers on psychoanalytic couple’s therapy. She has also co-edited, with Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Freud’s Femininity. She is in private practice and conducts private seminars and supervision in New York City.
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Panos Aloupis, MD, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, SPP Paris Psychoanalytic Society. Consultant and Faculty: Institute of Psychosomatics –Pierre Marty (IPSO – Paris). Member: International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), IPSO. Past Editorial Board member: Revue Française de Psychosomatique.
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Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Board Secretary, received her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Paris University in and graduated as Adult and Child Psychiatrist at Paris Medical School. She trained at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris where she is member, and she moved to New York in August 2000 where she has a private practice as an adult and child psychoanalyst. She is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research; she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the chair of the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.
She published two books in French, on Play in Child Psychotherapy in 1999, and on Psychoanalytic Interventions with Parents and Babies in 2003, and papers in English on Child psychoanalysis, motherhood, the Symbolization Process and Psychosomatics, and chapters on “The Process of Representation in Early Childhood”, on “Capacity to Dream and Night Terrors in Children”, on “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children”.
She co-edited with Vaia Tsolas the 2017 book “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World: On the Body” and recently “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure” (Routledge upcoming).
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Rosemary Balsam, MD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis. Training and Supervising Analyst: Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Faculty: Yale U. Dept of Student Mental Health. Book Review Editor: JAPA. Honors: National Psychoanalytic Woman Scholar for APsaA, Sigourney Award for psychoanalytic achievement (2018).
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Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He studied psychoanalysis at the University Paris 7, especially with Jean Laplanche. He is retired researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome, Italy. He is the president of Institute Elvio Fachinelli (Institute for Advanced Studies in psychoanalysis – ISAP) in Italy. He was the founder and the editor of European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Discourse and of American Imago. He has worked on Freud and Lacan, Wittgenstein and ethics, Plato’s philosophy, Theory of Fashion, Theory of populism, Monotheisms (with J.-L. Naney). His publications in English include: with A. Molino, In Freud’s Tracks (Aronson, 2008). What Are Perversions? (Karnac, 2016). Conversations with Lacan (Routledge, 2020). “Listening to Perversions” in Diego Busiol, ed., Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice. Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts (Routledge, 2021). Papers in the book Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy. Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society, edited by Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky (Routledge, 2021). Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater (Routledge, 2023). And many other papers in various journals.
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Rachel Boue-Widawsky, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis from France and United States, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and IPTAR. Supervising Psychoanalyst: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). Associate Editor of the Foreign Books Reviews: JAPA
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Irene Cairo Bio coming soon
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Mónica Cardenal, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Psychologist, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (APdeBA). She is the chair of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic Assistance in Crises and Emergencies, PACE. She is the consultant IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, COCAP. She is the Director and teacher of Infant Observation Seminars according to Mrs. Bick´s method, Tavistock Clinic model, Pediatric Mental Health Service, Italian Hospital. She is a Member of the Commission on Training and Transmission of Psychoanalysis of Federación Psicoanalítica de América Latina and the Co-Chair for Latin America of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Committee of IPA. Dr. Cardenal is an Associate Professor in Clinic Psychology and Infant and Juvenile Psychiatry postgraduate training at the Italian Hospital University Institute, Buenos Aires, and a supervisor in the early childhood area, Pediatric Mental Health Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. She is a Supervisor of the Work Discussion groups, Program for homeless children and young refugees, Puebla, Mexico, JUCONI Foundation. Dr Cardenal is an international supervisor and guest lecturer in several countries on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Infant Observation Bick method and its application through the Work Discussion groups (with pediatricians, teachers, social workers, nurses, among others).
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Catherine Chabert, MD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Faculty, Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP). Member: Psychoanalytic Association of France.
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Anna Christopoulos, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis. Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society, member European Psychoanalytical Federation, and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is an associate professor of Community-Clinical Psychology and director of the Graduate Program at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and the director of Psychological Counseling Services at the National and Kapodistrian University.
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Berrak Cigeroglu Bio coming soon
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Michael Civin, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis. Co-founder, Rose Hill Psychological Services, NY. Author of the book “Male, Female, Email.” Dr. Civin has taught and supervised in numerous psychoanalytic and graduate programs in various settings.
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Marcus Coelen Bio coming soon
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Christopher Cselenyi Bio coming soon
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Anand Desai, MD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Desai is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training & Research. In addition to teaching and supervising Medical Students and Psychiatric Residents, he is currently Co-Director of the center’s Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, in which he also teaches and supervises. In June 2022, he will be a Training & Supervising Analyst at Columbia.
Dr. Desai graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a BA in English & BS in Biology. He received his MD from Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2007 — and stayed at Columbia for training in Adult Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis. He practices in New York City.
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Eliana DosReis-Betancourt Bio coming soon
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Loryn Hatch Bio coming soon
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Markus Fäh, PhD, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Freud Institute Zurich (FIZ). Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst: Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and Freud Institute Zurich, Berlin, Psychoanalytic Institutes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Minsk, Innsbruck, and Teheran. Professor for Psychotherapy Science and Psychoanalysis at Sigmund-Freud-Private-University Vienna. Honorary President: European Confederation for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapies (ECPP). Consultant: European Psychoanalytic Film Festival EPFF. Editor: Frommann-Holzboog Publishers, Stuttgart. Member: Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.
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Luca Flabbi, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a regular member of the board of the psychoanalytic society Società Amici del Pensiero – Sigmund Freud (SAP), based in Milan, Italy.
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Glauco Maria Genga, MD is a Psychoanalyst and a Psychiatrist. He lives and works in Milan, where he trained in psychoanalysis with Dr.. Giacomo B. Contri. He is the Secretary of the Scientific Council of the Friends of the “Sigmund Freud” Society. He carries out teaching and supervision activities. For years he has been supporting medical-legal consultancy in the forensic field alongside clinical practice, at various law firms and at the “Angelo Mosso” Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the Milan Air Force.
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Patricia Gherovici, PhD is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City, and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen.
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Gabriela Goldstein, PhD is the President of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA); Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) since 2006. She has been a member of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalysis and Culture since 2007; a member of the Scientific Committee for Community and Culture, FEPAL, in 2014; a Representative on the APA Board 2009-2013. Founder and Chair of the APA Research Group on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has lectured at Latin American and International Congresses, conferences, and universities on Art and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Subjectivity, as well as clinical research on the Aesthetic Experience, her main lines of exploration.
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Francoise Graf, PhD Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Faculty member, Psychoanalytic
Association of New York Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
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Monika Gsell, PhD is psychoanalyst and a professor in the University of Zurich. She studied philosophy and German at the University of Basel where she completed her doctorate. She received training as a psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich (PSZ). She received further training in sex therapy at the Zurich Institute for Sexology and Sex Therapy (ZISS). Gsell’s research is in the area of gender studies and psychoanalysis. In 2011 she took over the scientific project management of the Judith Le Soldat Foundation. The edition of Le Soldat’s works is organized in five volumes. Gsell is responsible for the critical and annotated edition of the estate. The first volume was published in 2015.
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Laurence Kahn, MD is a Training Analyst at the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF) in Paris and held the function of President of the APF from 2008 to 2010. She was previously co-editor of the Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse and editor in chief of L’Annuel de l’APF.
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Lila Kalinich, MD Certificate in Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition, Dr. Kalinich is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kalinich is the Past president of the APM. She is the co-editor of the Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry (London, Routledge, 2008) among numerous other articles on the intersection of psyche and body. She has an extensive experience teaching Lacan and Freud and supervising analytic candidates at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is in private practice in New York City.
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Edward Kenny, MD is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He majored in philosophy as an undergraduate at Princeton and then studied Mandarin and Traditional Chinese Medicine in New York’s Chinatown and Taiwan. Later he completed medical school, residency in internal medicine and in psychiatry, fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychoanalytic training, and instruction in transference-focused psychotherapy, all through Columbia. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan for psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis. Interests include the treatment of affective and personality disorders, working with candidates, meditative enhancement of the psychoanalytic process, analytic approaches to religious fundamentalism, and psychodynamic therapies in China.
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Howard B. Levine, MD is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023)
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David Lichtenstein, PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. He is a Faculty and Board Member of Pulsion Institute, NY, and a Faculty Member at the NYU Post Doc. Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, IPTAR, PINC, and the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. He is co-editor of the recent book The Lacan Tradition (Routledge, 2018) and teaches an independent course entitled The Clinical Implications of the Work of Jacques Lacan. He was the Founding Editor of DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, a Co-Founder of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, and a participant at Das Unbehagen.
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Patrick Miller, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He completed his analytic training in Paris, where he studied both with Piera Aulagnier and Andre Green. He co-founded the Societe Psychanalytique de Recherche et de Formation in Paris in 2005, and he served as president from 2007-2011. Dr. Miller is an IPA training analyst and a member of CAPS in Princeton. He has authored numerous papers in international journals, and has published two books, Le Psychanalyste pendant la Séance (2001) and Driving Soma: A Transformational Process in the Analytic Encounter (2014). He has a psychoanalytic practice in Paris.
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Maria Gabriella Pediconi, MA is a psychoanalyst and a dynamic psychology professor at the University of Urbino and a psychoanalyst member of the Governing Council for the Society of Friends of “Sigmund Freud” of Milan, chaired by Giacomo B. Contri. Alongside teaching, Pediconi’s research is in the field of psychology (the influence of technology on the young generations), psychoanalysis (the unconscious and game theory) and the social sciences (envy and the law of everyday life). Her psychoanalytic practice and supervision brings the Freudian tradition to the light of the work begun by G.B. Contri, creating the annual seminar Letture freudiane con il pensiero di natura, questioni controverse. Among her best publications are the 2008 volume Pensare con Freud (Sic Edizioni) and the 2015 article “Diritto della vita quotidiana. Forma giuridica e forme psicopatologiche” (her other works can be found at www.societaamicidelpensiero.com)
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George Sagi, MD received his certificate in psychoanalysis from the Columbia for Psychoanalytic and Research where he is also a training and supervising analyst. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell University and a lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University School of Medicine-Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is past President of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and is in private practice in New York City.
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Renata Salecl is a Slovenian philosopher and sociologist. She is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia and a Professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom. Renata Salecl has held numerous Visiting Professorships at Cardozo School of Law, New York, Humboldt University, Berlin and Duke University, Durham, among other institutions. Her work is very interdisciplinary and focuses on bringing together law, criminology, the study of political ideologies, and psychoanalysis.
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Andjela Samardzic, MA, LP, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich (PSZ) and NY. Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Switzerland, Federal Office of Public Health FOPH). Member: Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York); Lacanian psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Pratique de la psychanalyse freudienne et lacanienne en français et en allemand“, Psychoanalytic Institute Zurich, Espace Analytique Paris and Psychoanalytic Library Berlin. She teaches and supervises the trainees at Rose Hill Psychological Services, PC, located in New York City.
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Dominique Scarfone, MD is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a professor at the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry of the Université de Montréal. Among his recent books in English are: Laplanche: An Introduction (2015) and The Unpast. The Actual Unconscious (2016). He authored several book chapters, numerous articles in international journals and is regularly invited to give lectures and seminars across Canada, the United States and Europe.
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Jacqueline Schaeffer, PhD is a full member and training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She participated in the creation of a “study group” within the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 1986, she was awarded the Maurice Bouvet prize in psychoanalysis. She was a former assistant editor of the “Psychoanalytic Debates” series with the Presses Universitaires de France. She has published several papers and has been the keynote speaker in many conference meetings throughout the world. Her most recent book is “The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation” (2011).
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Tracy Simon is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, faculty and supervisor at Pulsion, and training analyst at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is an editor for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, steering committee member for the Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, and she has spent several years working with the Human Rights Clinic of HealthRight International. Dr. Simon served as Executive Co-Director of New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Childhood, Adolescence and Infancy and Clinical Director of the Karen Horney Clinic’s September 11th Program. She is a member of the IPA and APsA. Her co-edited collection with Judit Mészaros, Ferenczi Without Borders, is forthcoming with Routledge (2026). Her writing engages questions of psychoanalysis, subjectivity and maternality. She maintains a private practice with adolescents, adults and couples.
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Michael Slevin, MA, LCSW is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He is co-editor with Beverly Stoute of the book, The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the therapeutic encounter, forthcoming from Routledge in the fall of 2022. He is co-editor with Ellen Pinsky of the book in process, Driven to Write: Psychological Perspectives. He is a former editor-in-chief and Special Projects Editor of The American Psychoanalyst, the quarterly magazine of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has given presentations at several psychoanalytic centers. A member of the APsaA Advisory Committee for five years, he is a consultant to APsaA’s legislative counsel. He has long worked to bring psychodynamic mental health services to under-resourced populations.
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Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., is a Graduate, Training and Supervising Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, and Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society, (U.S.A). He is a Member of The American Psychoanalytic Association, and of the IPA. He is a Board Member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published numerous papers in the U.S.A., Argentina, Uruguay, and Italy. He is a consultant to the IPA Committee on Emigration and Relocation, (PERC) and is a member of CAPSA, the IPA Committee on Foreign Scholar Visitors. He is in private practice in New York City.
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Barbara Stimmel, Ph.D. is a Training Analyst at IPA, NA Associate Sec. IPA, 1997-2001, NA Chair, Berlin Congress, 2007, Member Culture Committee, IPA; Member of APsaA, Past- President of The New York Freudian Society; Asst. Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine; Director, Richardson Seminars History of Psychiatry, 2010-2014. Dr. Stimmel has published papers, chapters, and reviews on a wide variety of topics. Her paper, From Nothing to Something to Everything, 1996 was nominated for JAPA Journal Prize, Dr. Stimmel is a Member of The Shakespeare Council at The Public Theater in NY. She works in private practice in New York City.
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Fotini Tilkeridou-Wolf Bio coming soon
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Vaia Tsolas, PhD, Board Chair, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she teaches Freud and Lacan. She is the co-founder/director of Rose Hill Psychological, a mental health center in NYC and the Bronx since 2006. She received her Ph.D. from the Derner Institute and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was the 2007 winner of the IPA’s Sacerdoti Prize. In addition, Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research honored Dr. Tsolas with the 2013 Klar award for teaching excellence. Dr. Tsolas has devoted herself for fifteen years to the transmission of psychoanalytic thought and practice, training young clinicians at Rose Hill Psychological, NY. Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research granted the 2010 Lionel Ovesey award to Dr. Tsolas for her entrepreneurial work at Rose Hill Psychological Services and her innovative idea of bringing psychoanalytic therapy to patients from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Dr. Tsolas is the co-editor with Dr Anzieu-Premmereur of two books, “The Psychoanalytic Exploration of Today’s World” (Routledge, 2017) and “a Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure” (Routledge upcoming). She in private practice with adults in New York City.
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Virginia Ungar, MD is the president of IPA (2015-2021). She is a training and supervising analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association where she lives and practices. Dr. Ungar specializes in child and adolescent analysis and is the former chair of the IPA’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis committee and of the Committee for Integrative Training. Co-chair for Latin America, committee for Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents (COCAP). She is the Chair, Integrated Training Committee, IPA
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Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She teaches at the New School for Social Research and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York, and is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis(Routledge, 2011), Stay, Illusion! with Simon Critchley (Vintage, 2013), Conversion Disorder (Columbia University Press, 2018), and Disorganisation and Sex (Divided, 2022). She writes regularly for Artforum, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times and Spike Art Quarterly.
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Joel Whitebook, PhD is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is on the faculty at Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the former Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from the New School in philosophy in 1977. He completed his second doctorate in clinical psychology at CUNY and received his psychoanalytic training at The New York Freudian Society. For the next twenty-five years Dr. Whitebook combined a life of private practice and teaching, first at New School, then at Columbia, as well as in a number of clinical settings. In his book Perversion and Utopia and in numerous articles, Dr. Whitebook sought to continue the Frankfurt School’s attempt to integrate psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. Dr. Whitebook has also used preoedipal theory to explore the problem of “the missing mother” in his recent intellectual biography of Freud.
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Laura Wittman, MD is a training and supervising analyst both from Child and Adult Analytic Training at the Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the faculty at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, as well as for the NYP Child Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Whitman completed psychiatry residency and psychoanalytic training at NYU and child psychiatry fellowship at Cornell. She conducted a study treating diabetic, depressed adolescents with psychodynamic psychotherapy in which both conditions improved. Dr. Whitman ran the psychoanalytically oriented therapeutic nursery at Mt Sinai. She taught in the Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University. She supervised parent-infant treatments in the Mt. Sinai nursery for many years. Dr. Whitman is now the director of the psychodynamic psychotherapy course for the Columbia-Cornell child fellows. She won an award for outstanding teaching for that course in 2017. She also received the Edith Sabshin award from APsaA in 2020 for excellence in teaching. She has an analytic practice in New York City.
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Guest Lecturers
Lesley Caldwell
Marcus Coelen
Dries Dulsster
Anna Fishzon
Loryn Hatch
Derek Hook
Matt Johnson
Marta Pedo
Monroe Street Schostal
Stijn Van Heule
Executive Committee
Vaia Tsolas, PhD
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD
David Lichtenstein, PhD
Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Education Committee
Vaia Tsolas, PhD
David Lichtenstein, PhD
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD
Michael Civin, PhD
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD
Admissions Committee
Jamieson Webster, PhD
Andjela Samardzic, MA, LP
Eliana Dos Reis-Betancourt, PhD, LP
Finance Committee
David Lichtenstein, PhD
Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Jamieson Webster, PhD
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD
Michael Civin, PhD
Progression Committee
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD
Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD
Berrak Cigeroglu, PhD
Publications Committe
Vaia Tsolas, PhD
David Lichtenstein, PhD
Tanja Auf der Heyde, PhD
Ashley D’Arcy, MA
Events Sub-Committee
Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Vaia Tsolas, PhD
Piyali Kundu-Veldhoven LCSW