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Founder and Director

Alice Maher, M.D.

Director of Operations and Communications

Susan Dansker

How To Touch A Hot Stove: A Documentary Film

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. , Co-Creator

Sheryll Franko, Director

Education Consultants

Suzanne Amro

Bernice Arricale, M.S., NYC Department of Education

Melissa Brand, Psy.D., Independent Consultant

Victoria Grinman, LMSW

Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., MBA, MEd

Advisory Board

Marshall W. Alcorn Jr.

Professor, English, George Washington University; author of books and articles; recipientof Ross Winterowd Award; faculty, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

Mark Bracher

Professor, English, Director, Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University; author of numerous books, including The Writing Cure and Social Symptoms of Identity Needs

Alice Flaherty, M.D., Ph.D.

Dir., Movement Disorders Fellowship, Mass. General Hospital;
Asst. Professor, Dept.of Neurology, Harvard Medical School;
Consultant, McLean Hospital;
Author, The Midnight Disease

Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute

Joanne Greenberg

Author, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

David Hoffman

Coordinator, Humanity Check Interfaith Peace and Reconciliation Project

Brian Koehler, Ph.D.

President, ISPS-US--International Society for the Study of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses

Peter J. Loewenberg , Ph.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst and Dean Emeritus of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles;
Chair, IPA China Committee;
Editor, IPA Centenary History Volume (1910-2010); Professor of History and Political Psychology, UCLA.

Afaf M. Mahfouz, Ph.D.

Chair, Committee on the United Nations, International Psychoanalytical Association;
Chair, Discussion Group on Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Prejudice, American Psychoanalytic Association;
Co-editor, The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice

Kevin Carson Moore, Psy.D.

Director, Diana Baldwin Clinic;
Administrative Director, Jonathan Lax Center for Immune Disorders, Philadelphia FIGHT

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.

Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montclair State University; New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Executive Board, The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination

Elyn Saks, Ph.D.

Law Professor, USC Gould School of Law;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Univ. of California,
San Diego, School of Medicine; Author, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Mark Solms, Ph.D.

Director, Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis, New York Psychoanalytic Institute;
Professor of Neuro-psychology, University of Cape Town; Director, International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Centre, London

Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute; Supervising Analyst, National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis of National Institute for the Psychotherapies; co-author, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy;”
journal editor

Carlo Strenger, Ph.D

Faculty member, Tel Aviv University; member, Institute of Existential Psychoanalysis, Zurich;
Member, Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists;
Op-ed contributor, Ha'aretz and The Guardian

Pamela K. Taylor

Writer; Co-Founder, Muslims for Progressive Values

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., DLFAPA, FACPsa

President, American College of Psychoanalysts;
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia;
Senior Erik Erikson Scholar, Erikson Institute for Education and Reasearch of the Austen Riggs Center;
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington, DC.

Heward Wilkinson B.A., M.A., M.Sc.

UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist; Philosopher; Hon. Fellow, UKCP;
Author, “The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy”;
Senior Editor, International Journal of Psychotherapy from 1994-2004;
Chair, Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy Section, UKCP.