Board of Trustees and Advisory Council
The Institute's Board of Trustees, which holds ultimate responsibility for the Institute's affairs, is led by an highly honored psychoanalyst Chair and generally meets quarterly.
The Institute's Advisory Council includes senior psychoanalysts distinguished by many years of excellence in their analytic work and their research, writing or teaching, and other experts, who offer the Institute their counsel as needed.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- Michael Connolly MPA, LP, NCPsyA
President & Executive Director - Rev. Sheila Johnson MPS, LP
Deputy Executive Director - David M. Abrams PhD
Training Director - Ernest P. Smith LCSW-R
Clinical Director - Robin Rayford MA
Academic Dean - Thomas Wagner MA, LPsyA, NCPsyA
Secretary - Rev. Gordon Clay Bailey MDiv
- Victor Bernstein PhD
- Andrea Dixon LCSW-R
Chair Emeritus - Lee Jenkins PhD, LP
Chair Emeritus - Kim Kleinman LCSW
- Marjory Slobetz LCSW, BCD
ADVISORY COUNCIL
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Kirkland C. Vaughans PhD
Institute Honorary Dean - Paula Kliger PhD, ABPP
Primary Consultant - C. Jama Adams PhD (Psychology)
- Neil Altman PhD
- Christopher Bollas PhD
- Phyllis Cohen PhD (Psychology)
- Paul C. Cooper LP, NCPsyA
- Asher Edelman BA
- Michael Eigen PhD
- Harry Fogarty PhD
- Gerald J. Gargiulo PhD, LP
- Edmund. W. Gordon PhD
- Gilbert W. Kliman MD
Board Chair Emeritus - Stephen Kurtz LCSW-R
Institute founder - Merle Molofsky LP, NCPsyA
- Felecia Powell-Williams EdD
- Beverly J. Stoute MD
- Ann B. Ulanov PhD
- Ellen F. Wachtel PhD, JD
- Paul Wachtel PhD
- Julie Zuckerman EdD
FORMER BOARD OR COUNCIL MEMBERS
- Claude Barbre LP, PhD
Executive Director Emeritus - Constance W. Brown LCSW
Institute Founding Trustee - Robert Coles MD
Institute Founding Trustee - James Comer MD
- Howard Dodson
- Barbara Eisold PhD
Institute Chair Emeritus - Rev. Earl Kooperkamp
- Beth Radow
Institute Founding Chair Emeritus - Clive Robinson MD
- Robyn Robinson
- Michael Salhani MA
IN MEMORIAM
- Frederic S. Arensberg
Institute Founding Trustee - Anni Bergman PhD
- Allen Bergson PhD, LCSW
- L. Bryce Boyer MD
- Emory Brooks LCSW
- George S. Getzel MSW
Institute Founding Trustee - Peter L. Giovacchini MD
- James Grotstein MD
- Margaret Morgan Lawrence MD
Institute Founding Trustee
Nation's first African American female pediatrician
Nation's first African American female psychoanalyst - Esther Menaker PhD
- Dolores O. Morris PhD
- Jule Miller MD
- Ned O'Gorman
- Alan Roland PhD
- Martin Schulman PhD
- Cherryetta Williams CASAC, LP, LMHC