Committee Roster

2023-2024 Academic Year

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division

TBA

Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PAPPTP)

Neil Brast, MD, Catherine Phillips, LCSW & Tina St. Lorant, MFT, Co-Chairs

Admissions:Dena Sorbo, LCSW, BCD
CEUs (Acting):Maureen Smith Ruffell, MD
Faculty & Curriculum:Neil Brast, MD and Jana Kahn, PhD, Co-Chairs
Recruitment:Hila Maoz Mezer, MA, LMFT and Catherine Phillips, LCSW
Special Projects:Michael Smith, PhD and Sharon Levin, LCSW
Student Development / Case ConsultantsAnn Martini, LCSW
Consultation:Celeste Birkhofer, PhD and Lovina Chahal, MD

San Francisco Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (SF-PPTP)

Maria Longuemare, MD, PhD, Acting Program Chair
Lara Weyland, PhD, Associate Program Chair

Admissions Chair:Lucas Broster, MD, PhD
Admissions Committee:Robert Eskuchen, MD, Katherine Fraser, DMH, Rhys Mason, PsyD, Kyra Minninger, MD, Aneesh Nandam, MD, Marc Wallis, LCSW and Lara Weyland, PhD
Curriculum Committee Chair::Ruth Simon, PhD
Curriculum Committee and Faculty Development:Mark Sexton, PhD and Ania Wertz, PhD, PsyD
Outreach Chair:Beth Steinberg, PhD (acting)
Student Advisor/Mentor:Jessica Ferranti, MD
Supervision Chair:Lara Weyland, PhD

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPPTP)

Madeleine Lansky, MD, Chair

Admissions Chair:Michael Pastor, PhD
Dean:Chaya Rivka Meyerson, PsyD
Faculty Support Committee:Mary-Stone Bowers, MFT and Michael Pastor, PhD, LMFT
Supervision Chair:Gregory Villalba, LCSW
Committee Members At-Large:Shahla Chehrazi, MD, Paul Brinich, PhD, Erika Solis, LMFT, Lilly Hanson, MFT, Kiyomi Ameriks, MD

Upcoming Events

Saturday, June 14, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation
Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella
Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 East Bay Yearlong Program: Tuning into the Unspoken: Navigating the Landmarks of Unconscious Experience
Eric Miller, PhD; Elizabeth Stuart, MD; Graeme Daniels, LMFT; Marty Mulkey, LMFT; Chandra Rai, LMFT; and Luciane De Mello, LCSW
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Event title to be announced
Hannah Zeavin (presenter)
Fridays, September 26, 2025 to May 8, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 San Francisco Yearlong Program: Continuous Case Conference
J. Marc Wallis, LCSW; Paul Alexander, PhD; Genie Dvorak, PsyD; Bronwen Lemmon, LMFT; and Walt Beckman, PhD (case conference group leaders)
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Psychoanalytic Transformation in the Clinical Setting: Case Presentations from a Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspective
Henry Markman, MD; and Sandy Pepper, MD (speakers)
Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy
Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Scientific Meetings
THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN
Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (presenter); Charles Fisher, MD (moderator)
Wednesdays, October 15, 2025 to May 27, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 Seasoned Clinicians Program
 Jeffrey Sandler, MD; Clara Kwun, LCSW; Mark Swoiskin, MD; Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW; Michael Wagner, PhD, MFT; Joanna Wise-Bradman, LCSW, Dorian Newton, PhD; and Catherine Mallouh (leaders)
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Creativity in the Clinical Setting: Case Discussions from Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspectives
Jan Ole Luuk, LLM (presenter); Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP; and Paul Watsky, PhD, ABPP (discussants)
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents
Mary Brady, PhD (presenter); Jill Sallberg, PhD, ABPP (discussant)
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