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 - 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 - Rev. Sheila Johnson MPS, LP
- Kim Kleinman LCSW
- Kealy Ny BA
- Marjory Slobetz LCSW, BCD
- Rev. Sulton Stack Jr. DMin
ADVISORY COUNCIL
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Kirkland C. Vaughans PhD
Institute Honorary Dean - C. Jama Adams PhD (Psychology)
- Neil Altman PhD
- Christopher Bollas PhD
- Emory Brooks LCSW
- Phyllis Cohen PhD (Psychology)
- Robert Coles MD
Founding Trustee - James Comer MD
- Paul C. Cooper LP, NCPsyA
- Howard Dodson
- Asher Edelman BA
- Michael Eigen PhD
- Harry Fogarty PhD
- Gerald J. Gargiulo PhD, LP
- Edmund. W. Gordon PhD
- Paula Kliger PhD, ABPP
Primary Consultant - Gilbert W. Kliman MD
Board Chair Emeritus - Stephen Kurtz LCSW-R
Institute founder - Merle Molofsky LP, NCPsyA
- Felecia Powell-Williams EdD
- Alan Roland PhD
- Beverly J. Stoute MD
- Ann B. Ulanov PhD
- Ellen F. Wachtel PhD, JD
- Paul Wachtel PhD
- Julie Zuckerman EdD
- IN MEMORIAM
- Anni Bergman PhD
- Allen Bergson PhD, LCSW
- L. Bryce Boyer MD
- 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
- Martin Schulman PhD
- Cherryetta Williams CASAC, LP, LMHC