Education and Training Committee

David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP, is the Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and Professor at the University of Indianapolis, Graduate Programs in Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a diplomate in Psychoanalysis, of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is one of the founders and a Past-President of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education; current President of the Chicago Open Chapter for the Study of Psychoanalysis; the Co-Chairperson of the Division 39 Education and Training Committee; the Past-President of Section IV (Local Chapters), a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Psychology; and the President of Section V (Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Clinicians). He is the former Dean of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study, in Chicago, from which he received his formal psychoanalytical education and training. He also maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, and consultation/supervision in Chicago and Indianapolis.

Martha Hadley, PhD, the Co-Chairperson of the Education and Training Committee, is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. She is involved in research, mostly with children on 21st literacy skills and their acclamation to technology in their daily lives. As a Contributing and later Executive Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality she has reviewed, edited, and written papers in the area of gender with particular interest in coming of age, adolescent girls and their relations both with their mothers and each other. Her interest in psychoanalytic education has developed over ten years of supervising and teaching in the graduate program of the Smith College School for Social Work, including courses on Object Relations Theory, Inter-subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Theories in Social Context. She has recently written an introductory chapter on Relational Theory for a text-book on clinical social work practice.

Jed Yalof, PsyD, ABPP, Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and School Neuro-Psychology; certified in psychoanalysis, Philadelphia Center of Psychoanalytic Education; Immaculata University, Department of Graduate PsychologyDepartment Chair and Professor; Co-ordinator, PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology. Dr Yalof has many years’ experience as a Professor and Administrator of an APA-accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology, and is the author of the book, Training & Teaching the Mental Health Professional. He has presented and published extensively on diverse psychoanalytically-related topics as:Psychoanalytic Interviewing, Personality Assessment, Learning Disability, Supervision, Psychotherapy, and Ethics.

Marc I Lubin, PhD, was the founding Dean of the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He is presently Full Professor, Argosy University/Orange County, Clinical Psychology Program. He has over thirty-five years of experience as professor and administrator in psychoanalytically-oriented APA-accredited clinical psychology programs and other multi-disciplinary programs. Dr Lubin has written and presented extensively on the following: Counter-transference and the therapeutic relationship, Supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Listening for validation in psychotherapy; Interventions in psychotherapy, Understanding disturbed children in the classroom, On Teaching graduate students in clinical psychology.

Barry Dauphin, PhD, is the current Program Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology of the University of Detroit-Mercy. Dr Dauphin is a Past-President of Section IV, Local Chapters and the current Representative to the Division 39 Board of Section IV. He is the President of the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has a private practice in Birmingham, Michigan.

James Hansell, PhD, is on the Faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ally Merchant, MA, is a student member of the Committee. She is a doctoral candidate at Adelphi University’s program in Clinical Psychology.

Kristen Cole, MA, is a student member of the Committee. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Indianapolis, school of Psychological Sciences.

Emily Johnson, MA, is a student member of the Committee. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Indianapolis, school of Psychological Sciences.

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