Section II: Childhood and Adolescence

Members are child clinicians who practice psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and who conduct research in the area of child psychoanalysis. A major goal is to increase, through the development of study groups, communications among Section members.

Membership in Section II is open to members of APA, Division 39, students, and those in affiliated mental fields.

Section II Representative: Toni Heineman, DMH

• President:  Norka T. Malberg, PsyD

• President-Elect: (Open)  

• Past President:  Jill Bellinson, PhD

• Secretary:  Susan Fabrick, PhD

• Treasurer:  Toni Vaughan Heineman, DMH

• Membership Chair:  Diane Ehrensaft, PhD/Virginia Schiller

• Communications Committee: Susan Goodman

• Members at Large:
  Jackie Gotthold, PhD
  Sylvia Lester, PhD
  Shelly Petnov-Sherman, PhD
  Michael Ritter, PhD
  Richard Ruth
  Virginia Shiller
  Thomas Barret
  Brenda Lepisto

• 2010-2011 Section II Report (PDF, 14KB)

• After Trauma, Hidden or Obvious: Possibilities for Treatment

• The Inner Predator: Trauma and Dissociation in Bodily Self-Harm (PDF, 222KB)

• Psychic Trauma, Annihilation, Anxieties and Psychodynamic Treatment (PDF, 96KB)

Lifetime Service Award

Anni Bergman, PhD