Community Relations Department

Director: Anna Keefe, Ph.D.
Assistant Director: Noel Meehan, M.S.W.

This department provides services to community groups such as businesses, schools, social agencies and health organizations with the goal of introducing the psychoanalytic perspective to their efforts to resolve psychological and social problems.

The Community Relations Department sponsors a Speakers Bureau designed to offer talks and workshops to the community. The Department also offers businesses, social agencies, and others, consultation services to assist them in handling various interpersonal and management issues.

Community Practicum. Students in their third or fourth year will be expected to complete a practicum under the supervision of the Community Relations Department. This involves the giving of a series of lectures/workshops to a community group or an internship in sources, programs, or conferences.

Associates of the Training Institute

President: Hillary Volper CSW

The Associates of the Training Institute for Mental Health was formed in 1969. The group is primarily concerned with bringing greater mental health awareness to the community by sponsoring a variety of educational programs such as lectures, panel discussions, and film showings. These programs are attended by mental health clinicians, teachers, students, clergy, artists and businesspeople.

The Associates is a non-profit organization whose main source of strength and income is its membership. Annual membership includes admission to all programs within that program year,

Funds raised by the Associates are donated to the Training Institute for either general purposes or to provide fellowships to qualified students. The Associates sponsors an annual award for the best community project by a student of the Training Institute.

The Carole Dilling Memorial Lectures

Carole Dilling's all too brief life exemplified much of what is finest within the field of psychoanalysis. The major portion of Carole's professional life was spent within the purview of the Training Institute. She began her psychoanalytic career as a very talented student at the Training Institute and, after graduation, quickly rose to the position of Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst. Dr. Dilling's blend of compassion, curiosity and quiet firmness had a profound influence on her students and colleagues. Carole Dilling was also keenly involved within the broader psychoanalytic world. Her interest in female psychology and women's issues led her to participate in the creation of a Section on Women and Psychoanalysis within the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. In memorializing Carole Dilling, we remind ourselves of our own potential for positive action.

A special committee of faculty, staff members, and graduates of the Training Institute organize the Carole Dilling Memorial Lectures. Dale Mendell, Ph. D., chairs it. In view of Carole Dilling's interests, the lectures are devoted to contemporary issues within female psychology. The featured speakers within recent years have included such well known and respected psychoanalysts as Joyce McDougall, D.Ed., Ethel Person, M.D., Dinora Pines, M.D., Phylis Tyson, Ph.D., Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D., Judith Wells, Ph.D., and Harriet Wrye, Ph.D.

To receive information on our next program, please contact the Institute and ask to be placed on our mailing list, or email the institute at TrainingInstMH@aol.com.