The Psychoanalytic Society was established in 1992 to meet the needs of the Training Instiute's graduates and faculty. The actual practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be a lonely, isolating pursuit, especially after the stimulation and socializing aspect of analytic training. The Society affords practicing psychoanalytic therapists the opportunity to renew or deepen their affiliation with the Training Institute's professional community. Theoretical, clinical and practical issues are addressed in a variety of formats and settings.

Society Steering Committee

Joan Erdheim, PhD, President
Judy Muldoon, LCSW, Secretary/Treasurer
Lee Kramer, LCSW
Carol Guber, LMSW
Dorothy Lahm, LMSW
John McCaffrey, MFA

The Associates: the Community Education Program of the Training Institute for Mental Health

President: Jay E. Korman, LCSW

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.

Continuing Education Department

Director: Susan Spieler, PsyD

The Continuing Education Department of the Training Institute offers a variety of one-day workshops and on-going courses to physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, guidance and rehabilitation counselors, teachers, clergy and related mental health professionals.

Workshops are designed to explore various treatment modalities and therapeutic techniques and to assist the practitioners' efforts to keep current with new developments in the field of mental health. Past workshops have included Psychopharmacology, Working with the Difficult Patient, Couples Therapy: The Search for Intimacy, Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives in the Treatment of Depression, Treatment Issues in Psychotherapy with the Elderly, Treatment of the Borderline Personality, and Psychotherapy with Latency Age Children.

The workshop faculty is drawn from a variety of specializations and reflect differing schools of treatment.

The yearly program of workshops is sent to our mailing list and upon request.

The Women's Center at TI

Director: Judith Stein, MA, LCSW

In 2005, Doctors Anna Keefe and Wilma Cohen Lewis founded The Women's Center (TWC) at TI -- the first center of its kind to be established at a psychoanalytic institute. TWC's mission is to understand women's development from a relational, cultural and psychoanalytic perspective. The goal of TWC is to treat women specifically and to provide public education to the community on a wide variety of women's development issues from adolescence through adulthood, motherhood, mid-life and beyond. We hold groups, workshops, seminars and symposiums, which address the various issues pertaining to women at the different stages of their lives.

For further information about any aspects of our programs, please see Calendar of Events or contact the Training Institute and request our full bulletin of training programs. You can also email us at: tifmh@earthlink.net.