ABOUT MIP
Committees at MIP
Along with the Board of Directors, the internal workings of MIP are structured according to a broad range of committees, each of which is usually led by two co-chairs. Below is a brief description of each of MIP’s committees as well as a listing of their respective co-chairs and members.
COMMITTEES LOOKING FOR MEMBERS
Admissions Committee
Finance Committee
International Connections Committee
Admissions Committee
The Admissions Committee at MIP is responsible for receiving and reviewing applications to MIP’s Candidate Training Program and Advanced Candidate Training Program in Psychoanalysis. The Admissions Committee interviews applicants to both programs and is responsible for the selection of candidates accepted to train at MIP. The Committee also hosts an informational Open House each year.
Kate R. Sullivan, Ph.D., Chair Term 1: 2019-2022, Term 2: 2022-2025
Raquel Limonic, LMHC Term 1: 2018-2021, Term 2: 2021-2024
Tamar Vishlitzky, LICSW Term 1: 2022-2025
Robert J. Riethmiller, Ph.D. Term 1: 2022-2025
Caleb Englander, LICSW Term 1: 2022-2025
Marta Casas, LMHC Term 1: 2022-2025
Academic Outreach Committee
The Academic Outreach Committee seeks to create connections between analysts and academics. The committee offers study groups, courses, and programs designed to bring analysts and academics together to learn from each other and to stimulate interdisciplinary thinking.
Michael Reison, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2020-2023
Dennis Plant, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2020-2023
Continuing Education Committee
The Continuing Education Committee (CEC) is responsible for overseeing the provision of continuing education credits at MIP. We aim to be able to offer sufficient CE credits for candidates and members of all disciplines within our training programs and selected community programs, respectively.
Susan Schiff Geist, M.D. Term 1: 2019-2022 , Term 2: 2022-2025
Robert Riethmiller, Ph.D. Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022
Continuing Studies Committee
The Continuing Studies Committee (CSC) offers continuing education courses and learning opportunities to MIP members and non-MIP members in the greater Boston area and in the Pioneer Valley region in western Massachusetts. These opportunities for professional development advance an immersion into psychoanalytic theory, concepts, and practice with a sense of collegiality and community.
Susan Schiff Geist, M.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2019–2022, Term 2: 2022–2025
Sherri Ettinger, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2017–2020, Term 2: 2020–2023
Kira Glassman, LICSW Term 1: 2023–2026
Shannon Mackey, LICSW Term 1: 2020–2023
Curriculum Committee
The mission of the Curriculum Committee is to implement a curriculum that provides MIP candidates with intensive experience in comparative psychoanalysis. To this end, the committee oversees curriculum design across the four years of training; recruits, selects and assigns faculty to teach semester courses and winter intercession courses; coordinates faculty and course evaluations; and holds faculty meetings and development workshops.
Anna Lucia Stothart, Psy.D., LMHC, Co-Chair Term 1: 2014-2017, Term 2: 2017-2020, Term 3: 2022-2025
Mary McDonald, LICSW, Co-Chair Term 1: 2016–2019, Term 2: 2019–2022, Term 3: 2022–2025
Gloria Lynne Barbacoff, LICSW Term 1: 2022–2025
Elizabeth Bernstein, Ph.D. Term 1: 2022-2025
Elizabeth Canick, Psy.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Laurence Chud, M.D. Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Deborah Dowd, LICSW Term 1: 2022-2025
Angela Jones, Psy.D. Term 1: 2019-2022, Term 2: 2022-2025
Marina Kasdaglis, LMHC, MA, Ed.M. Term 1: 2022-2025
Barbara Pizer, Ed.D., ABPP Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Stuart Pizer, Ph.D., ABPP Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022
Ethics Committee
The MIP Ethics Committee is dedicated to cultivating the highest level of ethical conduct within the MIP community and in the psychoanalytic community at large. The committee is tasked with developing and revising ethical policies and procedures, educating candidates and members about ethical principles, and facilitating consultation on any policy or events that have an ethical dimension.
Jade McGleughlin, LICSW, Chair, Term 1: 2018-2021, Term 2: 2021-2024
Stuart Pizer, Ph.D. ABPP, Chair Emeritus, Term 1: 2020-2023
Ginger Chappell, Ph.D. Term 1: 2006-2009, Term 2, 2020-2023
Joyce Klein, LICSW, Term 1: 2023-2026
Deborah Dowd, LICSW Term 1: 2020-2023, Term 2: 2023-2026
Sherri Ettinger, Ph.D., LICSW Term 1: 2020-2023, Term 2: 2023-2026
Finance Committee
The purpose of the Finance Committee is to oversee all financial matters of MIP. Chaired by the treasurer and an additional co-chair appointed by the President, it reports to the board on budgetary, regulatory and other financial aspects of the Institute with the board retaining ultimate fiduciary responsibility.
Laurence Chud, M.D., Co-Chair, Term 1: 2023-2025
International Connections Committee
The International Connections Committee (ICC) was formed at MIP to provide the membership with opportunities for lively contact and ongoing exchange with members of the international psychoanalytic community. We facilitate and host local presentations by international analysts in an informal format dedicated to open discussion.
Joyce Klein, LICSW, Co-Chair Term 1: 2014-2017, Term 2: 2017-2020, Term 3: 2020-2023
Raquel Limonic, LMHC, Co-Chair Term 1: 2014-2017, Term 2: 2017-2020, Term 3: 2020-2023
Membership Committee
The Membership Committee, typically comprised of a Chair who works closely with MIP’s administrator, is responsible for the collection of annual dues from the membership. The committee is also available to speak to prospective and current members about any questions related to membership at the organization.
Kate Roy Sullivan, Ph.D, Chair Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3: 2022-2025
Nominations Committee
The MIP Nominations Committee is charged with the responsibility for overseeing MIP’s yearly elections for Board members (Faculty, Graduate, Member, Candidate representatives, as well as President, Secretary, Treasurer). The Committee solicits nominations from the membership, places them before a vote, and addresses any election-related questions or difficulties.
David D. Kemmerer, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2021-2024
Tracey Hurd, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2023-2026
Postgraduate Fellowship Committee
The Postgraduate Fellowship (PGFP) Committee is charged with the development and oversight of a year-long psychoanalytic educational fellowship program based in the Metro Boston region of Massachusetts. The PGFP Committee develops the fellowship curriculum, recruits faculty, reviews fellowship applications, and facilitates an advanced introduction to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice for post-graduate clinicians.
Keren Porat, Psy.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2019-2022, Term 2: 2022-2025
Mal Slavin, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3: 2022-2025
Laura Burnham, LICSW Term 1: 2023-2026
Amy Sweigenberg, Psy.D. Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3 2022-2025
Marcus Shaw, Term 1: 2023-2026
Postgraduate Fellowship West Committee
The Postgraduate Fellowship West Committee is charged with the development and oversight of a year-long psychoanalytic educational fellowship program based in Western Massachusetts (Pioneer Valley region).
David Levit, Ph.D., ABPP, Chair Term 1: 2011-2018, Term 2: 2018-2022, Term 3: 2022-2025
Stacey Novack, Psy.D. Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Benjamin Addleson, PhD Term 1: 2022-2025
Program Committee
The Program Committee is responsible for the provision and coordination of psychoanalytic learning opportunities for MIP and the analytic community that represent MIP’s mission of being a comparative psychoanalytic institute. The committee specifically offers Saturday morning scientific programs, panels, and workshops (held at Cambridge Hospital), as well as courses, pre-Program seminars, and candidate-only presentations that offer opportunities for deeper immersion and study.
Dan Fishman, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Term 1: 2023- 2026
Barbara Bolibok, Ph.D., LICSW, Co-Chair, Term 1: 2023-2026
Jessica Somers, LICSW Term 1: 2021-2023
Milay Lemos, Term 1: 2023-2026
Andrea Bleichmar, Psy.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Susan Hileman, LICSW: Term 1: 2024-2027
Deborah Dowd, LICSW: Term 1: 2024-2027
Stechler Child and Adolescent Fellowship Committee
The Stechler Child and Adolescent Fellowship Committee is charged with the development and oversight of year-long fellowship for early to mid-career mental health professionals interested in psychodynamic approaches to child and adolescent psychotherapy and for experienced professionals seeking to expand their work. The Stechler Committee develops the curriculum, recruits faculty, reviews fellowship applications, and facilitating the fellowship.
Sharon Greenfield, Psy.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Elizabeth Slater, Ph.D., Co-Chair Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3: 2023-2026
Elizabeth Bernstein, Ph.D. Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3: 2023-2026
Michael Reison, Ph.D. Term 1: 2016-2019, Term 2: 2019-2022, Term 3: 2023-2026
Mary Calabrese, Ph.D. Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Joann Frankhouser, Psy.D. Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Sydney Schafer, LICSW Term 1: 2021-2024,
Jeanne Strassburger, Ph.D. Term 1: 2017-2020, Term 2: 2020-2023
Training Committee
The Training Committee oversees and facilitates the educational experience of each candidate and each cohort of candidates through close collaboration with candidates and supervisors. The Training Committee is responsible for pairing candidates with MIP liaisons, who form a central part of their Candidate Advisory Committee (CAC).
Caleb Englander, LICSW, Co-Chair, Term 1: 2023-2026
Robert Riethmiller, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Term 1: 2023-2026
Debra Abrams, LICSW, Term 1: 2023-2026
Ruth E. Bell, LICSW, Term 1: 2023-2026
Elisheva Dan, Ph.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
David Doolittle, Psy.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Paul Efthim, Ph.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Sara Emerson, MSW Term 1: 2023-2026
Tanya Ozbey, Ph.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Susan Schiff Geist, M.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Tamar Vishlitzky, LICSW Term 1: 2023-2026
Liang Yuan, M.D., Ph.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
Ilyse Zable, Psy.D. Term 1: 2023-2026
West Program Series Committee
The West Program Committee is comprised of a group of psychotherapists in the Pioneer Valley (Amherst-Northampton area) who run smaller, salon-style presentations and programs in the Amherst area. This committee is be responsible for vetting West program proposals, generating program series, arranging for spaces, hosting the events, and coordinating with MIP’s administration for the MIP West Program Series.
David Levit, Ph.D., ABPP, Chair Term 1: 2023-2026
William Feinstein, PhD Term 1: 2023-2026
Evelyn Pye, PhD Term 1: 2023-2026
Ira Sharkey, IAAP, LMHC Term 1: 2023-2026