Richard A. Bollinger, Ph.D. - He is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University. He will use the fellowship to continue to develop his understanding of psychoanalytic theory; to better understand the place of a patient’s religiosity and spirituality in therapy; and to consider creativity in the arts from an analytic perspective. His mentors are Drs. Edward Hicks and Jack Solomon.
Lauren Elliott, M.D. – She is a PGY – 4 psychiatry resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The subtle differences among people and how their behavior reveals facets of their personality drew her to a career in psychiatry. During her residency she has become interested in women’s mental health, the development of the therapeutic relationship, and issues concerning transference and countertransference. She will make use of the fellowship to deepen her understanding of these areas with an emphasis on childhood development and dynamics that may predispose women to postpartum depression. Her mentors are Drs. Lana Fishkin and Eva Loeb.
Christine Etzrodt, M.S. – She is a Psy.D. candidate in Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Chestnut Hill College. Her interest and enthusiasm for psychodynamic interventions stems from an internship and supervision under the guidance of Bob Kravis at the Physical Rehabilitation Department at Abington Hospital. Prior to this experience she only understood theory and didactics and has since appreciated the special place it has in clinical work and understanding. She will use the fellowship to deepen her theoretical, technical and clinical understanding of the therapeutic and transference relationship. Her mentors are Drs. Marc Inver and Robert Kravis.
Anique Forrester, M.D. – She is a PGY – 4 psychiatry resident at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She has had a lifelong fascination with the mind, how people view the world, and how they manage to navigate through it. Her interest in psychoanalytic thought is a natural extension of these interests. She will use the fellowship to expand her knowledge of psychoanalytic therapy to better understand clinical work and to educate others in her future academic pursuits. Her mentors are Drs. Sally Holtz and Craig Lichtman.
Cristina R. Laurita, Ph.D. - She is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of Duquesne University. She has had a lifelong fascination with language and psychology. She began her graduate studies enrolled in an English Ph.D. program at the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture in Buffalo, N.Y. Her interest developed beyond theoretical constructs and into more clinically focused work, which led her to pursue clinical training. She will use the fellowship to deepen her interest in exploring the border of what can and can’t be said, specifically by studying trauma and its language from an analytic perspective. Her mentors are Drs. Elaine Zickler and Fred Fisher.
Nell Manning, Ph.D. - She is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a graduate of the University of Virginia Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program. Her previous career as a teacher impressed her with an appreciation of the importance of healthy psychosocial development, and her graduate research focused on attachment theory, emotion regulation, and family processes. Her current concentration in working with patients suffering from cancer also adds dimensions to her clinical work. During her fellowship she hopes to improve her understanding of psychoanalytic character diagnosis, defense mechanisms, and developmental/structural theories. Her mentors are Drs. Christine Huddleston and Andrew Smolar.
Sandy Rhee, D.O. - She is a recent graduate from Albert Einstein’s Psychiatry Residency and currently is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Thomas Jefferson University. She was exposed to psychoanalytic concepts, ideas and views in her residency and hopes to use the fellowship to expand her psychoanalytic understanding and clinical technique with child work. Her mentors are Drs. John Frank and Fran Martin.
Elisabeth Z. Roland, Psy.D. – She is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at PennsylvaniaHospital and a recent graduate of the Chestnut Hill College Clinical Psychology Program. Priorto internship, much of her clinical work involved trauma with patients in the community health system. She will use the fellowship to deepen her understanding of how to applypsychodynamics theory to work with traumatized and borderline patients with an emphasis on issues surrounding transference. Her mentors are Drs. Gary Flaxenburg and Sydney Pulver.
Marna Sternbach, M.D. – She is a psychiatrist who recently completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and now works at the university health service at Temple. In the years prior to psychiatric training she worked as a family doctor for 28 years where her deepest satisfaction came from making relationships with people over the years and trying to understand their lives and families. She will use the fellowship to learn to hear and understand more fully the underlying and often unconscious feelings, conflicts, and motivations in patients and particularly in the college age population. Her mentors are Drs. June Greenspan-Margolis and Bruce Levin.
Karen Thomas, M.D. - She is a PGY – 3 psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center. She plans to continue her studies by entering a child and adolescent fellowship. During her residency she has gained an appreciation of how psychodynamics can help her clinical work. She will use the fellowship to deepen her understanding of psychoanalytic knowledge in the clinical situation for adults, children, and adolescents. Her mentors are Drs. Daniel Freeman and Corrine Masur.
Holly Valerio, M.D. – She is a PGY – 4 psychiatry resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her undergraduate interest in geology and earth history has found a more direct human connection in her recent fascination with emotional upheavals in childhood and layers of adult development. She will use the fellowship to explore the results of childhood trauma in adult psychological structure and personality. Her mentors are Drs. Richard Cornfield and Barbara Young.
Alan Pichanick, Ph.D. – He is a 2005 graduate from the Department of Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago who taught the last four years in the interdisciplinary Great Books program of St. John’s College, in Annapolis, MD. His academic experience and teaching has involved a wide array of courses which has included Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Literature, Medieval and Modern philosophical, religious, and literary texts, history of mathematics and science, as well as, American, British, and French Literature. The themes that have always underpinned his interests have related to psychoanalytic concepts: the nature of desire, the structure of the mind; the role of unconscious mental processes; and the origins of language, shame and guilt. He currently teaches in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University. He will use the fellowship to enrich his understanding of analytic concepts and theories which would contribute to his work on desire and human understanding in ancient philosophical texts. His mentors are Drs. Jeffrey Applegate and Elio Frattaroli.
Anna Baumgaertel, M.D., F.A.A.P. — She is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who has been a researcher and medical academician. She was practicing at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia until 2008. She recently started her own private practice of developmental behavioral pediatrics in Narberth PA. She is involved with evaluations and management of children with a wide variety of neurodevelopmental problems, especially ADHD and autism. She is interested in the fellowship to better understand the application of psychoanalytic ideas and approaches to these children and to the support of their families. Her mentors are Drs. Barbara Shapiro and William Singletary.
Maria Lozano Celis, M.D. — She is a PGY -3 psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center. She brings unique educational experiences to the fellowship since she completed a psychiatry residency in Medellin, Columbia and also receiving a diploma from the Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She will use the fellowship to increase her understanding of psychoanalytic concepts and explore psychoanalytic views of religion, psychosomatic syndromes and dream analysis. Her mentors are Drs. Alex Glijansky and Diana Rosenstein.
Andrea Doyle Ph.D. — She recently moved from Seattle after finishing her Ph.D. to take a tenure track position at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Her interest in dynamic processes in clinical encounters has led her to training in a variety of research methods. She has explored the measurement of psychoanalytic processes and has discovered dynamic clinical processes are measurable in very sophisticated ways. She will use the fellowship to discuss a research design for study and explore an article for publication in the area of clinical process. Her mentors are Drs. Lawrence Blum and Ann Smolen.
Jonathan M. Kersun, M.D. — He is a psychiatrist in private practice in Swarthmore PA who is also the Medical Director at Child Guidance Resource Centers in Havertown. He will use the fellowship to deepen his understanding of child development, pathology, assessment, and treatment. He will also use the fellowship to better understand psychodynamic theory and technique in his clinical work with his patients in practice. His mentors are Drs. Bernard Comber and Ruth Fischer.
Kevin Scott McCarthy Ph.D. — He is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of University of Pennsylvania Psychology Doctoral Program. His professional goal is to become a professor of psychology at an area college or university and would like to present his students with a more even handed view of psychodynamic theory than he received at the undergraduate level. He will use the fellowship to gain a better understanding of basic concepts, theory, technique and analytic process. His mentors are Drs. Fredrick Miller and Mark Moore.
James Rahn, M.F.A. — He is a writer and teacher who has published many stories and articles and taught at Penn for 15 years. In 1988 he started the Rittenhouse Writers’ Group, a series of quarterly fiction writing workshops. In his years of teaching he has seen the need for in-depth exploration of the unconscious factors that can prevent writers from delivering their hearts to the page. This interest led him to participate in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program. He will continue to explore these interests in the fellowship with special attention to the psychodynamics involved with writers block, and difficulty starting or sustaining creative projects. His mentors are Dr Eric Lager and Ms. Susan Levine.
Ilana Vine — She is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she majored in English and Theater and minored in creative writing. She has experience as an actor, director, playwright, and dramaturg and has been involved in 13 college productions. She will use the fellowship to study psychoanalysis as it applies to theater, specifically the relationship between director and actors. She is interested in exploring inhibitions and conflicts which restrict actors from becoming more fully engaged in their performances. She is also interested in transference phenomenon between actors and directors in order to understand the complexities of their working relationships. Her mentors are Drs. Deena Adler and Fredrick Fisher.