ABOUT US
- About the School
- Mission Statement
- Annual Report 2006–2007 (pdf)
- Staff
- Board of Directors
- Faculty/Clinical Staff Council
- Program Chairs
- Faculty
About the School
Founded in 1936 by a group led by Harry Stack Sullivan, the Washington School of Psychiatry has a proud history of interdisciplinary teaching and research, training in psychodynamic theory, psychoanalysis, the social and biological sciences, and the study of the contribution of culture to the development of the human mind. It is the largest provider of postgraduate psychotherapy training in the Washington metropolitan area.
The Washington School of Psychiatry was the first institution in Washington to provide post-graduate training to nonmedical psychotherapists. Today's students at the School are psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, pastoral counselors and others seeking professional growth as they meet the increasingly complex mental health challenges in society. Many of the School's alumni/ae have carried its teachings far beyond the Washington area to practices throughout North America and abroad.
In addition to its regular training programs, the Washington School offers a number of conferences, institutes, workshops and lectures during the academic year. It sponsors and publishes research findings through its internationally renowned journal Psychiatry. In addition, the Eugene Meyer III Treatment Center and the Adele Lebowitz Center for Youth & Families, clinics of the Washington School, provide psychotherapy and outreach to the community and offer additional training opportunities to the students in the School's training programs.
The Washington School of Psychiatry is a nonprofit corporation supported by service fees, tuition and charitable contributions.
Mission Statement
The Washington School of Psychiatry is dedicated to the promotion of human welfare through the advancement of mental health. The School offers postgraduate professional education and training, fosters the spirit of inquiry, and offers a wide range of mental health services in the Washington metropolitan area.
The School also is an active center that provides public information, education, and advocacy for the best in mental health scholarship, training and treatment. It invites individuals and organizations from the mental health professions and from the community at large to join in this task.
Building on a foundation of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the Washington School draws in other theoretical and treatment orientations. It encourages dialogue and research that integrate emerging developments from psychological, biological and socio-cultural research while preserving the valuable body of knowledge that has been gathered in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In pursuit of its task, the School continues a tradition of open inquiry and inclusiveness which promotes respect for the uniqueness of every individual. The School strives to foster an environment in which the range of significant differences among individuals (e.g. race, gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, ability and disability, religion, social class) can be better understood, valued, and worked with in our teaching and therapeutic practice. We seek to challenge stereotypes and to develop cultural competence and sensitivity to racism and discrimination through self-reflection, ongoing self-evaluation, and open dialogue.
By honoring these commitments, the Washington School of Psychiatry works to shape an environment that will carry forward the vision of Harry Stack Sullivan and his colleagues.
Staff
- Executive Director
- Harry Gill, MD, PhD
- Administrative Director
- Debbie Schechtman, MBA
- Director, Meyer Treatment Center
- Jane Prelinger, MSW
- Director, Adele Lebowitz Center for Youth & Families
- Mimi Lerer Blasiak, MSW
- Administrative Staff
- Chiquitta Boyd, Administrative Assistant for Treatment Centers
- Lisa Head, Administrative Assistant for School Programs/School Registrar
- William Spruiell, Evening Receptionist
Board of Directors
- Barbara Wayne, PhD, Chair
- Rose-Marie G. Oster, PhD, Vice Chair
- Susan Roth, MSW, Treasurer
- Shoba Nayar, MSW, Secretary
- Michael J. Stiers, PhD, ex officio
- Carolyn Angelo, MSW
- Mauricio Cortina, MD, ex officio
- Pat Davis, MSW, ex officio
- Paula Donovan
- Lucius Durden
- JoAnne Gold, MA
- Mary Gardiner Jones, LLM
- Michael Maccoby, PhD
- Marie Murphy, MSW
- Gail Polsby, MSW
- Marvin Rosenberg, JD, LLM
- Debbie Schechtman, MBA, ex officio
- Nickol Scott-Conerly, PhD
- Bruce Sklarew, MD
Emeritus
- Joan Krash, PhD
- Gerald Perman, MD
- Stanley Sher
- Joseph Slavin, PhD
Friends of the Board
- John Benziger
- Pamela Brewer, MSW, PhD
- John Gordon
- Robert Hirsch
- Marla Spindel
Faculty/Clinical Staff Council
Pat Davis, MSW, Chair
Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, Vice Chair
Program Chairs
- Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program
- Virginia Hendrickson, MSW, Co-Chair
- Betty Ann Kaplan, PhD, Co-Chair
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
- Benson Forman, PhD, Co-Chair
- Jane Nielson, MSW, Co-Chair
- Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice
- Jane Prelinger, MSW, Chair
- Central Concepts in Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Lenore Shapiro, MSW, Chair
- Infant/Young Child Mental Health Training Program
- Georgia De Gangi, PhD, Co-Chair
- Marc Nemiroff, PhD, Co-Chair
- National Group Psychotherapy Institute
- Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, MA CGP, Director
- John Thomas, MSW, CGP, Dean
- Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy Training Program
- Jon Frederickson, MSW, Co-Chair
- Barbara Suter, PhD, Co-Chair
- Psychotherapy Study Groups
- Barbara Cristy, MSW
- Center for the Study of Psychotherapies for the Aging
- George Saiger, MD, Acting Director
- Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
- Robert Ursano, MD, Editor
- Alice Fladung, Managing Editor
- Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities
- Marshall Alcorn, Chair
FACULTY
- Stewart L. Aledort, MD
- Sharon Alperovitz, MSW
- Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, MA
- Carolyn T. Angelo, MSW
- Harriet Basseches, PhD
- Gavin Behrens, MSW
- Marilyn B. Benoit, MD
- Harmon Biddle, MSW
- Deborah A. Blessing, MSW
- Sandra Boots, MSW
- Vivian Boul, MSW
- Kathryn Camicia, PhD
- Richard Chefetz, MD
- William B. Clotworthy, MD
- Mauricio Cortina, MD
- Patricia B. Crowe, PhD
- Marika Cutler, MSW
- Patricia C. Davis, MSW
- Georgia DeGangi, PhD
- Mary Dluhy, MSW
- Susan Doherty, PhD
- Molly Donovan, PhD
- Griffin Doyle, PhD
- Diane Dowling, MSW
- Mary Ann P. Dubner, PhD, CGP
- Benjamin Ellis, MSW
- Paula Ellman, PhD
- Kathryn Ford Patrizia, LCSW
- Benson Forman, PhD
- Denise C. K. Fort, PhD
- Jon J. Frederickson, MSW
- Richard C. Fritsch, PhD
- Macario Giraldo, PhD
- Nancy Goodman, PhD
- Daniel Griffin, PhD
- Nancy E. Griscom, MSW
- Janice Gump, PhD
- Carol P. Hausman, PhD
- John Hayes, PhD
- Marie Hellinger, MSW
- Fonya L. Helm, PhD
- Constance Hendrickson, DSW
- Virginia Hendrickson, MSW
- Carol Hindle, MSW
- Tom Holman, PhD
- Rachael Kaplan, MSW
- Joy Kassett, PhD
- Robert Kayton, PhD
- Maruine K. Kelly, PhD
- Anne L. Kendall, PhD
- Gordon Kirschner, MD
- Gladys Kraft, PhD, MSW
- Jaedene R. Levy, MSW
- Beatrice Liebenberg, MSW
- Nancy Lithgow, MSW, RN
- John Livingood, MD
- Margo Wilson London, MSW
- Leon Lurie, MS
- Kristina MacGaffin, MSW
- Beryce MacLennan, PhD
- Kerry L. Malawista, MSW
- Gwen Martinsen, PhD
- Marilyn Meyers, PhD
- Glenn Miller, MD
- Elizabeth Miller, MSW
- Russell D. Mott, PhD
- Robin Mustain, MSW
- Marc A. Nemiroff, PhD
- Ruth Neubauer, MSW
- Jane Nielson, MSW
- Stephen Paley, MD
- Leon Paparella, MSW
- Kathryn Ford Patrizia, MSW
- Jane Pettit, MSW
- Bruce Pickle, PsyD
- Sarah H. Pillsbury, DSW
- Lenore Pomerance, MSW
- Jane Prelinger, MSW
- Howard Pressman, MD
- David Reiss, MD
- Grace Riddell, MEd, MSW
- Rebecca E. Rieger, PhD
- Mark S. Robinson, PhD
- Shelly Rockwell, PhD
- Seymour Rubenfeld, PhD
- Richard Ruth, PhD
- George Saiger, MD
- Steven Schulman, PhD
- Bob Schulte, MSW
- Rosemary Segalla, PhD
- Carolyn Shank, MSW
- Lenore Shapiro, MSW
- Milton F. Shore, PhD
- Anne Louise Silver, MD
- Stephen Slatkin, MD
- Leslie Fraser Smith, MSW
- Sally Smith, MSW
- Michael Stadter, PhD
- Anne Stephansky, MSW
- Barbara J. Suter, PhD
- Harriet Swankin, MS
- John P. Thomas, MSW
- Ed Turner, PhD
- Maryann C. VandeLoo, PhD
- Steven Van Wagoner, PhD
- Louise Volk, MSN
- Wenola Wade, MSW
- Anne Parker Wake, PhD, PC
- Ayana Watkins-Northern, PhD
- Karen Weise, PhD
- Barry Wepman, PhD
- Thomas R. Wessel, EdD
- Serena Wieder, PhD
- John Zinner, MD
- Elizabeth Zinner, MSW
Emeritus:
- Bernardo Hirschman, MD
- Robert K. Kahn, MD
- Joseph Lichtenberg, MD
- Joan Krash, PhD
- Michael Maccoby, PhD
- Morris Parloff, PhD
- Gerald Perman, MD
- Gail Polsby, MSW
- Leon Salzman, MD
- Irving Schneider, MD
- Charles Seashore, PhD
- Isaiah M. Zimmerman, PhD