Heather Ferguson, LCSW is faculty and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis Certificate in Trauma Studies and the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment, all in NYC. She is a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR. She has written about eating disorder treatment, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She is a member of the Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC) and Co-Book Review Editor for Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context.

Jackie Gotthold, Psy.D. is currently serving on the Executive Committee at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City, in addition to be a supervisor, faculty member and training analyst. Jackie has been a faculty member and supervisor for the Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as having taught for various institutes in the US and abroad.
A longtime member of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), Jackie established the Child and Adolescent Initiative at IAPSP and has served on the International Council of IAPSP. Also, a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), Jackie continues to serve on the IARPP Child and Adolescent interest group committee. In addition to these affiliations, Jackie served as a board member of the American Psychology Association’s Division 39, Section II (Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis) for 15 years. Jackie continues to present at conferences in the US and abroad.
Currently, Jackie is editing a volume for Psychoanalytic Inquiry on child and adolescent treatment during COVID in the “ZoomRoom”. Jackie has guest edited journals, as well as having published numerous chapters and articles on child, adolescent and adult clinical theory. Jackie practices in New York City, treating children, adolescents and adults.

Arthur A. Gray, Ph.D. an honorary member of IPSS, is faculty, supervisor, and serves on its Coordinating Committee. He is also faculty and supervisor at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society’s Group Therapy Department, and at the Training Institute for Mental Health, and council member of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He consults with self psychology groups in South Africa and in Japan, and conducts supervision online using his group supervisory model. His published articles apply self psychology and subjectivity theory to individual, couples, group, and supervision. He has a special interest in how improvisation informs the therapeutic process. In private practice in New York City, Arthur treats adults using individual, couples, and group psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

D. Bradley Jones, Psy.D, LCSW is a faculty and Coordinating Committee member at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) in NYC, and also instructs at The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA. His special interests include working with substance use and self-harming behaviors, long term survivors of HIV/AIDS, and those who are maneuvering the challenging world of the entertainment industry. Dr. Jones has twice been keynote speaker at The Dancer’s Resource Conference held by The Actor’s Fund in NYC, has been published, and has presented his work on Psychoanalytic Harm Reduction in Los Angeles, CA., San Francisco, CA., San Antonio, TX, Baltimore, MD., and NYC. He maintains a private practice in Greenwhich Village, NYC. www.drdbradleyjones.com

Peter Kaufmann, Ph.D is faculty and supervisor at IPSS and co-coordinator of the IPSS four -year program. He has a particular interest in comparative psychoanalysis and in efforts to integrate the clinical approaches and sensibilities represented by different theoretical perspectives.  He also has published several papers including “The Guilt of Tragic Man”, “Working with Men Who Please Too Much”, and “On Transforming the Reparative Quest” that reflect his additional interest in the topics of mourning and pathological accommodation. Along with Jenny Kaufmann, he has written recent papers, Emerging from the Shadows of Parental Narcissism, We have Met the Enemy and It Is Us and A Battle Cry for Our Moment: Revisiting the Two Analyses of Mr. Z., that explore the clinical issues and process involved in working with the effects of traumatic narcissism.

Frank Lachmann, Ph.D. is a founding faculty member of The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. He has been a major contributor to Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology. In their joint work, Frank Lachmann and Beatrice Beebe have enriched psychoanalysis by providing life-long principles of the organization of experience, derived from empirical infant studies, that offer new ways of understanding and potentially transforming the analyst-patient relationship. Dr. Lachmann has uniquely been able to draw on his love of music to inform the analytic process. Utilizing master classes taught by Isaac Stern, and the music of Richard Wagner and Igor Stravinsky, he discovered illustrations of cross-modal transfer and violations of expectations. As a writer, scholar, teacher, and supervisor, Frank Lachmann continues to surpass our expectations with humor, complexity, a depth of tradition, and breadth of innovation. Lachmann is the author of over 100 publications and books written individually and collaboratively with Beatrice Beebe, Jim Fosshage, Joe Lichtenberg, and Bob Stolorow. He is the author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations.

Peter Lessem, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has been treating individuals and couples for over thirty years. He has also been a clinical supervisor and faculty member at Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) as well as other analytic institutes. Peter has taught courses on therapeutic action, self psychology, intersubjectivity and attachment. In addition to his textbook Self Psychology: An Introduction, he has also written and lectured on masochism, the repetition compulsion, and the relationship between attachment and self object experience.

Deborah Sherman, BC-DMT, LMHC is a certified Psychoanalyst and Dance/Movement therapist. She currently supervises at IPSS and is on faculty at IPSS, NIP and ICP. Her recent focus is both teaching and publishing has been on subjects of gender, sexuality, race and the contemporary application of WR Bion’s thinking. Deborah is the Chairperson of IPSS’s Coordinating Committee and directs IPSS 1-year and Advanced 1-year Intensive Psychotherapy Programs. She maintains a private practice in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy in NYC.

Marc Sholes, LCSW is a board member, faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) as well the Co-Director of Curriculum for their Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis.  He is also on the Council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and maintains a private practice in New York City.  Marc’s current interest has to do with the relationship between Attachment Theory, Infant Research and Self Psychology.

Shaké Topalian is an ANA Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She supervises and teaches at IPSS and PPSC and is the Chair of the IAPSP Early Career Professional Scholarship Committee. She has a particular interest in transmission genocide trauma developed in her published paper Ghosts to Ancestors: Bearing Witness to “My” Experience of Genocide.

Administration

Olga Bidun is IPSS’s Administrative Coordinator. Her responsibilities include maintaining the Institute’s schedules and communications. Prior to IPSS, Olga worked in the international travel and insurance industry. She graduated from Salisbury University with a Bachelor of Arts in French. A naturalized U.S. citizen from Belarus, Olga speaks Russian, English and French. She is happily married and lives with her husband and daughter in Manhattan. In her spare time, Olga is a successful real estate agent.