Child Faculty

Anita K. Bryce, Ph.D.

Anita K. Bryce received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Vanderbilt University and her MSW and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated from the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Programs of the Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

She has directed a children’s partial hospitalization program and an adolescent day treatment program and has spent 34 years in private practice in McLean, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Dr. Bryce is a teaching analyst at the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Center and the Washington Psychoanalytic Center. She serves as Director of the Washington Psychoanalytic Child/Adolescent Training Program.

Recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner by the National Academies of Practice, she is also a past president of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Society. Her publications address partial hospitalization for children, mental health worker burnout, and mental health law.

Carla Elliott-Neely, Ph.D.

Carla Elliott-Neely is a teaching analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and is trained in child and adult psychoanalysis. She is a past president and Secretary-Elect of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, Inc., and a consulting psychoanalyst to Jubilee Jumpstart, a Washington, D.C., daycare and pre-kindergarten program.

Her publications cover Anna Freud, developmental disharmony, childhood parental loss, creativity, adolescence, and pre-latency psychopathology. She has also written books about sublimation and the collected writings of Hansi Kennedy. She is in private practice in Washington, D.C.

Lucie Greenblum, M.D.

Lucie Greenblum is an adult and child analyst who has conducted analyses in both French and English. She has published on empathy and analytic listening and has presented talks at the French International School, including a talk on adolescence.

She is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital. Formerly a teaching analyst at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, she is now a teaching analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She has chaired a Study Group on Close Process Attention and organized and chaired a symposium on terrorism following the September 11 attacks.

Jill M. Miller, Ph.D.

Jill M. Miller is a teaching faculty member and a child, adolescent, and adult Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute. She completed child and adolescent training at the Anna Freud Centre in London and adult training at the Denver Psychoanalytic Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London.

Dr. Miller teaches and supervises psychoanalytic candidates locally and nationally and has written on subjects related to children and adolescents. She is in private practice in Washington, D.C.

Nydia Lisman Pieczanski, M.D.

Nydia Lisman Pieczanski is a child and adult psychoanalyst trained at the British Psychoanalytical Institute. She is a training and supervising analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Washington School of Psychiatry.

She founded the Observational Studies Program: Seeing the Unseen in Clinical Practice at the Washington School of Psychiatry and serves as scientific adviser to the Mind in Mind Infant Observation Program in Beijing, China.

Dr. Pieczanski has published papers on child, adolescent, and adult analysis. She co-edited The Pioneers of Psychoanalysis in South America and reviews work for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Karen Weise, Ph.D.

Karen Weise is a clinical psychologist and child and adolescent psychoanalyst trained at the Anna Freud Center in London. She is a member of the Professional Psychology faculty at George Washington University and has served on the child and adolescent faculty at the Center for Psychoanalysis since 2003.

Dr. Weise previously held clinical positions at the Developmental Clinic at Children’s National Medical Center and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children. In her Northwest Washington, D.C., practice, she provides clinical supervision and psychological testing and works with children, adolescents, and young adults in individual psychotherapy. Her special interests include autism spectrum disorders, adoption, and gender fluidity.