Fellowship Program in Psychoanalysis 2016–2017

Program Overview

The Fellowship Program introduces psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic ideas as they relate to treatment, human development, and everyday life. It combines didactic seminars, individual mentoring, and the presentation and discussion of an ongoing psychoanalytic case.

The program welcomes mid-career clinicians, professionals at earlier stages of development, and promising graduate students. Its educationally and culturally diverse cohort typically includes psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors.

K–12 educators and university faculty from all disciplines are also encouraged to apply. The program is especially interested in scholars whose work overlaps with psychoanalysis, including those in the social sciences, education, history, political science, law, business, philosophy, music, and literature.

Program Components

• Didactic seminars addressing ethics, confidentiality, child development, cultural competence, psychoanalytic therapy, and psychoanalysis.
• Participation in a clinical case conference focused on an ongoing psychoanalysis.
• Mentoring by a practicing psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Every effort is made to match educators and academic scholars with mentors who understand their disciplines.

Program Details

Chair: Lynn Friedman, PhD

Co-Chair: Lindsay Brancato, PsyD

Time: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Location: Bethesda, Maryland, near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Little Falls Parkway.

Application fee: $60 for professionals; $45 for graduate students and applicants who graduated fewer than three years ago.

Program cost: Fellowships are fully funded, with no additional fees.

Continuing Education

A total of 18 continuing education units are awarded to eligible physicians, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. These include three units in ethics and three units in cultural competence.

Mentoring

Each participant is assigned a mentor who is a practicing psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Mentoring continues throughout the program and includes individual meetings concerning human development, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic ideas as applied to the fellow’s professional setting, clinical or scholarly activities, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.

Participants are also invited to attend programs offered by the Center.

2016–2017 Schedule

The fellowship consists of six three-hour sessions held in Bethesda from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• January 28, 2017
• February 4, 2017
• February 11, 2017
• February 25, 2017
• March 11, 2017
• April 1, 2017

Faculty

Lynn Friedman, PhD — Chair

Dr. Friedman is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She works with adolescents, adults, and couples, providing evaluation, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. She also has experience in executive coaching and organizational consultation for independent-school and education-association leaders. She serves on the Johns Hopkins faculty and is a Supervising and Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

Lindsay Brancato, PsyD — Co-Chair

Dr. Brancato is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Middleburg, Virginia. She provides evaluation, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis to adolescents and adults. Her areas of focus include anxiety, work-life balance, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, self-assertion, and sexuality. She is a Washington Center for Psychoanalysis faculty member and has provided supervision to clinicians in training.

Johanna Arenaza, PsyD

Dr. Arenaza is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, D.C., working with adolescents and adults in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She earned her doctorate at George Washington University, where she serves as an assistant clinical professor and supervises graduate students in psychotherapy. She completed a postdoctoral internship at Georgetown University and has lectured at universities in the Washington area.

Don Ross, MD

Dr. Ross practices in Baltimore and serves as Medical Director of The Retreat at Sheppard Pratt, a residential treatment program for adults. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and directs psychotherapy training for psychiatric residents. He has taught at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst.

Silvana Starowlansky-Kaufman, MSW

Ms. Starowlansky-Kaufman is a psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in Washington, treating children, adolescents, and adults. She has served on the faculty of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Infant and Young Child Observation Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. She also consults with a nursery school regarding developmental milestones.

Karen L. Weise, PhD

Dr. Weise is a clinical psychologist and child and adolescent psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. She has extensive experience in parent and school consultation. She is a Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and has held faculty appointments at the Washington School of Psychiatry and in a clinical psychology doctoral program.