Steering Committee

    If you would like more information, you can email a member of the Withholdapadues
    Steering Committee with your questions:  

    Ghislaine Boulanger:          Ghislaine_Boulanger@ Psychoanalysis.net
    Martha Davis:                     madavis95@aol.com
    Diane Ehrensaft:                dehrensaft@earthlink.net
    Ruth Fallenbaum:               ruthfallenbaum@comcast.net
    Brad Olson:                        b-olson@northwestern.edu
    Frank Summers:                 franksumphd@hotmail.com

    Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D.,  is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private
    practice in New York City and she is a member of  the teaching and supervisory faculty
    of the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.  

    Dr. Boulanger began her career as a psychologist as a member of a team of social
    scientists studying the effects of combat on Vietnam veterans. That early research
    shaped her professional commitment to combat all forms of violence.  Her most recent
    book, Wounded by Reality: Treating and Understanding Adult Onset Trauma was
    published by The Analytic Press in March 2007. Dr. Boulanger has been a member
    of the American Psychological Association for 25 years.

    Martha Davis, Ph.D., has conducted nonverbal communication research on a
    number of topics, including therapist-patient interactions and clinical state changes
    in psychotherapy. She has published numerous articles and books on nonverbal
    communication.  Recently retired from private psychotherapy practice, Dr. Davis is
    currently Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City
    where she conducted a study of videotaped criminal confessions.  

    She has consulted with homicide detectives of the New York Police Department
    among others on lines of inquiry to follow based on analysis of taped interviews.   
    Due to her forensic research and consulting work, Dr. Davis has had to address
    the ethical issues of working with investigators for many years.  

    Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is a developmental and clinical psychologist in Oakland,
    California.  She has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley,
    The Wright Institute, and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.  

    Her research and publications are in the areas of child development, parent-child
    relations, reproductive technology, and gender.  She is also a founding member of
    A Home Within, a national organization addressing the emotional needs of children
    and youth in foster care, including the provision of long-term pro bono psychotherapy.

    She has been active in APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis)  as a division board member,
    as a board member of Section III (Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis) and Section II
    (Childhood and Adolescence), membership chair of Section II, and a general member
    of Section IX (Psychoanalysis and social Responsibility).

    Ruth Fallenbaum, Ph.D., is a psychologist in practice in Berkeley.  She has worked
    for 11 years with Survivors International, providing mental health services to refugees
    and victims of torture.  She is an adjunct faculty member at The Wright Institute,
    Berkeley, is past board member of Section IX (Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility)
    of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and she has been a member
    of the APA for 18 years.

    Brad Olson, Ph.D. is a community, social, and personality psychologist. He is
    research faculty at Northwestern University in the Foley Center for the Study of
    LIves and the School of Education and Social Policy. His research areas include
    community action, public policy, human rights, nonviolence and the narrative
    study of lives.

    He is the past chair of the Divisions for Social Justice (DSJ), a collaborative of
    12 divisions within the American Psychological Association, working on social
    justice issues within psychology.
       
    Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP, a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, is a
    Supervising and Training analyst at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis,  
    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern
    University Medical School, and a faculty member of The Chicago Center for
    Psychoanalysis, the Minnesota Institute for Psychoanalysis, the Wisconsin
    Institute for Psychoanalysis, and The Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalysis.  

    Currently President-Elect of Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility, Dr. Summers
    maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
    in Chicago, Illinois. His most recent book is Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy
    and the Art of the Possible (TAP, 2005.)
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