Faculty
Adrian Sanchez
Adrian Sanchez
Adrian Sanchez, PsyD, ABPP, FABP, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst based in Portland, Oregon. He is board certified in psychoanalysis by both the American Board of Psychoanalysis and the American Board of Professional Psychology. He completed his analytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where he recently taught De-Colonial and Queer Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and is also affiliated with the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. His forthcoming publications address topics such as borderline personality disorder, code-switching, and erotic transference, with attention to their intersections with the social world and their clinical implications. He serves as a consulting editor for Psychoanalytic Inquiry and, alongside his colleague Nicole Nelson, co-organized the (Re)Centering Psychoanalysis conference, which focused on centering the experiences and needs of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ psychoanalytic clinicians.
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Co-teaching with Nicole Nelson
Ann Pellegrini
Ann Pellegrini
Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at New York University and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Their books include: “Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race”; “Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance” (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen); and “You Can Just Tell By Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People (coauthored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico). “You Can Just Tell By Looking” was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-fiction. Their most recent book is Gender Without Identity (coauthored with Avgi Saketopoulou). They are also the founding co-editor of the “Sexual Cultures” book series at New York University Press.
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Femininity and its Discontents: Gendering, Un-gendering, Re-gendering
Avgi Saketopoulou
Avgi Saketopoulou
Avgi Saketopoulou is a Cypriot and Greek psychoanalyst practicing in NY. She serves on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and her publications have received numerous prizes including twice the annual prize of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (in 2014 and 2023), and the Ralph Roughton and the Symonds Prizes. In 2021 she was the recipient of Div.39’s Scholarship Award and her interview on psychoanalysis is in the permanent holdings of the Freud Museum (Vienna). Her 2023 monograph, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press) braids psychoanalysis with performance studies, philosophy, and queer of color critique to explore the vicissitudes of overwhelm and repetition. She is co-author, with Ann Pellegrini, of Gender Without Identity (2023, Unconscious in Translation Press), which includes a re-worked version of the essay for which they received the IPA’s First Tiresias Prize. She is in critical conversation with Dominique Scarfone in The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the wake of Jean Laplanche (2023, Unconscious in Translation Press), and is currently working on her next book project provisionally titled The Offer of Sadism. Avgi is constantly surprised with how a field of study that can be so filled with wonder and excitement and which gives us so many tools with which to think in radical, even revolutionary ways, is too often flattened into something too stale and inert. She is passionate about teaching psychoanalysis and about riding motorcycles: her love of these two is only surpassed by her love of queers.
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Carter Carter
Carter Carter
Carter J Carter is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, a small rural public college. They have also taught psychoanalysis at the University of Pennsylvania’s DSW program, where they were affiliated faculty with the Psychoanalytic Studies Program; Smith College School for Social Work’s MSW program; Lesley University’s MA program in Expressive Arts Therapy; and various institutes and organizations around the US. They have spent many years teaching psychoanalysis to anyone who wants to learn about it. Besides teaching, they maintain a private clinical practice in psychoanalysis, couples therapy, and individual and group clinical supervision; serve as a union leader for the Massachusetts state university librarians and professors; run Mayday Farm, a working hill farm in rural New England; and serve on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender & Sexuality and Psychoanalysis Culture & Society. Their first book, “Bound to Lose: How Fascism Came for Psychoanalysis” is under contract with Routledge, and they are at work on two other manuscripts–a monograph on anarchist psychoanalysis, and a collection of essays on agrarianism and psychoanalysis. Their academic articles have recently been published in journals including Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. They also write a Substack, Psycho Analyst. In 2023, they received the Diversity Award from APA Division 39.
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Chanda Griffin
Chanda Griffin
Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, is a teaching, training, and supervising analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and co-director of the one-year program Psychoanalysis and the Socio-Political World, and Clinical co-director of MIP. Additionally, she is a faculty member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. (NIP),The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP)and an Adjunct Professor at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work at Hunter College. Chanda is the co-author of The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiratial Cohort (with Rossanna Maria Echegoyén and Julie Hyman) and author of Psychoanalytic Dialogues “snapshots,” Who’s on my couch: BIPOC subjectivity and the climate crisis and Grief and Loss, Hopes and Desires the MIP blog essay: Red Pill Psychoanalysis and the Matrix of Racial Roles, and the Psychoanalytic Activist,: Centered. Her presentations, The White Supremacist Within and Transgenerational Racial Trauma and Dissociation, are currently in press. Chanda is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and is in private practice in New York City.
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Faculty
Faculty
Faculty is a writer and psychotherapist from New York City. He is in private practice where he also provides clinical supervision and WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Mentorship. He is on faculty at School of Visual Arts in both the MPS Art Therapy and Humanities & Sciences departments. His research lab at SVA studies embodiment and trans phantoms. He is also part of the Faculty of Psychology for the Diploma in Psychotherapy and Mental Health in Sexual Diversity of Gender at Universidad Diego Portales – Centre for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (CEPPS-Centro de Estudios en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia) in Santiago, Chile, the Global Education Institute for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and WTCI, Feminist Psychotherapy Institute. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on clinical practice, gender theory, and research on trans embodiment one of which, Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors, was the winner of the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has chapters in the edited volumes Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach, and Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapy. His first book, Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gende,r was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2020. He was named a Fulbright Specialist for 2024-2027.
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Griffin Hansbury
Griffin Hansbury
Griffin Hansbury, LCSW-R, is a trans-identified psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. His analytic writing on transgender (and cisgender’s response to it) has appeared in several journals, including the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. His paper “The Masculine Vaginal: Working with Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge” received the Ralph Roughton Paper Award and has been translated and published internationally, where it has proudly stirred up controversy. In addition to his analytic work, Griffin is an author of fiction and creative non-fiction, including the Stonewall Award-winning novel Some Strange Music Draws Me In, as well as (under his pen name, Jeremiah Moss) Feral City and Vanishing New York. His writing on gentrification and urban life has appeared in numerous publications, including n+1, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He is currently most interested in exploring what happens psychically to the trans body/person in the cisgender imaginary; in particular, how transmasculinity is handled by that imaginary in ways different from transfemininity; and also how trans negativity can be put to clinical use, especially in a time of systemic transantagonism.
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Jess Olson
Jess Olson
Jess Olson, Ph.D., L.P. (she/her) is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan. She is a former academic and historian and a graduate of Oxford University and Stanford University. She received her analytic training at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and is currently an -instructor at NYPSI of Developments in Ego Psychology, a co-instructor of Research Methods in Psychoanalysis, and a founding member of the NYPSI Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities (CRCD). She is currently at work on multiple projects, including a publication on the negotiation of transference and countertransference as a transgender analyst, and the psychodynamics of gender identity formation. She is currently working on a larger project, a book on the maturation of psychoanalysis under the Second Generation analysts in Weimar Germany and the Republic of Austria in the 1920s. Most of her time, though, is devoted to her practice in Manhattan, which specializes in work within the Queer/LBGTQ+ community.
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Conceptualizing gender identity in psychoanalysis past and present
Jyoti Rao
Jyoti Rao
Jyoti M. Rao is a psychoanalyst and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and holds faculty appointments at The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis, The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and other organizations. Her publications, which explore the intersection between unconscious process and social phenomena, have appeared in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Parapraxis Magazine, Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and elsewhere. Excited about the prospects of a psychoanalysis whose dimensions are still unfolding, she is dedicated to furthering a 21st century psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work is committed to decolonial and feminist methodologies and especially interested in psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionist studies. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the immediate past-President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39) and co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press).
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Marco Posadas
Marco Posadas
Marco Posadas is a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Psychologist (MEX), and earned his PhD at Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. He currently operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Marco is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association, and most recently was the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. He is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA, where he developed the IPA’s sexual and gender diversity strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe, North American and Latin America; and the creation of the first IPA Tiresias award. Marco is co-editor of the forthcoming book “Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences” published by Routledge. He is faculty at several psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training institutes across North America and Latin America where he works to investigate the impact of prejudices in psychoanalytic institutions and in the mind of the clinician when working psychoanalytically with LGBTQ+ and racialised peoples, and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma. Specifically anti-black racism, white supremacy, and homotransphobia in psychoanalytic clinical practice, and ways to prevent and/or repair harm when caused by the clinician. Marco has worked in the HIV and mental health sectors for almost 30 years, and received the Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award at the University of Texas at Austin – Steve Hicks School of Social Work in 2018. Marco served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award for his work with underserved and marginalized populations, and the Distinguished Social Worker of the year for Toronto award in 2022. He is currently working in his first book project titled “Psychoanalytic Clinic of Prejudices: Workiing with Homotransphobia, Anti-Black Racism and White Supremacy in the Mind of the Clinician.”
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Psychoanalytic Technique Series (course offered in English and Spanish with readings in English)
Mary Kim Brewster
Mary Kim Brewster
Mary Kim Brewster, Ph.D. is a founding faculty member of The Center for Asian American Psychoanalysis and the Director of the Serious Mental Illness and the Family Project of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York. She is an executive editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the guest editor of the special edition of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25(4): On Being Asian in America. Her academic and clinical writing, focusing on therapy process and the subjective experiences of minoritized persons in psychotherapy, has been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Family Process. She received the Diversity Award from APA Division 39. She supervises in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and has a private practice in New York.
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Nicole Nelson
Nicole Nelson
Nicole Nelson, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Sacramento, California, specializing in working with clients who are exploring their being/identities, transforming experiences previously saturated in familial, gender, and/or cultural trauma into vital pathways for engaging more fully with life. In addition to teaching in various graduate programs in psychology, Nicole is also a faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where they have co-taught “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Diversity, Power, and Privilege,” and “Decolonial and Queer Perspectives in Psychoanalysis” as well as is co-chair of the Task Force to Address Racism and Homophobia. While several parts of analytic training left deep gouges, one of the unequivocally best parts was meeting their accomplice in making trouble, Adrian Sanchez. Together they co-convened a conference called “Recentering Psychoanalysis,” and that is what Nicole feels grateful to continue to do here with even more accomplices (!!) in P-Hole. In their clinical work, writing, and teaching, Nicole, an avid lover of chaos theory, is always interested in bringing in different perspectives from other fields of thought just to see what the heck emerges. (It is a really good thing that they are a therapist and not a chemist). Nicole is currently writing too many articles and theoretically should be making headway on a book on severe dissociative phenomena titled “Side by Side.” Their articles have been published in Psychoanalysis Self and Context, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and they are on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and part of the team that brings free conversations regarding psychoanalysis, multiple times a month, in the “Contexts and Connections” series and “Decentralized Learning Experiences” through Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Finally, in addition to being painfully resistant to writing bios, Nicole is fortunate to be the parent of three (mostly) delightful human beings, is partner to a wonderful wife who taught them about love, and is probably way too obsessed with their cat.
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Co-teaching with Adrian Sanchez