Message from our President Tom Taylor
Happy 75th Anniversary Celebration!
Special thanks to our 75th Anniversary Committee for setting the stage to celebrate our professional life together.
Our 75th Anniversary invites us to build upon Reik’s legacy so that NPAP continues evolving for a challenging world.
Happy 75th!
Tom Taylor
75th Anniversary Committee Members
Eileen Bahl, Chair
Jayne Bloch
Dana Holloman
Jennifer Knobe
Jennifer Neely
Courtney Ritter (MITO)
Ann Rose Simon
Jeffrey Werden
Training Institute of NPAP Board of Trustees
Thomas S. Taylor, President
Joyce Rosenberg , Vice President I
Paul Kaiser, Vice President II
Cirstin Conneely, Secretary
Sherman Pheiffer, Parliamentarian
Jan Roth, Ombudsperson
John Augliera, Director, Finance Group
Gerald Gargiulo, Director, Centers and Services Group
Elizabeth Singer, Director, Communications Group
Penny Rosen, Director, Programs Group
Deborah Keith, Director, Training Group
Peter Zimmerman, President Emeritus
Christopher Wolter, MITO Chair
Membership Governance Committees
Archives Library & Research Committee
John Augliera
James Holmes
Glenda Hydler, MITO Rep.
Michael Mashberg, Chair
Doris Solomon
Facilities Committee
Paul Kaiser, Chair Finance Committee
John Augliera, Chair
Joel Gold
Yoel Paredes-Rodriguez, MITO Rep.
Ann Rose Simon
Fundraising Committee
Orly Marcovich
Michael Mashberg
Carolyn Zezima, MITO Rep.
Membership Governance Committees
Information Technology Committee
James Holmes, Chair
Thomas S. Taylor
Legislation & Community Liaison Committee
James Holmes, Chair
Parthenia Caesar, MITO Rep.
Marketing & PR Committee
Steven Yagerman
NPAP Community Building Committee
Penny Rosen
Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center Committee
Mary Edlow
Charlotte Kahn
Edith Laufer
Aideen Nunan
Ann Rose Simon, Chair
Robert Wolf
Margaret Yard
Membership Governance Committees
Continuing Education Program Committee
Michael DeSimone
Alice Entin, Chair
Judy Ann Kaplan
Isolde Keilhofer
Edith Laufer
Loveleen Posmentier
Continuing Education Program Committee
Gavriel Reisner
Monique Rinere, MITO Rep.
Penny Rosen
Suzan Sherman, MITO Rep.
Claire Steinberger
Hanna Turken
Standards and Ethics Committee
Gary Ahlskog
Ann Akers
Jayne Bloch
Dan Heimowitz
Tamar Opler
Douglas Maxwell, Chair
Training Group Governance Committees Director, Deborah Keith
Candidate Progress Committee
Amanda George
Neil Herlands
Deborah Keith, Pro Tem
Jessica Low, MITO Rep.
Candidate Services Committee
Dana Berg, Chair
Ronnie Moskowitz
Diane Sperber
TRCC & Clinical Experience Committee
Kathryn Harrison, MITO Rep.
Debra Kupersmith
Robert Middleton
Kerstin (Tine) Pahl, Chair
Lois Wedin
Curriculum Committee
E.Francisco Danielsen-Morales
Alan Dobler
Jamie Keesling, MITO Rep.
Susana Martinez, Chair
Harry Organek
PPLC
Art Pomponio, Director
Faculty and Supervisors Committee
James Holmes, Chair
Mary Lantz
Victoria Malkin
Monique Rinere, MITO Rep
Christopher Wolter, MITO Rep. Outreach & Admissions Committee
Dana Berg
Parthenia Caesar, MITO Rep.
Cirstin Conneely
Gina Gold, Chair
Our Past Presidents 1950 to 1973
President and Honorary President
Theodor Reik, 1950–69
Vice President
Clement Staff, 1950–52
Vice President
Otto Spranger, 1952–53
Vice President
Jule Nydes, 1953–55
Vice President
Reuben Fine, 1955–57
President and Vice President
Gus Woltmann, 1961–64
Vice President
Edward Frankel, 1957–58
Vice President
Saul Gurevitz, 1958–59
President
Ethel L. Clevans, 1964–67
President
Harold Greenwald, 1967–68
Vice President
Jacques Palaci, 1959–61
President
Matthew Besdine, 1968-73
Our Past Presidents 1973 to 1990s
President
Mildred Lerner, 1973–74
President
Armand Gargiulo, 1984–88
President
Annette Overby, 1974–77
President
Elizabeth Thorne, 1977–80
President
Seymour Coopersmith 1980–84
President
Elizabeth Thorne, 1988–90
President, Training Institute
Paul Cornyetz, 1990–92
President-Association
Seymour Coopersmith, 1990–94
Our Past Presidents 1990s to 2008
President, Training Institute
Paul Cornyetz, 1990–92
President, Training Institute
Gerald J. Gargiulo, 1992–96
President, Association
Linda J. Korb, 1994–98
President, Training Institute
Gary Ahlskog, 1996–2000
President, Association
Harvey A. Kaplan, 1998–02
President, Training Institute
Seymour Coopersmith, 2000–04
President, Association
Jeffrey Werden, 2002–06
President, Training Institute
Ruth Oscharoff, 2004–08
Our Past Presidents 2006 to Present
President, Association
Paul Kaiser 2006-2010
President, Training Institute
Sherman Pheiffer 2008-2012
President, Association
Carl Weinberg 2010-2014
President, Training Institute
Art Pomponio 2012-2016
President, Association
Jeffrey Werden 2014-2018
Elizabeth Singer 2018-2021
President, Training Institute
Peter Zimmermann, 2016-2021
President, Training Institute of NPAP
Tom S. Taylor 2021-Present
The 75th Anniversary Celebration Committee
wishes to thank all those who contributed in some way to making this evening, NPAP’s Diamond Anniversary, sparkle. They are:
John Augliera
Gerald Gargiulo
Joel Gold
James Holmes
Rusty Horn
Charlotte Kahn
Paul Kaiser
Edwin Levy
Michael Mashberg
Nancy McWilliams
The Tom Placido Trio:
Tom Lutri (candidate), Corenin Le Hir, Vin Scialla
Art Pomponio
Katherine Rabinowitz
Monique Rinere
Alan Roland
Joyce Rosenberg
Beverly Schneider
Charlotte Schwartz
Tom Taylor
The 75th Anniversary Celebration Committee
wishes to acknowledge and thank Jennifer Knobe and Dana Holloman for their tireless work in bringing this beautiful evening to fruition. Their imagination and skill advanced the vision of the Committee in ways we sometimes could not even imagine.
Eileen Bahl, Chair; Jayne Bloch; Jennifer Neely; Courtney Ritter (MITO); Ann Rose Simon; Jeffrey Werden
Congratulations to my former student and colleague, Theodor Reik, on the 75th year of the psychoanalytic institute he envisioned and founded.
Thank you to our NPAP community, past and present, for enriching my life personally and professionally.
May our legacy endure.
Thank You NPAP
For preparing me well for my profession and offering me so many cherished colleagues and friends!
With much Gratitude,
To NPAP, cent’anni!
To all of our friends and colleagues, we are thrilled to share the 75th with you.
With gratitude for and in recognition of the 75th Anniversary Committee and NPAP’s Professional Staff. Jennifer Knobe, Dana Holloman, Lois Wedin, Irwin Cohen and Philip Cohen
NPAP’
A special thank you to Sherman Pheiffer for introducing me to NPAP via TRCC so many years ago.
My life has been profoundly affected in so many positive ways as a result.
Congratulations, NPAP, on 75 years of affecting other lives as you have mine. With gratitude,
Mary Edlow expresses her gratitude to her analyst, supervisors, instructors, and friends and colleagues for sharing with her the adventure of a lifetime - psychoanalysis.
I want to celebrate and remember some of the teachers who inspired me, as well as colleagues/friends, Jacques Palaci, Ernestine Haight, Theodor Reik, Tom Levin, John Herma, Sy Coopersmith, Joe Reppen, Ann Wexler.
In 1965, when I enrolled, NPAP was the only Institute that would train someone with my background. It is my home.
Ph.D., FIPA, L.P.
Celebrating NPAP's 75th Anniversary In appreciation of Lois Wedin’s 45 years of dedicated and exemplary work.
& In memory of Lew Aron, a great teacher, and Mort Israel who revived NPAP archives and interest in Theodor Reik.
LCSW
I initially trained at another Institute and graduated after five years. While what I learned there wasn’t bad, it was clearly not sufficient. I enrolled at NPAP and trained for another seven years with stellar teachers, supervisors and a new analyst.
It is to NPAP that I owe, and will be eternally grateful for, the superior learning that made me the therapist I am today.
In loving memory of Anita Bookey Sy Coopersmith
Alana Verber Fein
Joan Klein
Rebecca Kuzma
Arnold Rose
High praise to the NPAP faculty during my MITO years, 1986 to 1995, with special thanks to Ed Levy.
Laughing so hard in Eileen’s car that it shook.
Listening to 3-y.o. Izzy sing “Georgia on My Mind” on 9th Street.
We were having so much fun we forgot to go to the presentation we signed up for.
Quiet at a brunch at Maggie’s as we learned that Aleksandra was in labor. Ten women hoping together. This is what I cherish.
Congratulations to NPAP on its 75th anniversary.
therapy and training.
An enduring source of excellence in psychoanalytic
We are pleased to have been a part of NPAP’s distinguished history and look forward to its continuing success.
I salute all NPAP Members & Staff for the past, present and future.
With enduring thanks to my analyst, Lou Berkowitz, who embodied NPAP's best values and left us too soon.
On its 75th anniversary I would like to express my deep appreciation to NPAP, its faculty, and all the volunteers and staff that make it work, for having given me my professional life as an analyst.
At NPAP I found my community, along with lifetime colleagues and friends.
And I am thankful to all the candidates-in-training who, with their desire to learn and exchange ideas, have enriched my professional life for four decades.
I am forever grateful.
Here’s to NPAP, in gratitude.
With deep gratitude to Theodor Reik, and to all the administrators, MITs, faculty, supervisors and Board members, past and present, who have carried his legacy forward at NPAP and made this moment possible for all of us.
I congratulate NPAP on its ever-evolving mission to improve the quality of training while maintaining an affordable therapy clinic which is responsive to the needs of the community.
As we join in the celebration of NPAP’s 75 years: We remember with deep gratitude
Art Robbins… and the memory of all those departed and treasured members who helped us to Become…
The psychoanalysts and people we are Today.
Arnold Brenner
Alice Entin
Joel Gold
Nancy McWilliams
Lois Wedin
Jeff Werden
Robert Wolf
The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center congratulates NPAP for 75 years of training & collegiality and for giving members and candidates the opportunity to serve the community.
With Gratitude,
Mary Edlow, Joel Gold, Charlotte Kahn, Edith Laufer, Aideen Nunan, Ann Rose Simon (Chair), Robert Wolf, Margaret Yard
Eileen Bahl, Chair
Jayne Bloch
Dana Holloman
Jennifer Knobe
Jennifer Neely
Courtney Ritter (MITO)
Ann Rose Simon
Jeffrey Werden
Congratulations to NPAP on its 75th Anniversary. We are honored to have helped create a celebration worthy of such a storied institute.
With love and appreciation to Amanda George and Elizabeth Singer.
In the Spring Trimester 1995 you both came into my life and changed it forever.
Congratulations to NPAP on its 75th Anniversary. We thank NPAP for the friends we made, the education we received, and the community of which we are a part.
In Gratitude,
Eileen Bahl
Barbara Bergier
Amanda George
Deborah Keith
Judith Newman
Jacqueline Padilla
Joyce Rosenberg
Sue Sawyer
Elizabeth Singer
Maggie Zellner
In honor of Toni Levi, Fundraising Consultant.
Rusty Horn, Michael Mashberg, Tom Taylor, Carolyn Zezima
In memory of Laura Eadsan early member, student of Theodor Reik.
Len Strahl, Ernest Angel, and Saul Tuttmanmy supervisors.
NPAP has changed professional and personal lives for the better for 75 years.
May it continue to do so for the next 75 years.
With so much appreciation and gratitude to my friends, colleagues, instructors, mentors who accompanied me and still accompany me on my path as an analyst. And especially to
Jim Holmes
Joan Klein (z"l)
Merle Molofsky
Sherman Pheiffer
Peter Zimmermann
Four and a half decades ago, TRCC was suddenly without an intake worker and Art Robbins brought me to NPAP for a few weeks to cover the position . . . and well, I never left.
It’s been my pleasure to share with so many of you in the unfolding of who your patients are and who they may become. I hope that those of you who are close to the end point of your career have had great satisfaction in it – that if you’re mid-career, you’re reaping it now – and if new, you’ve started to taste it. What better work could we all have chosen for ourselves than one that allows us to help people to discover themselves and heal and flourish.
Sending my appreciation down the chain of elected Directors of TRCC who have poured their attention and creative energy into TRCC. Loving thanks to my workmates, Jennifer Knobe and Dana Holloman, a great administrative team, my steady support (and a lot of fun).
The American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis, Inc.: Leading accreditation for psychoanalytic institutes!
The ABAP, Inc. congratulates NPAP on 75 years of leadership for independent psychoanalysis!
In gratitude for committee members and Chairs, of all volunteer committees, standing and ad hoc. In honor and celebration of the members and candidates of NPAP.
President NPAP
NPAP has given me a wonderful profession, wonderful colleagues and friends for life. Special thanks to Art Robbins, Moss Rawn, Hermann Waldman, Gus Woltman, Annabella Nelkin, Charlotte Kahn, and Edith Laufer all of whom greatly impacted on my life. With Gratitude and love to all.
Expressing my gratitude to John Augliera, Kayla Christmas, Irwin Cohen, Philip Cohen, Michele Durst, Ellen Gasnick, Jennifer Knobe, Sarina Meones, Racial Justice Initiative Committee, Penny Rosen, Joyce Rosenberg, Liz Singer, Judith Stollerman, Tom Taylor, Lois Wedin, and Jeff Werden.
THANK YOU for being who you are and making my administrative career at NPAP a true delight.
Congratulations to NPAP for excellence in enabling the understanding of psychoanalysis for 75 years.
I miss you both.
In honor of my 2 mentors and dear friends, Sy Coopersmith and Art Robbins.
I am grateful for the remarkable opportunity I was given at NPAP to study psychoanalysis and become a certified psychoanalyst. I want to pay tribute to those who mentored me, and inspired me, particularly Art Robbins, Gerald Gargiulo, and Michael Eigen, and to my dear friend
Douglas Maxwell, who shared so much with me as we were candidates together and shared an office suite together. Also, my analyst, Helen Goldberg, and my supervisors, Robert Mollinger and Leila Lerner.
Congratulations to NPAP on this very special anniversary. A toast to everyone—from those who brought NPAP to life, to those who nurture it, to others who will keep it going and growing. While I couldn’t attend the Gala in person, I am with you in spirit, filled with admiration and gratitude for our wonderful organization.
I ran quickly through all this, often head-first into many I’d not know half as well had I not been running so fast. I walk more nowadays, reading/learning more fearlessly (teaching to double the fun) in the vain hope of true belief. This shift was NPAP’s Gift.
While moved by many, a heartfelt salute to J/D/L/K, to all those Deans I’ve loved before, and those who’ve spent years of their lives bringing me closer: Anne, Jim, Jayne, Brian, Neil, Gary and too many other instructors & classmates, to name. Thank you!
Thank you NPAP for creating a nurturing environment that has supported our continued growth as psychoanalysts. For over 38 years our peer supervision group has met weekly in its various configurations.
Current Members:
Linda Washburn
Robert Benton
Jayne Bloch
Amanda George
Deborah Keith
Former Members:
Naomi Berman
Virgil Roberson
Penny McCarthy
Lana Shaw Levine
To my generous supervisors
Simone Sternberg, Joseph Reppen, Judith Newman, Naama Kushnir-Barash and Marion M. Oliner
With gratitude
I am grateful to NPAP for providing me with wonderful analysts, control analysts, faculty and colleagues who have sustained me in my practice for so many years. I am grateful for having opportunities to teach and supervise upcoming analysts. It has also been an honor to serve on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review.
Special Tributes to:
Psychoanalyst, Alvin Kulick & Outstanding Supervisors, Lee Minoff
Bob Mollinger; Brilliant teacher and mentor, Charlotte Schwartz
Ever- Inspiring Chairperson, Alice Entin and the CE Program Committee:
M.DeSimone, J.Kaplan, I.Keilhoffer, G.Reisner, P.Rosen, H.Turken, C.Steinberger
In memory: Janet Finnel, Anita Bookey, Murray Gelman, Harriet Podhoretz, Yaffa
Wetizman
I make this donation on behalf of my niece, Alida Margolin, a member since 1994. NPAP has been uniquely meaningful to her, and she especially wants to honor Jerry Gargiulo.
To Kayla for her commitment. To Jeff for offering me this position.
To Liz & Peter for mentoring and guiding.
To Debbie & the Friday 8am Executive Committee who greet me with a smile.
To John who makes me laugh and to Joyce who says what I need to hear.
To ALL candidates who teach, empathize, and travel the journey.
To Tom, Michael, Rob and Tine your ears and hearts are larger than most.
To Eileen & the 75th Committee for affectionally undertaking how to build a professional home.
To the Huddle Dream-Team ~ Teamwork is Dreamwork
Dana for your honesty and deep commitment; Lois for your support and understanding.
To the cornucopia of diversity that keeps NPAP strong.
The FARTs
Taking psychoanalysis to new heights
Congratulations to NPAP on our 75th .
Sherman Pheiffer, Jeff Werden, Robert Wolf, Jonas Gayer, Arnold Brenner
(FART)
John Augliera
Elaine Barry Parker Douglas
Judith Greenwald
Joe Kruft
Magik Cleaning Services
Merle Molofsky
Jerold Nashban
Lynn Somerstein
Hanna Turken
Maggie Zellner
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