Board of Trustees and Advisory Council

The Institute's Board of Trustees, which holds ultimate responsibility for the Institute's affairs, is led by an highly honored psychoanalyst Chair and generally meets quarterly.

The Institute's Advisory Council includes senior psychoanalysts distinguished by many years of excellence in their analytic work and their research, writing or teaching, and other experts, who offer the Institute their counsel as needed.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

  • Michael Connolly MPA, LP, NCPsyA

    President & Executive Director
    Psychoanalyst and international-affairs editor

  • Lee Jenkins PhD, LP

    Board Secretary, Chair Emeritus
    Longtime psychoanalyst & former English professor

  • David M. Abrams PhD

    Training Director
    Longtime psychologist psychoanalyst

  • Ernest P. Smith LCSW-R

    Clinical Director
    Longtime social-worker psychoanalyst

  • Robin Rayford MA

    Academic Dean
    Psychoanalyst and minister

  • Rev. Gordon Clay Bailey MDiv
    •         Unitarian Utilitarian Church Minister

  • Victor Bernstein PhD
    •         Psychologist & child psychologist

  • Andrea Dixon LCSW-R

    Chair Emeritus
    Longtime social-worker psychoanalyst and sister of charity

  • Rev. Sheila Johnson MPS, LP
    •         Psychoanalyst & Minister

  • Kim Kleinman LCSW
    •         Longtime social-worker psychoanalyst

  • Neanda Salvaterra MS (Journ.)
    •         Business Journalist

  • Marjory Slobetz LCSW, BCD
    •         Longtime social-worker psychoanalyst
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ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR

  • Sandra Fell MA (Psych)
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ADVISORY COUNCIL

  • Kirkland C. Vaughans, Honorary Dean, Harlem Family Institute Kirkland C. Vaughans PhD
    Institute Honorary Dean
  • C. Jama Adams PhD (Psychology)
  • Neil Altman PhD
  • Christopher Bollas PhD
  • Phyllis Cohen PhD (Psychology)
  • Paul C. Cooper LP, NCPsyA
  • Asher Edelman BA
  • Michael Eigen PhD
  • Harry Fogarty PhD
  • Gerald J. Gargiulo PhD, LP
  • Edmund W. Gordon PhD
  • Paula Kliger PhD, ABPP
  • Gilbert W. Kliman MD
    Board Chair Emeritus
  • Merle Molofsky LP, NCPsyA
  • Felecia Powell-Williams EdD
  • Beverly J. Stoute MD
  • Ann B. Ulanov PhD
  • Ellen F. Wachtel PhD, JD
  • Paul Wachtel PhD
  • Julie Zuckerman EdD
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FORMER BOARD OR COUNCIL MEMBERS

  • Claude Barbre LP, PhD
    Executive Director Emeritus
  • Constance W. Brown LCSW
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • Robert Coles MD
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • James Comer MD
  • Howard Dodson
  • Barbara Eisold PhD
    Institute Chair Emeritus
  • Rev. Earl Kooperkamp
  • Tamar Turin Opler LCSW-R
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • Beth Radow
    Institute Founding Chair Emeritus
  • Clive Robinson MD
  • Robyn Robinson
  • Michael Salhani MA
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IN MEMORIAM

  • Frederic S. Arensberg
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • Anni Bergman PhD
  • Allen Bergson PhD, LCSW
  • L. Bryce Boyer MD
  • Emory Brooks LCSW
  • George S. Getzel MSW
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • Peter L. Giovacchini MD
  • James Grotstein MD
  • Stephen Kurtz LCSW-R
    Institute founder
  • Margaret Morgan Lawrence MD
    Institute Founding Trustee
    Nation's first African American female pediatrician
    Nation's first African American female psychoanalyst
  • Esther Menaker PhD
  • Dolores O. Morris PhD
  • Jule Miller MD
  • Ned O'Gorman
    Institute Founding Trustee
  • Alan Roland PhD
  • Martin Schulman PhD
  • Thomas Wagner MA, LPsyA, NCPsyA
  • Cherryetta Williams CASAC, LP, LMHC

ADMINISTRATION

Click here for the Institute's administration, which manages day-to-day activities.

 

HFI SOCIETY

Click here for information about the Institute's Society of Graduates, which helps support the Institute and advises the Board of Trustees about the needs of Institute alumni.

 
Trustees are elected by the board to three-year terms on a staggered basis, one third facing re-election every year. The Institute's students are able to elect one representative to the board each year for a one-year term. The Institute's officers face re-election for their posts every year.

The Institute's operations are authorized by a charter granted by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, on behalf of the Education Department of the State of New York.

The board of trustees' activities are further governed by the Institute's bylaws and its conflict-of-interest policy.