OUR FACULTY

Lee Anderson, PhD, is a Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania based private practice psychologist. A member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, she provides psychological services to those who experience loss on many levels and has conducted workshops on the impact of traumatic loss for law enforcement, education professionals, and parent groups. Robert E. Desmond, MD, a psychiatrist in private practice in Lansdale, PA, has long been interested in the psychology of affect and script as applied to the treatment of dissociative disorders and affective illness. In 1989 he organized and spoke at the 17th Annual Friends Hospital Conference, "New Directions in Psychotherapy" at which Professor Tomkins gave one of his last public presentations. Currently, he is collaborating with Dr. Nathanson on a study of the clinical utility of the Affect Pattern Chart. Jonathan L. Grindlinger, MD, is Training Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, practices psychiatry in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and has become a widely recognized consultant to psychotherapists from all realms of practice. Joseph A. Izzo, MA, MSW, is a practicing psychotherapist at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, DC, where he provides individual and group psychotherapy to people living with HIV/AIDS who are also racial and sexual minorities living on marginal incomes. Ralph Jaffe, MSW, PsyD, is a clinical social worker, psychologist, and personal coach with a private practice in Elkins Park and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Buddhist practitioner for the past 25 years, he has lived in a Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan and currently practices in the Mahayana and Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Vernon C. Kelly, Jr., MD, co-founder of the SSTI and its first Training Director, is well known as the developer of an innovative system of couples therapy based on the Tomkins-Kelly Blueprint for intimacy. In addition to his clinical practice, Vick is highly regarded throughout the Philadelphia area as a clinical supervisor. Marsha Schwartz Klein, MEd, is a member of the Executive Committee of the SSTI, one of the leading substance abuse therapists in the Philadelphia area, and widely sought as a supervisor of clinicians. Richard P. Kluft, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine and on the faculty of the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis. He has written and taught extensively in the fields of trauma, dissociation, and therapist/patient sexual exploitation. Brian F. Lynch, MD, is a Board Certified Family Practitioner in Chicago and a clinical Preceptor at the University of Illinois. A third of his practice is devoted to psychotherapy groups based on the psychology of affect and script. Donald L. Nathanson, MD, founding Executive Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, author of more than 100 articles and books, and internationally known for the development of The Philadelphia System of psychotherapy. At the suggestion of President Clinton, he was appointed to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence. Wesley G. Novak, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Wilmington, DE, with a lifelong interest in affect-based psychotherapy. An active member of the Executive and Continuing Education Committees of the SSTI, he has been a core contributor to the organization's groundbreaking work on the psychology and psychotherapy of distress. Brett E. Schur, PhD, a private practice Psychologist in Southeastern Pennsylvania, specializes in the psychotherapy of adults with medical disabilities, and recently has worked in anger management. Many will remember his 1998 SSTI Colloquium workshop on aspects of affect and script revealed in projective testing. Clifford Taylor, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in Morristown, NJ, working with adolescents and adults. He co-authored the popular book If You Think You've Got Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Dell Guide For Mental Health. Alan R. Wofsey, MD, Chief of Psychiatry at Lankenau Hospital in suburban Philadelphia, practices adult and adolescent psychiatry. He's written pamphlets for his patients on the role of shame in adolescent development and on family relationships, and often comments that "Affect Theory is the Unified Field Theory of modern psychology." Jeanette Wright, MS, was trained as an art therapist and practices in Des Moines, Iowa. A popular SSTI speaker, her innovative system of image-oriented psychotherapy, based on the psychology of affect and script as well as self-psychology, has also been taught at meetings of the American Psychiatric Association and throughout the Midwest.

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