Your Faculty
Carol Basch, Psy.D., is a psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago.
Susan Leigh Deppe, M.D., coordinates a Study Group for the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute in northern Vermont and maintains a psychotherapy practice in Burlington. A Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dr. Deppe is well known for her work on the interface between psychotherapy and religion as presented in several courses for the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association and available on tape as part of the 1995 Tomkins Institute Colloquium.
Robert E. Desmond, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, has long been interested in the application of affect/script theory to 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 and Dr. Basch discussed the concept of defense mechanisms that appears as his chapter for Knowing Feeling. Recently, he has been lecturing on these matters for local church groups as well as professional associations.
Melvyn Hill, Ph.D., practices as a Clinical Psychologist in New York City and has contributed articles to the Bulletin of the Tomkins Institute. The first of his two doctorates, from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago, was followed by a series of articles on political thought. Among his many publications are a book on Hannah Arendt, The Recovery of the Public World (1980), and Working Through Narcissism (1983).
Anthony L. Hite, Ph.D., a clinical and organizational psychologist in Norfolk, Virginia, has a career-long interest in the psychology of organizations and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and volunteer organizations. In his chapter for Knowing Feeling, he explains how a clear understanding of affect theory can make the initial evaluation of any patient both more effective and easier.
Vernon C. Kelly, Jr., M.D., is the Training Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute with responsibility for a nationwide network of study groups, and Editor of the Bulletin of the Tomkins Institute. He is an Attending Psychiatrist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Well known for his clinical work with couples and as therapist/supervisor for many psychotherapists, Dr. Kelly has written extensively about the use of affect/script theory in couples work and taught extensively with Dr. Nathanson. A full exposition of his contributions to these fields appears as his chapter in the book Knowing Feeling.
Marsha Schwartz Klein, M.Ed., CAC, CCMCH, has pioneered the application of affect theory to the treatment of substance abuse and has earned great respect for her work as a teacher and supervisor of other therapists. For the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute she acts as Membership Director and sits on the Continuing Education Committee.
David McShane, a retired Presbyterian minister and former member of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church, has taught at Western Michigan University and the McCormick Theological Seminary. A close colleague and personal friend of Silvan Tomkins, bringing his own life study of religious philosophy and pastoral counseling to the latter's Polarity Scale, he has lectured widely on affect/script theory. His poem on the relation between morality and the biological basis of affect appeared in an early issue of the Bulletin of the Tomkins Institute.
David B. Moore, Ph.D., is a political scientist who has taught the history of policing at Charles Sturt University in Australia and is responsible for introducing affect/script theory to the Family Group Conference (FGC) system devised by his organization as a novel method for the management of juvenile crime. A founding member of Transformative Justice Australia, through which the principles of the FGC process have been extended to problems of the workplace, he is a principle of the newly organized Transformative Justice America. In his chapter for Knowing Feeling, he outlines the theoretical basis of the movements with which he has been associated.
Donald L. Nathanson, M.D., is Executive Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Tomkins Institute, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College, and Senior Attending Psychiatrist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. His comprehensive theory of emotion and the innovative methods of therapy that derive from it have been taught extensively throughout the world and presented in over 75 publications and 150 public lectures and courses. Best known of his writing are the 1987 edited book The Many Faces of Shame, the highly regarded 1992 book Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self, and the newly released edited book Knowing Feeling: Affect, Script, and Psychotherapy (1996).
Wesley Novak, Ph.D., is Chief Psychologist of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute and a member of the SSTI's Continuing Education Committee. He practices clinical psychology at Allied Mental Health in Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in the treatment of personality and relationship difficulties. He is particularly interested in the in-depth application of affect/script theory to the concept of personal identity. His early work on the psychometrics of shame is quoted often by contemporary students of that affect.
James M. Pfrommer, M.D., psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist with a private practice in suburban Philadelphia, is also Medical Director of the Extended Care Unit of the Keystone Center. He has taught extensively in the courses on shame given by the Tomkins Institute for annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association. Some of his work on the psychopharmacology of affect appears in Knowing Feeling.
Ruthann Ryan, MSN, CS, is a Clinical Specialist at the Sanctuary of Friends Hospital in Philadelphia and a therapist at the Alliance for Creative Development in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. She is well known as a teacher and leader of conferences on the treatment of psychological trauma.
Leigh McCullough Vaillant, Ph.D., recipient of the first annual Michael Franz Basch Lectureship Award, has won international respect for her research on short term psychotherapy. Currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, she is Director of the Harvard Short-Term Psychotherapy Program at Beth Israel Hospital and maintains a private practice in Dedham, Massachusetts. Her new book Changing Character: Short-Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy for Restructuring Defenses, Affects and Attachments will be released just in time for the Basch Memorial Lecture.
Jeanette Wright, ATR, was trained as an art therapist and practices in Des Moines, Iowa. Her innovative system of image-oriented psychotherapy, based on affect theory and psychoanalytic self-psychology, has been taught at meetings of the American Psychiatric Association as part of the Tomkins Institute course Understanding Human Emotion: Building a New Psychotherapy, and in other courses throughout the Midwest. An excellent exposition of this work may be found in her chapter for Knowing Feeling and as a taped lecture from the 1995 Tomkins Institute Colloquium.
