Message from Doris Brothers, new Chief Editor of eForum

It pleases me no end to have taken over the editorial reins of eForum from the very capable hands of Kati Breckinridge. Under Kati's creative leadership, the name of the IAPSP newsletter was changed to eForum to reflect its transformation into a strictly on-line publication. I hope to move eForum even further along the path that Kati charted. For starters, eForum will no longer be put out in the form of a static once-a-year issue. Instead it will become a continually changing and responsively interactive on-line medium.

Fortunately, I will have lots of help as I try to make sure that eForum continues to meet the needs of IAPSP members. I've assembled a super team of regional editors. They are: Jane Lewis, East Coast Editor; Carol Mayhew, West Coast Editor; Anne Paris, Mid West Editor; and Annette Richard, International Editor. I am also lucky to be working with our talented new webmaster, Chris Powell.

In addition to the features that you already know (and hopefully love) on eForum such as summaries of the panels at the annual IAPSP conferences, and short, well-written, thoughtful articles, we plan some improvements and innovations. First of all, you will no longer have to wait for the next "issue" to post news flashes about your life and career to "Members Updates." Just send them to me at and I'll see that Chris adds them right away.

We are also planning to add a number of new features. One will be a "Members' Publications" list that will link published works to brief abstracts and on-line sites where books may be purchased. We are inaugurating a feature called "Institute News" which will post information about programs and events happening at members' training institutes. Another first for eForum will be the addition of a number of columns. Carla Leone has taken charge of one that will feature articles on couples, families, and groups. Carol Mayhew's column will post answers by member to the question: "What are you reading?" And, Jane Lewis and Annette Richard's are co-editing a column on international news.

And finally, thanks to Anne Paris, we now have a group page on Facebook: IAPSP eForum.

New Editor Bios

Editor-in-Chief:

Doris Brothers, Ph.D. is a cofounder and faculty member of The Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York City. She has presented numerous original papers at annual self psychology conferences. Her publications include journal articles and chapters in books on such topics as trauma, trust, gender, uncertainty and forgiveness. She has written three books: The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988, The Analytic Press), which was co-authored with Richard Ulman; Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self Experience (1995, Norton); and, most recently, Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008, The Analytic Press). She is a psychologist/psychoanalyst with a private practice on the upper west side of Manhattan.

Jane Lewis, L.C.S.W. is a training and supervising psychoanalyst both at the Training and Research Institute for Psychoanalysis (TRISP) and at the American Institute for Psychoananalysis (AIP). In 1999 she founded and was the director for ten years of the AIP-affiliated Karen Horney Clinic Eating Disorder Program. She has written numerous papers on eating disorders and hair-pulling and how the body both expresses and disavows trauma. In 2002, she was recipient of the student Gradiva Award for her psychoananlytic research study on hair-pulling. She is currently in private practice in New York City.

Carol Mayhew, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where she is Past President of the Institute, as well as a training and supervising analyst and faculty member.

Anne Paris, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio who has practiced psychotherapy for 25 years. She is a longtime member of IAPSP, and has attended the annual conferences for almost 20 years. She was a core member of the Cincinnati study group, facilitated by Anna Ornstein, MD, for over a decade. In the early 1990's, she founded and directed the Cincinnati Center for Self Psychology, a training and education center for mental health professionals. Her book, Standing at Water's Edge: Moving Past Fear, Blocks, and Pitfalls to Discover the Power of Creative Immersion (2008, San Francisco: New World Library) is written for a mainstream audience and is a self-help book firmly rooted in self psychology and intersubjectivity theory. She has appeared on national and local television, radio, and podcast broadcasts, and has given presentations to a wide range of audiences..

Annette Richard, M.Ps., is a psychologist who offers psychotherapy and supervision in private practice in Montreal, Canada. She was a lecturer on Self Psychology at the Université de Montréal graduate studies in Psychology for many years. She is a co-founder and chair of the first French speaking formally organized group of psychotherapists interested in Intersubjectivity Theory and Self Psychology, the "Groupe d'Étude sur l'Intersubjectivité" (GEI).