Leadership History

Co-chairs of the CIPS steering Committee and Board of Directors
1992 – 1995

Norbert Freedman & Jean Sanville, Co-chairs

1995 – 1996 Steven Ellman & Albert Mason, Co-chairs
1996 – 1997 Steven Ellman & James Gooch, Co-chairs
1997 – 1998

Harriet Basseches & James Gooch, Co-chairs

1998 – 1999     Harriet Basseches & Terrence McBride
1999 – 2000

Harriet Basseches & James Gooch, Co-chairs

2000 – 2001

Jeanette Gadt & Doris Silverman, Co-chairs

Presidents and Secretaries of CIPS
2001 – 2003 Steven Ellman, President
James Gooch, Secretary
2003 Ernest Lawrence, President
Harriet Basseches, Secretary
2003 – 2005 Harriet Basseches, President
Ernest Lawrence, Secretary
2005 – 2009 Fredric Perlman, President
Bonnie Engdahl, Secretary
Representatives to the IPA House of Delegates
1994 – 1997 Norbert Freeedman & Jean Sanville
1997 – 2000 Steven Ellman & Albert Mason
2000 – 2001 Beth Kalish Weiss & Ann Rudofsky
2001 – 2003 Beth Kalish Weiss & Nancy Hollander
Representatives to the IPA Board of Representatives
2003 – 2007 James Gooch
2007 – 2009 Harriet Basseches
2009 – present Harriet Basseches & Fredric Perlman
Representatives to the North American IPA Groups (NAIPAG)
1994 – Steve Ellman & Norbert Freedman
1999 – 2001 Norbert Freedman & Barbara Stimmel
Representatives to the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC)
2002 – 2003 Steve Ellman & Ernest Lawrence
2003 – 2005 Ernest Lawrence & Harriet Basseches
2005 – 2007

Beth Kalish Weiss & Fredric Perlman

2009 – present Fredric Perlman & Leigh Tobias
CIPS Clinical Conferences
1998 First Biennial CIPS Conference
La Mancha Resort, Palm Springs


"The Frame: Making it and Breaking it"
Conference chairs: Nancy Goodman & Harriet Wrye
1999 Second Biennial CIPS Conference
Mohonk Mountain House


"Thresholds"
Conference chairs: Nancy Goodman & Harriet Wrye
2002 Third Biennial CIPS Conference
La Mancha Resort, Palm Springs


"External Reality/Internal Reality"
Conference chairs: Maureen Kelly & E. Lisa Pomeroy
2004 Fourth Biennial CIPS Conference
Rye Town Hilton, Rye, New York


"Play in the Psychoanalytic Situation"
Conference chair: Phyllis Sloate
2006 Fifth Biennial CIPS Conference
Luxe Hotel, Los Angeles


"Enactments"
Conference chairs: Abbot Bronstein, Leigh Tobias, & Vicki Stevens
2009 Algonquin Hotel, New York

"Creativity and Concreteness in the Psychoanalytic Situation"
Conference chair: Randi Wirth
CIPS Publications and their Editors
The IPS Newsletter
1998 – 2001 Maggie Magee & Diana Miller
2001 – 2005 Susan Mulliken
The CIPS E-Newsletter
2005 – 2008 Randi Wirth
2008 – present

Marilyn Rifkin
Ann Simmons

CIPS Book Series
2009 Meg Beaudoin
Why CIPS Matters

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