Professionals Affiliated with LAISPS (PALS)

Professionals Affiliated with LAISPS is a community outreach program that offers   psychotherapists and other interested professionals an opportunity to learn more about psychoanalysis in an informal setting. Typically, members of PALS groups meet monthly with one or two LAISPS analysts who facilitate discussions of theoretical and clinical topics from a psychoanalytic perspective. Members of PALS enjoy intellectual stimulation, experience   collegial support, and through their formal affiliation with LAISPS, participate in special events and activities. During the past eight years, there have been several groups of PALS. Currently there is one PALS group that is active and has been meeting for many years. Led by Lynn Goren, Ph.D., its members include DeeDee Gartman, M.A., Lola Greenspan, M.A., Halina Irving, M.A., Richard Newman, Ph.D., Dominique Robertson, Ph.D., Nancy Sokolow, M.S.W., and Karen Tobias, M.A.  Beginning in October Valerie von Raffay, Ph.D. will facilitate a new group of PALS.