Doris Silverman, Ph.D.

Doris Silverman, Ph.D., is the President of IPTAR, and a training, supervising, and teaching analyst there. She is a faculty member and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also a fellow, teacher and supervisor at the International psychoanalytic Association as well as a number of other training institutes in New York City and throughout the country. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of psychoanalytic journals. She reviews papers for meetings sponsored by the International Psychoanalytic Assn, as well as reviews financial grant applications for this group. She is former Editor of the Newsletter and Newsmagazine of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In addition to co-authoring the book, Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill, she has written extensively on a variety of psychoanalytic topics including infant research and gender, the attachment system for secure and insecure individuals, and the use of empirical data to augment our therapeutic skills. She is the recipient of the Scientific Scholar Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2007. She has also received the Linda Newirth Memorial Award.