Meet the Stephen Mitchell Scholars!

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Serbia

We are very lucky to have Aleksandar join us. He has had very limited opportunity to leave Serbia. Margaret Black had to send him a special personal invitation to the conference to help Aleksandar get the necessary permits to exit his country,

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic holds a PhD in clinical psychology. Apart from his teaching at the University of Belgrade, he devotes much of his time to psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work, and recently to the introduction of a community mental health system into Serbia. His research interests include attachment and psychopathology, the mutual influence of arts and psychoanalysis, and conceptions and history of the private self. He has presented and published several papers on these topics in English (some of which were quoted in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and translated into German, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish), and co-edited (with Elizabeth M. Fox and Murray M. Schwartz) Psychoanalytic Encounters. Interdisciplinary Essays in Applied Analysis. In Serbian he has edited or co-edited five books and published thirty papers.

Marie T. Hoffman, USA

Marie T. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Allentown, PA, having received her Postdoctoral Certificate from New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The 2006 Stephen Mitchell Scholar, she is author of the 2011 book, Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative in the Relational Perspectives Book Series as well as numerous articles in secular and religious journals. Dr. Marie Hoffman is founder of the Society for Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology (SEPTT) and its training arm, Brookhaven Institute (BIPACT), is a visiting professor at Rosemead School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Wheaton Graduate School, and currently active in the Independent Track of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Ariel Liberman, Spain

Ariel Liberman is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Madrid. He is a member of the Argentinean Psychoanalytic Society (IPA), as well as of the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and the Collective GRITA. He was Clinical Psychology Resident. He taught in the School of Psychology in the University of Buenos Aires and in the School of Nursing in the University Autónoma of Madrid. He is a visiting professor at the Agora Relacional, at the Institute of Relational Psychotherapy and other institutions. He is Member of the Board of IARPP-Spain chapter and of the editorial board of CeIR. He has presented and published several papers about the work of Stephen A. Mitchell, the Psychoanalysis in the River Plate (Argentina/Uruguay) as well as on Donald W. Winnicott. Co-author of two books. He is contributing author to a Dictionary of Psychoanalysis in progress in Paris with the French publisher Dunod.

Shlomo Beinart, Israel

Shlomo Beinart is a clinical Psychologist and a 5th year candidate in the Israel psychoanalytic society. For the past 15 years he has been studying and teaching relational thinking in Israel, and was part of the group who founded the Israeli chapter of IARPP. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and wrote a dissertation on the impact of failed love in adolescence. His current interest is in the interface of relational and classical psychoanalysis, especially in creating a dialogue between relational and post-Kleinian thinking. He says, “I have always found Mitchell's work to be enormously inspiring. In the panel I would like to share a certain inner dialogue that I find myself having with Mitchell and his work, as an ‘internal supervisor’.” Certain qualities of Mitchell's work, his dialectic thinking as well as a sense of him as good internal object will be shared.

Chaim Aharonson, Israel

Chaim Aharonson is a clinical Psychologist and an amateur sculptor. He is a fellow and a candidate of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis . In addition to his work in private practice, Chaim works with parents and children who suffer from various Learning Disabilities. Chaim believes, following Mitchell's vision of the relational perspective -- that the greatest challenge of psychoanalysis is its application to other disciplines. He attempts to implement psychoanalytic thinking in the educational field, specifically to the teacher-pupil relationship. He has written articles and has taught about this topic in Israel.

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