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Life Development: Healing Lives and Training Therapists.
Patricia Pitta , PhD, ABPP, is a board-certif ied family psychologist. She re-
ceived her doctorate from Fordham Universit y and completed postdoctoral
training in family therapy at the Center for Family Learning, Ryebrook,
New York. In addition, she holds a degree in pastoral formation which en-
ables her to integrate spirit ualit y with psychology. For the past 10 years,
Dr. Pitta has been a professor of psychology in the doctoral and postdoc-
toral training programs at St. John’s Universit y. As developer of Integrative
Healing Family Therapy, Dr. Pitta has published many articles about the
theory and its applications. She has also produced a video entitled “ Parent-
ing Your Elderly Parents” (published by APA Publications) and is the au-
thor of a marital therapy manual (published by Division 42 of APA).
Joy K. Rice, PhD, is clinical professor of psychiatry and Emerita Professor
of Educational Policy and Women’s St udies at the Universit y of Wisconsin–
Madison. She also maintains an active psychotherapy practice with Psychi-
atric Services in Madison. Her research activit y includes more than 100
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national and international presentations and publications on family change,
poverty, and mental health. Living through Divorce: A Developmental Approach
to Divorce Therapy, written with Dr. David Rice, was honored as a Book-of-
the-Month selection.
Active in international psychology, Dr. Rice is secretary of the Interna-
tional Council of Psychologists, chair elect of the APA Committee on Inter-
national Relations in Psychology, and president elect of APA Division 52,
International Psychology. She has received numerous awards and honors for
her research and social policy work on behalf of disadvantaged fa milies and
women nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the Educational
Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award, a fellow of the Amer-
ican Psychological Association, and is listed in Who’s Who of Women and
the World’s Who’s Who of Women.
Lynne V. Rosen, LCSW, is core facult y and director of the Post Modern
Therapy Training Program at Phillips Graduate Instit ute in Encino, Cali-
fornia. She is interested in collaborative education and integrating her pas-
sion and commit ment to diversit y and social justice in training and
teaching contexts. Ms. Rosen is co-founder of Women’s Project Los Angeles
( WPLA), a communit y-based project focused on social constructionist and
feminist ideas. WPLA utilizes innovative forms of dialogue in order to
bring forward new perspectives and possibilities that can lead to meaning-
ful change in women’s lives. She maintains a private practice and has a
long-standing interest in working with women who are taking their lives
back from eating problems, abuse, and trauma and in working with couples
and families.
David E . Schar f f, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is co-director
of the International Psychotherapy Instit ute, Washington, DC. Dr. Scharff
is clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Universit y and at the Uni-
formed Services Universit y of the Health Sciences. He is author, co-author,
and editor of 15 books including Object Relations Couples TherapyandObject
Relations Individual Therapy.
Ilene Serlin, PhD, ADTR, is a licensed psychologist and a registered
dance/movement therapist. Dr. Serlin is a fellow of the American Psycho-
logical Association, past p resident of Division 32 of APA, council represen-
tative from Division 32, and has served on the editorial boards of The Arts
in Psychotherapy, Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association, and the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology. She has taught at Saybrook Graduate
School and Research Instit ute, UCLA, Antioch Universit y, and Alliant
Graduate School. She has consulted and worked with clergy, and is the au-
thor of: Therapy with a Borderline Nun, A Psycho-spiritual Body Approach to a
Residential Treatment of Catholic Religious, andThe Last Temptation of Christ.
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She is currently in private practice in San Francisco and Sonoma Count y,
California.
Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, PhD, is associate professor at the Ferkauf
Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva Universit y, Bronx, New York,
where she has taught courses in family therapy and the social construction
of gender since 1992. Dr. Silverstein is a past p resident of the American
Psychological Association’s Division of Family Psychology. She is co-
founder, with Dr. Carl Auerbach, of the Yeshiva Universit y Fatherhood
Project, a qualitative r esearch st udy of fathering from a multicult ural per-
spective. Dr. Silverstein’s publications focus on fathering, feminist theory,
and the social construction of gender. She is the co-editor (with Thelma
Jean Goodrich) of Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment and Social Location
and co-author with Carl F. Auerbach of An Introduction to Coding and Analyz-
ing Data in Qualitative Research. Dr. Silverstein is a family therapist in pri-
vate practice in Brooklyn, New York.
Sally D. Stabb, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and associate professor of
counseling psychology at Texas Woman’s Universit y. Her research interests
include women’s issues, emotion, couples, and multicult uralism. Dr. Stabb
teaches courses in process and outcome research, qualitative r esearch meth-
ods, psychotherapy theories, professional issues, and practicum.
Mark Stanton, PhD, ABPP, is professor of psychology and chair of the De-
part ment