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Sam Osherson, PhD , is a former Chair of the Psychology Faculty at the Fielding Graduate University. He is one of the nation's leading experts on male development and parenthood. He is the author of the best-selling Finding Our Fathers: How A Man's Life Is Shaped by His Relationship With His Father, as well as many other books on adult development, parenthood, and spirituality. Dr. Osherson's most recent book is Rekindling The Flame: How Jews Are Returning To Judaism. He has written for a number of national magazines and contributes to NPR. He maintains an active private practice in Cambridge, Mass. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972.

Margaret A. Cramer, PhD , is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at MGH and as a clinical supervisor for the residency training program in psychiatry. She is the former Manager of Dual Diagnosis Services at the Freedom Trail Clinic, at the Eric Lindemann Mental Health Center in Boston. Dr. Cramer has served as a program evaluator and technical assistant for the “CSAT 75,” federally funded residential treatment programs for women and their children. She has been a consensus panel member on the Women’s Treatment TIP (Treatment Improvement Protocol) and the TIP on Substance Abuse and Trauma. Her recent article, “Under the Influence of Unconscious Process: Countertransference and the Treatment of PTSD and Substance Abuse in Women,” appeared in The American Journal of Psychotherapy.Dr. Cramer received her clinical training at Harvard Medical School, through a pre-doctoral internship at Beth Israel Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Boston. In 1991 she was awarded the Upjohn Achievement Award for Excellence in Clinical Writing.

April Fallon, completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. She was on the faculty at the Medical College of Pennsylvania for 15 years prior to coming to Fielding. She has published articles on body image, eating disorders, aggression, and group psychotherapy. She is co-author of two books, Models of Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Awaiting the Therapist's Baby.

Marilyn Freimuth received her doctorate in 1981 from Clark University, the school famous for bringing Freud to America. After an internship at Yale University¹s Connecticut Mental Health Center, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1988, Dr. Freimuth joined the Fielding Graduate University. Her publications address the areas of integration of theory and practice, gender, and addictions. In the addictions area she has been writing about how to integrate 12-step work into psychodynamic therapy to facilitate the patient¹s recovery. Her current research is on assessing psychotherapists blind spots to recognizing their patients' addictions. This work is the basis for a book she is writing which will help psychologists and psychotherapists better recognize and work with addictions in their practices. She maintains a small psychoanalytically oriented private
practice in NYC.

Ruthellen Josselson, PhD is on the faculty of The Fielding Graduate University and Professor of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Revising Herself: The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife (1996), a longitudinal study of women's development based on intensive interviews, and The Space Between Us: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships (1992), a phenomenological study of how people connect with one another over the life course. She is also Co-editor of the Annual, The Narrative Study of Lives. Most recently, she authored, with Terri Apter, Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls’ and Women’s Friendships. Recipient of the Henry A. Murray Award from the American Psychological Association and a Fulbright Fellowship, she is also a practicing psychotherapist. Her research interests focus on the use of narrative to understand life history in a number of populations

Sherry Hatcher earned her doctorate from The University of Michigan, in 1972 and was awarded a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology in 1997. From 1974 to1997, Dr. Hatcher taught psychology at the University of Michigan where she earned three Excellence in Education Awards from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, (1992, 1994 and 1996). For the past four years she has served as a Core Faculty member in the Psychology Program at the Fielding Graduate University including seminars for the psychoanalytic training track. Dr. Hatcher, a licensed psychologist in Michigan, maintains a part time private practice in Ann Arbor with adolescents, individual adults and couples. Since 2001, she has served as a member of the Ethics Committee of The Michigan Psychological Association. Her publications include; Assessing the psychological mindedness of children and adolescents, (co-authored with R. Hatcher) in W. Piper and M. McCallum, (Eds.), Psychological mindedness: A contemporary understanding, Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum, 1997; Peer programs on the college campus: Theory, training, and 'voice of the peers', Resource Publications, 1995; Personal rites of passage: Stories of college youth, The narrative study of lives, 1994; The teachability of empathy for high school and college students: Testing Rogerian methods with the interpersonal reactivity index, (with M. Nadeau, L. Walsh, M. Reynolds, J. Galea, and K. Marz) in Adolescence , 1994; Following the trail of the focus in short-term psychotherapy, (with D. Huebner and D. Zakin) in Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice, Winter, 1986.
Dr. Hatcher will be presenting two papers at national conferences in 2003 with Fielding colleagues and students: In May with 5 of her students (T. Favorite, E. Hardy, R. Goode, L. DeShetler & R. Thomas): "Therapists describe their empathic process: Working with difference," at the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration Conference in NYC and in August. at the American Psychological Association Convention in Toronto, (with N. Hansen and T. Favorite), "The forgotten ‘P’: Managing the interpersonal process in electronically-mediated teaching." Her ongoing research interests include: Adolescent and college student development; psychotherapy process research; the teaching of psychology and psychology of women.

Edward Z. Tronick is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. Dr. Tronick is the Chief of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member of the Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Tronick has co-authored and authored more than 150 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick's research is on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and is a master trainer on it. Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn. He is a member of the Boston Institute and Society for Psychoanalysis and the was a member of the the Boston Process of Change Study Group. He has contributed several papers on mother-infant social emotional change processes and their relation to psychodynamic change processes.

Judith Schoenholtz-Read, PhD

Stephen Ruffins, PhD

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