Robert S. Wallerstein (January 28, 1921 – December 21, 2014) was a prominent German born American psychoanalyst. He trained at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, rising to become the foundation’s director of research and conducting a pioneering study called the Psychotherapy Research Project. He moved to the Bay Area in 1966 as the chief of psychiatry at Mount Zion Hospital, then joined the faculty of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry as a professor. Wallerstein served as department chair and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute from 1975-1985, as well as a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and president of both the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations.
In addition, he was a prodigious and influential author who penned 20 books and more than 400 scholarly articles. His books included Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Theory, Practice, Research (1975), Becoming a Psychoanalyst (1981), Forty-Two Lives in Treatment (1986), The Talking Cures: The Psychoanalyses and the Psychotherapies (1995), Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy (1998), Psychoanalysis: Clinical and Theoretical (1999), and Psychoanalysis: Education, Research, Science, and Profession (2003). In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of psychoanalysis, he received the prestigious Sigourney Award in 1991.
Shelley Nathans, PhD, (filmmaker) is a clinical psychologist and has 30 years of experience as an individual and couple psychotherapist, She is a member of the teaching faculty at the California Pacific Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry. She has completed the Tavistock Center for Couple Relations Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples, is a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group study program, is on the International Advisory Board for the Journal, Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and is on the Board of Section VIII, Division 39 (the section for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Couples and Families of the American Psychological Association).
Shelley F. Diamond, Ph.D., was a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco for 15 years. She had to abruptly close her practice at the end of 2021 due to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and a prognosis of less than six months. She died peacefully at home on April 30th, 2022.
Shelley McLain, PhD, a researcher, psychologist and educator, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Ontario Canada; and head of the Personality Disorder Treatment, Research and Capacity Building for the Clinical Assessment and Triage Service and Women’s Programs at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario Canada. She is also the head of the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. McClain is a Member, DBT Individual and Group Certification, DBT Board of Certification and Accreditation (Seattle, Washington); and was an advisory board member of the International DBT Strategic Planning Research Committee at the University of Washington and Affiliate Board Member at the Linehan Institute, also in Seattle. Dr. McLain has won the coveted Ian Silver Award for Excellence in Psychiatry Continuing Professional and Practice Development, and the Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Course Coordination in relation to her training in DBT.
Carmen Wiebe, MD, is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she is the course coordinator and presenter in the DBT certificate program. She has won the coveted Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Course Coordination and the Ivan Silver Award for Excellence in Continuing Mental Health Education for her work in the DBT Certificate Program. She won the Joint CPA-COPCE Award for the Most Outstanding Continuing Education Activity in Psychiatry (academic) in Canada for her course, “Using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Strategies in Your Practice”, presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Weibe is also a staff psychiatrist at the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, also in Toronto where she coordinates Dialectical Behavior Therapy education for the postgraduate program.
Sherry Benton, PhD is the Chief Science Officer and Founder of TAO Connect, Inc. and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. Dr. Benton worked primarily in college student mental health. She is an APA Fellow and is a Past President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology and a past Vice President for Practice of the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17, APA).
Sherry P. Smith, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia Perimeter College and an adjunct professor of research at Argosy University in Atlanta, GA. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Clemson University and graduate degrees from Middle Tennessee State University (MA) and the University of South Carolina (PhD). She is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, CEO of SageWorker, LLC, and co-facilitates continuing education workshops for helping professionals throughout the US.
Susan P. Smith, LPC, MBA, MA, is a licensed professional counselor employed as a group therapist in the behavioral health unit at an Atlanta hospital. She is an adjunct professor of counseling at Argosy University. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Auburn University and graduate degrees from Auburn University-Montgomery (MBA) and Argosy University (MA). She is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the CFO of SageWorker, LLC, and co-facilitates continuing education workshops for helping professionals throughout the US.
Sam Steen, PhD, is an associate professor at George Mason University. He has published on the topics of group work and school counselors.
Sheri Bauman, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the School Counseling program at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Essential Topics for the Helping Professional.
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Samantha Stein, Psy.D., is a licensed Clinical and Forensic Psychologist who has assessed and provided help for adults, adolescents, couples and children for over 20 years on issues related to relationships, intimacy, creativity, infidelity, addiction, and impulse control, and specializes in working with couples who want to, revitalize, repair, open up, or end their relationship. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), and the California Coalition On Sexual Offending (CCOSO). She is also a writer and photographer.
