The Foundation
For more information call:
Foundation Administrator Elizabeth Buchanan
214-566-5083
For donations, send checks to:
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
PO Box 670218
Dallas, Texas 75367-0218
The Dallas Foundation
for Psychoanalysis (DFP) is a non-profit organization that supports the Center. It serves as a bridge between the Center and the community and promotes a psychoanalytic understanding to help solve the emotional problems of adults, children and families in the metroplex. Thus, the Foundation Board is composed of members from the community, as well as Center faculty and candidates.
The DFP organizes and coordinates programs, lectures, and consultation for public agencies, schools, and religious organizations.
THE
VALUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS TO THE COMMUNITY
As a bridge between the Center and the larger, social and educational community in Dallas, the Foundation promotes and provides psychoanalytic sponsorship in the following ways.
Professional
Education:
- Teaching and supervision
of UT Southwestern Medical Center students in the fields of psychiatry,
child psychiatry and psychology.
- Over 2000 hours annually of voluntary
instruction.
-
"Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychotherapy", a two-year didactic program for mental
health practitioners in refining their psychotherapeutic skills.
-
Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic
Consortium (IPC) in collaboration with the DPC, Southern Methodist University and UT
Southwestern Medical Center.
- Student associate program
for students of the mental health professions and other graduate programs.
Public
Seminars:
- Annual Founders Day Lectures
of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center (DPC)
- Speakers’ forum presentations
to a variety of community groups.
Volunteer
Consultations and Activities:
- Child and Family Guidance
Center of Dallas.
- Dallas County Mental Health
and Mental Retardation.
- Dallas Family Magazine.
- Dallas ISD, Youth and Family
Centers.
- Dallas Theater Center.
- Highland Park ISD, Adult
Education Program.
- Jewish Family Services.
- Mental Health Association
of Dallas.
- Mental Health Connection.
- SMU, Religion and Anthropology.
- The Vogel Alcove.
- Zero Tolerance for Violence.
Board of Directors (DFP)
Chair, Joan Raff, LCSW
B. James Bennett, M.D.
Sarah Rabb Bennett, LCSW
Joan Berger, Ph.D
Denise Humphrey, Ph.D
Gayle E. Marshall, LCSW
Wendy Palmer
Leigh K. Schultz, MA, LPC
Gail Weisblatt
Carol Wolfe, M.Ed.
Advisory
Board
The community
leaders comprising the Advisory Board, assist the Board of Directors in
representing the Foundation to the community and raising public awareness
of the psychoanalytic perspective.
Mrs. Kenneth Altshuler
Ms. Karen Dickerman
Mrs. Thomas O. Hicks
Ms. Angela Barrett
Ms. Barbara Buzzell
Ms. Linda Secrest
Mrs. Keith Johansen
Ms. Cynthia Lewis
Mrs. Leonard M. Riggs
Ms. Cindy Schwartz
Mrs. Nelson H. Spencer
Friends of Psychoanalysis
The friends
group aids in the mission of the Foundation and assists with the events
and programs.
For more Information:
Elizabeth
Buchanan,
Executive Director
The Dallas Foundation for Psychoanalysis
Mailing Address:
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
PO Box 670218
Dallas, Texas 75367-0218
Physical Address:
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9070
214-566-5083
elizabeth.buchanan@sbcglobal.net
