The 2008 Theatre Benefit, a preview performance of The Country Girl, starring Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher, raised more than $160,000 in support for the Ackerman Institute. The event, held on April 22, also included a pre-theatre dinner, held in the Manhattan Ballroom (designed by Ackerman Board member Arnold Syrop) in the New […]

Alumni and guests packed the Ackerman Institute library on Friday, March 7 for a presentation on Applying Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) to Couple Treatment by Gil Tunnell, PhD. Dr. Tunnell is pictured above (bottom left) sitting next to Candice Goldberg, Vice President of the Alumni Association, with Brenda Shrobe, President of the Alumni Association,

More than 40 alumni and guests squeezed into a packed library on Friday, January 25 when the Ackerman Institute Alumni Association hosted the Third Annual Case Conference. The case conference panel consisted of Jorge Colapinto, LPsych, Lisa Lavelle, LCSW, and Fiona True, LMSW, (pictured from left to right in the photo above). The Case Consultation

Frank Taira, who began his career as an artist almost 70 years ago, has donated an oil painting, Landscape, to the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Mr. Taira (above), who lives in an assisted living facility on the upper East Side, came to the Institute on December 14 to view his work, which hangs in

More than 100 friends, family members, colleagues and other guests celebrated the publication of faculty member Judith Stern Peck’s new book, Money and Meaning (John Wiley & Sons) at a book-signing party at the Ackerman Institute on December 12. Ms. Peck is pictured above (right)with the Ackerman Institute’s newest Board member, Diana Benzaquen. “This book

“Somatic Experiencing (SE) is an “amazingly powerful and effective” therapeutic approach, according to Nancy J. Napier, LMFT, the guest speaker at the second Alumnae/i Lecture in the 2007-2008 series. In her talk, entitled “An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing: Including the Body in Psychotherapy,” Ms. Napier, pictured above (right) with Brenda Shrobe, President of the Alumnae/i

Michael Davidovits, PhD, (pictured above with Doris Kempner, left, and Lois Braverman, right) delivered the Seventh Annual Carl Kempner Memorial Lecture in support of the Center for Families and Health on Tuesday, November 13th. The topic of the lecture was “Of Hope and Loss: Immigration, Adolescent Depression and the Family.”   The Carl Kempner Award

Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, delivered the first Alumnae/i Lecture of the 2007/2008 season on October 12, 2007. Her topic was “Special Issues in the Treatment of African-American Families.” Using a combination of lecture, clinical case examples and videotapes, Dr. Boyd-Franklin shared insights with