Jason Royal, PhD 

is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where he works with adolescents, and adults. He is adjunct supervising faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College, supervises at the Greene Clinic, and has taught seminars in training programs at the Greene Clinic, Pratt Institute, and the Pulsion Institute. His writing has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division/Review, The Psychoanalytic Review, and The Threepenny Review. In 2016, he set the Group for Independent Formation into motion, as one of the orienting structures of his analytic training. He has a long relationship with music, primarily as a pianist, and in a previous life earned a doctoral degree in music composition.

 

Emma Lieber, PhD, LP  

is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in New York; part-time faculty in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School; founding member of the Group for Independent Formation; and training member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020) and co-editor of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave 2022), with Anna Fishzon. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Imago, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, The Point Magazine, New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Lit Hub, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and other popular, academic and psychoanalytic publications.

 

Loren Dent, PhD  

is a psychologist is private practice, and co-director of and supervisor at the Greene Clinic.  Prior to working private practice, he was a team leader at a first episode psychosis program at Lenox Hill Hospital.  He is the senior editor of DIVISION/Review, a publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Society, and teaches courses on psychoanalytic theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a founding member of the Group for Independent Formation, and an analysand in formation at Apres-Coup.

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Matthew Oyer, PhD  

is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst.  He is a Co-Director at the Greene Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College.  He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center.  With a small group of others, Dr. Oyer created and implemented a program of independent psychoanalytic training through which he continues to pursue lifelong formation.  He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is a board member of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

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Christopher Chamberlin, PhD  

is a Berlin-based psychoanalyst and theorist. He is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in California, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and an Affiliate Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin). He also serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. https://chamberlin.phd

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