Volume 5, Issue 6 | Summer Celebrations 2022
New Center News
NCP is dedicated to deepening the understanding of being human
through the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
The Summer Board Report will be published in the September Newsletter.


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Celebrating Cecilia Peck
On Saturday, August 13, the NCP community gathered in the garden for an afternoon of music, merriment, and shared memories to celebrate and honor our beloved Executive Director Cecilia, who is retiring after serving our organization for more than 20 years.
Faculty Honors
Thank you to all the honorees who were celebrated at the Faculty Meeting, held on Zoom on June 9, 2022. Your commitment and dedication to teaching and to NCP has been remarkable. The legacy you leave us will live on for many years to come. A lovely engraved crystal paperweight was distributed to the honorees in advance of the event. Honorees had a chance to speak about their careers and teaching experiences at NCP. We hope to have more honorees in the future! - Dean Jill Model Barth, PhD
Morris Eagle, PhD
Ben Kohn, MD
Peter Loewenberg, PhD, LMFT
Marvin P. Osman, MD, PhD
Estelle Shane, PhD
Samuel L. Wilson, MD
Howard Bacal, MD
Stanley Leiken, MD
Joseph Natterson, MD, PhD
Congratulations to our Graduates
This summer we were excited to host two in-person graduation ceremonies, which celebrated students who had graduated in the last three years.
Psychoanalytic Training Program Graduation
Psychoanalytic Training Program Graduates
2022
Gerard Sobnosky, LMFT
2021
Leon Kaplan, JD
Arsalan Malik, MD
Joshua Richmond, MPW
2020
Claudia Feldman, PhD
Sidonie Freeman, PsyD
Sandra J. Landen, PhD
Kristen Melnyk, MD
Joseph Verrone, LCSW
2019
Jamey Hecht, PhD, PsyD
Agnes Regeczkey, LMFT, PhD
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program
2021
Agnes Regeczkey, LMFT, PhD (pictured above)
Teachers of the Year
During the graduation ceremony, the Clinical Associates announced their Teacher of the Year Award recipients. Candidates had been asked to vote for a teacher who taught any course during their experience at NCP thus far and stood out to them as excellent. This must be a teacher who expanded their knowledge of psychoanalytic thought and significantly contributed to their development. Candidate votes were counted and three were selected as their Teachers of the Year:

Elena Bezzubova, Joseph Natterson, and Ronnie Kaye

Candidates said this of their Teachers of the Year,
who were honored at graduation:

Thank you for who you are and the wisdom you've shared with us. We appreciate your teaching, your giving of time to help us, your PASSION! We are so grateful for you and all you do to support us. You consistently demonstrate the kind of masterful teaching and mentoring that keeps psychoanalytic training alive.
Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program Graduation
Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
Graduates
2022
Philip Blumenshine, MD
Charles Eckhart, PhD
Tamer Mattar, PsyD
Alison Picard, MA, AMFT
Joshua Poole, MD
John Poston, PhD
Kevin Simonson, MD
2021
Michael Cheng, MD
Carol Eisen, MD
Gregory Gabrellas, MD
Cindy Lucas, LCSW
Sheela Masifi, MD
2020
Biljana Bujko, PhD
Yung Lee Goldson, LMFT
Chiaku Hanson, MSW
Nitzan Keynan, LMFT
Gaetano Scognamillo, LCSW
Collette Thomas, ACSW
Dana Valdez, MD
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