Psychoanalysis & You is an APsA podcast about psychoanalysis and everyday life hosted by Dr. Gail Saltz.
Show Notes
Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst, and founding Co-Director of Forward Edge Services with offices in Saugatuck and Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to his private practice he consults to schools and to non and for profit corporations. He is on the Clinical Faculty, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Smaller is past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association; former Board member, International Psychoanalytic Association; and Executive Director Emeritus of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York,
As the former Public Advocacy Department Head of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Dr. Smaller led lobbying efforts in the United States Congress regarding the impact of trauma on children from community violence.
Dr. Smaller is Founding Director of the Project Realize Foundation, having created an in-school treatment and research project in Chicago. Project Realize was awarded the 2012 Award for Excellence by the American Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and was featured in the New York Times, January 2010. Currently, Project Realize supports patients and families in west Michigan unable to afford private psychotherapy, and is funded through grants and private donations.
