Matthew Steinfeld, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry’s Psychology Section, and the associate director of clinical training in the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, has been elected to the board of Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility (Section IX) in the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39).
Division 39 is one of the largest associations of psychoanalytic professionals and scholars in the world, with more than 3,000 doctoral level psychologists, graduate students, and allied mental health professionals,
Steinfeld officially joined the board this month in Atlanta at Division 39’s annual spring meeting.
Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility focuses attention on social issues and psychoanalytic ideas, sponsoring events and activities in which a psychoanalytic perspective is brought to bear on contemporary social issues, such as human rights, multicultural concerns, gender and sexualities, justice, ethics, economics, education, war, and violence.
In this pursuit, the section works to promote the accessibility of psychoanalytically oriented clinical services to underserved groups of people.
Steinfeld received his doctorate in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale. He has been a Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a Psychoanalytic Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.