Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Ph.D.
is on the faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. She has taught courses on psychoanalytic theory in the Dept of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for over 30 years. She is the author of: The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Family Therapy (1988) and also of Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Five Stories of Psychotherapy (2002), which has been translated into 8 languages and recently released as an audio-book. She was a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Lacan, and also to Karnac's The Winnicott Tradition. She received the Distinguished Educator Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in 2013. Dr. Luepnitz is currently the Director of Insight For All, which she founded in 2004.
Dennis M. Debiak, PsyD.
is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is a Past President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology: Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. He is a founding member and one of the first graduates of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia (IRPP), where he now serves as faculty, supervisor, and analyst of candidates. He is the Assistant Director of Insight For All.