2023 Faculty Presenters

Dr. Chance is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Atlanta. She is the current President of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, and an Associate Editor for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Dr. Chance is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in Emory’s School of Medicine, and a member of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute faculty where she teaches courses in Object Relations and Relational Psychoanalysis. She completed her Doctoral work in Clinical Psychology at Georgia State University, and her Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellowships at Emory School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Goodman is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Emory School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Theology in the Candler School of Theology. From 1999 to 2022, Dr. Goodman was Associate Professor of Psychology in the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, New York. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with 31 years of experience in private practice in New York and Georgia, treating children and adolescents as well as adults. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is certified as both an adult and a child and adolescent psychoanalyst and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA). In 2013, Dr. Goodman was awarded the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship by the US Department of State and spent eight months in 2014 establishing and evaluating a play-based intervention program to facilitate the development of school readiness skills in preschool children in two rural village libraries in Uganda. Dr. Goodman is the former Coordinator of the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Applied Child Research Team; Steering Committee member and the former Chair of the Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy Research (CAFTR) Special Interest Group of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research; and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Rural Village Libraries Research Network.  He is the former Director of the Long Island University Children’s Institute for Play Therapy and Research (CIPTAR) and the former Director of the Norbert Freedman Center for Psychoanalytic Research at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York, serving on its Board of Directors.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for Addiction Research (AFAR) and the Global Village Project (GVP). Dr. Goodman lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife Valeda, daughter Carlyn, and Bengal cat, Sulwe.

Dr. Paddock is a clinical psychologist, Fellow and Past-President of the Georgia Psychological Association. He received his BA with Highest Honors in Psychology from Williams College (1977), and his MA (1981) and PhD (1982) in Clinical Psychology from Emory University. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Emory and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in Emory’s School of Medicine. He is on the EUPI faculty, serves on the Institute’s Executive Committee and is Co-Director of the Fellowship Program.

Dr. Rudisch is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Atlanta, and a Past President of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Rudisch graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. Following college he taught high school science in Malawi while serving in the Peace Corps, and then graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2000. Dr. Rudisch finished his residency and fellowship training at Emory in 2005, and graduated from the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in 2011. Dr. Rudisch has taught at Emory’s medical school, as well as in the residency program and fellowship program in geriatrics. Dr. Rudisch has also lectured on Mental Health to Master’s of Divinity Students at the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

Dr. Schwartz is a clinical psychologist and Fellow of the Georgia Psychological Association. She received her BS summa cum laude in Psychology from Tufts University (1975), and her MA (1978) and PhD (1980) in Clinical Psychology from Emory University. Currently, she is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Emory, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the Emory University School of Medicine. She is on the EUPI faculty, and teaches courses in Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity and Relational Perspectives in Self Psychology.

Dr. Speanburg is a full-time, certified psychoanalyst in private practice. As psychoanalysis is her vocation, she achieved Supervising Analyst and Psychoanalyst-of-Candidates qualifications a few years after graduation. She teaches Comparative Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theories and Practice in adjunct faculty roles at Emory University Laney Graduate School, Smith School for Social Work, Georgia Medical College at Augusta, the Emory University Department of Behavioral Health and Sciences Residency Program and the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute (EUPI). You might recognize her name as the EUPI Director, but don’t let the administrative title mislead you - she shares most of her working hours with patients and supervisees.

Dr. Stoute is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, executive coach and organization consultant, who serves as a Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. She serves on the faculties of multiple psychoanalytic training programs including the adjunct faculties of the Emory University School of Medicine, and the Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a leader in the field of psychoanalysis and an internationally-recognized speaker, author, educator and clinician, with whose scholarship on racial trauma and implicit bias in health care is primary reading at training programs across the country. She is in full-time private practice in Atlanta, GA, and her book The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter, co-edited with Michael Slevin was just released by Routledge

Dr. Yates is a clinical psychologist and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis. In 2002, she was the first psychologist to graduate from EUPI. Previously, she trained in a variety of clinical modalities (eg, Gestalt, Psychomotor, family systems and was certified in CBT). As an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Emory University School of Medicine, she serves primarily within EUPI. She has chaired the psychotherapy program, served on the executive, faculty progression and psychotherapy committees, taught classes and supervised psychotherapy candidates. She is active in the American Psychoanalytic Association representing the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society on the Board of Directors and APsaA executive committee.