North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation
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September 2010
The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation is pleased to announce our 2010 David Raft Fellows. Due to the generosity of faculty, staff and students from the Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas (PECC), we were able to award two David Raft Fellows. Please join me in congratulating Ms. Lindsey Atkins and Dr. Susan Varady. Both David Raft Fellows are currently attending classes through PECC.

Sincerely,

Sarah Stiegler, MS.Ed.
Executive Director
NC Psychoanalytic Foundation
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Lindsey Atkins, MSW
Susan Varady, PhD
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Thank you
Lindsey Atkins, MSW
2010 David Raft Fellow
 
In May 2010 Lindsey Atkins received her Master's in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she concentrated in child mental health clinical practice.  Prior to her admittance into her graduate program, Ms. Atkins worked in a residential home for adolescents with autism. As a graduate student, she completed her internships at H.O.P.E. Foundations, a community-based mental health provider, and at the Dorothea Dix Child Outpatient Clinic, both in Raleigh, NC. While at Dorothea Dix, she was trained among a community of seasoned psychoanalytic social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. There she provided diagnostic assessments, individual outpatient therapy, and parent supportive therapy using an analytic understanding of children, parents, and the family unit to inform her treatment.

Ms. Atkins is currently employed at Carolina Behavioral Care, PA, providing outpatient therapy for individuals across the lifespan. Her clinical interests continue to be working with children and adolescents using psychoanalytic theory and practice in conjunction with play, art, and sandtray therapy interventions. Ms. Atkins also serves as the Secretary on the Board of Directors for Rock The Spectrum, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to using music and community to raise autism awareness and support other community organizations committed to autism research and services.

Ms. Atkins first became involved with PECC during her final year as a graduate student, taking the Introduction to Psychodynamic Assessment course as an independent study to supplement her clinical internship. She was thrilled to find an institute dedicated to the continuing education of clinicians interested in and committed to psychoanalytic tenets. She believes that her continual involvement in the PECC coursework will deepen her clinical work, stimulate her professional growth, and broaden her understanding of the complexities and intricacies of children and adults.
Susan Varady, PhD
2010 David Raft Fellow
 
Varady
Susan Varady, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Chapel Hill.  She is currently in her second year as a matriculated student at the Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas on the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy track.  She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied History at Princeton University where a personality theory course introduced her to Freud and his theories.  Dr. Varady earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at George Mason University in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. 

Since graduating with her PhD in 2002, Dr. Varady has worked in a variety of settings, including
the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA (as director of residency psychotherapy training, in an adult intensive outpatient program, and as a researcher examining interpersonal functioning in Borderline Personality Disorder), the Carolina Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training - a psychodynamically oriented training program (as a faculty member), as well as in private practice.  Dr. Varady's other professional activities during this time included participation in a psychoanalytic peer consultation group, and membership on the APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Section III (Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis) board. 

In July 2009, Dr. Varady relocated her practice to Chapel Hill, NC where she treats late adolescents and adults with a wide variety of presenting problems including eating disorders and past trauma.   In addition, she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and serves as a psychotherapy supervisor for residents.  She is working hard to make the most of her time in the Triangle before her husband receives his next assignment from the US Air Force during the summer of 2012.

When she is not working or studying, Dr. Varady enjoys recreational fitness, travel, equestrian and canine sport, audio books, and time with her husband and two-year-old son.
 
About Dr. David Raft

David Raft, MD
David Raft, MD
1930-1985 
Dr. David Raft, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was a committed researcher, clinician and teacher.  As Associate Professor in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, he taught on the consult/liaison service.  He also taught and supervised in the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Carolinas (then known as the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education Program).   

Equally comfortable with internal medicine, psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis or a combination of those he could and would respond to emergencies with the same generosity and excellence he showed in providing psychoanalytic supervision. Dr. Raft wrote on diverse topics including depression in medical patients, anorexia nervosa, sexual problems, psychopharmacological prescribing by non-psychiatrists, somatization, and therapeutic abortion.   

Dr. Raft's real love was teaching, supervising and conducting psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Those he supervised and mentored remember him as a dedicated teacher of the craft. The Raft Fellowship will provide financial support in order to share his professional values with new generations of students and psychoanalysts.
The David Raft Fellowship
THE DAVID RAFT FELLOWSHIP

Created by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation through a generous gift from Elizabeth Raft, MD, a David Raft Fellowship will be awarded each year to one student or trainee enrolled in or planning to enroll in the Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas.  The David Raft Fellowship will provide up to $1,250 to help defray the costs of tuition.

The amount of the Raft Fellowship each year is based on interest earned on the David Raft Community Outreach
and Education Endowment and gifts made directly to this fund. To help support this award, you can make send checks to NCPF, Raft Endowment Fund, 901 Paverstone Drive, Suite 11, Raleigh, NC 27615 or make your gift ONLINE. To learn more about the fellowship and to meet our past Raft Fellows, visit us online at Raft Fellowship.
 
Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas
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A division of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society
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Phone: (919) 490-3212
Email: admin@ncanalysis.org

The Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas (PECC) is committed to providing the community with continuing education courses, psychoanalytic training programs, and clinical supervision that reflect a deep understanding of the complexities of human development, relationships, feelings, & behavior.    The psychoanalytic perspective can inform and enhance all clinical work, from supportive to insight-oriented. Psychoanalytically-informed therapies go beyond symptom reduction and help clients develop inner capacities and resources, which allow a richer and more fulfilling life.

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Thank you

The David Raft Community Outreach and Education Endowment was created by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation through a generous gift from Elizabeth Raft, MD.

We would like to thank PECC faculty, staff and students for their contributions for an additional 2010 fellowship.The follow people
supported the David Raft Endowment in 2009-2010:

John Boswell                      Paul Brinich                       Julia Danek
Lida Jeck                           Molly Kiefer                       Nancy Livingston
Barry Ostrow                      Elizabeth Raft                    Sarah Tillis                        
Sarah Uzenoff                    Anonymous
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