Secretary (2024-2026)

 Sam Roth, PhD

 I am a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst practicing just outside of Boston and a Child   Supervising   Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. I trained in Boston at Boston   University and the   Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where, until recently, I supervised and taught   clinical psychology interns   for more than two decades. I completed adult psychoanalytic training at the   Massachusetts Institute of   Psychoanalysis (a Division 39 institute) before coming to BPSI for child training.

 Prior to psychology graduate school, I pursued a doctorate in sociology, eventually falling in love with     psychoanalysis through the writings of Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm   as they grappled to understand the rise of fascism in Europe. I continue to read widely in psychoanalysis, sociology and history. I'm working hard to break my habit of reading the news.

Treasurer (2024-2026)

Barbara Streeter, MS, LPCC

Barbara Streeter is the Education and Therapy Director of the Hanna Perkins School and Chair of the Cleveland Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program, the result of a collaboration between the Hanna Perkins Center [HPC] and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center [CPC].  Ms. Streeter received her certification as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst through the Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development [now HPC] in 1981 and is currently a Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst serving on the Education Committee of the CPC.  Ms. Streeter was Treasurer of the ACP from 2012-2014 and again this past term 2018-2020.  She was a co-editor of the ACP Newsletter from 1998 to 2003.  She also served as Treasurer and President of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society. 

Having trained at the Bank Street College of Education and worked as an early childhood educator, Ms. Streeter has been actively involved in initiatives focused on bringing psychoanalytic understandings to educators in preschools and child care centers.  She directed the Hanna Perkins Center Extension Programs which provided courses and consultations in the community, helped develop and implement the HPC National Day Care Consultation Alliance, and currently is President of the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Schools. Ms. Streeter is running again for treasurer of the ACP because she believes her knowledge of and experience with the ACP budget and Endowment account will facilitate her ability to manage the ACP’s finances.

 President-Elect (2026-2028)

 Dan Prezant, Ph.D.

 Dan Prezant is the President of The American Psychoanalytic Association and a former Secretary of the Association for   Child Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst at the   New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI). He is in private practice with children, adolescents, adults,   parents, and couples in Manhattan.

Secretary-Elect (2026-2028)

Christie Huddleston, MD

Christie Huddleston M.D. is an adult, child and adolescent psychoanalyst in Philadelphia. She has recently retired from private practice. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she supervises residents and is Co--Coordinator for the Applied Psychoanalytic Curriculum for Child Fellows at CHOP. Dr. Huddleston is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP). Currently she is Director of the Integrated Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Program at PCOP

Major interests include the intersection of development, conflict and trauma and technical interventions that facilitate the opening of the play space. She has written a chapter on the “Developmental Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse” and co-authored, with Edward Kohn and Adele Kaufman, Analyzing Children: Psychological Structure, Trauma, Development and Therapeutic Action

The Association for Child Psychoanalysis, although a relatively small psychoanalytic organization, has a clear mission and focus on child psychoanalysis which gives it an impact beyond its size. I value the mission of ACP and the members who are devoted to child work. As a member for a number of years, I have served multiple different capacities and would like to continue whatever I can to further child psychoanalysis through ACP.

Treasurer-Elect (2026-2028)

Thomas Barrett, PhD

Thomas Barrett, Ph.D. is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Chicago. Dr. Barrett is an adjunct Professor and past Department Chair of the PsyD Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is an adjunct Professor at Chicago’s Erikson Institute.  Dr. Barrett undertook post-graduate training in Infant Mental Health with Prof. Selma Fraiberg and completed child analytic training through the Hanna Perkins Center in Cleveland in 1987. From 1990 until July of 2010, Dr. Barrett served as Hanna Perkins Executive and Clinical Director and was a member of the Center’s child psychoanalytic training Faculty.

A member of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis since 1980, Dr. Barrett has served the organization as Counselor, Secretary and Treasurer; presented the Marianne Kris in 2007; and has presented at workshops, to candidates, and at the plenary session at annual meetings.

Dr. Barrett is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (certified in Child/Adolescent Psychoanalysis); the International Psychoanalytic Association; the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (faculty and child/adolescent supervisor); and the Institute of the Carolinas (geographic rule child/adolescent supervisor); the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute (adjunct faculty and geographic rule supervisor). He is a founding member and past Vice President of the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Schools and is a board member and past Treasurer of the Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, (including Division 39 – Psychoanalysis, and is Treasurer and Past President of its Section II – Childhood and Adolescence).

Councilors

Term 2024-2027

Cheryl Collins, MD

Lorrie Chopra, MS, LLP

David Shaner, MA, LMHC

Term 2025-2028

Jacqueline Langley, PhD

Rex McGhee, MD

Dee Desnoyers, Ph.D., LPC

Term 2026-2029

Callie Emery, MD

Deborah Lynn, MD

Kathleen O'Connor, MSW

Candidate Councilors

Term 2024-2027

Jim Grabowski, MA, LCPC

Belinda Torres, PhD 

Administrative Director

Darcy Schatz, JD