Who We Are

WPSP Acting President and Secretary:  Maurine K. Kelly, PhD, FIPA

Dr. Maurine Kelly is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland. She completed her master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA in 1977, and her psychoanalytic training with the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) in 1994, where she serves as a Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst.    During her forty years as a licensed psychologist in the District of Columbia from 1980 to 2008 and Maryland since 1980, Dr. Kelly completed the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program (APTP) at the Washington School of Psychiatry (1981-1984), served on the Faculty, and the Steering Committee of APTP, as well as the Faculty Clinical Council (FCC) of the Washington School.  For many years Dr. Kelly served as adjunct faculty in George Washington University’s Doctoral  Program in Psychology. She became a Certified Group Psychotherapist and presented workshops at the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and the International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP).  Maurine has presented papers at many meetings of the American Psychological Association (APA), at Division 39 Spring Meetings, at the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and at the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).  She serves as President of the Contemporary Freudians in APsaA (CFIA), a Component Society of the American Psychoanalytic Association.  She and Dr. Fonya Helm have been chairing a Discussion Group at APsaA twice yearly since 2017, titled Altered States of Awareness.  Maurine is an editor of two books: Into the Void: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Gender-free Case (2005) London and New York:  Routledge; and A Womb of Her Own: Women’s Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy (2017) London and New York: Routledge. 

Treasurer:  Andy Van Slyke, D.O., DFAPA, FIPA

Dr. Van Slyke is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently serving in the United States Navy Medical Corps.  He completed medical training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1998 and psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia in 2004.  Dr. Van Slyke completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington D.C. Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society in 2016.  Over nearly 22 years of commissioned naval service, Dr. Van Slyke has served in numerous operational and hospital staff clinical and leadership positions.  He currently serves as the Force Psychiatrist, Submarine Forces Atlantic, Norfolk, VA and as staff psychiatrist and residency faculty at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA.  Dr. Van Slyke is board certified in general psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.