By Anna Levy-Warren

The Blaustein Philanthropic group’s Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation is dedicated to the funding of various educational opportunities, health and mental health programs, and human rights. The CUNY clinical program first received a mental health grant from the Blaustein Foundation six years ago and renewed its funding last year. The foundation has offered to help support a number of special opportunities in the upcoming year.

Included in these special offerings are future talks by Dr. Drew Westen and Dr. Nancy Mc Williams. Dr. Westen is from the Laboratory of Personality and Psychopathology at Emory University and Dr. McWilliams is the author of the popular psychoanalytic primer Psychoanalytic Diagnosis as well as many other texts. The Blaustein grant also allows for Dr. Rebecca Chaplan, the Psychological Center’s primary psychiatrist, to teach psychopharmacology and conduct didactic sessions with adult intake classes.