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.