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he late Dr. Don Spivak,
a highly regarded child,
adolescent and adult
psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
for 40 years, will be honored
at a benefit for the Michigan
Psychoanalytic Foundation on
Sunday, Nov. 10. Dr. Spivak
served on the faculty of the
Michigan Psychoanalytic
Institute in Farmington Hills
and was a founding co-director
of the Walnut Lake Preschool
for children with emotional
problems.
He had served as director of
the Detroit Psychiatric Institute’s
Child and Adolescent Program.
Dr. Spivak devoted his career to
helping children with emotional
problems and teaching others
how to do so. As a teacher and
therapist, his colleagues say that
Dr. Spivak deeply touched many
individuals and their families.
The Michigan Psychoanalytic
Foundation, a nonprofit
organization, helps support the
educational and community
outreach of the Michigan
Psychoanalytic Institute (MPI).
MPI faculty teach individual
psychotherapy to psychiatric
residents in Southeast Michigan
and provide post-graduate
training in psychotherapy for
psychiatrists, psychologists, social
workers and other mental health
professionals.
Teaching and administrative
services for the Institute are
donated by faculty members.
MPI was instrumental in
developing the Walnut Lake
Preschool and Developmental
Kindergarten in Farmington Hills
for children with special needs.
In addition, MPI established
the Mel Bornstein Clinic that
provides mental health services
independent of patient resources
at three offices in Ann Arbor,
Oakland Country and Detroit.
The benefit will be held from
noon-4 p.m. at the Great Lakes
Culinary Institute, 24101 W. Nine
Mile Road in Southfield. Tickets
can be purchased by visiting the
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
website mpi-mps.org.
The late Dr. Don Spivak will be honored at
Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation benefit.
Celebrating
the Work of
Dr. Don Spivak
SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The late Dr. Don Spivak
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