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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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