2026

Workshop Speakers

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R-PAS Workshop Presenters!

Workshop 1 & 3: Jessica Lipkind, Psy.D.

Jessica Lipkind, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in treatment and psychological assessment of children and adolescents. She maintains a private practice where she conducts evaluations using the Collaborative Assessment model with children, adolescents, and families. She conducts regular R-PAS trainings and provides case consultations. She is a member of the R-PAS Research and Development Group. Dr. Lipkind has presented nationally and internationally on the assessment of children, trauma, and attachment.

Workshop 1 & 3: Leighko Toyoshima Yap, Psy.D.

Dr. Leighko Toyoshima Yap is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in the treatment of children and the psychological assessment of children, adolescents, and adults for more than 20 years. In her private practice, Dr. Yap has been conducting psychotherapy, psychological assessments, forensic evaluations, and child custody evaluations. Dr. Yap has also led bereavement group therapy for children and families experiencing loss or going through terminal illnesses. Dr. Yap is an adjunct faculty at Alliant International University teaching assessment classes. Dr. Yap has extensive experience in assessing and treating children and adults from diverse backgrounds using a psychodynamic approach. Her special interests include Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment, bereavement work, children in divorced families, and cultural influences in psychology. Dr. Yap is fluent in both Japanese and English, and she provides psychotherapy and supervision in both languages.

Workshop 1 & 3: Maarten Vanhoyland, BTP

Maarten Vanhoyland is a Bachelor in Applied Psychology with a postgraduate degree in Psychodiagnostics. He is chairman of the Psychodiagnostic Center in OPZC Rekem and guest lecturer in Psychology and Psychological Assessment at several Belgium universities. He specialized almost 20 years in clinical assessment, mostly focussing on personality, psychosis and developmental disorders. His special interests include holistic psychology, Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment and Performance Based Assessment, and therein lies a great passion for the Rorschach. Maarten is proficient in Coding and Administration within the Rorschach Performance Assessment System. As a Research Associate for R-PAS, he’s mostly active on the Community Forum and in coding reviews, and he is currently collaborating with the authors of the first manual of R-PAS to help develop a second edition.

Workshop 2: Emiliano Muzio, Ph.D.

Emiliano Muzio, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice in Helsinki (Finland). Since the late 1990s, he has taught psychological and neuropsychological assessment at the Universities of Paris (France), Jyväskylä (Finland), and Helsinki, as well as at the École des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris (France). Over the same time period, he has been a regular presenter at conferences on personality assessment (e.g., SPA, ISR) and neuropsychology (e.g., INS) and is the leading organizer of a one-year Rorschach training program in Finland. He has also regularly organized training and taught therapeutic/collaborative assessment and the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT) according to the Crisi Wartegg System (CWS; Crisi & Palm, 2018). Dr. Muzio has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, co-authored a chpater in Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) (Mihura & Meyer, Eds., Guilford, 2018), and is the author of Neuropsychological Rorschach Assessment: Science and Practice (Routledge, 2026). He currently serves as First Vice-President of the ISR, President of the Finnish Rorschach Association, and representative for Finland at the Italian Institute of Wartegg.

Workshop 2: Luciano Giromini, Ph.D.

Luciano Giromini, Ph.D., is associate professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy. He has published about hundred articles in high-quality peer-reviewed scientific journals, including some important research articles on the relationship between the M to the Rorschach test and the activity of areas in the brain associated with the mirror neuron system, which have received several international awards (e.g., Mary S. Cerney Award). Luciano Giromini is associate editor for Psychological Injury and Law (I.F. = 3.1) and Rorschachiana, and consulting editor for several assessment journals, including Journal of Personality Assessment and Psychological Assessment. He is collaborating with the authors of the first manual of R-PAS to publish a second edition, for which he will be co-author.

Workshop 2: Philip Keddy, Ph.D.

Dr. Philip J. Keddy is a seasoned clinical psychologist with over four decades of experience in forensic psychology, psychotherapy, and assessment. He is one of the translators and editors of the Book Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics (Hogrefe, 2021). With expertise in PTSD, trauma, and addictive disorders, he has worked extensively in private practice, hospitals, and academic settings. As an adjunct faculty member at prestigious institutions, including the Wright Institute and Golden Gate University, Dr. Keddy has taught courses on adult assessment and addictions. A renowned expert in Rorschach assessment, he has published numerous papers and book chapters, and has presented internationally on topics related to personality assessment and psychotherapy.

Workshop 4: Ali Khadivi, Ph.D.

Ali Khadivi, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist holding a B.S. in Psychology from Tufts University (1982), M.A. in Psychology from The New School for Social Research (1990), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The New School for Social Research (APA-accredited, 1990). Completed an APA-approved psychology internship at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division (1987-1989). With over 30 years of private practice experience in New York, NY, and currently serving as Chief Psychologist at Madison Park Psychological Services, where he conducts clinical evaluations, assessments, and provide training and supervision to professionals

Workshop 4: James Kleiger, Ph.D.

James H. Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP, ABAP, is a diplomate in clinical and assessment psychology and a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Kleiger is a psychologist and was formerly a practicing psychoanalyst in Bethesda, MD. He served as President of the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and previously as Director of the Postdoctoral Psychology Training Program at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS. Dr. Kleiger is the author of Disordered Thinking and The Rorschach (1999); Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide (with Ali Khadivi, 2015, 2024); Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena (2017); and two edited volumes with Irving Weiner: The Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception (2021) and Rorschach Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (2023). Writing under the name J. Herman Kleiger, Jim has published three novels: The 11th Inkblot (2019), Tears Are Only Water (2023), and Whispers, A Tale of Madness, Betrayal, and Revenge (2025).

Workshop 4: Joni L. Mihura, Ph.D., ABAP

Joni L. Mihura, Ph.D., ABAP is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo specializing in psychological assessment and psychosis. She is also the founder and primary organizer of the R-PAS in Multimethod Assessment Conference. She is Board Certified in Assessment Psychology (ABAP). She is a a past President of SPA, and has career awards from SPA and APsaA. She has many publications on psychological assessment, and is best known for her work with the Rorschach—including systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the test’s validity. She is the co-developer of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), for which she presents invited lectures and trainings internationally. She is taking the lead on moving forward a Rorschach test specifically to assess psychosis: the Thought and Perception Assessment System (TPAS), for which normative data will need to be collected before it can be used. She is co-editor of two books—Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) and the Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment, and sole editor of The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment.

Workshop 5: Benjamin A. Rubin, Psy.D.

Benjamin A. Rubin, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist who specializes in forensic mental health assessment with children, adolescents and adults. He is owner and director of Measured Minds LLC, Claymont, DE, and a co-author for the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). Dr. Rubin received his Psy.D. in Combined School-Clinical Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He served as a psychologist and then Director of Forensic Services in the New York State Office of Mental Health in child/adolescent, adult and forensic settings. He has presented at national and international professional conferences on practical applications of psychoanalytic theory, psychological testing, faith, ethics, and forensic mental health assessment. His publications include co-author of the 2022 Journal of Personality Assessment article on Rorschach use in the legal context and a peer-reviewed book chapter about specialized re-entry inpatient care for individuals with co-occurring severe mental illness and criminal justice involvement. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University.

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