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voLUME 6
March 2010
IN THIS ISSUE
What’s New in Clinical
Psychology at Teachers College
Global Update on Interpersonal
Psychotherapy: A TC Conference
2
by Barry Farber, Director of Clinical Training
Dean Hope Center Update
3
of ours affirmed by the APA powers.”
hat’s most new and good is
From the actual APA report: “ Practicum
that, once again, we had a
experiences appear plentiful and varied,
very successful APA review.
with students having a diverse clientele
Our APA site visitors came in Decemwith which to work...although generber, 2008, and scrutinized us thoroughly
ally psychodynamic in perspective, the
for two full days. Here, in part, is how I
program does a very good job of offering
reported to the faculty and our students
other perthe “verspectives.
dict” from
The faculty
the APA
members
Commisare available
sion on Acto students
creditation:
and are good
“We did
role models.
very well
The program
indeed.
has an
Full and
impressive
seven!
“It was twenty years ago today...” the entering class of 1990.
group of
(short for
students that are appropriate in num‘full accreditation and for seven years,’
ber, given the size of the faculty...the
the maximum number of years awarded
program has required diversity courses
till the next site visit)…We feel quite
and also infuses diversity into all aspects
proud. Despite the political distractions
within the department, despite our small of the curriculum, including practicum
experiences. This infusion of diversity
numbers (of full-time faculty), despite
illnesses and personal crises, we’ve man- and multicultural education appears to
be a strength of the program...Reports
aged to continue our tradition of running a first-rate, highly-regarded doctoral from faculty and graduate students
indicate that students are treated
program in clinical psychology––and
continued on page 7
it’s very nice to get these perceptions
One Student Finds “Inner Piece”
4
Faculty Books
6
Alumni Updates
8
Faculty Updates
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The Alumni Newsletter of
the Clinical Psychology Program
Teachers College, Columbia Unversity
March 2010
Volume 6
Editor
Bonnie Schneider
Faculty Advisor
Barry A. Farber
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
www.tc.edu/ccp
212-678-3267
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM | ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 1
Global Update on
Interpersonal Psychotherapy:
A TC Conference
T
variety of studies and programs ranghe third conference of the
ing from IPT for depressed American
International Society for
adolescents in school-based clinics
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
to IPT adapted for group use with
(ISIPT) took place at Teachers College
trauma survivors in Uganda.
this past March, 2009, chaired by TC
Attachment theory provides much
clinical psychology Assistant Professor
of the theoretical basis for IPT, and
Lena Verdeli. Interpersonal psychoseveral speakers
therapy (IPT) is
presented new
a manualized,
research in this
evidence-based
area. Peter Fontherapy which
agy, one of the
has demonstrated
Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy
for Depression in Rural Uganda
most prominent
efficacy across a
A Randomized Controlled Trial
psychotherapy
number of disorresearchers in
ders, populations,
the world today,
and cultural setdiscussed the retings. Dr. Verdeli
lationship among
has for many
attachment
years worked with
theory, mentalIPT co-developer
ization, and IPT.
Myrna Weissman
Building on this
at the New York
theme, Paula
State Psychiatric
Ravitz presented
Institute, where
A article in the Journal of the American Mediinitial evidence
her research
cal Association (JAMA) describes the trial.
that IPT may
focuses on the
work not only by helping individuals
adaptation of IPT in developing counwith their interpersonal problems,
tries and as a preventive treatment for
but also by altering their maladaptive
children of bipolar parents.
attachment styles. Another focus of
This year’s ISIPT conference,
the conference was on the adaptabilled as a “Global Update,” brought
tion, testing, and dissemination of
together over three hundred researchIPT in resource-poor countries such
ers, clinicians, and students from
as Uganda and India. By way of
North and South America, Europe,
example, Lincoln Ndogoni from the
Africa, Asia, and Australia. Over the
NGO World Vision discussed how
three days experts reported on a broad
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Paul Bolton, MBBS
Judith Bass, MPH
Context Despite the importance of mental illness in Africa, few controlled intervention trials related to this problem have been published.
Richard Neugebauer, PhD, MPH
Helen Verdeli, PhD
Objectives To test the efficacy of group interpersonal psychotherapy in alleviating
depression and dysfunction and to evaluate the feasibility of conducting controlled
trials in Africa.
Kathleen F. Clougherty, MSW
Priya Wickramaratne, PhD
Liesbeth Speelman, MA
Lincoln Ndogoni, MA
Myrna Weissman, PhD
D
EPRESSION IS A LEADING
cause of disability in both developed and developing regions of the world, including Africa.1,2 In 2000, we conducted a
community-based survey in an impoverished part of southwest Uganda that
has been severely affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
epidemic. Using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth
Edition (DSM-IV) major depression criteria, we found a current depression
prevalence rate of 21% (P.B., unpublished data, 2000), consistent with previous research implicating socioeconomic disadvantage and bereavement
in depressive symptoms.
World Vision International, a nongovernmental humanitarian organization, was interested in addressing this
substantial mental health burden in
Uganda. Both antidepressants and psychotherapy have been shown to be efficacious in numerous controlled trials
in developed countries, including evidence of equivalence in reducing the
Design, Setting, and Participants For this cluster randomized, controlled clinical
trial (February-June 2002), 30 villages in the Masaka and Rakai districts of rural Uganda
were selected using a random procedure; 15 were then randomly assigned for studying
men and 15 for women. In each village, adult men or women believed by themselves
and other villagers to have depressionlike illness were interviewed using a locally adapted
Hopkins Symptom Checklist and an instrument assessing function. Based on these interviews, lists were created for each village totaling 341 men and women who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria
for major depression or subsyndromal depression. Interviewers revisited them in order
of decreasing symptom severity until they had 8 to 12 persons per village, totaling 284.
Of these, 248 agreed to be in the trial and 9 refused; the remainder died or relocated. A
total of 108 men and 116 women completed the study and were reinterviewed.
Intervention Eight of the 15 male villages and 7 of the 15 female villages were randomly assigned to the intervention arm and the remainder to the control arm. The
intervention villages received group interpersonal psychotherapy for depression as weekly
90-minute sessions for 16 weeks.
Main Outcome Measures Depression and dysfunction severity scores on scales
adapted and validated for local use; proportion of persons meeting DSM-IV major depression diagnostic criteria.
Results Mean reduction in depression severity was 17.47 points for intervention groups
and 3.55 points for controls (P.001). Mean reduction in dysfunction was 8.08 and
3.76 points, respectively (P.001). After intervention, 6.5% and 54.7% of the intervention and control groups, respectively, met the criteria for major depression (P.001)
compared with 86% and 94%, respectively, prior to intervention (P=.04). The odds
of postintervention depression among controls was 17.31 (95% confidence interval,
7.63-39.27) compared with the odds among intervention groups. Results from intentionto-treat analyses remained statistically significant.
Conclusions Group interpersonal psychotherapy was highly efficacious in reducing
depression and dysfunction. A clinical trial proved feasible in the local setting. Both
findings should encourage similar trials in similar settings in Africa and beyond.
symptoms of acute depression.3 However, use of antidepressants is not feasible in this region because of high cost
experts reported on a
broad variety of studies
and programs ranging
from IPT for depressed
American adolescents
in school-based clinics
to IPT adapted for
group use with trauma
survivors in Uganda.
Author Affiliations are listed at the end of this article.
Corresponding Author and Reprints: Paul Bolton,
MBBS, 159 Tilden Rd, Scituate, MA 02066 (e-mail:
pbolton@jhsph.edu).
(Reprinted) JAMA, June 18, 2003—Vol 289, No. 23
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Over the three days
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JAMA. 2003;289:3117-3124
©2003 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
local workers without formal mental
health training have been taught to
provide IPT to people in low-resource
communities in East Africa. Other
new lines of research presented at the
conference included the use of IPT in
the treatment of post-partum depression, eating disorders, and combatassociated PTSD in military veterans
from Iraq and Afghanistan.
IPT was originally developed in
the 1970s as the psychotherapy arm
for a clinical drug trial. Continual
testing has led to an increasingly
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nuanced view of how, when, and for
whom IPT works, and its adaptation
to a variety of disorders; furthermore,
its ease of training and adaptability has facilitated its dissemination
in diverse settings throughout the
world. More information about IPT
and guidelines on becoming an IPT
therapist or trainer can be found on
the ISIPT website: www.interpersonalpsychotherapy.org. The society’s next
international conference will be held
in the Netherlands in 2011. 
Dean Hope Center Update
T
he Dean Hope Center for
Psychological and Educational
Services (formerly known as
CEPS) continues, under the excellent
guidance of Dr. Dinelia Rosa, to provide hands-on learning opportunities
for students in various Teachers College Programs (counseling psychology,
clinical psychology, reading specialty,
and school psychology) and to serve as
an invaluable resource for the community. And, thanks to the efforts of one
our current third-year doctoral students, Brian Sherman, who is serving
as “outreach coordinator,” the number
of clients seen at the clinic is at a
record-high and impressive in terms of
their diversity and range of presenting
problems.
Student learning has been facilitated by an upgrade of the AV system
and recordings from sessions are an
integral part of many classes. For the
administrative responsibilities associated with clinical work, there is now
a computer software program called
Titanium that allows students to reserve rooms, enter progress notes, and
check outstanding clinical balances.
Moreover, clinical and counseling doc-
A few members of the current third-year class.
toral students have the opportunity to
showcase their clinical work and share
their learning at case conference in the
Spring and Fall. Presentations are of
a uniformly high quality and, among
other features, integrate clinical and
cultural perspectives.
Regarding research: The clinic is
continuing its participation in a nationwide project, featuring data collection
via the Treatment Outcome Package
(TOP). This is a measure that provides
1) individual client reports including goals, risk factors, psychiatric and
medical history, diagnostic suggestions/
progress, and a clinical profile; 2) a client satisfaction report, and 3) periodic
aggregate reports. It was created by the
Practice Research Network (PRN),
an organization that with the help of
NIMH funding, strives to integrate
mental health research, practice, and
community services. In addition to the
TOP data, the CEPS study is collecting data on clients’ disclosure of
important issues, perceptions of their
own improvement, attachment status,
self-enhancing tendencies, and beliefs
regarding spirituality. Taken together,
this information will help students at
CEPS to establish more specific treatment goals and to improve quality of
client care. 
Colloquium
The Colloquium Seminar is a source of inspiration and learning for faculty and students. Most Wednesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters, accomplished clinicians and researchers, reflecting a wide variety
of backgrounds and interests, are invited to share their expertise. Fall
presentations have covered such diverse topics as psychotherapy with
psychotic patients, emotions in child psychotherapy, the psychology of
Virginia Woolf, parent management for preschoolers, mindfulness, the
relationship between neuroscience and psychology, and family therapy.
This Spring (2010), we are looking forward to presentations by Drs.
Jesse Geller, Kevin Ochsner, Tracy Dennis, Crystal Park, Diana Fosha,
John Broughton, and Marla Brassard. This year, colloquium has shifted
“organically” from a lecture-like format to more informal presentations,
involving rich dialogues among students, faculty and speakers. Free pizza
too. If anyone is interested in attending Colloquium (1:00-2:30) or giving a
presentation, please contact Dr. Barry Farber (farber@tc.columbia.edu).
Nicole Yoskowitz and Brian Sherman, current third-year
students, in CEPS student lounge.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM | ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 3
One Student Finds
“Inner Piece”
In 2009, a longtime dream for 7th-year student (and about-to-be
graduate) Jesse Metzger finally came true. Fame and fortune as
a clinical psychologist? No (not yet). She was hired to produce a
large-scale replica of an architecturally spectacular building out of
nothing but LEGO bricks.
C
New York studio apartment
ommissioned by
to studio apartment would
Suky Werman, art
finally have a purpose, began
dealer and propriwork in late June, just as
etor of the Stonover Farm
her clinical internship at
luxury bed and breakMt. Sinai/Elmhurst Hosfast near Tanglewood in
pital was nearing compleLenox, Massachusetts,
Jesse Metzger
tion. Before she decided on
Metzger’s 5 foot x 2 ½
clinical psychology as her life’s
foot, 15,582-piece replica of
work, Metzger was certain she would
Stonover Barn was displayed in an art
be an architect, having spent most of
exhibition at the reputable Stonover
her young life immersed (literally) in
Barn Gallery from August 7th to
LEGO bricks. At the age of eight, the
October 31st, 2009. In negotiations
passion was already so entrenched that
that spanned the early part of 2009,
her parents were obliged to ship her
Werman, a longtime LEGO fan, asked
entire collection from Los Angeles to
Metzger to replicate her most beloved
Ibiza, Spain, where the family lived for
building on the Stonover property to be
one year; there, Metzger undertook her
shown in the farm-themed exhibition
first large-scale replica: Gaudi’s famous
that included 20 other top local artSagrada Familia church in Barcelona.
ists’ works in various media. Metzger,
After a brief hiatus during her years at
thrilled at the opportunity and relieved
that the enormous LEGO collection
she had been toting from tiny
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Williams College, over the summer following her first year in the TC clinical
program Metzger took on the challenge
of reproducing in LEGO her parents’
house in Chesterfield, Massachusetts,
in a kind of tribute to their relocation
to the East Coast. It was this stunning
2 x 3 foot replica that caught Werman’s
eye, sowing the seed for the commission to come several years later.
Working from floor plans and
extensive photos, Metzger spent
six weeks of intensive planning and
construction in order to complete the
work in time for the show. On August
5th, two days before the show’s opening reception, the LEGO barn was
transported, in 13 modular units, from
Before she decided
on clinical psychology
as her life’s work,
Metzger was certain
she would be an
architect, having
spent most of her
young life immersed
(literally) in LEGO
bricks.
New York to Stonover in the back of a
Jeep. The model was a great success
at the opening, drawing admiration
from the LEGO-familiar and unfamiliar alike; as for Werman, “I love the
[LEGO] barn more and more everyday.” Metzger, whose “Custom LEGO
Designs” business cards were avail-
able throughout the duration
of the art show’s
run, is hopeful that
more commissions will come her
way: “As a result of the exposure this
art show is bringing, I may be in a
position to create further works of this
type... a little supplement to future
private practice!” She can be reached
at jesseametzger@yahoo.com. 
Jesse Metzger’s LEGO project replica of Stoneover Farm in Massachusetts.
Graduate Student Journal
The Graduate Student Journal of Psychology (GSJP) is one of the
most diverse volumes, with articles ranging from “The physiology
many unique and impressive aspects of the Counseling and Clini-
of psychotherapy” to “Neuroscience and the law.” Our collective
commitment to continued improvement is also
cal Psychology Department at TC. Now in its 11th
year, and with its editors drawn in the last few years
from the doctoral program in clinical psychology,
this student-run Journal has succeeded quite well
in its mission to bring student research to the fore-
2009 - Volume 11
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
ISSN 1088-4661
Graduate Student
Journal of Psychology
reflected in our striking new cover and binding
formats. Of course, we also greatly value the
work of our contributing authors, not only for
their important research, but also for their sin-
front. From its beginning as a publication featuring
cerity and cooperation throughout this journey.
mostly the work of TC doctoral and masters level
Last but not least, we recognize and appreciate
students, GSJP has evolved into a highly-respect-
the support of our faculty advisor and Direc-
ed, peer-reviewed journal that receives submis-
tor of Clinical Training, Dr. Barry Farber, who
sions from across the United States and Canada.
has been the cornerstone of our journalistic en-
For our last two issues, we received close to 30
deavors providing sage advice while encourag-
submissions each year, including some from re-
ing independent decision-making. We hope to
keep enhancing the journal and expanding our
peat authors who sent us updates of research we
had published previously, and occasionally from
faculty co-authors at other institutions. We recognized that the increased exposure and growing
Brian Sherman
Anitha Venkataramani-Kothari
Editors
readership, and in so doing, adding to GSJP’s
substantial legacy in years to come. Indeed,
even as we write this, we are reviewing 45
number of article submissions called for organizational restructur-
manuscripts for our next volume. We would be very pleased to send
ing. Thus, while maintaining the intrinsic excitement and charm of
a copy of our most recent volume to those alum requesting this;
a student group, we adopted a more structured management style,
please email Brian (bjs2115@columbia.edu) if you are interested.
putting into place our first editorial board.
It is our belief that the benefits of implementing this new structure
Brian J. Sherman, 2008-2010
are evident in our latest edition (Volume 11), which was published
Ashley Bullock, 2009-2010
this past Fall, 2009. Submissions were reviewed, re-reviewed, copy-
Anitha Venkataramani-Kothari, 2008-2009
edited, and formatted in a sequence yielding one of the journal’s
Editors – Graduate Student Journal of Psychology
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM | ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 5
Faculty
Books
The Other Side of Sadness
by George A. Bonanno
(2009)
Publisher’s
description: We tend
to
understand
grief as a predictable
five-stage
process of denial,
What the New Science
anger, bargaining,
of Bereavement Tells Us
about Life after Loss
depression,
and
acceptance. But
GeOrGe BONaNNO
in The Other Side
of Sadness, George Bonanno shows that
our conventional model discounts our
capacity for resilience. In fact, he reveals
that we are already hardwired to deal with
our losses efficiently—not by graduating
through static phases.
The Other Side
of Sadness
Weaving in explorations of mourning rituals and the universal experiences of the
death of a parent or child, Bonanno examines how our inborn emotions—anger
and denial, but also relief and joy—help
us deal effectively with loss. And grieving
goes beyond mere sadness: it can deepen
interpersonal connections and often involves positive experiences. In the end,
mourning is not predictable, but incredibly
sophisticated.
Rock 'n' Roll Wisdom: What
Psychologically Astute Lyrics
Teach about Life and Love
by Barry A. Farber
(2007)
Publisher’s description: The Beatles meet
Sigmund Freud. Bob Marley trades ideas
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with Carl Rogers,
and Joni Mitchell
shares thoughts
with
psychological
great
Erik
Erikson.
Those aren't actual face-to-face
meetings, but a
reflection of the
fascinating interplay developed for this book by psychologist Barry Farber. In a novel look at rock
'n' roll lyrics, Farber shows us those lyrics
that rise above the rest because they are
not only clever, but also wise in their psychological themes and conclusions. These
great lyrics embody enduring truths about
topics as diverse as love, identity, money,
sex, religion, aging, social justice, and the
search for meaning.
No other book has treated rock lyrics so
seriously, as a source of both creativity
and wisdom. No other book has used rock
lyrics to help us understand who we are
and why we do what we do. This is a fascinating work that will make readers think
about their lives and consider where they
have been, as well as where they are going. Featured artists include Bob Dylan,
The Beatles, The Eagles, Joni Mitchell,
Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and more. Rock
lyrics from every decade since the 1950s
are featured and intertwined with the theories of such luminaries as Freud, Rogers,
Erikson, and John Bowlby. The wisest rock
lyrics, says Farber, can teach us something about ourselves that even the greatest figures in psychology have sometimes
failed to do.
Self Disclosure in Psychotherapy
by Barry A. Farber
(2006)
Drawing on empirical research as well as
theory and clinical experience, Barry A.
Farber provides a highly readable examination of self-disclosure by both therapists
and patients. He explores when sharing
personal experiences is beneficial and
what kinds of disclosure may not be helpful; why either party may fail to reveal
important information; and how to use
what is disclosed (and what is omitted)
to strengthen the therapeutic relationship
and improve patient outcomes. He also
discusses the reasons why disclosure in
therapy is currently such a prominent issue. Rich with clinical material, the book
offers valuable insights for therapists of
any orientation. A special chapter addresses self-disclosure issues in supervision.
Conducting Psychological
Assessment
by Jordan Wright
(Wiley: Fall, 2010)
Conducting Psychological Assessment is
aimed at graduate students learning assessment and professionals looking to
improve their assessment skills. Rather
than approaching assessment test-by-test
(for which there are many good texts), this
book tackles the entire process, from referral to report writing to giving client feedback. Case examples are used extensively
to demystify the process (of which interpreting tests is only a part), and several
full case examples are presented. The text
uses clinical interview and behavioral observation data to create hypotheses about
what might be impairing functioning (if
anything), and to provide some guidelines
and ideas about selecting tests, integrating
data in a meaningful, clear, and concise
way, and presenting test findings, both in
writing and in feedback sessions.
What’s New
continued from front page
with respect and relationships are
collegial. Graduate students were generally very positive about advisement
and support received from faculty
member advisors...In closing, on behalf
of the Commission on Accreditation, I
[Susan Zlotlow, chair of the Office of
Accreditation] extend congratulations
to faculty and students of the professional psychology program for their
achievements”…other news: we’ve reduced the number of doctoral students
admitted annually into the program.
Last year (Fall, 2008), we admitted 6
new students; this year (Fall, 2009),
we admitted 7. As usual, our incoming
classes have been quite diverse; for
example, this year’s class of 7 includes
students from 4 countries (other than
the United States): England, Chile,
Israel, and Greece. Apart from other
advantages, small classes allow us to
provide more funding for each admit-
Conference Highlight
ted student. Even as we reduce class
size, the number of applications to our
program has continued to increase; last
year we processed nearly 350 applications. Consistent with the trend in the
field toward a “mentorship model,”
many of our accepted students have
been masters degree students here,
working in the research labs of our
faculty members.…New courses we’re
considering adding to the curriculum
include Group Psychotherapy (which
has been “off the books” for too many
years), Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy, and an additional assessment
course (to be added on to our current 3-course sequence) focusing on
neuropsych assessment. And, with
the help of one of our alums in Israel,
Sharon Dekel, we’re moving forward
with plans for a one-week conference
in Israel on trauma-related issues; our
goal is to be able to fully fund this trip
for a small group of current students
and faculty. Of course, approval for
new courses and new programmatic
initiatives is tied to budgetary considerations so we will have to wait and
see how these play out. In that regard:
College tuition for this current (20092010) academic year is $1127 a point;
students in the doctoral program are
required to complete 95 points. Good
thing we’re doing better (though not
great) in terms of scholarship awards…
we sadly said goodbye this past August
to our wonderful secretary, Kim Bassalian (who’s doing her student teaching this year); we happily welcomed
back our “old” wonderful secretary,
Rebecca Shulevitz, who’s returned to
the United States after living in Israel
for two years…Re Rosalea, who many
of you undoubtedly remember with a
great deal of affection and respect: she
is still living in her apartment in Manhattan, though now with round-theclock care as (at age 89) she is dealing
with some cognitive decline. But she is
still able to talk fondly about her many
years here at the College. 
Find Us on Facebook
Alumni Supervisors
It has become common
Thanks to all our Alumni Supervisors for
practice for Ph.D. programs
continuing to give back to the Clinical
to have a Facebook group,
Psychology Department through sup-
so we decided to get in on
porting and mentoring our students.
the trend. The TC Clinical
Janine Tiago
Psychology Ph.D. group is administered by
Jill Backfield
Sarah Zoeterman, a second-year doctoral
student, and is open to students, supervisors, faculty and graduates of the program.
Nancy Nereo
Susan Shachner
The group, while still in its infancy, is intend-
Nancy Epper-Wolff
ed to provide members with program-related
Merav Gur
information and an avenue for communi-
Billie Pivnick
cating, networking, and promoting events
Dan Laukitis
Barry Farber, Jesse Geller (instructor for
(please do post information regarding inter-
third-year practicum), Jesse Metzger (post-
esting psychology-related events in NYC).
internship student), and Rachel Khurgin-
We hope to reconnect with many of you in
Ruth Livingston
Botts (5th year student) presenting papers
“cyberspace” so please do join. You can find
Beth King
on self-disclosure at a recent (October,
us by logging in to Facebook and searching
2009) Society for Psychotherapy Research
Jeffrey Cole
for “Teachers College Columbia University
regional conference in Williamstown, Mass.
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program.”
Arthur Heiserman
Bob Bartlett
PROGRAM IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY | ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 7
Alumni
Updates
Many thanks to all who emailed us about their lives. And what an
impressive group of alum! The range of accomplishments and
the extent to which our graduates have made such important and
meaningful contributions to the field and to the lives of their clients
affirms us all. In alphabetical order:
Ben G. Adams is living in Chelsea
and completing a postdoctoral research
fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology
at Columbia University.
Aubree Okun Alexander is currently
working part-time at Children's Specialized Hospital in New Jersey in the
areas of pediatric neuropsychology and
neurorehabilitation. She completed
a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology (2004-2006) at the same
location. She and her husband are
the proud parents of a three year old
boy who always reminds them of the
"little" things that make life so special.
Elizabeth Arnold writes: I am currently in private practice in the west
village, and living with my husband
and son in the lower Hudson Valley.
logical Association’s Deputy General
Counsel, I accepted a position as
Deputy Director of the APA Ethics
Office in 2007. As part of my duties
I direct the adjudication program at
APA. My husband, Paul Beatty, and I
live in Kensington, Maryland outside
DC with our two sons, Preston who is
7 and in second grade, and Campbell
who is almost 4 and in preschool.
Jim Beers writes: Unfortunately I
suffered a concussion (aka Traumatic
Brain Injury) in June 2008. I'm slowly
recovering and have recently been able
to do one face-to-face session a week.
Prior to my accident I had been teaching Psychology of Human of Sexuality
and Psychology of Parenting at John
Jay since 1995 and have had a private
practice since 1997.
Margaret Babbott is currently taking a sabbatical year in Boulder, Colorado to re-specialize in Eco-psychology
at Naropa University. Check out their
website for more information about
this growing field. Hard to keep my
head in the books when the Rockies
beckon. Noah (13) and Claire (9) can't
wait for ski season.
Michael Beldoch is currently
Clinical Professor of Psychology in
Psychiatry at Weill Medical College
Cornell University, and Attending
Psychologist at New York Presbyterian
Hospital. He also has a private practice
in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
He has 6 kids, 6 grandkids, and 2 dogs.
Lindsay Childress-Beatty writes:
After 5 years as the American Psycho-
Donna Bender writes: Having
relocated from Manhattan to Tucson,
AZ a couple of years ago, I am cur-
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rently having a great time in the desert
with my seven-year-old son, Joey, and
husband John Rosegrant, living by
the mountains with lots of hiking in
a nearby canyon. I am a Research
Associate Professor at the University
of Arizona, Department of Psychiatry,
and Director and CEO of the Sunbelt
Collaborative, a nonprofit research and
education organization. A Fellow of the
International Psychoanalytical Association, board member and faculty of
the Arizona Center for Psychoanalytic
Studies, and a member of the DSM-V
Personality and Personality Disorders
Work Group, I also maintain a private
practice in adult psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy in Tucson.
Kathryn Berano is Assistant Director of Psychology Internship Training
(and currently Geriatrics Rotation Primary Supervisor) at Coler-Goldwater
Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility
She is licensed both in NY & Hawaii.
Personally: I am still longing to live 5
minutes from the beach; love spending time w/family and friends on the
East & West coast; enjoy swinging by a
yoga or kickboxing class whenever time
permits; interested in natural remedies, body work, and going "organic"
for optimal health.
Brenda Berger writes: I practice
in New York City and Larchmont. I
trained as a psychoanalyst at Columbia
University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research and have been
very active at the Center. I serve as
the Senior Associate Director for the
Psychology Division. I also created
and now direct the Ph.D. Externship
training program there. In September
2009, I was honored by the Center
and the Association for Psychoanalytic
Medicine with an award (the Lionel
Ovesey Award) for being the primary
person responsible for developing an
innovative teaching and treatment
program with psychoanalysis as its
main component. I serve on both the
Executive and Long Range Planning
Committees at the Center and chair
the Third Year Theory of Technique
course. I live in Larchmont with my
husband Joseph, a reporter for the
New York Times and author of several
books, and my daughter Annie, who
recently graduated from Northwestern
University and is now working in the
publishing industry.
Arnold Bernstein writes: I am in
full time private practice of psychoanalysis and on the faculties of the
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic
Studies and the New York Graduate
School of Psychoanalysis, as well as
Professor emeritus of Psychology at
Queens College of the City University
of New York.
Samantha Boris is about to begin a
position at the West Haven VA Center
(and Yale University) as Research Psychologist and Director of Education at
the PRIME (Pain Research Informatics Medical Co-morbidities & Education) Center.
Eve Brody (Case) writes: I have
been in private practice in Manhattan
since graduation, and can now say that
I have a mild idea as to what I’m doing.
I chose 10 years of intensive training
in both the philosophy and physical
practice of yoga over a postdoc in psychoanalysis and suspect this has served
me at least as well. My daughter is 15,
my son is 12, my husband of 17 years
is now an ex, and I have fallen in love
again. And so the mysterious journey
of life continues.
Ghislaine Boulanger writes:
I'm in private practice in NY and a
faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis. My most recent book,
Wounded by Reality: Understanding
and Treating Adult Onset Trauma, was
published by The Analytic Press in
2008. Personally, I'd love to hear from
anyone from my class.
Eva Metzger Brown writes: Born
in Fuerth/Nuremberg, Germany in
July 1938, Dr. Brown and her parents
fled Germany following Kristallnacht
in November of the same year…After graduating TC, she worked as a
Research Associate at the Austen Riggs
Center in Stockbridge, MA in the early
1970’s. Some years thereafter, she
began a private practice in Amherst,
MA and in the ‘80’s she founded and
directed the project: Intergenerational
Healing in Holocaust Families at the
University of MA. She was also part of
the first clinical/legal divorce mediation team in MA. She retired from
practice after 30 years. She facilitates
intergenerational groups at the yearly
meetings of the World Federation
of Jewish Child Survivors Of The
Holocaust (WFJCSH), and speaks in
public school, college and synagogue
settings. In July, 2009, Dr. Brown was
awarded the Elise M. Hayman Award
For The Study Of The Holocaust And
Genocide by the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Brown and
her husband established the “Metzger
Brown Holocaust Remembrance
Award” at the Amherst Regional High
School in order to honor her parents, Ernest and Doris Metzger, both
Holocaust survivors, and to remember
those who died in the Holocaust. It is
awarded to a senior who has written
the best essay on the topic: Lessons
From The Holocaust And Their Implications For Present Day Genocides.
Dr. Brown lives with her husband in
western MA and is the mother of three
and the grandmother of seven.
Elizabeth Buckley writes: I live in
Gainesville, Florida, where I have a
full-time adult psychotherapy practice.
I am enjoying raising my two boys,
Julian, 11, and Adrian, 7. My Website:
www.HailePsych.com.
Robert Buhler passed away in
2005. From his wife, Cathy: Bob
passed away after a courageous 15-year
battle with multiple myeloma. He is
survived by his wife, Cathy, 6 grown
children, and 18 grandchildren.
Clarissa Bullitt writes: I am
Training Director at Stony Brook
University's Counseling & Psychological Services; I lead an APA-accredited
internship program that includes
a hospital rotation and emphasizes
contemporary psychoanalytic formulation, and an externship program that
provides supervision opportunities
for the interns. I have a small private
practice in NYC. I live by a meadow,
behind a bay, with my 2 daughters (11
& 13), as well as dog, cats, guinea pigs,
birds and fish.
Joelle Caplan writes: I still live in
Nova Scotia, where I am semi-retired.
I have a part time private practice and
spend my winters in Florida.
Abram Chipman writes: I have
been fully retired from clinical work
and teaching for six or seven years
now. I am pursuing hobbies and being a grandfather, as well as leisurely
work on independent writing relating
aspects of artistic creativity to clinical
issues. See Amer. J. Psychotherapy
(Vol. 59, No.4, 2005) for a psychotherapeutic analogue to the knightsquire relationship in "Don Quixote"
and "The Seventh Seal" and the
Psychoanalytic Review for studies of
the composers Janacek and Sibelius
at their late life transitions (Vol. 87,
No. 3, 200) and of Bartok in regard to
the psychic over-determination of his
choice of texts for major stage works
(Vol. 91, No. 5, 2004).
Rob Clark writes: “What I have been
up to lately? In my case the question
is more what I am down to. Although
my practice has been shrinking--I have
not cultivated referral networks--I am
fine because we have made lucky real
estate moves and my wife is very successful. Furthermore, the down time
has allowed me the life of a dilettante.
What About You?
Send your updates to our department
secretary, Rebecca: shulevitz@tc.edu.
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Alumni Abroad
We tracked down several of our alum who have settled
outside of the USA to find out where life has taken them
and what they are up to.
countries. He is the European Operations
Director of the International Association
of Hostage Negotiators. He was recently
featured in the Discovery Times Network
production Kidnap and Rescue: The Roy
Hallums Story and the A&E / Channel 4
production: “Talk To Me: Hostage Negotiators of the NYPD,” a 90 minute documentary about one of the hostage nego-
Sharon Dekel (Israel): It has been great
of her famous expression is that therapy
coming back home after a long (seven
is about much insight and little change!),
years) and exciting journey studying and
and our four children (Shanne, 13, Eyal,
Mona Macksoud (UK): After graduating
living abroad. So many things have taken
9 Alon, 8 and Netta, 2). I work at the
from the Clinical Psychology Program
place since the days at TC when I was
University of Haifa where I am chair of
at Teachers College, Dr. Macksoud
single, living in the Big Apple, and totally
the Department of Community Mental
joined the Project on Children and War
devoted to clinical and research work. I
Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and
(POCAW) at the Center for the Study of
got married, moved to a small college-
Health Sciences. Most of my work is in
Human Rights, Columbia University. As
town in Israel, and am now a mother to
the area of Psychiatric Rehabilitation,
Director of Psychosocial Research she
Anna, my one year old baby girl. After
which is closely related to what I worked
conducted several studies on the ef-
taking a year off, working as a full-time
on for my dissertation (with Bruce Link
fects of war on children and developed
mommy (highly recommended although
from PI and John Strauss from Yale). We
intervention guidelines for the care of
more intense than grad school), I am
miss New York terribly which in addition
war traumatized youths. During that pe-
now starting a research postdoc in Prof.
to truly being a great place is of course
riod, Dr. Macksoud consulted frequently
Zahava Solomon’s lab at Tel-Aviv Univer-
associated with being younger, childless
to international organizations and for-
sity. Prof. Solomon is among the lead-
and with fewer responsibilities…life is
eign ministries and advised UNICEF on
ing researchers in trauma studies and I
complicated. In addition to missing New
programs for the care of children living
will be conducting an exciting study in a
York, I miss TC where I learned a great
in war zones. Dr. Macksoud has pub-
relatively new area of research, examin-
deal and which provided a solid founda-
lished several articles on the subject of
ing the nature of posttraumatic growth,
tion to further learn and develop.
war and children and her book, “Help-
which in many ways is a natural path
following my dissertation on PTSD. Although now residing in Israel, I have very
close friends in the States (some came to
visit) and I remain in contact with some
of my former professors. I have very good
memories from school and I know that I
learned great clinical and research tools
to be able to pursue a fulfilling career
as a psychologist in Israel, working with
both Arabs and Israelis exposed to the
horror of terrorism and war.
David Roe (Israel): It has been 13 years
since I returned to Israel. I am living
in Ramat Ha Sharon, which is
a little north of Tel-Aviv with
my wife, Galia (who was a
James Alvarez (UK) now lives in London,
and has two young daughters. He has
become an international authority on
hostage negotiations, psychological first
aid, and stress/trauma treatment; he’s
the only consultant ever used by both
Scotland Yard and NYPD’s Hostage Negotiation Teams. Other clients include
FTSE and Fortune 100 companies and
military/intelligence agencies of various
tiation teams he works with.
ing children cope With the stresses of
war: A manual for parents and teachers,”
has been translated in several languages
and widely used in war zones around the
world. In 1998, Dr Macksoud moved to
live in London with her family and has
since devoted her time to clinical work.
She joined a group practice, the American Psychotherapy Associates, and sees
both adults and children. Her current
areas of interest are child and adolescent emotional development, parenting
issues, and divorce. Dr. Macksoud, a
Lebanese-American, is married and has
two adolescent girls.
Mario Smith (South Africa): I
graduated in 2004 and re-
concert pianist and now a
turned to South Africa shortly
landscape architect; one
thereafter. I was appointed
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to a faculty position and was charged
with designing the professional training
course at Stellenbosch University. This
entailed the merging of the very segregated clinical and counseling programmes.
As a result of this exercise I developed a
reputation as a “systems man” and was
then hired to redesign the therapeutic
programme in the adult therapeutic unit
at the largest (1500–bed) inpatient hospital in the western cape. I opted to stay
for a second year to consolidate the new
programme and to build an auxiliary outpatient programme for patients with Axis
II pathology. My last design challenge
was a two-month placement in acute
admissions where I was asked to address the high turnover of psychologists.
I have just been appointed (Sept, 2009)
to a senior post at the University of the
Western Cape where I will be part of the
team responsible for clinical training. In
addition to teaching (e.g., clinical interventions, personality theory, assessment,
statistics, and research methodology) I
have been engaged in some research on
intellectual disability and sexual abuse.
I have also set up a consultant practice
(especially around DBT work with Axis II
patients, and with students on their dissertations) rather than a clinical practice
per se. On a more personal note, Amanda
and I enjoy our four kids, and we’re avidly
planning a “roots tour” to NYC and TC for
the girls who were born while I was studying. They are now aged 8 and 5, and very
proud to be American citizens. They get
deliriously excited when they see “their
president,” “Obanana” on television. Our
sons were born in South Africa and are
age 3 and one-month. Thank you for doing this newsletter. It really helped me
to reflect on the last five years and reminded me how much I have learned and
how much I miss NYC. I look forward to
establishing possible collaborations with
alumni and staff, and can be contacted
at docsmithm@gmail.com or mrsmith@
uwc.ac.za.
Currently I am involved in writing
an oddball memoir, serving as EMT
with our town's volunteer ambulance
service, playing softball when weather
permits and doing a lot of grounds
keeping (which actually amounts to
my being a neat freak cleaning up the
woods that we live deep within in Killingworth, Ct). I have warm memories
of the faculty and students I trained
with. Thanks to all of you who keep
the program rolling.
Irvin Cohen Jr. writes: I retired two
years ago and have been enjoying my
time traveling, going to the gym, and
doing some volunteer work.
Karin Coifman writes: I am currently
a post-doc doing translational research
on adults with either borderline or avoidant personality disorders at Columbia
with Geraldine Downey and Eshkol
Rafaeli. I am in the second year of the
post-doc and will be starting a faculty
job search soon. As for personal stuff, I
am currently and happily living with my
husband Micah and daughter Noa (14
months) in Washington Heights.
Jeff Cole writes: I am a Staff Neuropsychologist at JFK Medical Center
in Edison, NJ, primarily evaluating
patients who have epilepsy, cerebrovascular disease, head injuries, movement
disorders, and memory disorders. I
expect to be setting up a part-time
private practice in the near future. On
a personal level, I have been happily
married to my wife Melissa for 2 years,
we have an amazing 1 year old son
named Brady, and we live in a nice
house in Bloomfield, NJ.
Faith Dickerson writes: I have been
living in Baltimore and working at
Sheppard Pratt, a large private psychiatric health system, since I received
my degree in 1978. I stayed on there
and several years later was charged
with setting up a behavioral inpatient unit for long-stay schizophrenia
inpatients. About 10 years ago I moved
from working primarily as a clinician
to primarily as a researcher. Along
the way I earned a masters degree in
public health. I now direct a research
program which is funded by a private
foundation and focused on immunologic and infectious disease factors in
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I
also work with colleagues at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins
to study psychosocial interventions for
adults with serious mental illness. Personally, I have been married for more
than 30 years to Bob Yolken and have
two almost-grown children. I look back
fondly on my TC days and would be
pleased to hear from classmates
Jephtha Tausig Edwards writes;
am currently in private practice, seeing
children, adolescents, and adults for
testing, assessment, and therapy, I’m
also currently a clinical instructor at
Richmond U. Medical Center on SI
and a testing supervisor in the PhD
program in Clinical Psychology at
Teachers College.
Richard Eichler writes: I am
pleased to be in my 24th year working
at Columbia, where I am Executive
Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS). On the scholarly
front, I remain on the teaching and
supervising faculty of the Child and
Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
Program at the William Alanson White
Institute, participate in the College
Mental Health section of the Group
for the Advancement of Psychiatry, and
have presented in the last few years at
the American College Health Association and at national conferences on
suicide prevention and on violence on
campus. My most recent publication
is a chapter on developmental considerations in College Mental Health
Practice (Routledge), and I am the
senior author of a chapter surveying
essential services in the forthcoming
Textbook of College Mental Health
(John Wiley & Sons). My next two
projects (I hope) are a paper on the
application of psychoanalytic thinking
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM | ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 11
to college counseling and another on
the efficacy of telephone triage…Mimi
and I married 24 years ago, and are
as happy together as ever. We still get
away to the mountains and hike when
we can, though either the mountains
are getting steeper or we are getting
older. Our daughter, Emma, is a senior
at Stuyvesant High, just finishing up
her college applications when she can
take time out from her fast-paced so-
Internship Update:
Where Have All our
Students Gone?
As most of you know, clinical internships are now a) based on a
computerized matching system (a
la psychiatric residencies); and b)
increasingly competitive (i.e., there
are far more students each year applying than there are available internship slots). Nationwide, including New York, students are being
matched at only about a 75% rate
(though we are doing better than
that). Indeed, our students have
done quite well. Here’s a list of our
placement in the last two years:
M t . S inai /E lmhurt H ospital
M anhattan P sychiatric C enter /
W ards I sland
E instein /B ronx P sychiatric
S t . L uke ’ s /R oosevelt H ospital
L ong B each (CA), VA H ospital
C olumbia U niversity M edical
C enter (PI)
Child Guidance Center, Southern CT
A dolescent H ealth C enter ,
M t S inai H ospital
K ings C ounty H ospital
B eth I srael M edical C enter
F riends H ospital (P hiladelphia )
N ew Y ork P sychoanalytic I nstitute
Just in (2/2010): all 11 of our students
who applied, successfully matched at
an internship site this year.
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cial life, and myriad of other interests
and activities. Emmy has given us lots
of reasons to be proud—we recently
had the pleasure of seeing her on
stage at Carnegie Hall accepting an
award for her fiction—but above all
we are proud to have raised a child as
kind and committed to social justice as
she. Thanks to Barry for undertaking
to keep us all in touch, and especially
for being a terrific mentor and friend to
generations of TC students.
Chad Emrick is the Director of the
Substance Abuse Treatment Program
at the VA medical Center in Denver.
Susan Epstein writes: I moved to
Philadelphia one year ago to take a
position at Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia in the Center for Autism
Research. I am a senior member of the
clinical core, part of the team that performs research evaluations (cognitive
& diagnostic) on study participants.
(Those who have interaction with
people with autism of all ages--infant
through adult--may want to keep this
in mind: Philly isn't too far away, and
research participants get free evaluations and are paid for their time.) I also
run the research clinic case conference, and supervise postdoc trainees.
All of this professional change happened after a lot of personal change.
I got a divorce about 2 years ago, and
my last child left the nest to start
college last fall, making my relocation
possible. My daughter Sarah, who
has severe autism, has been living at
a residential school outside of Philadelphia for several years, so I am now
quite close by and see her every week.
Emily is a sophomore in the musical
theater program at Tisch School of the
Arts at NYU, and my son Michael is
an unemployed graduate of Brandeis
as of last May, living in Manhattan and
working unpaid for a couple of different web sites. (Any suggestions for
paid employment are welcome!)
Susan Farber is in private practice
(psychotherapy and testing) in Boise,
Idaho. She’s on the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation
of Idaho, and is currently the Chair of
the Continuing Education Committee
of the Idaho Psychological Association.
David Fazzari writes: After completing my internship at Weill Cornell
Medical Center and postdoctoral
fellowship at the American Institute
for Cognitive Therapy, I am pleased to
announce the opening of my clinical
psychology practice specializing in
cognitive behavioral therapy and the
treatment of adult ADHD (www.NYCtreatment.com).
Bud Feder writes: At the present
time I practice half-time, am president of the NY Institute for Gestalt
Therapy, manage the Scholarship Fund
of the Assn for the Advancement of
Gestalt Therapy, write some, play tennis, garden, etc. Rachel Feldman writes; I am in
private practice on 34th street in Manhattan, and also work as a consultant
in a medical center in Elmhurst, NY.
In addition, I am in my second year of
the adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy
program at NYU School of Medicine.
Stanley Feldstein writes: I am still
a professor emeritus and, besides being at UMBC, and am also a Lecturer
at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. I am not currently
teaching at either place but am doing
research and writing.
Christine Fernandez has worked
as a Research Scientist in the Neuroscience Department of the NYS
Psychiatric Institute. She later went
on to become the Project Manager
of the Columbia Gambling Disorders
Clinic. For the past two years, she has
worked solely in her private practice in
Midtown Manhattan. She continues to
enjoy traveling and has taken two trips
to the Amazon in the past year.
Nina Fieldsteel writes: From 20012009 I was teaching at Mass General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
Dept of Psychiatry, in the Center for
Psychoanalytic Studies. I have also
been (and still am) teaching at the
Boston Institute for Psychotherapy
since 2005. I remain active in Division
39 of APA and in the Amer. Group
Psychotherapy Assoc. I am also active
on The Board of Rockport Music,
which produces the annual Rockport
Chamber Music Festival.
Joan Fiorello writes: Professionally, after completing a post-doctoral
fellowship at Gracie Square Hospital
in NYC doing individual and group
therapy with adults on an inpatient
and outpatient basis, I worked for several years with adults at two outpatient
community mental health centers in
Bergen County, NJ, and am now in private practice in Cresskill, NJ (also in
Bergen County), and work with adults
in individual and couples therapy. I've
served for many years as program chair
of the Bergen County Psychological
Association and as a Board member of
BCPA. As a personal update--I just returned from a wonderful trip to India,
having traveled there with my husband
and brother. My son, Matthew, who
was about two year old when I started
graduate school at TC, is now twentyfive (!), and exploring ways to combine
his deep interest in spirituality with his
experience and facility for business.
Maria Alba Fish writes: am continuing my private clinical practice
in Mount Kisco and Fishkill, NY and
have ventured into a new professional
practice in Collaborative Divorce
(working with a variety of professionals
to help families reorganize and achieve
a divorce settlement without going to
court or becoming adversarial). It is
part of my long-term effort to reduce
the negative effects of divorce on children. This is challenging and exhilarating work that requires all the skills I
have learned clinically and all the understanding I have of the way systems
work and become dysfunctional. I live
with my husband, Elisha Fisch, also an
alumnus, in Mount Kisco. Our three
children are grown. Our son, Eytan, is
married, is a lawyer now working in the
Department of the Treasury dealing
with policy on international sanctions, and is a new father--gracing us
with our first grandchild. Our middle
daughter, Tamara, is a theater director and living in NYC. Our youngest
daughter, Arieal, is an investigator for
the Manhattan D.A.'s office and is living on Long Island. We feel fortunate
that they are such good people and are
making their own way effectively in
this very difficult time.
Bill Fried got his certificate in
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from
NYU’s postdoc program in 1974. He
was affiliated with Maimonides Medical
Center in Brooklyn from 1969-2001,
serving as Senior Staff Psychologist,
Director of Training, and Associate Director of Psychiatry Residence Training.
In 2000, he was named “Teacher of the
Year” by the Association for Academic
Psychiatry. He was also both a Clinical
Assistant and Clinical Associate Professor at SUNY Health Sciences Center in
Brooklyn. He’s presented and published
papers on numerous topics, including group process and group therapy,
psychiatric education, psychoanalytic
interpretation of film and literary works,
and psychoanalytic exploration of
political phenomena. He’s currently in
private practice.
Louis Getoff writes: I am in my
86th year, as far as I know in good
health, still treating patients - individuals, couples and families, also doing
some supervision. My contacts are
both in person and over the phone.
Playing tennis and bridge a few times a
week. Living happily with Ethel.
Martin Gittelman writes: I continue
to serve as Editor of the International
Journal of Mental Health and to conduct
training sessions for clinicians from
developing countries on methods of
organization required to deliver evidencebased treatment and psychosocial
rehabilitation in their countries for those
with severe mental illness. The sessions
are conducted within the context of
the World Association for Psychosocial
Rehabilitation and Psy Sans Frontieres,
an NGO with the World Health Organization. We have just held a session in
Bangalore India, attended by clinicians
from 19 countries.
Betsy Glaser writes: am currently in
private practice in Wellesley, MA and
consulting to several nursery schools in
the area. I am featured as the therapist in an awarding winning book by
The current second-year class.
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a former patient, Terry Wise, called
Waking Up: Climbing Through the
Darkness. Together we address audiences around the country on treating
depression and suicide from both sides
of the couch.
Ken Glass writes: I reside in
Philadelphia with my wife Dr. Tasha
(Graves) Glass, a fellow member of the
psychologist tribe, and our daughter
Penelope. This will not surprise those
of you who know me, but Penelope is
in the 95th percentile for height. I am
presently the Chief Executive Officer of
Friends Hospital, the nation's first and
largest private psychiatric hospital. Prior to this appointment, I managed the
day to day operations for a system of
medical/surgical and behavioral health
hospitals. Finally, I was also Chief
Executive Officer from 2002 to 2007 at
Pennsylvania's largest provider of outpatient services. All in all, the truly excellent training I received at TC is applied
vigorously on a daily basis to plumbing,
heating, and payroll issues. My first full
time job after finishing TC was Head
Coach of the Boy's Varsity Basketball
team from 1995 to 1997 at St. Agnes
High School on the upper west side.
Oversaw the behavior health and
trauma services for Operation Brotherly
Love, Philadelphia's offer to shelter and
The current fourth-year class.
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care for 1000 Hurricane Katrina Survivors. Completed Finance program at
Harvard Business School in 2002. Led
or participated in several mayoral, PA
House, or Senate commissions on public health issues. My professional interests center on organization management
and therapy in the public sector. My
private practice consists of consulting in
the areas of Executive Coaching, Financial Efficiency, and Government Affairs
to organizations. Finally, I'm not only
a graduate but was also a consumer of
TC services by way of psychoanalysis
services from one of you on this directory who is truly great at this work. So,
with perspective, I say that this program
was as good as it gets. Vivian Gold writes: Private Practice;
Group Relations consultant; Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Dept. of
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences;
Medical Staff of Veterans Administration, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
System. Personally, I'm enjoying
marriage to Philip Danufsky, a poet
who is also a pediatric endocrinologist.
Together, we enjoy his three grown
children and the three grandchildren.
It's a great life.
Carol Goldberg brings business consulting, national credentials,
distinguished reputation, and knowl-
edge of how people find and process
information on the Internet, along with
confidentiality of a licensed psychologist, for business and career coaching. She also conducts workshops for
Public Speaking for Professional Success® and PowerPoint and does media
coaching for individuals in-person and
online, Using stress management expertise, Dr. Goldberg makes promoting
work so comfortable, convenient, and
easy for clients, they regret having procrastinated. She can save busy people
time and money by writing their web
site content.
Valerie Golden writes: I've relocated to Minneapolis, MN where I am
in analytic training at the Minnesota
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
and in private practice.
Marthe Grice writes: After my internship at the Brooklyn VA, I worked
there for six years in a program for
dually diagnosed vets who had both
chronic mental illness and substance
abuse problems. I was married in
1998 to Glendower Jones. From
2000-2002 I worked at Kings County
Hospital (where one of my colleagues
was Marcia Stachyra, another TC
grad). In 2002 we adopted a baby girl
from China, Mary Catherine Jian Hua
Jones, who truly is the best child in
the world. She is now eight years old
and the light of our lives. Parenthood
is every bit as wonderful as I thought
it would be. When Mary Catherine
was two I went back to work part
time doing psychotherapy in a nursing home in the Bronx. Hard job, but
it was part time and fairly close to
home. In October 2006 we moved to
Fayetteville, Arkansas. My husband
has family here and I have some family not far away. We loved NYC, had
been there 28 years, but needed to live
in a calmer place with affordable real
estate. Fayetteville is the home of the
Univ. of Arkansas, so there's a lot going
on here (and not just football!) and it's
a good place to live, a little blue corner
in a red state. We bought a big house
on a mountainside and my husband
runs his mail-order business out of the
lower level. It was a hard transition for
me, though I am happy here now. I
was kind of burnt out by the move and
my last job in NY and haven't practiced since arriving in Fayetteville, but
expect to get back to work in 2010. So
that's it, a bare bones summary that
reflects only a small percentage of the
joy and turmoil and sadness of the last
ten years!
Steve Guggenheim writes; I have an
active private practice in New Rochelle,
NY, working with adults of all ages, 3
days per week. The remaining 2 days,
I see residents at Dumont Masonic
Home in New Rochelle, providing
supportive psychotherapy for folks with
mood disorders or difficulty adjusting to
disabilities. I volunteer at Sound Shore
Medical Center, also in New Rochelle,
co-leading a Caregiver Support Group
for almost 15 years, helping people deal
with the stress and potential burnout of caring for family members. I
graduated last November from a 2-year
program in psychotherapy from the
Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy and continue to participate in peer supervision with former
classmates from the Center.
Desnee Hall writes: I'm currently
in private practice in Scarsdale, New
York, and about to graduate from the
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. I work
with individuals and couples and specialize in work with adults traumatized
in childhood or adolescence.
Jane Halperin writes: My husband
Allan and our wonderful 12 year old
son Jordan continue to live on the
Upper West Side and to enjoy traveling
the world together. I love my work: I
continue to be in full-time practice on
the UWS and am currently in my 4th
year of psychoanalytic training at the
Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research.
Dorothy Harrison writes: I am
now retired from a career in Employee
Assistance Program provision and live
in Swarthmore PA.
Nancy Hernandez (now Nancy
Hernandez Barber) writes: Married ten
years to Garry Barber, Ph.D; Clinical Psychologist in private practice in
San Antonio, Tx; One child, Natalia
Barber, age 9. I am working at Brooke
Army Medical Center in San Antonio
as Director of the Child/Pediatric Psychology Fellowship.
Joan Hittelman writes; I am currently the Executive Director of the
Infant and Child Learning Center at
SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
It is an Early Intervention, Preschool
Special Education Program, and
Mental Health Services for Children
and Families. We are in three hospitals
in Brooklyn and Queens, including
in their NICUs, and we evaluate and
provide services for over 1000 children
in their homes and at our center in
Brooklyn.
Margery Honig writes: I’m in fulltime private practice in Waldwick, NJ
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(northwest Bergen County, about 20
minutes from the GW Bridge) I see
mostly adults, some teens, and do individual, couples and group therapy from
a psychodynamic (interpersonal, self
psychological, relational) perspective.
2007, I became an analytic candidate
at NYU PostDoc, where I am now on
a Wolstein Fellowship. Our daughter,
Eleanor, is a fifth grader and competitive swimmer; Robert is currently back
at CUNY, working on a Masters.
Miles Hutton writes: I have been
working as a trial/jury consultant for a
company called DecisionQuest. I have
recently written a few articles for legal
publications on the intersection of
psychology and law. I am living in the
Boston area with my wife, Alicia, and
my 2-year old daughter, Elise. Alicia
and I are greatly enjoying seeing Elise
grow and change every day.
Jessica Keith writes: After graduating this past June, I took the leap to
leave NYC (after 13 years!) and move
to St. Petersburg, Florida for a postdoctoral fellowship. The fellowship is
at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center
and focuses on treating PTSD, with a
particular emphasis on working with
female veterans and veterans who have
experienced military sexual trauma. So
far, it is a great experience - and the
weather sure is nice too!
Susannah Jacobi writes: after graduation, I became the family breadwinner as CPEP Psychologist at Harlem
Hospital; once licensed in 2003, I also
consulted for the NY Foundation for
Senior Citizens Guardian Services.
Meanwhile, my husband Robert was
working on his long-deferred undergraduate degree at City College.
Harlem Hospital kicked me upstairs
in 2006, appointing me Administrator of their last remaining methadone
clinic, but I already had my eye on
private practice and, after giving the
clinic a year, I took a half-time sublet
from Sally Curtis in the West Village
and handed in my resignation. In Fall
Brien Kelley writes: I have recently
transitioned from being a postdoctoral
fellow to a staff psychologist at NYU's
Counseling and Behavioral Health
service. I work with students there,
and am on the eating disorders team. I
live in the neighborhood with my wife,
an elementary school teacher, and walk
to work.
Harry Klein passed away in 2003.
From his wife Fran: Dr. Harry Klein
was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1948
but grew up in Elmont, New York. He
attended the State University of New
York at Buffalo, where he graduated
Phi Beta Kappa in 1971 with a B.A. in
English. Following a year in California,
where he worked with troubled youth
in a halfway house, he moved to the
Boston area and became a teacher of
autistic children. After obtaining his
Ph,D. he worked for many years as a
therapist at Seacoast Mental Health
Center in Portsmouth and Exeter, conducting individual and group therapy.
He also was in private practice in
Exeter. He was a member of APA and
the N.H. Psychological Association,
and was an active member of Temple
Israel in Portsmouth. He is survived by
his wife of 24 years, Fran Berman of
Exeter, NH; his son, Geoffrey Klein,
of Philadelphia, PA; and his daughter,
Dara Klein, of Somerville, MA.
Nelly Klein writes: Since I received my PhD I've been working at
Brookhaven National Laboratory and
specializing in neuroscience, using imaging techniques to study externalizing
behavior disorders especially substance
abuse and aggression. I am currently
an Associate Scientist.
Rachel Klein writes: I am the
Director of the Anita Saltz Institute
for Anxiety and Mood Disorders at the
NYU Child Study Center. I am an active researcher in child psychiatry.
Yolanda Klein writes: After leaving
NYC in 1988, David and I lived in
Minneapolis for three years and then
moved to Cincinnati for his position at
Children’s Hospital. We have settled
into a quieter (than NYC) life here and
have two wonderful children, Hannah (20) and Ben (17). Life is full and
rewarding. I have a thriving private
practice, treating children, adolescents
and adults. Over the years, I have
developed a particular specialty in
treating young women and those with
eating disorders. I have stayed close
with Michele and Alon and Brenda
and Joe. In fact, we meet every summer around July 4 in the Berkshires.
The current first-year class.
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Myron Koltuv writes: I received
my PhD in 1960, loved 3 of the 4
core members, and a number of the
supervisors. After some institutional
affiliations in research, teaching, and
clinical work, I settled into private
practice in Manhattan where I still
retain an office.
Emily Malsin Sitkin Loeb writes:
I moved to Berkeley California in 1968
and have lived here since then. A perfect place to live (for me) in the University community with people, books,
music, swimming, hiking etc. much of
the year. I married and divorced and
married again, this time for 33 years.
I have a daughter who's a lawyer, a
daughter who's a high school teacher,
and a son who's a doctor in his firstyear residency in General Medicine.
I've been in private practice and have
also had associations with numerous
training Institutes where I supervise.
My primary teaching years were spent
at The Wright Institute in Berkeley
where I taught graduate students
courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. My most recent publication is
a chapter in the Journal of Women and
Therapy (Spring 2009) on “Challenges
to Narcissistic Equilibrium in Later
Middle Age” (Patients and Therapists
after 60).
Anu Makynen writes: I'm working
at Maine Medical Center's outpatient
geriatric psychiatry clinic as a staff
psychologist and continue to see a few
patients privately. I live in Portland and
enjoy the proximity of beautiful nature
from the incredible Maine coast to
the Western mountains where I have a
summer "camp." I miss my family and
friends who are far away but Maine is
home, at least for now.
Anthony Mancini writes: I recently
took a tenure-track assistant professor
position at Pace University, where I
began in the Fall of ‘09. I was awarded
an NIH Loan Repayment grant for
my work on individual differences in
stress responding. I have continued to
publish and speak in this area. I live in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I am not yet a
hipster, though I am the proud owner
of a fixed gear bike. Joe Marasia writes: Following my
internship at the Manhattan VA, I
completed a one-year post-doctoral
fellowship at the National Center for
PTSD in Honolulu, Hawaii. While
there, I was trained in delivering
evidence-based treatments, such as
Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive
Processing Therapy, for veterans and
active duty military personnel diagnosed with PTSD. I was also involved
in program evaluations assessing the
feasibility of delivering interventions
via the internet for veterans living in
rural areas. I returned to the NYC area
in September, recently started working
at the United States Military Academy
in West Point NY as a staff psychologist, and will be getting married in
April 2010 in the Dominican Republic.
Peter Meiland writes: I finished
the program in 1995 and am now in
full time private practice in Manhattan
working with adults and adolescents. I
also do testing for learning disabilities.
I finished psychoanalytic training at
IPTAR in 2009 and live in Brooklyn
with my wife Ellen and two sons, Daniel (11) and Jordan (9).
Robin Nemeroff writes: I am
currently a tenured professor in the
Psychology Department at William
Paterson University, one of the NJ state
schools. We have a large number of
undergraduate majors and a Masters
Program in Clinical and Counseling
Psychology. I married Jay Weinstein in
2006, and we have a 15-month old son,
who is keeping me quite busy as well.
Stephanie Newman writes: I recently completed analytic training at the
institute affiliated with NYU Medical
Center. I teach and supervise candidates
at the Institute and I maintain a private
practice in New York City and Westchester, NY, where I live with my family.
Marion Michel Orliner writes: I
have had a long career in psychoanalysis, practicing, teaching, and being
active in the local psychoanalytic societies, especially the New York Freudian Society. I have published quite
a bit: One book, Cultivating Freud's
Garden in France, and articles on a
number of topics including trauma,
external reality, female development,
eating disorders, and ethics. Recently,
my most rewarding experience has
been to give a Plenary Address at the
meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Assn. on the Fate of a German
Jew During World War II. The reception was unbelievable ending with a
standing ovation. I have since gone
back to Germany where I was invited
to give another plenary address, this
time addressing the German problem
following World War II. I called it: Do
not Turn Around Mrs. Lot. These were
wonderful experiences after years of
not being able to set foot into Germany. I keep thinking that I shall slow
down now, and my practice is decidedly small but then I always find other
projects to fill my time with, especially
since I believe that psychoanalysis
needs a better theory of the role of
external reality in general and not only
as it applies to trauma.
Dale Ortmayer writes: I'm emeritus
at the William Alanson White Institute, Clinical Professor at the Postdoctoral Program of Adelphi University,
and Faculty at Westchester Center
For the Study of Psychoanalysis and
Psychology. I'm writing my memoirs
of how a farm boy from Iowa became
a psychoanalyst in Manhattan and
Westport, CT.
Louis Post writes: I am presently
in private practice, seeing patients
three days per week. Some years ago I
closed down a managed care company
I owned and ran, for fifteen years, with
three psychologist partners. I have been
traveling widely with my wife. Our last
adventure involved a week-long trek
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up to 16,000 feet, in the Bhutanese
Himalayas. I have also gotten involved
in road cycling. My personal biking
highlight took place over a period of two
years, biking on portions of the Tour De
France routes in the Pyrenees and Alps,
during the Tour.
Bob Prince writes: I am currently
Co-Chair of the Interpersonal Track
of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
& also on the Board of Division 39. I
have two books: “The Legacy of the
Holocaust: Psychohistorical Themes in
the Lives of Children of Survivors” &
“The Death of Psychoanalysis: Murder,
Suicide or Rumor Greatly Exaggerated.” My most recent article. “Psychoanalysis traumatized: The legacy of
the Holocaust,” just came out in the
American Journal of Psychoanalysis
and another one, “The self in pain” will
be coming out in the next issue.
Deena J Robbins is still in private
practice in Middletown. Ct. “My
husband Ken and I have three grown
children, and three grandchildren.”
Sidney Rosenberg writes: After a
40 year career in both clinical practice
and college teaching, I retired 12 years
ago as Emeritus Professor in Psychology at York College of CUNY. Married
(to Donna M. Chirico, Ed.D. TC);
three children (51, 47...and 15), and
living in Rockland County.
Rona Ross writes: My family and I
have lived in Sarasota for 42 years. I
am a clinical psychologist in private
practice and my husband is a very
successful retiree. We have 2 offspring
and 2 grandchildren (who live here!).
Life in Sarasota is exceedingly good.
Rick Rubens writes: Aside from happily continuing my private practice of
psychoanalysis, my main new activity
these past few years has been as part
of the team of international experts
for the Urban Age Program (out of the
London School of Economics). The
Urban Age is a series of world-wide
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conferences, dedicated to studying the
problems and issues facing cities in
the 21st century and creating dialogues designed to find solutions. (My
write-ups of the program--including
my extensive ones of the Istanbul and
Mumbai Conferences--can be found in
the CULTURE section of my website
at www.RLRubens.com/cultural.html).
Erica Saypol writes: I am in Princeton doing a postdoctoral fellowship
in clinical psych. at University Health
Services at Princeton University and
liking it a lot.
Herbert Schulberg writes: I
retired in 2000 as Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine and
have served since then as Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at
Weill Cornell Medical College in New
York. I have authored and edited 230
refereed journal articles, chapters, and
books, many of which deal with the
diagnosis and treatment of depressive
disorders in primary care practices.
Dan Seidman is still working at Columbia University’s Behavioral Medicine Program (at the medical center),
and his book, "Smoke-free in 30 Days"
(with a foreword by Dr. Mehmet Oz)
has just been published by Simon and
Schuster.
Randye Semple writes: I’m on the
faculty at USC Keck School of Medicine (go Trojans!): Teaching and supervising psychiatry residents and clinical
psychology graduate students; researching mindfulness-based therapies
with children; writing journal articles
and first book coming out early next
year; Associate Editor of “Mindfulness”
a peer reviewed journal. Delighting in
living in Pasadena and exploring southern California.
Lee Shain writes: I have been in private practice since 1993 (first part-time,
now full-time) working with individuals, couples, and families at Columbus
Circle. I do occasional consulting for
a retained executive search firm, The
Duncan Group. Hobbies include dancing and travel. I like hearing from my
classmates and I look forward to hearing what everyone is doing.
Arielle Shanok writes: I am working as the Staff Psychologist at the
City University, Graduate Center's
counseling center, treating doctoral
and masters students and training
predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows. I
have also started a private practice in
the evenings.
Linda Smith writes: Married to JT
for 9 years. We have 4 boys (yep, that's
right), ages 7, 5, 2, and 4 months. So
we are very busy. I just moved back to
CT after living and working in Boston
for the last 9 years. My former position
included Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University Medical School
and Assistant Director of Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center at Tufts
Medical Center. I also maintained a
private practice. Now that we are back
in CT, I am opening up a new private practice where I will continue to
specialize in child and family forensics.
However, I have also been working
diligently in launching my own company with my colleague and friend,
Sue Tobin, Ph.D. The company is Just
for Parents, LLC (www.justforparents.
com). It is an e-commerce company
that specializes in providing expertreviewed parenting products in the
developmental areas in which parents
most struggle with their young children
(e.g., eating, behavior, sleep, etc.). We
expect to launch in 2010. Stay tuned.
Eric Storch writes: I'm an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry,
and Psychology at the University of
South Florida where I direct the OCD
program. Personally, our little girl just
celebrated her 1st birthday :-)
Peter Taylor writes: I am now in
full-time private practice as a clinical
psychologist, Certified Group Psychotherapist, consultant in EMDR, and
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner,
working with individuals, groups, and
couples in offices in Manhattan and
Westchester County. I am immediate
Past-President of the Eastern Group
Psychotherapy Society. I just guest-edited the most recent issue of the peerreviewed journal GROUP, focusing on
working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender clients in groups, and I was
recently elected a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association
at its 2009 Annual Meeting. My partner (Roger Saint-Laurent, PsyD) and I
try to preserve as much time as possible
to enjoy our woodland home and our
Bergamasco sheepdog, Magio.
Nina Thomas writes: I have been
involved in integrating psychoanalysis
and political activism through both
my lived experience consulting and
training local mental health workers in
Bosnia and the West Bank as well as in
writing and doing research. The area
of my research that grows out of this
work is how survivors of war, ethnic
violence, and state-sponsored repression are affected psychologically by
giving testimony in war crimes tribunals and truth commission proceedings. To that end I have attended the
tribunals in The Hague for the former
Yugoslavia, interviewed survivors of the
“Dirty War” in Argentina and of apartheid violence in South Africa, as well
as researched the truth commissions in
those and other countries. Not surprisingly, my expertise is in trauma and
violence and I Chair the Specialization
in Trauma and Disaster Studies at the
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where I am
also Adjunct Associate Professor and
Co-Chair of the Relational orientation.
three-part oral exam and am excited to
reconnect with people, other aspects
of life, as well as my other clinical
interests (which continue to be psychodynamic psychotherapy, cultural
issues in psychology, and rehabilitation
psychology). Christie Virtue writes: For the last
15 years I have been the senior psychologist at Hudson River HealthCare,
in Peekskill, NY. I am the Director of
the Early Intervention and Preschool
program which provides multidisciplinary evaluations and services to
children birth through five and their
families. I specialize in the diagnosis
and treatment of children on the autistic spectrum, and am a training Facilitator/Faculty for the Interdisciplinary
Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL). My husband
Bill and I live in northern Westchester
County; my son Willie (once an infant
in Barry's Behavioral Psychology class
and now 6'6") is a senior+ at SUNY
Geneseo, and Ben (born right after
Mom's licensing exam) is a senior in
high school.
Sharon Wolbert writes: I am in
full-time private practice.
community mental health center (CPS
Behavioral HealthCare) that provided
a full range of mental health and
substance abuse services. I have been
an APA Site Visitor for many years and
continue to chair site visits for internships and doctoral programs, I am a
member of the Clinical Faculty of the
Dept. of Psychiatry at Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School in Piscataway
NJ and continue to be on the Training
Committee for the UBHC/RWJMS's
APA-approved clinical psychology
internship. Since 2002 I have provided
behavioral healthcare consultation
services through my own corporation and in partnership with Clinical
Services Management, PC, to many of
NJ's community agencies as well as to
many behavioral health providers. In
2008-2009 I worked with Community
Behavioral Health Providers Network
of Pennsylvania on the bid to replace
ValueOptions as the Contracted Services Administrator for the Division of
Child Behavioral Health's state-wide
Children's System of Care. They did
win the State Contract and I now provide training and technical assistance
for their staff in NJ. 
Jeanne Wurmser writes: From
1981-2002, I was the CEO of a large
Janine Tiago writes: As of November
6, 2009, I was told I was the tenth
woman in NYC to become a Board
Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist.
It was a four-step process in which I
was involved since September 2005. I
am so relieved to have just passed the
The current third-year class.
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Faculty
Updates
member of the Steering Committee
for the Psychology Section of the New
York Academy of Sciences.
Recent Research
Lam, W. T., Bonanno, G. A., Mancini,
A. D., Ho, S. M. Y., Chan, M., Huan,
W. K., Or, A., & Fielding, R. (2009).
Trajectories of psychological distress
among Chinese women diagnosed with
breast cancer. Psycho-oncology.
Westphal, M., Seivert, N. H., &
Bonanno, G. A. (in press). Expressive
flexibility. Emotion.
Bonanno, G. A., & Mancini, A. D.
(2009). Beyond resilience and PTSD:
Mapping the heterogeneity of responses to potential trauma. Psychological
Trauma.
George Bonanno
Professor George A. Bonanno’s
research interests have centered on
the question of how people cope with
loss, trauma, and
other forms of
extreme adversity,
with an emphasis
on resilience and
the salutary role
of self-deception,
positive emotion, and emotional regulatory processes. His current work, funded by
NIMH, involves applying experimental
paradigms to help understand both
resilience and psychopathology during
bereavement. Professor Bonanno has
been an active member of the College’s Institutional Review Board (IRB)
every year since joining the college,
and recently served as Chair of the
IRB. Currently, he is Chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical
Psychology. Professor Bonanno’s lab
trains many doctoral and Masters level
students, and has produced a steady
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stream of research papers, and a number of his former students have gone
on to academic and research positions.
At a broader level, Professor Bonanno
regularly visits the People’s Republic of
China for research collaborations. He
is also an affiliated faculty member of
the TC Center on Chinese Education,
and has served on the Education Committee for Post-Doctoral Training at
the Columbia University Psychological
Services Clinic. He was also recruited
by Columbia University to design
and head a four-year project aimed at
better understanding undergraduate
mental health. Beyond the University,
Professor Bonanno is on the editorial board of three journals, including
two APA journals, and has served as
a member of the Risk Prevention and
Health Behavior Review Group of the
National Institutes of Mental Health,
and as a member of the Scientific
Advisory Panel of the Center for the
Advancement of Health, in Washington DC; he currently serves as a
Bonanno, G. A., & Lilienfeld, S. O.
(2009). Let’s be realistic: When grief
counseling is effective and when it’s
not. Professional Psychology: Research
and Practice.
Bonanno, G.A., Ho, S.M.Y., Chan,
J.C.K, Kwong, R.S.Y., Cheung,
C.K.Y.,Wong, C.P.Y., & Wong, V.C.W.
(2008). Psychological resilience and
dysfunction among hospitalized survivors of the SARS epidemic in Hong
Kong: A latent class approach. Health
Psychology.
Bonanno, G. A., & Mancini, A. D.
(2008). The human capacity to thrive
in the face of extreme adversity. Pediatrics, 121, 369-375.
Papa, A., & Bonanno, G. A. (2008).
Smiling in the face of adversity: Interpersonal and intrapersonal functions of
smiling. Emotion, 8, 1-12. 
Barry A. Farber
Professor Barry A. Farber is still directing after all these years; he assumed
the position of Director of Training in
1990 (following Rosalea Schonbar’s
retirement). He now
teaches a Child Psychopathology course,
a class on “Empirical
Bases of Psychotherapy,” the full-year
adult psychotherapy
practicum (emphasizing contemporary relational psychodynamic psychotherapy), and, during
the summer, a course on “Psychotherapy through Fiction and Film.”
His research focuses on psychotherapy
process and outcome, including a) the
relationship of attachment variables to
psychotherapeutic process; and b) the
nature and consequences of disclosure
among patients, therapists, supervisors, and supervisors. In addition, in
conjunction with his friend, colleague,
and one-time mentor, Jesse Geller, he
has been working with students on developing a video role-induction tape to
be used with beginning psychotherapy
patients. He is also doing research on
the influence of new means of communication (e.g., blogging, emailing,
texting) on interpersonal disclosure
among children, adolescents, and
young adults. He is on the editorial
board of several professional journals
and for the past 12 years he has been
the co-coordinator (with the NY State
Psychological Association) of the annual internship fair for clinical and
counseling doctoral students in the
NY metropolitan area. He’s planning
on taking a sabbatical next Fall (2010),
during which he intends to spend
a great deal of time in Boston with
his granddaughter (see below) and
perhaps work on a sequel to his 2007
book on psychologically astute rock ‘n
roll lyrics. On a more personal note,
Barry write the following: “It has been
a very dense, difficult year as my wife,
April, passed away last August (2008)
after a lengthy and courageous battle
with cancer. We had been married
nearly 36 years. But it has also been a
year of some wonderful family events,
most notably the marriage of my son,
David, in March of 2009, and the birth
of my first grandchild (a daughter, Ava,
to my daughter, Alissa) in February,
2009.”
Recent Research
Elliott, R., & Farber, B. A. (In press).
Carl Rogers: idealistic pragmatist and
psychotherapy research pioneer. In L.
G. Castonguay, J. C. Muran, L. Angus,
J. A. Hayes, N. Ladany, & T. Anderson (Eds.), Bringing psychotherapy
research to life: Understanding change
through the work of leading clinical
researchers. Washington, D. C.: APA
Books.
risks of patient self-disclosure in the
psychotherapy of women with a history
of childhood sexual abuse. Psychotherapy, 46, 52-67.
Farber, B. A., & Metzger, J. (2009). The
therapist as secure base. In J. H. Obegi
& E. Berant (Eds.) Attachment theory
and research in clinical work with adults
(pp. 46-70). New York: Guilford.
Pattee, D., & Farber, B. A. (2008).
Patients’ experiences of self-disclosure
in psychotherapy: The effects of gender
and gender-role identification, Psychotherapy Research, 18, 306-315.
Farber, B. A. (2007). On the enduring
and substantial influence of Carl
Rogers’ not-quite essential nor necessary
conditions. Psychotherapy: Theory,
Research, Practice, and Training, 44,
289-294. 
Farber, B. A., Khurkin-Botts, R., &
Feldman, S. (2009). The Benefits and
Suniya Luthar
Professor Suniya Luthar’s research
focuses on vulnerability and resilience
among various populations including
youth in poverty and
children in families
affected by mental
illness. Her recent
work has focused on
children in affluent communities,
and her findings on problems among
these youth–– particularly pertaining
to substance use and anxiety––have re-
ceived much attention in the scientific
community, among parents and school
administrators, and in the national
media. Dr. Luthar, who has a joint appointment in developmental psychology at the College, is Associate Editor
of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology. She
has served as Chair of a grant review
committee at the National Institutes
of Health and is currently a member of
the Governing Council of the Society
for Research on Child Development,
and the American Psychological As-
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sociation’s Committee on Socioeconomic Status. For her distinguished
contributions to science, she has been
recognized as a Fellow of the American
Association for Psychological Science
(APS) and has received several awards
including a Dissertation Award, and
the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist
Award, both from the APA, a Research
Scientist Development Award from
the National Institutes of Health, and
an American Mensa Education and
Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research on Intelligence.
Her research has been funded by The
National Institute on Drug Abuse, The
William T. Grant Foundation, The
Spencer Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Recent Research
Ansary, N. A.. & Luthar, S. S. (2009).
Distress and academic achievement
among adolescents of affluence: A
study of externalizing and internalizing
problem behaviors and school performance. Development and Psychopathology, 21. 319-34.
Luthar, S. S. & Prince, R. P. (2007).
Developmental psychopathology: Risk,
disorder, and resilience. In A. Martin
and F. R. Volkmar (Eds.), Lewis’s Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fourth Edition (pp.
291-301). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott
Williams and Wilkins.
Luthar, S. S., & Brown, P. J. (2007).
Maximizing resilience through diverse
levels of inquiry: Prevailing paradigms,
possibilities, and priorities for the
future. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 931-955.
Luthar, S.S., & Sexton, C. C. (2007).
Maternal drug abuse versus maternal
depression: Vulnerability and resilience
among school-age and adolescent offspring. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 205-225.
Luthar, S. S., Suchman, N. E., & Altomare, M. (2007). Relational Psychotherapy Mothers Group: A randomized
clinical trial for substance abusing
mothers. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 243-261. 
Elizabeth Midlarsky
Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky is coordinator of both of the MA programs in
clinical psychology;
she also served as
co-chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical
Psychology for two
years through this
past August. Her
research team is
engaged in studies that primarily focus
on altruism, religiousness, and caring
and compassion in families, in older
adults, in the schools, and both dur-
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ing and after traumatic events (e.g.,
the Holocaust, 9/11). A second line
of research is concerned with eating
disorders, body image and personality
throughout the adult lifespan (ages 18
to 90 +); she has also recently begun
an Internet study on sibling relationships throughout adulthood. She currently serves on two editorial boards,
is a Fellow for Two APA divisions
(and of APS and also the Gerontological Society of America), an ad hoc
reviewer for numerous journals and
book publishers, and a grant reviewer
for many foundations and government
agencies, including the Marsden Foundation (Australia), and The Canada
Council. She has maintained licensure
as a clinical psychologist since 1972,
is licensed in three states (Colorado,
Michigan, New Jersey), and has held
membership in the National Register
for Health Service Providers in Psychology since its inception.
Recent Research
Fagin Jones, S., & Midlarsky, E.
(2007). Courageous rescue during the
Holocaust: Personal and situational
correlates. Journal of Positive Psychology, 2(2), 136-147.
Midlarsky, E., & Kahana, E. (2007).
Life course perspectives on altruism,
health and mental health. In Stephen
G. Post, Ed., Altruism and health
outcomes: Perspectives from empirical
research (pp. 56-69). New York: Oxford
University Press.
Midlarsky, E. (2008). Silent illumination: A study on Chan (Zen) meditation, anxiety and musical performance
quality. Psychology of Music, 36 (3),
139-155.
Midlarsky, E., Hannah, M. E., Shvil,
E., & Johnson, A. (2008). Siblings of
children with mental retardation: The
role of helping. International Review
of Research in Mental Retardation, 35,
291-317.
Midlarsky, E., & Nitzburg, G. (2008).
Eating disorders in middle-aged
women. Journal of General Psychology,
135 (4), 393-408. 
Faculty Spotlight:
Jerome Kosseff
nuances of technique, including the
influence of culture on the analytic
process. This meshed well with Dr.
Kosseff’s undergraduate anthropological interests.
by Bonnie Schneider
It has been over 50
years since Professor
Jerome (Jerry) Kosseff
graduated
from
the
Masters program in
classical psychoanalytic
theory in the Clinical
Psychology Department
at Teachers College.
Yet he remains closely
connected to the clinical psychology community at TC and
continues to contribute by supervising students and teaching “Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalytic
Thought.” Students who have the opportunity to learn from Dr. Kosseff are
truly privileged. He has had a rich and
diverse career that has included working with some of the greats of his time.
Despite his incredible achievements,
Dr Kosseff is down-to-earth, warm,
and has a wicked sense of humor. In
his presence one immediately feels at
ease. Over the summer I was fortunate
enough to sit down with Dr Kosseff
and learn about his exciting career.
After graduating with his Master’s
from TC in 1943, Dr. Kosseff enlisted
in the army and became a Chief Psychologist. He was charged with assessing the combat-readiness of the
crew that flew long, over-water bombing missions. In order to decide who
would fly missions, Dr. Kosseff devised
selection criteria based on pilots’ psychological resilience. This was a useful corrective to the far less adequate
criterion of number of missions flown.
In order to administer his test batteries, Dr. Kosseff went into combat
areas where he witnessed first-hand
men suffering from the
stress of missions and
the not infrequent loss
of whole squadrons of
their comrades. Despite
Dr. Kosseff’s best efforts, it was impossible
to ground all the pilots
whose Rorschach data
predicted their disorganization under combat stress. It took him many years
to come to terms with the losses he
bore witness to. However, he credits
his wartime experience with providing
him an understanding of raw emotions
and initiating a process of reverence
for human beings. In light of this it is
unsurprising that upon returning from
the war, Dr. Kosseff found his way to
Carl Rogers with whom he worked at
the University of Chicago. Dr. Kosseff
ultimately took what he learned there
to Brooklyn College where he applied
non-directive methods to both therapy
and teaching.
While Dr. Kosseff appreciated the humanistic approach, he felt he needed
to continue his personal exploration
of other experience-near approaches.
This included analyses by three different therapists. The first was with David Gross, a Viennese-trained classical
analyst who subsequently participated
in the White Institute. The second was
with Gustav Bychoweski who was influential in helping Dr. Kosseff learn
more about dealing with borderline
and psychotic patients. Finally, Dr.
Kosseff work with Janet Kennedy at
the Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute who helped him appreciate the
In the 1970’s. Dr. Kosseff began group
training at The Postgraduate Center
and became aware that he needed an
underlying perspective to unify what
he had learned. Fortuitously, he discovered several books and articles
from the British analytic school. Ever
eager to learn more, Dr. Kosseff went
to London to meet and collaborate
with Harry Guntrip and others.
In 1973, Dr. Kosseff was once again
mobilized by war when, together with
Abe Cohen, he organized a group of
23 therapists to travel to Israel to help
with bereavement training after the
Yom Kippur war.
Dr Kosseff has also contributed to the
field through his writing and by starting the journal “Group” which he ran
for five years. Still, of all his achievements it is his “health dynasty” that
makes Dr. Kosseff glow with pride. His
oldest son is a child-adolescent therapist whose wife is a psychiatric social
worker. His middle son is an internist
married to a geriatric social worker.
Son number three is vice-president in
charge of mental health for the New
Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, while his wife is a psychiatric
nurse practitioner. His grandchildren
have all excelled in their chosen professions and Dr. Kosseff recently became a great-grandfather.
According to Dr. Kosseff, he feels privileged in two ways. First, to have been
part of a field in which learning goes
on forever; and second to have a wife
who epitomizes the aphorism, “Men
do research on what women know.”
Spending time with Jerry Kosseff was
a treat. I left my meeting with him inspired by the limitless learning and
opportunity of this field.
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Lisa Miller
Associate Professor Lisa Miller’s
research and scholarly interests are
in prevention
and treatment
interventions
for children and
adolescents at
high risk, and
the development of religiosity and spirituality in children
and adolescents. She is a recent past
President of Division 36, Religion and
Psychology, having served for five years
as Secretary and Member at Large. Dr.
Miller serves as Associate Editor of
the APA journal, Psychology, Religion
and Spirituality, for which she recently
edited a special section, “Watching for
Light: Spiritual Psychology Beyond
Materialism.” In addition, she recently
guest-edited the special section of the
TC Record, “Present to Possibility:
The Classroom as a Spiritual Space.”
Dr. Miller has published numerous scholarly articles on religion and
psychology, and been invited to speak
at international research and practice
conferences, as well as policy venues.
Her work has influenced the emerging
field of positive psychotherapy, and a
clinical treatment that has emerged
through her work, Spiritual Awareness
Psychotherapy, has been recognized
through APA in the development of
an APA training video. Her research
has been funded by NIMH as well as
private foundations, including the William T. Grant Scholars Award. She is
a committee member of the Risk Prevention and Health Behavior Review
Group for NIH (Center for Scientific
Review) and serves as a consultant
for the Youth Mentoring Program that
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operates under the auspices of the
Children’s Aid Society.
Recent Research
Miller, L. (2008). A spiritual psychology and parenthood. In Comas-Diaz,
L. & Rayburn, C. (Eds), WomanSoul:
The inner life of Women’s spirituality.
Chaudhury, S., & Miller, L. (2008).
Religious identity development among
Bangladeshi American Muslim adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research.
Shanok A., & Miller, L. (2007). Depression and treatment with inner city
pregnant and parenting teens. Archives
of Women’s Mental Health.
Lee, J., Semple, R., & Miller, L.
(2008). Mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy for children: Results of a pilot
study, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Shanok, A., & Miller, L. (2007). Stepping up to motherhood among inner
city teens. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31, 252-261. 
Dinelia Rosa
Adjunct Associate Professor Dinelia
Rosa is the Director of the DeanHope Center for Educational and
Psychological Services,
TC’s multidisciplinary
training clinic
for doctoral
students
in clinical,
counseling,
and school
psychology. Not only does she oversee the work of our clinical students
during the 2 1/2 (and sometimes
3 1/2) years they spend seeing
patients and doing assessments at
the Center, but she also teaches
for the clinical program exclusively
(Fourth-year practicum; Principles
of Clinical Intake; Clinical Issues in
working with diverse populations).
In collaboration with Professor Farber, she directs our participation in
the nation-wide multi-site research
on predictors of treatment outcome
at college mental health clinics (the
TOPS project). Dr. Rosa is a founding
member of the Psychological Emergency Response Team (PERT) created
three years ago at TC to address the
emotional needs of graduate students
at-large. At APA, she is an active
member of the Practice Directorate
where she was recently appointed
Chair of the Diversity Sub-Committee.
She is also involved in the NY State
Psychological Association (NYSPA):
she serves as a Council Representative for the Division of Culture, Race,
and Ethnicity, and chairs the NYSPA
Mentoring Program. Dr. Rosa is
past-President for the Association of
Hispanic Mental Health Professionals
in NYC and continues her involvement
with this organization. She is also a former member of the NY State Office of
Mental Health Multicultural Advisory
Committee. 
Faculty Spotlight:
A. Jordan Wright
tennis, piano, acting, and singing),
but the professional piece he is most
passionate about is training and mentoring students. Having obtained his
PhD from our clinical psychology
program and having administered an
internship program in New York City,
Jordan possesses an invaluable perspective on preparing our students
for life beyond our program. And our
students have told us in no uncertain
terms how valuable a resource Jordan
is to them. We feel so very pleased
and fortunate to have him with us as
a faculty member.
by Bonnie Schneider
Jordan Wright is a man making it
happen on many fronts. Initially hired
as a half-time faculty member, Jordan has, for the past two years, been
serving as a full-time instructor for
us. Perhaps his greatest contribution
to the program is his intensive threecourse sequence on psychological
testing:he has thoroughly updated the
program’s psychological testing and
assessment curriculum. Assessment
is now one of the great strengths of
the program. In this regard, too, his
textbook, Conducting Psychological
Assessments, will be published this
Fall (2010). In teaching this intensive sequence during students’ first
year in the program, Jordan has, in
his own words, “enjoyed greatly getting to know well each student in
the incoming classes and mentoring
them as they take their first tentative
steps as aspiring clinicians.” Jordan
has also infused the masters program with his passion for assessment
through developing an MA level class
on psychological testing. He also
teaches a DSM-IV class and a supervision practicum for 3rd and 4th year
students. Unsurprisingly, Jordan’s
private practice, under the auspices
of Psychological Assessment Services
of New York (www.pasny.net), is primarily devoted to psychological testing and assessment, though it also
includes some elements of hypnosis,
a skill he learned while studying at
the NYSEPH (Milton Erickson Society) Institute.
In addition to his position at TC, Jordan is the director of mental health
for HOPE, a non-profit antipoverty
Recent Research
Wright, A. J. (in press). Conducting
psychological assessment: From hypotheses to report writing. New Jersey: Wiley.
agency working to help people transition to independent living. HOPE
serves the chronically poor including the homeless, recovering addicts,
and ex-prisoners. At HOPE, Jordan
also oversees a large externship program that involves many TC students
from both clinical and counseling.
Jordan’s primary research program is
based at HOPE and focuses on the
experiences of the chronically poor; it
is based on a participatory action research model and involves both quantitative and qualitative techniques.
Those at the HOPE program involved
in the research have participated in a
research skills “boot camp” to facilitate their engagement with the study.
In addition to this research, Jordan
has plans to study the experience of
LGBT therapists. Somehow, too, Jordan finds time to work in the school
system where he is involved in training middle school counselors.
Wright, A. J. & Emert-Aronson, B.
(2008). The School Counselor Development Program (SCDP) for the
treatment of adolescent depression
and suicidality: A pilot study. Journal of School Counseling, 6(23).
http://www.jsc.montana.edu/articles/
v6n23.pdf.
Wright, A. J. (2008). Implications for
guidance and school counselors and
school social workers for working with
Muslim youth in the New York City
public schools. Invited panel moderator and plenary speaker at the Conference on Muslim Youth in the New
York City Public Schools, Teachers
College, New York.
Wright, A. J., Chambers, D., & The
HOPE Staff. (2008). The diagnosis
project: A preliminary analysis of
specific mental health employment
barriers present in clients enrolled
at The HOPE Program between July
2006 and June 2007. White Paper
published by The HOPE Program.
New York.
Jordan has numerous professional
and personal interests (including
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Helen Verdeli
Assistant Professor Helen Verdeli
was hired as a tenure-line faculty
member at TC in 2005; she is also
an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the
Columbia College
of Physicians and
Surgeons. This
dual appointment
enables her to provide TC students
access to resources
at the NY State
Psychiatric Institute, including a number of training
and employment opportunities. Her
research focuses on the transportability of empirically-supported treatments
(e.g., IPT) to communities in Africa
and Asia; she also studies the influence
of bipolar disorder on family members.
She has involved students in her international collaborations with NGOs
and the Earth Institute. She is on the
editorial board of two professional
journals; is a member of the Mental
Health Advisory Committee for the
Millennium Villages Project of the
Earth Institute at Columbia University; a member of the Scientific Advisory
Council of the American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention; an affiliated
faculty member of the Institute for
African Studies at TC; and a member
of the Scientific Advisory Board of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
At the College, she is an IRB committee member and was the director of
the third International IPT conference,
hosted at Teachers College in March,
2009. In August 2009 she received
the Mentoring Award of the American
Psychological Association, Division of
International Psychology (52).
Recent Research
Chatterjee, S., Chowdhary, N., Pednekar, S., Cohen A., Andrew, G., Araya, R., Simon, G., King, M., Kirkwood,
B., Weiss, H., Verdeli, H., Clougherty,
K., Telles S., & Patel, V. (2008). Integrating evidence-based treatments for
common mental disorders in routine
primary care: feasibility and acceptability of the MANAS intervention
in Goa, India. World Psychiatry, 7(1),
39-46.
Verdeli, H., Clougherty K., Onyango,
G., Lewandowski, E., Speelman, L.,
Betancourt, T., Neugebauer R., Stein
T., & Bolton P. (2008). Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depressed
youth in IDP camps in Northern
Uganda: Adaptation and training.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics
of North America, 17(8), 605-624.
Neria, Y., Olfson, M. Gameroff, M.,
Wickramaratne, P, Pilowsky, D.,
Verdeli, H., Gross, R., Manetti-Cusa,
J., Marshall. R.D., Lantigua, R., Shea,
S. & Weissman, M.M. (2008). Trauma
exposure and Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder in primary care patients with
Bipolar Spectrum Disorder. Bipolar
Disorders, 10, 503-520.
Verdeli, H. (2008). Towards building
feasible, efficacious, and sustainable
treatments for depression in developing countries. Depression and Anxiety,
25, 899-902. 
Leah Blumberg Lapidus
Dr. Leah Blumberg Lapidus, 70, passed away on
Saturday, January 31, 2009, at her home in New
York City. She was born April 6, 1938 in Waukegan and had lived in New York since 1958. She
received her BA from NYU in 1960, and her
Ph.D. at NYU in 1968.
Leah was a Full Professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College. She was also
a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (American
Board of Professional Psychology) and a Diplomate (American Board of Forensic Examiners).
Her teaching responsibilities reflected her great
interest in psychological assessment. She published research in
this area as well as in the areas of psychological arousal, stress,
sexuality, and psychological differentiation/field dependence. She
served as an expert witness in a variety of court cases, many of
which involved her testimony in regard to psychological testing she
conducted with defendants being represented by the American Civil
Liberties Union. She sponsored many doctoral dissertations over the
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years (at least 50) and worked with students to
get their research published or presented at professional conferences. She was an active presence in the program, the department, and the
College, and worked hard in the pursuit of her
research and progressive political causes. She
was also an active member of the National and
International Disaster Mental Health Services, the
American Red Cross, and Amnesty International.
Indeed, she was very dedicated to the principles
of social justice and the needs of children. As one
of her students (Kris Martin) wrote after her passing: “she inspired me to see the opportunity (indeed the responsibility) for psychologists to practice in ways that foster human rights
and social justice, a spirit that I like to think guides me in my life and
work.” She was a member of West End Synagogue in New York. Music was one of her passions; she was an accomplished harpist. Leah
is survived by three children and four grandchildren. A nice image:
Leah literally “letting her hair down” at program parties.