John Munder Ross, PhD.
Born June 20, 1945, New York City
U.S. Citizen
New York State License: 5123
Wife: Ann Shoemaker Ross (Ann S. Maloney, MD)
Children: Matthew, Isabella and Lily
Office: 443 East 87th Street
New York, NY 10128
212-289-6553 (Office)
212-289-6628 (Fax)
212-289-4414 (Home)
E-mail: lmlross@aol.com
A. ACADEMIC TRAINING
B.A. Harvard College, Magna cum laude, 1967
M.A. Clinical Psychology, New York University, 1973
Graduate program in Anthropology, The London School of Economics, 1968-69
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, New York University, 1974
Fellowships: Recipient of NIMH Fellowships for academic years, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1970-71
Recipient of Leverhulm Fellowship, 1968-1969, for study abroad
Certificate in the Practice and Theory of Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Institute, N.Y.U.
Medical Center, 1984
CERTIFICATION
Licensed clinical psychologist, 1975
Certified for Active Membership, American Psychoanalytic Association, 1988
Appointed Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and
Research, 1993
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
American Psychoanalytic Associationi
American Psychological Association (Divisions 12, 39)
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
International Psychoanalytic Association
(New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 1992-1995)
(Psychoanalytic Association of New York, 1984-1992)
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1998 - , Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry. Columbia College of
Physicians and Surgeons
1998 - , Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry. Cornell University Medical Center
1995 - 98, Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry. Cornell University Medical Center
1993 - , Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic
Training & Research
1992 -, Faculty, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
1992 - 1998, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
1986 - 1993, 2006-2007 - Faculty, The Psychoanalytic Institute at N.Y.U. Medical Center
1985 - 1995, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Cornell Medical
College
1985-86, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College
1982-85, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Cornell Medical College
1980-84, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center
1980-84, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology in Psychiatry, New York Hospital, Cornell
Medical Center
1978-80, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center
1978-80, Clinical Instructor (Adjunct), Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, New
York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center
1977-78, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Yeshiva University
1976-78, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School,
Yeshiva University
1974-76, Adjunct, Freshman Year Program, New School for Social Research
1974-75, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, New York University
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Private practice, 1975- present: Psychoanalysis (50 cases to date), psychotherapy supervision,
child consultation, couples and family therapy –
Expert media consulting and script editing, 2002- present
Secretary/Treasurer, The Sigmund Freud Archives, 2005Member, Editorial board, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2004 –
Senior Associate Director for Clinical Affairs, The Columbia Center, 2007Chair, Committee on Training and Supervising Analysts, The Columbia Center 2002 -2007
President-Elect, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 2001 – 2002
Member, Executive Committee, The Columbia Center, 2002 –2007
Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 1999 Member of Council, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine 1999 – 2001
Chairperson, Program Committee, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine 1997 - 2001
Member, Program Committee, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 1994 – 1997
Member, Program Committee, The American Psychoanalytic Association, 1992 - 1995
Member, Committee on Affiliate and Associate Membership, The American Psychoanalytic
Association, 1985-1995
Member, Committee on Public Information, American Psychoanalytic Association, 1995- 1997
Member, Board of Directors, The Sigmund Freud Archives, 1991- 2001
Member, Margaret S. Mahler Research Foundation, 1994 Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1996 - 1999
Editorial Board, Gender and Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 1996 - 1998
Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1984-1986
HONORS
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John Harvard Scholarship, 1964, 1966, 1967
Harvard College Scholarship, 1965
Detur Prize; Phi Beta Kappa; Adams House Crest, 1967
Teacher of the Year, Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, 1979, 1981
American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Division Award for the
Outstanding Book in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1982 for FATHER AND CHILD (see
publications). 1982
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Residency, 1993
Peter Blos Lecturer, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, 1991
Nominee, Best Book, First Annual Gradiva Award, National Association for the
Advancement of Psychoanalysis, 1994
Howard Klar Memorial Teacher of the Year Award, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research, 1995
George E. Daniels Merit Award, Columbia Center, 2009
HONORARY SOCIETIES
The Signet Society, Harvard University, 1965The Century Association, 2001PRESENTATIONS
Approximately 450 scientific papers, special lectures, grand rounds, keynote addresses, etc. to lay
public, undergraduates, graduates students, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers,
psychoanalysts, etc.
Most recently: Brothers, sisters and a return to reality, New York Psychoanalytic Institute,
10/13/09
PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS AUTHORED, CO-AUTHORED, AND EDITED
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Sole Author:
The Male Paradox: Why Men Feel Like The Weaker Sex and How the Struggle Between
Sexuality and Aggression Shapes Their Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992;
Hamburg: Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH, 1993.
What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers and Manhood. Selected Papers of John Munder Ross 19751990. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Japan: Asahi
Shimbun, 1998; Poland: Santorski, 1998.
Co-Author:
Tales of Love, Sex and Danger, co-author with Sudhir Kakar. Munich: C.H. Beck (Uber die
Liebe und die Abgründe des Gefühls), 1986; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986;
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Les Pieges de l'Amour Erotique), 1987; London:
Unwin & Hyman, 1987; New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987; Osaka: Sogensha, 1992;
Zagreb: Graficki Zavod Hrvatske, 1991; Milan: Studio Redazionale, 1991.
Editor and Co-Editor:
Father and Child: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, co-editor with S. H. Cath and
A. Gurwitt, Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1982. Paperback Edition: New York: Basil
Blackwell, 1989. Also author of four chapters:
1) "The roots of fatherhood: excursions into a lost literature,"
2) "In search of fathering,"
3) "From mother to father: a boy's search for a generative identity and the oedipal era,"
4) "Mentorship in middle childhood,"
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol. 11, Editor-in-Chief, 1986.
The Oedipus Papers, co-editor with George H. Pollock, The Chicago Institute Monograph
Series, "Classics in Psychoanalysis," New York: International Universities Press, 1988.
New Concepts in Psychoanalytic Therapy, co-editor with Wayne A. Myers, M.D.,
Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1988.
B. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
"The development of paternal identity: a critical review of the literature on nurturance and
generativity in boys and men," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol.
23, No. 4, pp. 783, 1975.
"Towards fatherhood: the epigenesis of paternal identity during a boy's first decade,"
International Review of Psycho-analysis, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 327, 1977.
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“The representational world in psychoanalytic psychotherapy" (with a Robert Stolorow, Ph.D.
and George Atwood, Ph.D.) International Review of Psycho-analysis, Vol. 5, No. 3,
1978.
"Fathering: a review of some psychoanalytic contributions on paternity," International
Journal of Psycho-analysis, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 317, 1979.
"Notes on the genesis of pathological splitting," International Journal of Psycho-analysis, Vol.
61, No. 3, pp. 335, 1980.
"Oedipus revisited: Laius and the Laius Complex," The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol.
37, pp. 169, 1982.
"Father to the child," The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 70, No. 3, 1983.
"The darker side of fatherhood," International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol.
11, 1985. Also in The Personal Myth in Psychoanalytic Theory, Eds. Peter Hartocollis
and Ian Davidson Graham; Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1991.
"An essay on romantic, erotic love," for Supplement on Affects, Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, eds. Theodore Shapiro and Robert Emde, 39, pp. 439-474,
1992.
"The clinical relevance of the contributions of D. W. Winnicott," panel report for Journal of
the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1993.
“Oedipus Tyrannus and the postmodernist psychoanalyst: a book essay," Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, 1995.
“The movies: The femme fatale and the battle of the sexes,” Gender and Psychoanalysis, 3:2,
1998.
“Once more onto the couch: Consciousness and Preconscious Defenses in the Psychoanalytic
Situation and Process,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,
47:1, 1999.
“Psychoanalysis, the anxiety of influence and the sadomasochism of everyday life,” Journal of
Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, January 1999.
“Preconscious defense analysis, memory and structural change, International Journal of
Psychoanalysis 84(1):, 2003
“Trauma and Abuse in the Case of Little Hans,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, 55:3, 2007.
B. 1. PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers and Manhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
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1994.
C. BOOK CHAPTERS
"The forgotten father," chapter in Psychosexual Imperatives, Self-in-Process Series, II, eds.
Marie Coleman Nelson and Jean Ikenberry, Human Sciences Publications, 1979.
"Paternal identity: a personal equation of manhood and fatherhood," chapter in On
Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Observations, eds. C. W. Socarides and T.B. Karasu, New
York: International Universities Press, 1979.
"Fathers in development," in Parenthood: A Psychodynamic Perspective, eds. Rebecca S.
Cohen, Bertram J. Cohler, Sidney H. Weissman. New York: Guilford Press, 1984.
“Gandhi: The sensual ascetic,” co-author with Sudhir Kakar in Illustrated Weekly of India, June
1985.
"The sins of the fathers," co-author with James M. Herzog, M.D. in Parental Influences: In
Health and Disease, eds. E. James Anthony and George H. Pollock, Boston: Little Brown
& Co., 1985.
"Beyond the phallic illusion," in The Psychology of Men, eds. Robert S. Liebert, Frederick M.
Lane and Gerald I. Fogel, New York: Basic Books, pp. 49-70, 1986.
"The riddle of Little Hans," chapter in Fathers and Their Families, eds. Stanley H. Cath, Alan
Gurwitt and Linda Gunsberg, New York: Analytic Press, 1989.
"The eye of the beholder," chapter in New Dimensions in Adult Development, eds. Calvin A.
Colarusso and Robert S. Nemiroff, New York: Basic Books, 1990.
"Identification: a discussion," concluding chapter in Pivotal Papers on Identification, ed. George
H. Pollock, Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1993.
"Male Infidelity in Long Marriages: second adolescences and fourth individuations in
intimacy and infidelity” Intimacy and Infidelity: Separation-Individuation Perspectives.
Ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson, 1996.
“Masculinity Revisited: a self deconstruction” chapter in Masculine Scenarios, ed.
Alcira Mariam Alizade, London: H. Karnac Books Ltd, 2003.
D. REVIEWS, EDITORIALS AND LETTERS
Review of Psychoanalytic Theory: An Exploration of Essentials by George Klein, The
Psychoanalytic Review, 67: Summer, 1980.
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Review of Tales of Sex and Violence by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, 35:3, 1986
Review of Finding Our Fathers: The Unfinished Business of Manhood, by Samuel
Osherson, Contemporary Psychology, Winter, 1988.
Review of Observing the Erotic Imagination by Robert Stoller, The Hillside Journal of Clinical
Psychiatry, 1987.
Review of The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology by
Robert Eisner in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 305-308, 1989.
Review of The Jealous Potter by Claude Levi-Strauss, in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Fall,
1989.
Review of Troubled Men by Reuben Fine in Contemporary Psychology, p. 1990.
Review of Sexuality: An Illustrated History by Sander Gilman in Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 41: 1, pp. 266-270. 1993
Review of Oedipus in the Stone Age: A Psychoanalytic Study of Masculinization in Papua,
New Guinea by Theodore Lidz and Ruth Wilmanns Lidz in The Psychoanalytic
Quarterly, LXI: 3, pp. 481-486, 1992.
Review of Fatherhood in America: A History by Robert Griswold, in Psychoanalytic Books,
1993.
Review of Female Perversions by Louise J. Kaplan, M.D. in the Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 41: 3, pp. 883-886, 1993.
Commentary on "The Impact of Boundary Violations in Colleagues and Family Members."
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 43:4, 1995.
Review of Boundaries and Boundary Violations In Psychoanalysis. By Glen O. Gabbard and Eva
P. Lester in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Review of Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson by Robert S. Wallerstein and
Leo Goldberger in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol LXVII, 1999.
Review of The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives: Social Psychoanalytic Perspectives, by
Bertram Cohler and Robert Galatzer-Levy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 50:674-678,
1953-2002 (Anniversary Volume).
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