EDUCATION:
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Long Island, NY, January 2019
MSW, Clinical Social Work, New York University, New York, NY, 2006
BA, Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 2002
PRESENTATIONS:
January 2024—Led ‘Read With…’ hour long seminar at Manhattan Institute that involved a close reading of the article, ‘Actual Neurosis and PTSD: The Impact of the Other.’
May 2023—Presented seminar the initial psychoanalytic consultation to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
December 2022—Presented seminar on PTSD and Freud’s actual neurosis to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
October 2022—Presented seminar the initial psychoanalytic consultation to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
April 2022—Presented seminar on desire and jouissance to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
November 2021— Presented seminar on a paper being prepared for publication that explores conceptual issues in DSM diagnosis and associated implications for case conceptualization to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
October 2021— Presented seminar on aspects of transference in the initial psychoanalytic encounter to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
May 2020—Presented seminar on Lacan’s formulations of ethics and desire and clinical implications to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
November 2020— Presented seminar on the initial psychoanalytic consultation to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
October 2020—Invited speaker at Training Institute for Mental Health Continuing Education Series. Gave a remote talk/seminar entitled Alexithymia and Somatization in the Time of Remote Work: Revisiting Freud’s Concept of Actual Neurosis.
April 2020—Presented seminar on the the clinical implications of Lacan’s concepts of desire and jouissance to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
April 2019—Presented seminar on PTSD and Freud’s actual neurosis to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
December 2019—Presented seminar on the initial psychoanalytic consultation to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
December 2018—Presented seminar on PTSD and Freud’s actual neurosis to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
September 2018– Presented seminar/workshop on the dynamics of the initial analytic consultation to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
May 2018—Facilitated workshop/seminar on introduction to Lacanian clinical technique (focusing on the positioning of the analyst in the treatment) to faculty, staff, and students at the Training Institute for Mental Health.
April 2017—Presented seminar on alternative approaches to the definition, identification, and assessment of psychotic delusions to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
April 2017—Presented seminar on difference between relational/Lacanian technique to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
March 2016—Presented seminar on Lacanian clinical concepts to MSW and PhD/PsyD interns/externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
October 2015—Presented seminar on intersection of Lacanian psychoanalytic ethics and psychoanalytic diagnosis to MSW and PhD/PsyD externs at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research.
April 2014—Presented research on conceptual foundations of theories of psychotic phenomena (delusions and hallucinations) at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research externship seminar.
November 2013 – Invited speaker/presenter at Kingsborough Community College. Presented research on psychoanalytic ethics and the diagnosis of psychosis.
Apr 2013 – Presented research on Lacanian ethics and the psychoanalytic encounter at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research externship seminar.
Aug 2012 – Poster presentation of pre-dissertation project at the New England Psychological Association meeting, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mar 2012 – Invited guest speaker at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Research. Presented research that explores psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives on desire, fantasy, sexuality, and romance in the cybernetic era.
Oct 2011 – Delivered paper entitled “The Other and the Same, or a Meeting of Strange Bedfellows: An Inquiry into the Project of Psychoanalysis and the Discourse of Psychology” as part of a panel focusing on the impact of politics on doctoral level education at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) Annual Conference held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Oct 2010 – Invited guest speaker on panel focusing on psychologies of liberation sponsored by the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) Annual Conference held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Delivered paper entitled “The Tyranny of the ‘Objective’: The Influence of the Psychological Gaze and Recommendations for a Socially Conscious, Politically Engaged Psychology”