C Curriculum & Professional Vitae
Psychology License: Texas #30849
Current Professional Activity
2014 – ongoing Appointment as Training and Supervising Analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston – Austin
2019 – ongoing Member of the Colleague Assistance Committee of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston – Austin
2012 – 2017 Member of the Certification Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association
2013 – 2016 Chair of the Faculty Committee, Center For Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston/Austin
2005 – ongoing Faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies
2000 – ongoing Full time psychology and psychoanalytic private practice, Austin, Texas
Education
2003 (December) Graduation from the Studies in Psychoanalysis Program of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
1998 (August) University of Texas, Austin Texas.
Ph.D. Psychology. Title of Dissertation: Psychoanalysis as a Praxis: Metapsychology and Ethics in the Work of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva.
1994 University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
M.A. Psychology
1982 University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California.
M.PH. Public Health.
1980 University of Texas, Austin, Texas
M.A. Cultural Anthropology. Title of Thesis: Women, Class and Patriarchy: The Reproduction of an Ideology in Everyday Life.
Doctoral exams in the areas of Meso-American culture and Symbolic Anthropology
1974 University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
B.A. Cultural Anthropology.
Clinical Training and Experience
2011 (June) Certified in Adult Psychoanalysis by the American Psychoanalytic Association
Sept 1998 – 2003 Studies in Psychoanalysis at the Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Houston, Texas. Clinical training in adult psychoanalysis
Fall 1997- thru Summer of 1998 Psychology Internship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas.
Research and Fellowship Experience
1985-1986 Texas Center For Policy Studies
Principal Researcher on project “Health Implications of High Tech Development in Texas”
1983-1985 University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Research Associate, Center for Mexican-American Studies.
1981-1982 Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California
Research Associate position sponsored by National Research Service pre-doctoral Fellowship in Alcohol Studies.
1977-1979 University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Hogg Foundation Research Fellowship on Mental Health and Family Relations in Rural Texas, principle researcher
1974-1975 Internship in community development sponsored by
Save the Children Federation, American Indian Program,
Woodlands, California and Dresslerville, Nevada.
Teaching Experience
Nov. 2020 – Feb. 2021 “Adult Continuous Case Conference, Studies in Adult Psychoanalysis, CFPS
2019-2020 “Advanced Candidate Seminar,” Studies in Adult Psychoanalysis, CFPS
2018-2019 “Advanced Candidate Seminar”, Studies in Adult Psychoanalysis, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston-Austin (CFPS)
2017-2018 “Trauma and its Vicissitudes” Studies in Adult Psychoanalysis, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston-Austin (CFPS)
2010 “Work of Therapy II: Psychodynamic Case Assessment and Formulation,” Studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (HGPI)
2009 “”The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Culture, Transgression and the Critical Spirit,” Studies in Psychoanalysis program, HGPI
2008 “The Work of Therapy VII: Termination and Special Topics,” Studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program, HGPI
2007 “Therapeutic Action and Change II: Personality and Character Disorders,” Studies in Psychoanalysis program, HGPI
2006 “Comparative Theories of Development III” Studies in Psychoanalysis Program, HGPI
2005 “Current Theories of Psychoanalysis” Studies in Psychoanalysis program, HGPI
Spring 2005 Appointed to full faculty of the Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (HGPI)
Spring 2004: Appointed Associate to the Faculty of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (HGPI)
Papers Delivered to Professional Societies, Clinical Presentations
April 28, 2018 “Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Praxis,” paper presented to Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
September 5, 2018 “The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Monad to Intersubjective Field,” paper presented to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
April 8, 2017 “Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Praxis,” paper presented to the Houston Psychoanalytic Society
November 2014 “Paradise Lost: Shame, Differentiation and Oedipal Defeat,” paper presented to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
September 14, 2011 “The Capacity to Mourn and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis,” paper presented to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (paper publicly announced as “Mourning our Losses: the Necessary Work of Psychoanalysis”)
September 15, 2010 “Bion and the Analytic Attitude,” paper presented to the Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Society.
October 2009 “Bion and the Analytic Attitude,” paper presented to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
May 2009, Panel commentator for Dr. Virginia Ungar, Argentinean psychoanalyst, invited guest at Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Society speaking on projective identification in clinical practice
June 2007 “Mysterious Skin: A Psychoanalytic Commentary on Film and the Traumatic Legacy of Childhood Sexual Abuse” paper presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Texas in collaboration with the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society.
November 2006 “The Blank Page: Creative Imagination and Its Inhibitions” paper presented to the Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Society
May 2005 “The Blank Page: Creative Imagination and Its Inhibitions” paper presented to The Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
April 2004 Presentation of clinical material for the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society of an on-going analytic case. Discussant: Fred Busch, Ph.D.
Fall 2000 “Psychoanalysis Through a French Prism,” paper presented to the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
Spring 1999 “Psychoanalysis Through a French Prism,” paper presented to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Past Professional Activities
2010 – 2013 President of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, (previously known as the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute), an affiliate of the American Psychoanalytic Association,
2007 – 2010 Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
2007 –2009 Member of the Steering Committee for the planning of the Division 39 conference of the American Psychological Association, San Antonio Texas, Spring 2009
2006 – 2007 Member of the Site Visit Committee of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
2006 -2007 Past-President and member of the Board of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39)
2005-2006 President of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39)
2004 – 2007: Clinical Supervisor for Ph.D. graduate students from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2004 – 2007: Member of the Progressions Committee of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
2004- 2010: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
2004-2005: President-Elect and member of the Board of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. (Division 39)
2004: Education and Training Chair for the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39)
2003: Member of the Admissions Committee of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
2002: Member of the Curriculum Committee for the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
Publications
2010 (Winter), Vol. XXIV, #1 “Bion and the Analytic Mind” in Round Robin, publication of Section 1, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
2008 Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 16 #1 “The Blank Page: Creative Imagination and its Inhibitions”
1991 “From Symbolic Exchange to Commodity Consumption: Anthropological Notes on Drinking as a Symbolic Practice,” in Drinking Behavior and Belief in Modern History ed. By Susanna Barrows and Robin Room; University of California Press, Berkeley, Ca.