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BIOS, PUBLICATIONS, & PRESENTATIONS


Current Candidates
Adult Psychoanalysis Programs



Christian J. Churchill, PhD

Christian J. Churchill, PhD is a candidate in the New York division of the Adult Psychoanalysis Training Program of the Institute. He earned his doctorate in sociology at Brandeis University in 2000. He has served as a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Williams College and is presently assistant professor of sociology at St. Thomas Aquinas College. In conjunction with his training at the Institute, he has done clinical work at the Community Action School, Bellevue Hospital's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, and Volunteer Counseling Services of Rockland County. In addition to his teaching and psychoanalytic training, he serves as a peer reviewer for the sociology journals Qualitative Sociology and Humanity and Society, and is on the board of trustees of Marlboro College in Vermont.

Publications

Churchill, C. (2005). Ethnography as translation. Qualitative Sociology, 28 (1), 3-24.

Churchill, C. (2004). Collective dissociation in mass society. Humanity and Society, 28 (4), 384-402.

Churchill, C. (2002). The scrim of concern. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 15 (3), 485-497.

Churchill, C. (2000). Globalization and structures of power: A Weberian inquiry. Innovations: A Journal of Politics, 3, 9-25.

Churchill, C. (1998). The promise of the postmodern sociologist. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 11 (3), 525-529.

Levy, G. & Churchill, C. (1992). New middle class youth in a college town: Education for life in the 1990s. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 6 (2), 229-267.

Presentations

"Treating the Subject: Connections Between Ethnography and Psychoanalysis" by Christian J. Churchill, PhD
Refereed Roundtable - Social Construction of Self, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2006



Geoff Goodman, PhD

Geoff Goodman, PhD is an advanced candidate in the child and adult programs at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society, and Associate Professor of Psychology at Long Island University. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and New City, New York. Dr. Goodman received a Bachelor of Science degree from M.I.T. in 1983, a Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991. He completed a child clinical psychology internship at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, in 1991, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in developmental research at Columbia University under Larry Aber in 1993, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the research and treatment of borderline personality disorder under Frank Yeomans and Otto Kernberg in 1995. Dr. Goodman was Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College from 1995 to 1998 and was Assistant Unit Chief of the children's psychiatric inpatient unit. He also holds adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Goodman is the author of over a dozen articles on the development of psychopathology in high-risk infants, children, and adults. He published his first book, The Internal World and Attachment (The Analytic Press), in December of 2002.

Publications

Goodman, G. (1990). [Review of Critical theories of psychological development]. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11, 235-237.

Goodman, G. (1991). Feeling our way into empathy: Carl Rogers, Heinz Kohut, and Jesus. Journal of Religion and Health, 30, 191-205.

Goodman, G., & Aber, J. L. (1993). [Review of Children of alcoholics: A critical appraisal of theory and research]. Family Business Review, 6, 223-227.

Sprachman, S., Carcagno, G. J., & Goodman, G. (1994). Conducting non-traditional data collection on a low-income population: Taking videotaped child development instruments out of the lab and into the field. 1993 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association (pp. 1004-1009). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

Amsel, E., Goodman, G., Savoie, D., & Clark, M. (1996). The development of reasoning about causal and noncausal influences on levers. Child Development, 67, 1624-1646.
Hull, J. W., Yeomans, F., Clarkin, J., Li, C., & Goodman, G. (1996). Factors associated with multiple hospitalizations of patients with borderline personality disorder. Psychiatric Services, 47, 638-641.

Goodman, G. (1998). Kleinian guilt, determinism, and free will: Implications for clinical theory and treatment. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 26, 137-163.

Goodman, G., Aber, J. L., Berlin, L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1998). The relations between maternal behaviors and urban preschool children's internal working models of attachment security. Infant Mental Health Journal, 19, 378-393.

Goodman, G., Hull, J. W., Clarkin, J. F., & Yeomans, F. E. (1998). Comorbid mood disorders as modifiers of treatment response among inpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 616-622.

Goodman, G., & Pfeffer, C. R. (1998). Attachment disorganization in prepubertal children with severe emotional disturbance. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 62, 490-525.

Goodman, G., Hans, S. L., & Cox, S. M. (1999). Attachment behavior and its antecedents in offspring born to methadone-maintained women. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 58-69.

Goodman, G., Hull, J. W., Clarkin, J. F., & Yeomans, F. E. (1999). Childhood antisocial behaviors as predictors of psychotic symptoms and DSM-III-R borderline criteria among inpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 13, 35-46.

Goodman, G. (2002). The internal world and attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Goodman, G. (2005). Empirical evidence supporting the conceptual relatedness of object representations and internal working models. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, 597-617.

Goodman, G. (2005). "I feel stupid and contagious:" Countertransference reactions of fledgling clinicians to patients who have negative therapeutic reactions. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 59, 149-168.

Goodman, G. (2005). [Review of Primitive mental states vol. II: Psychobiological and psychoanalytic perspectives on early trauma and personality development]. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 74, 887-896.

Goodman, G., Hans, S. L., & Bernstein, V. J. (2005). Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women. Infant Mental Health Journal, 26, 549-569.

Goodman, G., Bass, J. N., Geenens, D. L., & Popper, C. W. (in press). The MAVRIC-C and MAVRIC-P: A preliminary reliability and validity study. Journal of Personality Assessment.



Leslie A. Johnson, PhD

Leslie A. Johnson, PhD, is a candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program of the DC Institute. She holds a doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures from New York University and has taught at Trinity College in Hartford and at the University of Virginia. Licensed as a counselor, she has a private psychotherapy practice in Charlottesville, VA. She is a graduate fellow of the International Psychotherapy Institute (formerly IIORT).

Publications

Johnson, L. A. (2002). Persecutory anxiety in an adolescent boy. In J. Scharff and S. Tsougunis (Eds.), Self-Hatred in Psychoanalysis: Detoxifying the Persecutory Object (pp. 145-164). Hove and New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Johnson, L. A. (2003). Face to face: Notes on the value of facing the patient in psychotherapy. Bulletin of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, 3(1), 4-8.

Johnson, L. A. (2005). Bad infinity: Narcissism and the problem of time. In M. Stadter and D. Scharf (Eds.), Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience (pp. 39-49). London: Routledge.



Donna Marshall, MA, EdM, LP

Donna Marshall, MA, EdM, LP, an advanced candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in multicultural psychology with adults.



Debra Neumann, PhD

Debra Neumann, PhD is a candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program in Washington. She is a psychologist in private practice in Chevy Chase, MD. She also teaches in the Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice at the Washington School of Psychiatry.

Publications

Neumann, D.A. (1995). The long-term correlates of childhood sexual abuse in adult survivors. In J. Briere (Ed.), Violent victimization: Assessment and treatment. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Neumann, D.A. and Gamble, S.J. (1995). Issues in the professional development of psychotherapists: Countertransference and vicarious traumatization in the new trauma therapist. Psychotherapy, 32 (2), 341-347.

Presentations

"The Role of the Ghost in the Novel Beloved" by Debra Neumann, Ph.D.
Annual meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, 1992.

"Adult Revictimization in Women Sexually Abused as Children" by Debra Neumann, Ph.D.
Annual meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, 1995.



Wilfried Ver Eecke, PhD

Wilfried Ver Eecke, PhD, received his doctorate in philosophy. He is a certified philosophy counselor, and an advanced candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program of the DC Institute. He is a Professor in Philosophy and an Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Georgetown University. He was a student of Jacques Lacan in Paris and of Erik Erikson at Harvard University. He has published numerous articles and books in four languages (English, Dutch, French and German) on a wide range of subjects, such as Hegel, the philosophy of psychoanalysis and of psychology, the philosophy of economics and of social sciences, and the philosophy of language and literature. Some of these publications have been translated into six additional languages (Chinese, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Polish and Swedish), and some are currently in the process of being translated into Russian and Turkish.



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