Chair,
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Courses
MSW Program: Human Behavior in the Social Environment
(entire sequence), Social Welfare Policy and Services,
Occupational Social Work and Policy, Professional
Seminar, Foundations of Social Work Practice
PhD Program: Comparative Approaches to Theory and
Practice in Social Work
Professional Interests:
Postmodern theories and their application to social
work
Historical research methods
Psychoanalysis
Current Research:
History of psychoanalysis and urban social activism;
Cultural studies in the areas of mental health and
trade unions;
Uses of “narrative” and “meta-narrative”
paradigms in social work.
Selected Publications:
BOOKS
“Freud’s Free Clinics, Psychoanalysis
& Social Justice, 1918-1938,”
Columbia University Press, May 2005
“Historiography” (Pocket Guides to Social
Work Research series), Oxford University Press, forthcoming
January 2008
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Three
Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social
Welfare” in M. Plotkin and J. Damousie (eds.),
The Transnational Unconscious, Macmillan, 2008.
“An Epistolary Narrative on Social Democracy
and Character Analysis” in B. Johler (ed.) Wilhelm
Reich Revisited, Turia & Kant, November 2007
“People at Work: A Developmental Approach” in D. Moxley
& J. Finch, (eds.) Sourcebook of Rehabilitation
and Mental Health Practice, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Press, December 2004
“Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Developing Cultural
Competency in EAPs” with Frances Curtis, in V. Jackson
& L. Lopez, (eds.) Cultural Competency in Managed
Behavioral Healthcare, Manissas Communications
Group, Fall 1999
ARTICLES
“Same Words, Different Meanings – Notes
toward a Postmodern typology of social work education”
Social Work Education, in press
“What’s Cost Got to Do With It? Perspectives
from the Free Psychoanalytic Clinics,” The
American Psychoanalyst, Spring 2006
“Trade
Unions,” Encyclopedia of the Home Front:
World Wars I and II, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
Spring 2006
“Jean-Martin Charcot,” “Sigmund Freud,” “Franz Joseph”
and “Karl Lueger” encyclopedia entries for J. Bell,
(ed.) Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800-1924,
Volume 6 of the Interdisciplinary Biographical
Dictionary of Cultural Eras, Greenwood Press,
December 2002.
“Sex, Class and Social Work: Wilhelm Reich’s Free
Clinics and the Activist History Psychoanalysis,”
Psychoanalytic Social Work, Vol. 7, No. 1,
Spring 2000, pp. 55-72.
“The Berlin Poliklinik: Psychoanalytic Innovation
in Weimar Germany” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, Vol. 47, No.4, December 1999.
“The Ambulatorium: Freud’s Free Clinic in Vienna,”
May 1998 issue of the International Journal of
Psychoanalysis
“Conflict vs. Cohesion: EAP-Based Diversity Training
in Small Groups” Employee Assistance Quarterly,
Vol. 15, No.1, 1999, pp.32-41.
RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS
Gradiva Book Award, Nat. Association for the Advancement
of Psychoanalysis, 2006
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant, 2005
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award, 2004
DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service, Faculty Research
Grant, 2002
Research Foundation/CUNY, Distance Learning Demonstration
Project, 2001
Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Development Award, 2000
President’s Teaching and Research Incentive
Award, 1999
Rockefeller Archive Center Research Award, 1999
American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow, 1998-1999
Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who
Among American Women, Who’s Who in Medicine
and Health Care, and Who’s Who in Human Services
consistently since 1989.
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