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. PhD Program: Comparative Theory and Practice in Social Work; Theories of Change for Social Work Practice
Professional Interests & Current Research:
Postmodern theories and their application to social work
History and historiography of psychoanalysis and political movements;
Cultural studies in the areas of mental health and trade unions;
Narratives of social change.
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
“Historical Research” (Pocket Guides to Social
Work Research series), Oxford University Press, August 2008
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare” in M. Plotkin and J. Damousie (eds.), The Transnational Unconscious, Macmillan, 12/2008.
“An Epistolary Narrative on Social Democracy and Character Analysis” in B. Johler (ed.) Wilhelm Reich Revisited, Turia & Kant, 11/2007
“People at Work: A Developmental Approach” in D. Moxley & J. Finch, (eds.) Sourcebook of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Practice, N. Y.: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 12/2004
“Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Developing Cultural Competency in EAPs” with F. Curtis, in V. Jackson & L. Lopez, (eds.) Cultural Competency in Managed Behavioral Healthcare, Manissas Communications Group, Fall 1999
ARTICLES
"Perfect in its principles": psychoanalytic praxis at Ernst Simmel’s Schloss Tegel” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December 2009
“Labor Welfare in France – A Matter of Citizenship.”(May 2009) Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 24/1 165-184
“A New Sort of Salvation Army": Historical Perspectives on the Confluence of Psychoanalysis and Social Work.” (March 2009) Clinical Social Work Journal, 37/ 1 67-76
“Psychoanalysis.” Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition, NASW & Oxford University Presses, April 2008.
“Same Words, Different Meanings – Notes toward a Postmodern typology of social work education” Social Work Education, 27/7 (October 2008): 710-722
“At What Cost? Perspectives from the Free Psychoanalytic Clinics” (Spring 2006) The American Psychoanalyst,
“Trade Unions,” Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Spring 2006
“Sex, Class and Social Work: Wilhelm Reich’s Free Clinics and the Activist History Psychoanalysis,”(Spring 2000) Psychoanalytic Social Work, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 55-72.
“The Berlin Poliklinik: Psychoanalytic Innovation in Weimar Germany” (December 1999) Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 47, No.4,.
“The Ambulatorium: Freud’s Free Clinic in Vienna,” (May 1998) 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
Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award, Hunter College, 2008
Goethe Prize, Canadian Psychological Association, 2007
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. |
