Carol Reichenthal
Professor of Psychology
About Me:
My teaching and scholarly activities revolve around my being trained as a psychoanalytically oriented clinical psychologist with postdoctoral advanced training in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. My areas of specialization are modern psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory and practice, with an additional area of specialization in gender differences.
My teaching philosophy reflects my theoretical point of view, that change, including the change inherent in learning, is deepest when interaction is at its core. I use a combination of lecture and discussion with emphasis on active engagement of students in a dialogue with each other and with me.
It seems to me that the field of clinical psychology is characterized by a variety of viewpoints, by multiple models of human functioning. It is influenced by the neuroscience of brain functioning, by cognitive-behavioral models, by recent findings from infant research as well as by contemporary psychoanalytic theory. My own perspective parallels contemporary psychodynamic theories. This conceptual framework of self and other informs both my thinking and my teaching. It encompasses a view of clinical psychology as fundamentally characterized by attempts to understand the unique experience of individuals and their relationships. I approach psychological questions from this context of “ experience – in – relationship”, taking into account social processes, the personal unconscious, individual and family histories and the ongoing co-construction of self. The clinical papers I have delivered at the local and national level over the years draw on this perspective.
I received my Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of Buffalo, am a licensed clinical psychologist, and have completed a 4-year post-doctoral training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
I am currently involved in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy community at both the local and national levels primarily at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association. This work within the psychoanalytic community deeply enriches my teaching as my teaching enriches my contributions to the psychoanalytic community.
Courses Taught:
· Adult Psychopathology
· Sex Differences
· Field Experience in Clinical Psychology
· Senior Seminar –PTSD, The Effects of Trauma
Some Helpful Links:
Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy www.mappsych.org
The American Psychological Association www.apsa.org
This website contains a wealth of information about psychodynamic psychotherapy with a series of links to a variety of different psychoanalytic resources, including the APsaA Psychotherapy Department, the Committee on Psychotherapists Associates, an E- Newsletter, and several other useful links including basic and essential reading lists.
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
http://www.bostonpsychoanalytic.org Information about the Boston Psychoanalytic Educational Forum, Mass. 9/11 Fund, Inc., and Workshop on the Interface of Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis.