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Ph.D. Psychology Faculty & Staff

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Ph.D. Psychology Faculty & Staff

Deidre Anglin
The social epidemiology of psychosis: the relationship between race/ethnicity and endorsement of psychotic-like symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical populations; the stigma of mental health service utilization in African American populations and explanations for underutilization.
Diana Diamond
Manualized Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders (Borderline and Narcissistic Disorder); Attachment and Sexuality.
Eric Fertuck
Cognitive neuroscience of social psychopathology.
Benjamin Harris
Child Psychopathology and Treatment, Supervision & Consultation; Community Psychology; ADHD; Adolescent development; Role of colleagues in clinical training.
Elliot Jurist
Mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy; the relation between emotions and agency; addictions; ethics.
Sarah O'Neill
Predictors of symptom severity and adaptive functioning among children and adults with ADHD; how neuropsychological factors interact with environmental factors to affect trajectories of ADHD over time.
Diana Punales Morejon
Clinical experience in the areas of: Multicultural/Latino psychology; Psychology of women; Immigration trauma and acculturation, Severe psychopathology and medical illness.
Margaret Rosario
Identity, particularly sexual and gender identity, their etiology, development, and consequences for mental and physical health and other adaptational outcomes, as well as the moderating and mediating influences of psychosocial exigencies for understanding the relations between identity and outcomes.
Sasha Rudenstine
Manifestation of psychopathology over the life course with a particular focus on urban marginalized populations, psychological repercussions of cumulative trauma, patterns of psychiatric symptomatology, and how to apply a life course framework to clinical interventions.
Steven Tuber
The assessment of representations of self and other, and the affects and defense mechanisms stimulated by such representations in children, adolescents and adults; the links between such assessments and the adaptive use of psychotherapy in clinical populations; the utility of projective methods, most especially the Rorschach Inkblot Method and the Thematic Apperception Test, to studies of psychotherapy outcome.
Paul Wachtel
Integration of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential/emotion-focused approaches to therapy; applications of psychological theory and research to issues of race relations, materialism, inequality, and climate change; vicious/virtuous circles and reciprocal causal processes in personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy; implications of the findings of behavioral economics for understanding of personality dynamics.
Lissa Weinstein
The psychoanalytic process and psychoanalytic technique, specifically the measurement of changes in linguistic structures such as pronoun use, repetition, and metaphor as indicators of modifications in psychological structure during therapy.
 
 
 

 

Associated Faculty

 

 
Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith
Experiences of forced migrants; Impact of torture, human right abuses, armed conflict and displacement; vicarious trauma in service providers; HIV/AIDS risk and preventiative factors among African immigrants; and multicultural issues
Adriana Espinosa
The role of identity, emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and parent-child relations on the health and adaptation of marginalized groups; the role of self-confidence in mathematics performance, and the impact of emotional intelligence on psychological well-being; the precursors of parental behaviors such as child abuse, and history of arrest linked to negative heath and adaptation of minority and immigrant children.
Glen Milstein
Culture and health; Religion and Mental Health; Immigration & Psychological Resillience
Tzachi Slonim

In addition to his work as a psychotherapist, Dr. Slonim is also engaged in scholarly writing. He has written about the clinical applications of neurobiological research, about the ways in which depression and anxiety impact descriptions of emotional events, and more recently about the use of playfulness in group supervision. 
Henry Kronengold

Child and adolescent psychotherapy; psychotherapy integration; developmental psychology; the role of play in therapy and development. 
Susan Bodnar

I maintain a general adolescent and young adult clinical practice utilizing dynamic and behavioral strategies. My research and writing interests examine how larger scale social forces - for example, cultural, environmental and economic processes - intersect with the construction of an individual's psyche. 

 

 

Clinical Program Staff

 

 

Melissa-Myers Morris
Ph.D. Program Administrator
Email: MMayersmorris@med.cuny.edu

Michelle Hernandez
Psychological Center Administrator
Email: thepsychcenter@gmail.com

Rona Tarazi 
Clinical Program Admissions Coordinator
Email: clinicaladmissions@gmail.com