We would appreciate it if you could help spread the word to bring this opportunity to the attention of bright, capable individuals interested in such a position.  Please ask interested persons to e-mail their CV and a cover letter to sundar.natarajan@nyumc.org<mailto:sundar.natarajan@nyumc.org> and jennifer.friedberg@nyumc.org<mailto:jennifer.friedberg@nyumc.org>  to set up a time to discuss it in greater detail.  Thank you in advance for your help.

With best regards,
Jennifer Friedberg, Ph.D and Sundar Natarajan, MD, M.Sc.

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Dr. Sternberg’s specific interest in psychoanalysis actually preceded his interest in psychology in general.  His fascination with psychoanalytic theory and therapy began as a young adult as result of his own experience in analysis and relevant readings he had done on the topic.  He pursued a career in psychology with the purpose of ultimately becoming a psychoanalyst.  To this end, Dr. Sternberg began his psychoanalytic training at Adelphi immediately upon graduating from C.W. Post.

Dr. Sternberg’s dissertation focused on the assessment of object relations using the Rorschach. In addition to using certain variables in John Exner’s Comprehensive System, it utilized several scales developed by others including the Ego Impairment Index, developed by William Perry and Donald Viglione; the Concept of the Object Scale, developed by Sidney Blatt; and the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale, developed by Jeffrey Urist. These scales combined variables from the Exner system with their own methods of analyzing Rorschach content to assess the individual’s view of himself, his perception of others and his relations to the people around him.

Along with his clinical work, Dr. Sternberg is active in the field of forensic psychology.  His interest in forensics sprung from a paper he wrote while at C.W. Post on the prediction of violence.  After his post-internship year, he applied for a position at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, a maximum-security forensic hospital which treats the Adangerously mentally ill, formerly referred to as the Acriminally insane.  While working at Kirby, he came to know many fascinating, if sometimes frightening, individuals and often thought that a book exploring their psychodynamics would be interesting.  After years of formulating ideas on the topic, he began putting his thoughts down on paper about a year and a half ago and continues to work on the book in his spare time.

In addition to forensic psychology and individual psychotherapy, Dr. Sternberg is very well versed in marital and couples therapy.  His interest in this area developed as a result of the many calls he received for clients interested in couples therapy.  Although he hadn’t previously thought much about working with couples, he found that he enjoyed the work greatly.  The demand, coupled with his curiosity and desire to be competent in this area, led him to enter Adelphi’s Postdoctoral Program in Marital and Couples Therapy,  an experience he describes as Avery much worth his while.

Dr. Sternberg currently maintains a private practice in Hewlett, New York, conducting psychotherapy with adolescents and adults in individual as well as couples sessions. In his capacity as a forensic psychologist, he conducts evaluations in both criminal and civil cases and has testified in courts throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Congratulations Dr. Sternberg on your many accomplishments!!!

Premier Psychology Services is a busy and dynamic private practice in Mount Kisco, NY, dedicated to providing the highest quality of evidence-based care to local families. PPS strives to bridge the gap between child mental health and school-related struggles through tailored assessments, and in doing so, designs specific and effective intervention plans that involve collaboration between parents, teachers, and cognitive-behavioral clinician. Current research efforts of the practice are aimed at evaluating effective child therapy interventions, particularly in the areas of attention and executive functioning.

To apply, please email copies of current CV, cover letter, three letters of reference, and two samples of completed psychoeducational/neuropsychological assessments to Dr. Stephanie O’Leary at DrStephanieOLeary@gmail.com. Application review will start in late January.
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Premier Psychology Services, LLP
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
(914) 244-9400
Co-Directors Stephanie O’Leary, Psy.D., & Toni Tarnell, Psy.D.

Please distribute this training opportunity. Please contact me with any questions. The link to our training program website and the downloadable brochure (with deadlines, application requirements, etc.) is included at the bottom of this email:

Postdoctoral Residency Program
The postdoctoral residency program at the Pacific Islands Health Care System (PIHCS) and has five postdoctoral residency positions in four emphasis tracks: 1) the National Center for PTSD (NC-PTSD), Pacific Islands Division (PID) (2 positions) with a PTSD focus, 2) Military Sexual Trauma and Women’s Health (1 position), 3) Integrated Care (1 position), and 4) Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery (1 position). The psychology residency program at the Pacific Islands Health Care System and NC-PTSD, PID is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. The next site visit will be during the academic year 2012.
Postdoctoral residents participate yearly in a varied and multidisciplinary training program designed to develop advanced competency in clinical practice and research/program evaluation as well as specialized expertise in their emphasis track and in diverse populations. Mentored training experiences are available in several settings from experienced supervisors who possess wide ranging clinical, teaching, research, and scholarly achievements.
<http://www.psychologytraining.va.gov/honolulu/>http://www.psychologytraining.va.gov/honolulu/

We are currently looking for a L-I Spanish speaking psychologist for the OPD at NCB. ABD is ok; they will receive all necessary supervision. Salary is $62,191 with City benefits. The position has been approved and posted. Please, if you know anyone who fits the criteria, have them email me their cvs ASAP. 

Jill Conklin, Ph.D.   -

Network Director of Psychological Services and Training

North Bronx Healthcare Network

Jacobi Medical Center/North Central Bronx Hospital

Building 1, Room 8E24A

1400 Pelham Parkway South

Bronx, New York  10461

718 918-6748

718 918-7783 (fax)

917 762-1781 (page)

Jill.Conklin@nbhn.net

Dr. Starr thoroughly enjoyed going to school, especially working on her dissertation at Post, which she began working on at the end of her first year.  Dr. Starr was particularly interested in formulations of how people change and felt that the Kabbalistic metaphors of transformation had something to offer psychoanalysis and vice versa.  Her dissertation was an examination of metaphors of transformation in Jewish mysticism (the Kabbalah) and psychoanalysis.  Eventually, Dr. Starr developed Benjamin’s, and later Aron’s, notion of “thirdness” into what she called the “transcendent Third.”  This is the experience in transformation that one is connected with a larger whole, which Freud referred to as the “oceanic feeling.” Instead of interpreting it as a regressive return to infantile longing for union with the mother, as Freud and ego-psychologists did and do, Dr. Starr cast it as an enlivening and self-enlarging experience that could be viewed in terms of Winnicott’s ideas about transitional space, as creative experience.  Dr. Starr later took this chapter from her dissertation and turned it into a paper for publication.  It was published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues as “Faith as the fulcrum of psychic change: Metaphors of transformation in Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis.  Dr. Lewis Aron, internationally recognized teacher and lecturer on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, was on Dr. Starr’s committee, and asked her to turn her dissertation into a book for his Relational Perspectives Book Series.  Her book, called Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis, was published in 2008.   

Following graduation from Post, Dr. Starr started psychoanalytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  Simultaneously, she developed an internship preparation class for the doctoral program at Post and began teaching there. She also taught a clinical writing seminar and the Professional Development Seminar for the 2nd year students who were seeing patients at the clinic.  Dr. Starr did her postdoctoral fellowship to earn her licensing hours at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she conducted short-term (8-session) psychodynamic psychotherapy with doctoral students who came for counseling. When she got her license in 2009, she started a private practice in Manhattan, where she does individual psychotherapy/psychoanalysis, couples therapy, internship consulting, and dissertation consulting.

Dr. Starr is very involved at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  In February of this year, she was awarded the Ruth Stein prize for intellectual achievement and scholarship.  In addition to her private practice, she spends a great deal of time writing and presenting. For the past two years, she has been co-writing a book with Dr. Aron called A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis.  In the book they examine how psychoanalysis has arrived at the marginalized position in which it finds itself today, and envision a psychoanalysis for the 21st century, one that is inclusive of a variety of perspectives and has broad application, including to underserved populations.  They are currently in the final phases of the book and are very much looking forward to the finished product!

Congratulations Dr. Starr on your many accomplishments!!