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Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA:
Name: Herbert J. Schlesinger, Ph.D.
Birth date: October 22, 1921
Place of Birth: New York, NY
Citizenship: U.S.
ACADEMIC TRAINING:
1942-Brooklyn College, A.B.
1953-University of Kansas, Ph.D. Thesis title: "Cognitive Attitudes in Relation to Susceptibility to Interference." Sponsor: George S. Klein. Published in: Journal of Personality. 22:354374, 1954.
LICENSURE:
Kansas #42 - 1968
Colorado #225 - 1969
New York #9029-1 – 1986 (02/05/87)
TRAINEESHIPS:
Menninger Foundation School of Clinical Psychology, with Internship at Winter VA Hospital, Topeka State Hospital and Menninger Clinic, 1946-1950. -- Graduated -- 1950
Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis -- Graduated -- 1954
BOARD QUALIFICATION:
1977 Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association
1980 Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology
MILITARY SERVICE:
1942-46 U.S. Army; Service in U.S., France and Germany
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
American Psychoanalytic Association, Life Member
American Psychological Association, Life Fellow
American Psychiatric Association, Honorary Fellow
American Psychopathological Association
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Sigma Xi
FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT SUPPORT (HJS = P.I:)
1976-78 NIMH (278770049) Feasibility Study of Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Medical Expenditures; P.I., $74,000
197982 CBO (79-0118) Use of Mental Health Services by the Employed Non-Poor; P.I., $36,000
197880 NIMH (278780037) Study of the Relationships between Mental Health Care Utilization Through Computer Analysis of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Federal Employees Program Claims Files; P.I., $95,465
1980-81 MacArthur Foundation (Interim Funding) Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Medical Utilization; P.I., $29,450
1976 Fund for Psychoanalytic Research - Effects of Psychotherapy on Medical Expenditures; P.I. $12,000
198184 NIMH (MH-35194) Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Medical Utilization; P.I. $1,143,553
1984-89 NIMH (40479) Psychotherapy and Family Medical Expenditures; P.I. $608,882
1983 CBO (830006); P.I. Continuation of CBO 79-0118 $29,500
1989-91 NIMH (MH-45509) Mental Health Service Utilization by Children and Parents; P.I. $364,127
1990-93 NIMH (MH-46005) Minorities' Use of Mental Health and Medical Services; P.I. $297,740
1991-92 NIH BSRG(2 SO7 RR07235) P.I. Small Instrumentation Grant- $10,000
1992- 94 Fund for Psychoanalytic Research - Narrative and Prosodic Aspects of Patient Speech; P.I. $33,746
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
1995 - Present, Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
1992 - Present, Alfred J. and Monette C. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, and Senior Lecturer, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, New School University.
1988 - Present, Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell University Medical College
1984 – Present, Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research
1969 – 1984, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
1984 – 1992, Alfred J. and Monette C. Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:
2008 - -Present. Psychologist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Center
2001 – Present, Director, Division of Clinical Psychology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia- Center
2001 – 2003, Co-Director, Columbia Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Service, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Center
2005 -- 2007, Clinical Director, Columbia Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Service
1988 – 2005 Full Attending Psychologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Center
1999 – Present, Full Attending Psychologist, Columbia-Presbyterian Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital
HONORS:
Colorado Psychiatric Society, Honorary Member
American Psychiatric Association, Honorary Fellow
National Academies of Practice, Distinguished Practitioner in Psychology
Arthur Marshall Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Menninger Alumni Association, 1975
Sandor Rado Lecturer, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 1993
H. Lee Hall Lecturer, Emory Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1993
Charles Brenner Visiting Professor, Wisconsin Foundation for Psychoanalysis - 1995
George Goldman Award, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 2007
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:
Member, Dorgan Fund Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Member, Special Students Committee, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Member, Research Advisory Committee, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Member, Emily Mumford Memorial Lecture Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1985 – 2007, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research: Problems of Mid-phase Psychoanalysis, Stalemates and Termination. Yearly since 1985, 5-7 students; supervision of 1-3 psychoanalytic candidates and graduate students
2001 – Present, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, supervision of one PGY-3 resident.
1985 – 89 New York Hospital: supervision of psychiatric residents on Consultation-Liaison rotation in medical intensive care
1989 – 96 New York Hospital, Westchester Division: Seminar on the psychotherapy of severely disturbed borderline patients, 5-7 students, and Seminar on psychotherapy for inpatients, 3-5 students
1984 – Present, Department of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, New School University, courses and seminars on theory and practice of psychotherapy, 6-10 students
1984 - 94 Department of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, New School University, Seminar on ethics and professional issues, 12-20 students, dissertation advisor (chairman) for 10 students, currently for 2 students, member of about 20 dissertation examination committees.
OTHER CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Member, Editorial Board, Psychological Issues Monograph Series
PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1941 – 1942, Clinical Psychology Assistant, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York
1942 – 1946, U.S. Army, Service in U.S.A., France and Germany
1946 – 1950, Clinical Psychology Intern, Winter Veterans Hospital, Topeka, Kansas
1947 – 1950, Senior Research Assistant, Research Department, The Menninger Foundation
1948 – 1954, Chairman, Topeka Psychology Forum, Topeka, Kansas
1954 – 1956, Committee on Ethical Standards, American Psychological Association
1950 – 1952, Associate Psychologist, Department of Adult Psychiatry and Research Department, The Menninger Foundation
1952 – 1969, Instructor, Clinical Psychology Training Program
1953 – 1969, Chief Clinical Psychologist, Adult Services of the Menninger Clinic
1954 – 1969, Instructor, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis
1956 – 1969, Instructor, Menninger School of Psychiatry.
1957 – 1961, Executive Assistant, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis
1957 – 1961, Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
1960 – 1961, President, Kansas Psychological Association.
1960 – 1968, Secretary, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis
1961 – 1969, Training and Supervising Analyst, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis
1962 – 1966, SecretaryTreasurer, Topeka Psychoanalytic Society
1963 – 1968, Consultant, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Committee on Therapy
1964 – 1969, Member, Committee on Public Information, American Psychoanalytic Association
1965 – 1967, Vice President, Topeka Psychoanalytic Society
1965 – 1969, Member, Program Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association
1965 – 1968, Member, Study Group on Curriculum, Committee on Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association
1963 – 1966, Member, NIMH, Mental Health Study Section "A", Initial Review Group
1967 – 1969, President, Topeka Psychoanalytic Society
1968 – 1969, Teaching Consultant, Topeka State Hospital
1969 – 1972, Member, Committee on Policies and Problems of Membership, American Psychoanalytic Association
1970 – 1972, Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1972 – 1974, Chairman, Curriculum Committee, Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis
1966 – 1972, Consultant, Study Group on Supervision Committee on Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association
1969 – 1975, Chairman, Study Group on Curriculum, Committee on Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association
1971 – 1975, Member, Editorial Board, Psychiatry Digest
1973 – 1975, Acting Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
1973 – 1975, Acting Superintendent, Colorado Psychiatric Hospital
1973 – 1975, Member, Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Health, Colorado
1973 – 1976, CoChairman, Forensic Committee Division of Mental Health, Department of Institutions and University of Colorado Medical Center
1975 – 1979, CoChairman, Education Committee Division of Mental Health, Department of Institutions and University of Colorado Medical Center
1975 – 1979, CoChairman, Committee on Peer Review, American Psychoanalytic Association
1975 – 1979, Chairman, Process Criteria Task Force, American Psychoanalytic Association
1975 – 1979, Member, Diagnostic Criteria Task Force, American Psychoanalytic Association
1975 – 1980, Consultant, Denver VA Hospital
1976 – 1980, Consultant, Denver Mental Health Center
1980 – 1982, Consultant, WHO Scientific Working Group on Methodological Issues in the Development and Application of Classifications and Diagnostic Concepts
1977 – 1981, Chairman, Committee on Research and Special Training, American Psychoanalytic Association
1977 – 1982, Member, Coordinating Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association
1978 – 1981, Member Exploratory SubCommittee of the Nominating Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association
1978 – 1983, Member, Committee on Scientific Activities, American Psychoanalytic Association
1978 – 1980, Member, Committee on Criteria for Membership, American Psychoanalytic Association
1969 – 1984, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Professor, Graduate School, University of Colorado, Boulder
1969 – 1984, Training and Supervising Analyst, Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, University of Colorado School of Medicine
1978 – 1989, Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Research on the Effects of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis on Emotional and Physical Health, American Psychoanalytic Association
1979 – 1984, Consultant, Boulder Psychiatric Institute
1979 – 1984, Consultant, Fitzsimons Army Hospital
1980 – 1984, Chief, Psychology Service, Denver Veterans Administration Hospital
1981 – 1985, Member, Initial Review Group, Treatment, Diagnosis and Assessment, (TDAA), NIMH
1982 – 1989, Director, Fund for Psychoanalytic Research
1985 -- 1989, Member Research Student Committee, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
1986 – 1991, Councilor - at - large, Executive Council, American Psychoanalytic Association
1988 1989, Member, ADAMHA Advisory Board, Department of Health and Human Services
1989 – 1992, Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1986 1992, Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Psychotherapy
1984 1992, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
1984 1992, Director of Clinical Psychology Training, New School for Social Research
1992 – 1993, Member, Search Committee for Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1971 – 1996, Editor, Psychological Issues Monograph Series
1984 – 2004, Full Attending Psychologist, Cornell University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital.
1986-2008 -- Member, National Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. Behavioral Health
PUBLICATIONS: (ORIGINAL, PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES ASTERISK = SENIOR AUTHOR)
1. Klein, G.S. and Schlesinger, H.J. Where is the Perceiver in Perceptual Theory: Journal of Personality. 18:3247, 1949. Reprinted in Phenomenological Problems A. Kuenzli, (ed.). New York, Harper, pp. 32-47, 1959.
2. Klein, G.S., Schlesinger, H.J., and Meister, D. The Effect of Personal Values on Perception: An Experimental Critique. Psychological Review. 58:96112, 1951.
3. Klein, G.S. and Schlesinger, H.J. Perceptual Attitudes Toward Instability: I. Prediction of Apparent Movement Experiences from Rorschach Responses. Journal of Personality. 19:289302, 1951. Reprinted in A Rorschach Reader, M. Sherman, (ed.) New York. International Universities Press, 1960.
*4. Schlesinger, H.J. Cognitive Attitudes in Relation to Susceptibility to Interference. Journal of Personality. 22:354374, 1954.
*5. Schlesinger, H.J. Who Should Do Psychotherapy, the Viewpoint of a Clinical Psychologist. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, pp. 57-65, 1956.
*6. Schlesinger, H.J. Projective Tests in the Evaluation of the Tranquilizing Drugs. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 22:224231, 1958.
7. Klein, G.S., Gardiner, R.W. and Schlesinger, H.J. Tolerance for Unrealistic Experiences: A Study of the Generality of a Cognitive Control. British Journal of Psychology. 53:4155, 1962.
*8. Schlesinger, H.J. Diagnosis and Prescription for Psychotherapy. Bulletin of the Menninger
Clinic. 33:269278, 1969. Reprinted in Goldstein, A. and Stein, N. (eds.). Prescriptive Psychotherapies. Pergamon, New York, , pp. 6775, 1976, and in Diagnostic Understanding and Treatment Planning: The Elusive Connection, F. Schectman and W. Smith, (eds). John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 355-363, 1984.
*9. Schlesinger, H.J. The Place of Forgetting in Memory Functioning. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 18:358371, 1970
*10. Schlesinger, H.J. Interaction of Dynamic and Reality Factors in the Diagnostic Testing Interview. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 37:495517, 1973. Reprinted in Diagnostic Understanding and Treatment Planning: The Elusive Connection. F. Schectman and W. Smith, (eds). Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 81-106, 1984
*11. Schlesinger, H.J. and Holzman, P.S. The Therapeutic Aspects of the Hospital Milieu: Prescribing an Activities Program. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 34:111, 1970. Reprinted in Diagnostic Understanding and Treatment Planning: The Elusive Connection. F. Schectman and W. Smith, (eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 243-263, 1984
12. Holzman, P.S. and Schlesinger, H.J. On Becoming a Hospitalized Psychiatric Patient. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 36:383406, 1972. Reprinted in Diagnostic Understanding and Treatment Planning: The Elusive Connection, F. Schectman and W. Smith. (eds.) John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 264-274, 1984.
*13. Schlesinger, H.J. Problems in Doing Research on the Therapeutic Process in Psychoanalysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 22:313, 1974. Abstract 21:1, 168181, 1973.
*14. Schlesinger, H.J. The Place of Psychiatrists in Health Care Delivery. Arthur Marshall Award address, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 40:144150, 1976.
*15. Schlesinger, H.J. The Process of Empathic Response, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Volume 1, No. 3, International Universities Press, New York, pp. 393-415, 1981.
16. Mumford, E., Schlesinger, H.J. and Glass, G.V. The Effects of Psychological Intervention on Recovery from Surgery and Heart Attacks: An Analysis of the Literature. American Journal of Public Health, 72:2, pp. 141-151, 1983
*17. Schlesinger, H.J., Mumford, E., Glass, G.V., Patrick, C., Sharfstein, S. Mental Health Treatment and Medical Care Utilization in a Fee-for-Service System: Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Following the Onset of a Chronic Disease, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 422-429, 1983.
18. Mumford, E., Schlesinger, H.J., Glass G.V., Patrick C., and Cuerdon, T. A New Look at Evidence about Reduced Costs of Medical Utilization Following Mental Health Treatment. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 141, No. 10, pp. 11451158, 1984.
*19. Schlesinger, H.J. Research in Dynamic Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Vol. 1, pp. 8384, 1984.
*20. Mumford, E. and Schlesinger, H.J. Economic Discrimination Against Elderly Psychiatric Patients Under Medicare, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 587589, 1985.
21. Mumford, E., Schlesinger, H.J., Cuerdon, T., Scully, J., A. Ratings of VideotapedSimulated Patient Interviews and Four Other Methods of Evaluating a Psychiatry Clerkship. The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 144, Number 3, pp. 316322, 1987.
22. Mumford, E. and Schlesinger, H.J. Assessing Consumer Benefit: Cost Offset as an Incidental Effect of Psychotherapy. General Hospital Psychiatry, Vol. 9, pp. 360363, 1987.