Susan Bodnar, PhD, adjunct associate professor of counseling and clinical psychology, 麻豆原创, NY
Office Location:
328 HMannOffice Hours:
By appointment, or Fall 2022 Wednesday 3:00 - 5:00 HM 142麻豆原创 Affiliations:
Faculty Expertise:
Scholarly Interests
Interests
Child and adolescent psychology; culture, biology and psychology; environmental psychology.
Current Research:
Courses Taught:
Educational Background
Education
Wesleyan University (BA), New York University (graduate anthropology), City College (Clinical PhD), William Alanson White Institute (certificate in psychoanalysis)
Additional Appointments
Adjunct Faculty City College Clinical PhD proram
Associate editor Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Editorical Board Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Selected Publications
Recent Publications
Bodnar, S. et. al. (in press). The Environment as an Object Relationship: A Two-Part Study. Ecopsychology.
Bodnar, S. (2018) Psychoanalytic Dialogues (27) 6 p. 694 鈥 703
Bodnar, S (2018) Journal of Clinical Psychology (74)1
Bodnar, S. (2015) Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25 (6), p. 687 -693.
Bodnar, S. (2018) . Psychoanalytic Dialogues (5), p. 581-585.
Bodnar, S. (2008) Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18 484-513.
Teaching
Child Psychopathology:
Child Wellness and the Natural World:
Spring 2023:
Service and Work Outside NYC
I am currently the clinical director for the Stamford Wellness Center, a community based mental health center in a rural farming area of the Catskills.
Curriculum Vitae
Susan Bodnar, PhD
7 W.81st Street Tel: 212-721-0637
New York, NY 10024 Susanbodnarphd@gmail.com
Therapy Skills:
- Short and long-term psychodynamic child and adult
- Psychoanalysis
- ADD management
- Parent Coaching
- CBT and DBT for Depression, Anxiety & Mood disorder
- Cultural and Historical Modeling
- Applications of Diversity Theory to Therapeutic Settings
- Temperamental Coordination
- Collaborative Parent-Child Play Therapy
- Directed Active Intervention (modified DBT) for Acting Out Children and Adolescents (including substance abuse)
- Structured Eating Sessions & reconstruction of nutritional habits for eating disordered adolescents.
Teaching:
- Adjunct associate professor of clinical psychology, 麻豆原创- Child Psychopathology
- Adjunct assistant professor of clinical psychology, City College of New York.
- Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis
Supervision:
- Child and Adult Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students at Teachers College,Columbia University
- Integrative Masters Projects at 麻豆原创
- Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalytic Candidates at Stephen Mitchell Relational Center
Editorial:
- Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues
- Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Psychoanalysis
- Reader Ecopsychology
Research Affiliate: Center for Environmental Decision Making, Columbia University, 2008 鈥 2009.
Program Development and Coordination (1990-2014):
- The Cambodian Group Therapy Program at Bronx Center for Community Services
- AIDS Prevention Project at the Onondaga Reservation
- Group Therapy and Education Program for Substance Abusing Persons with AIDS at St.Clare鈥檚 Hospital; Family Intervention Program for Persons with AIDS at Roosevelt Hospital
- Skills Exchange Program for residents of Euclid Hall (Upper West Side SRO)
- Development of Early Childhood, Youth and Community Supported Agriculture Programs at Congregation B鈥檔ai Jeshurun.
:
- Blogger (CNN/InAmerica, NYCPrivateschoolsblog, Ordinaryearth)
- Live media (Huffpostlive: 鈥淚s it time to ask what being white means?鈥 & Garrison Institute/YouTube: 鈥淪ustainability in a Culture of Entitlement鈥).
- Cited in 鈥淲here You Go is not Who You鈥檒l Be鈥 by Frank Bruni; 鈥淏ouncing Back鈥 by Joan Rivers; 鈥淪till Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career鈥 by Sandra Beuchler; & 鈥淗ow Passionate Are You?鈥 by Seventeen Magazine.
Bodnar, S. (2019, in press). The Loss of Innocence: Confronting Class Differences in the Practice of Psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Bodnar, S. (2018). Dialogues of the Heart: Living and Trusting Through Moments of Betrayal. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28 (5):581-585 路
Bodnar, S. (2018). November 8, 2016: The Day I Became a White Clinician. Journal of Clinical Psychology 74:5, p. 722-729.
Bodnar, S. (2017) Hamilton: The 鈥淎ctivist Client鈥 Is No Longer an Academic Exercise, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:6, 694-702.
Bodnar, S. (2017) 鈥淗orton Hears a Who and I Do To!鈥 Psychoanalytic Dialogues 27:2. p.27-29.
Bodnar, S. (2015) 鈥淚nside Out: Making Stories from Kaleidoscopic Realities鈥. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25:6, p. 687-693.
Bodnar, S. (2014). Narratives from the field: Garnering local knowledge in a changing ecological world, Ecopsychology, March 2014.
Bodnar, S. (2011) 鈥淚t鈥檚 Snowing Less鈥: Narratives of a Transformed Relationship Between Humans and their Environments. In Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis, ed. N.Totton & MJ Rust, Karnac Press:London.
Bodnar, S. (2008) Wasted and Bombed; Clinical Enactments of a Changing Relationship to the Earth, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18, 484-513.
Bodnar, S. (2006) I鈥檓 in the Milk and the Milk鈥檚 in me: Eros in the Clinical Relationship, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 16, 45-89.
Bodnar, S. (2005) Reflections upon the Roundtable Discussion on Culture, Psychoanalytic Perspectives 2, 15-17.
Bodnar, S. (2004) Review of Schopenhauer鈥檚 Porcupines: Intimacy and its Dilemmas in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 9, 360-362.
Bodnar, S. (2004) 鈥淩emember where you come from: Dissociative Process in Multicultural Individuals, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 14, 581-603.
Bodnar, S. (1997) Gidget Goes to Sing-Sing: An Interpersonal Therapeutic Approach to HIV-Positive Substance Abusers. In: Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, ed. Mark Blechner, Analytic Press: Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Bodnar, S. (1997) Dances with Men: The Impact of Multiple Losses in My Practice of Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy. In: Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, ed. Mark Blechner, Analytic Press: Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Education:
- PhD Clinical Psychology, The City University of New York
- Graduate Cultural Anthropology, New York University
- B.A. in Anthropology and American Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Additional Training:
- Zero to Three National Training Institute, Washington, DC
- Psychoanalytic Certificate William Alanson White Institute
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Psychology at Roosevelt Hospital
- Intern at Beth Israel Medical Center
Biographical Information
"I've been an urban psychologist for over twenty years. Born in Pennsylvania, I have traveled internationally, and have lived in New York City most of my life. Ethnographic data inform my clinical practice. I'm the proud mother of a son and a daughter and happily married. We live with cats and a dog. I'm a fan of theater and music. My gardening and time outdoors form a core component of how I view the importance and centrality of psychological work."
Current Projects
Trying to make the ideas of psychology accessible to underserved populations.
Making private practice clinical care accessible to people of all incomes.
Integrating the ideas of psychology with those of environmental science.
Currently the principal investigator of the Development, Environment and Wellness lab.
Current Research
The DEW Lab is a lab that mentors student projects that focus on the intersection of psychology and ecopsychology. We have published papers on the environment as an object relationship (Bodnar et al) , a relationship to the environment and climate saving actions (O'Neill et al), ACE's and the relationship to the environment and have given numerous presentations to professional organizations.
Susan Bodnar, PI, is currently editing a special issue of the journal Ecopsychology on ecotherapy.
Active Professional Organizations
APA, APA Division 39, International Association of Relational Psychologists and Psychoanalysts, Stephen Mitchell Relational Center, The Stamford Wellness Center