Carol Ann Munschauer, Ph.D. - Cirriculim Vitae

PROFESSIONAL HONORS:

Member: International Council of Self Psychology (2000) and the Eastern Division of the International Council of Self Psychology (1996- )

Canadian Psychoanalytic Society: Douglas Levin Essay Prize (1986)

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, (Co-participant, 1987)

Executive Counselor of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York (2001- )

Edith Sabshin Teaching Award - American Psychoanalytic Association (2001)

Board Certified, Founding Fellow of the American College of Advanced Practice Psychologists (FACAPP) 2002

MEMBERSHIPS:

Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York (President; 1999- )

American Psychoanalytic Association (Member)

Executive Counselor of the American Psychoanalytic Association for PSUNY

International Psychoanalytical Association (Member)

Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (Member)

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Member)

American Psychological Association

Massachusetts Psychological Association

New York State Psychological Association

Psychological Association of Western New York

National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology

Fellow and Diplomate, American Board of Medical Psychotherapists

POSITIONS HELD:

Psychological Consultant to The Buffalo Seminary (Private Girls’ High School) (2002-present)

Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York: President (1999 to present)

Psychoanalytic Faculty and Supervising Analyst, The National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (1998 to present)

Clinical Associate: Saint Luke Institute, Silver Springs, Maryland (1993 to present)

Psychology Consultant to Diocese of Buffalo (1993 to present). Includes evaluating and teaching seminarians at Christ the King Seminary.

Co-Founded Psychoanalytic Study Group which meets monthly (1993 to present)

Consultant in Psychiatry: Sisters Hospital, Buffalo, New York (1993 to 2004)

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry: State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine (1982 to present); Faculty Council Representative (Alternate) (1993 to 1997)

Advisory Committee: Member, Breast Cancer Resource Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York (1997)

PUBLICATIONS:

Munschauer, C., & Hood, D. (2004). How to Bounce Back When You Think You Can’t: The P.R.I.D.E. Factor—For Adults, Parents, Teachers, and All Those Who Care for Children (or for the Child Within Themselves). Authorhouse.com. (2004).

Munschauer, C. & Fosshage, J. (2004), “Facilitative Analytic Interaction in a Case of Extreme Nihilism and Aversiveness,” Transformations in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology, 20:21-47.

Munschauer, C. (2003). Psychological Impact of Infertility, American Infertility Association, International Patient Organization Publication for World Infertility Month.

Munschauer, C. (2000). Optimal Responsiveness and the Use of Specificity Theory in Clinical Practice (a review of the panel: Bacal, H,; Herzog, B.; Lenoff, L.; Rosenstein, R.; Lester, J.; Munschauer, C.; and Breslin, M.) at the Self Psychology Conference 2000, in Self Psychology News, June, 2001.

Munschauer, C. (1998). Shame: The Dark Shadow of Infertility in Morrison, A. and Lansky, M., editors, New Perspectives on Shame.

Munschauer, C. (1994). A Well-kept Secret: Psychoanalysis in Buffalo. The Round Robin, April 1994.

Munschauer, C. (1993). Shame, The Dark Shadow of Infertility. Resolve Newsletter, April 1993.

Munschauer, C. (1987). The Patient Chase: A Bridge Between the Theories of Kernberg and Kohut. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 7(1), 99-120.

Munschauer, C., & Pearson, P. (1986). Lawyers Have Feelings Too: Or How Professionals Can Learn to Employ Their Own Emotions. The Bulletin of the Bar Association of Erie County, Vol. 26, No. 10.

Munschauer, C., & Cohen, I. (1985). Patterns of Thought Disorder: Overinclusion and Overexclusion in Schizophrenics, Manics, and Other Psychopathological Groups. Psychological Reports, 57, 515-524.

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:

Presentation at the Twenty-seventh Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2004): Plenary Session: Discussion of Case of Renee, Panel 3, from the Perspective of Specificity Theory.

Presentation at the Twenty-seventh Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2004): Introduction and Meet the Authors of How to Bounce Back When You Thing You Can’t: The P.R.I.D.E. Factor—For Adults, Parents, Teachers, and All Those Who Care For Children (or for The Child Within Themselves). Authorhouse.com. (2004).

Poster Session: New York Association of School Psychologists Fall Conference “Taking Control of Change” (2004). Title of Poster: “How to Bounce Back When You Think You Can’t: The P.R.I.D.E. Factor” by Carol A. Munschauer, Ph.D. and Dave Hood.

Presentation at The Twenty Sixth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2003), presenting paper: “On Getting Into the Act: A Values Perspective in Working With ‘Action Symptoms’.”

Presentation on “The Development and Maintenance of the Sense of Self” to students at The Buffalo Seminary (Private Girls’ High School) March 2003

Teach sequence on Self Psychology to Second Year Psychiatry Residents, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine (1997 to present).

Mentor for the Fellowship Program of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2002-

Full Day Workshop for Jesuits New York Province Meeting on “Boundary Consciousness”, September 21, 2002.

Two hour presentation Daughters of Charity Provincial Meeting, Albany, NY, on “Mid-Life Challenges and Inspiration”, July 2002.

Lecture on “Pedophilia and the Crisis in the Church” at St. Joseph’s University Parish, May, 2002 (150 attendees).

Twenty Fifth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2002), Master Class Leader.

Twenty Fourth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2001), paper presented: "Facilitative Analytic Interaction in a case of Extreme Nihilism and Aversiveness." James Fosshage, Ph.D., and Carol Munschauer, Ph.D.

Twenty Third Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (2000), co-led workshop with Doctors Howard Bacal and Bruce Herzog, and also Les Lenoff, M.S.W., on "Optimal Responsiveness."

Two hour workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo Student Counseling Center on Self-Psychology, April 1999, and October, 2000.

Twenty Second Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1999), co-led three workshops and did a clinical case presentation with Drs. Howard Bacal and Bruce Herzog, and also Les Lenoff, M.S.W., on "Optimal Responsiveness."

Twenty Second Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1999), co-led discussion groups on plenary sessions with Drs. Shelly Doctors and Sandra Palef.

Two hour presentation "Introduction to Self Psychology" at the Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York, May 26, 1999.

Twenty Second Annual Conference on the Psychology of Self (1999), presented case material for workshop with Drs. Howard Bacal and Bruce Herzog, and also Les Lenoff, M.S.W., illustrating the theory of "Optimal Responsiveness."

Christ The King Seminary: Full day workshop for Seminarians on "Boundaries" (1998)

Twenty First Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1998), Faculty and Discussant on Howard Bacal's theory of "Optimal Responsiveness."

Twentieth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1997), presented case for Master Class with James Fosshage, Ph.D.

Nineteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1996), Faculty and Co-discussant of Paper by William J. Coburn, Ph.D., "Unconscious Communication and Narcissistic Vulnerability in the Countertransference Experience."

Nineteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self (1996), presented case for Master Class with James Fosshage, Ph.D.

The Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (September 1994): Provided case material for workshop, afternoon discussion: "Are Dreams Still The Royal Road To Psychoanalytic Treatment" with James Fosshage, Ph.D. and Joshua Levy, Ph.D.

Faculty and Moderator of the "1993 Fourth Annual Day in Psychoanalysis: Curative Factors in Psychoanalysis," The Toronto Psychoanalytic Society.

Sixteenth Annual Conference on The Psychology of the Self (1993), Faculty and Co-discussant with Paul Tolpin, M.D. of Paper by Henry Seiden, Ph.D., "The Healing Presence: The Witness as Self-Objective Function."

Sixteenth Annual Conference On The Psychology of the Self (1993) presented case for Master Class with Alan Kindler, M.D.

Seminar for Mental Health Professionals (1992) "Divorce Law: Realistic Expectations in and out of the Courtroom." Boca Raton, Florida.

YWCA Educational Symposium (videotaped for television) on "The Emotional Aspects of Divorce" (1992)

Child Clinical Law Colloquium (1988) Presentation on "Transference and Countertransference in Clinical Practice."

New York State Bar Association, Family Law Section Annual Meeting (1988) Speaker on "The Psychological Causes of Divorce".

Boston Psychoanalytic Institute: Paper presented at the Second Annual Advanced Training Program Graduate Symposium (Spring, 1986).

PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY OF UPSTATE NEW YORK:
Organized and Moderated the following major Annual Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York Conferences in Buffalo:

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