I like to do presentations to organizations including professional organizations, schools, businesses, congregations, etc., reflecting my “patchwork quilt” of interests. And I’m a big fan of study groups.
•Serving as Chair of Peer Study Groups for the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, where I initiate and facilitate peer study groups for therapists
•Presenting on “Psychoeconomics” at the “Toward a Global Psychology” conference at ….. (scheduled for April, 2012)
•Presenting on “Parents and Children Reading Together” at the Illinois Reading Council annual conference, March, 2012
•Presenting on “Learning Disability Evaluation: Psychological and Educational Dimensions, American Learning Disability Association, February, 2012 (and scheduled to present for the Chicago North Learning Disability Assn. group in May)
•Presenting a workshop on “Brain, Self, and Group Psychotherapy,” for the Illinois Group Psychotherapy Society, April, 2011.
•Presenting a poster on “A Framework for a Comprehensive Evaluation of Learning and Attention Disorders” at the Midwest Neuropsychology Group annual conference, May, 2011.
•Consulting at Roycemore School, a jr. kindergarten through twelfth grade college preparatory school in Evanston
•Formerly consulting at Cove School, a kindergarten through twelfth grade school for children with learning and attention disorders, in Winnetka and Northbrook, and serving as Director of the Cove Center for Adults.
•Writing columns for the newsletters of the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Illinois Psychological Association, where I am a Council member. My most recent columns include a commentary on the film, “A Dangerous Method,” for the CAPP newsletter, and a column on the importance of advocating for psychotherapy at a time when medication advertising may be most of the information people get about mental health, for the IPA newsletter.
•Writing “Leadership in Health Care and Human Service Organizations,” published by Charles Thomas, now out of print.
•Co-writing (as junior co-author) “Hanging By A Twig: Understanding and Counseling Adults with Learning Disabilities and A.D.D.,” by Carol Wren, with Psychotherapeutic Commentary by Jay Einhorn (Norton).
•Contributing a chapter entitled “Neurocognitive Foundations of the ‘Chasm’ Experience,” to the second edition of Myrna Orenstein’s “Smart But Stuck: How Resilience Frees Imprisoned Intelligence From Learning Disabilities.”
•Directing the “Healthy Families” free weekly mental health clinic in Waukegan, supervising graduate student therapists
•Presenting on “Incorporating Spirituality in Clinical Practice” for the Illinois Psychological Assn. annual conference, 2010
•Presenting on “Psychological Foundations of Self-Transcendence: Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health, for Division 36 of the American Psychological Association (Division of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality), at the annual Division 36 conference, 2009.