Doctoral dissertations completed under my supervision

Cohen., E.(2024). Madness and the Real: A theoretical exploration of the reproduction of trauma in psychiatric services. Adelphi University.

Folse, K. (2024). An Inquiry into Parent-Child Intersubjectivity and Its Influence on the Conception of Self in the Child with Developmental Differences. Adelphi University.

Kulsa, M.K.C. (2024). The journey of making a life: An in-depth exploration of the intersectionality between psychosis and creativity through narrative inquiry and biography. Adelphi University.

Ozog, V. (2023). “Psychiatry and inequality: A critical inquiry with clinical implications”. Adelphi University.

Wierzbinska, E. (2023). The Voices of Postpartum Psychosis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Women’s Subjective Experiences in the Perinatal Period. Adelphi University.

Vizalkh, B (2023). Intergenerational Narratives: An Exploration of Psychological Sequelae and Identity of First and Second Generation Russian-Speaking Jewish Americans. Adelphi University.

Rahman, M. (2023). Narratives of the Silenced: A Historical Analysis of the Intergenerational Effects of Sexual Trauma within the Bengali Diaspora.Adelphi University,

Essosinam Ward. (2022). An Inquiry into the Role of Social Movements and Patient Activism in Shaping the Field of Mental Health

Jadwiga Cutrone (2022). Lives without papers: An exploration of the psychological impact of undocumented status on self-experience and identity development of undocumented young adults in the U.S.

J. Garrett Tanner (2021). Current Experiences and Historical Arcs of Poverty and Wealth in Therapeutic Transactions: A Qualitative Analysis of SES-Dynamics in a Psychodynamic Training Clinic. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Kelsey Power (2020). An inquiry into expectant and recent mother’s conceptions of motherhood. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Momoko Takanashi-Buerle (2019). An Exploration of the Psychological Impact and Meaningfulness of the Lives of Japanese-American Survivors of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Carolyn Greenblatt (2018). A mixed methods study of minority stress and social support among transgender and genderqueer adults. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Montana Ames Queler. (2017). Psychosis narratives: Voices from the”Other side”.  Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Justina Kaminskaite Dillon (2016). The legacy of trauma in the narratives of Lithuanian women survivors of the 1941 Soviet deportations to Siberia. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Duygu Secil Arac-Orhun (2016). Narrating he experience of chronic psychiatric difficulties: Four life stories. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Erica Geraci (2014). An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the effects of depression on the relationship between couples when one partner suffers from depression. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Meredith Friedson (2014). Subjective darkness: Depression as a loss of connection, narrative, meaning and the capacity for self-representation. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Yas Alahendra (2012). Narratives of mothering across place, time and generation: Immigration and motherhood in two generations of South Asian women in the United States. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Jay Crosby (2012). Stimulation and it’s Discontents: An inquiry into Mentalization, Psychopathology and Culture. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Emily Ogden (2012). Alienation and impingement: An inquiry into masochism. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Shamaila Khan (2011). The dilemma of the postcolonial subject and the notion of identity and being: An examination of the workings of identity in the art of Shazia Sikander. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Nirit Gradwohl Pisano (2010). Integrating the incoherent in a collective narrative: The place of Shoah for the granddaughters of Holocaust survivors. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Elisabeth Schreiber (2009). Returning to Thebes: Birth stories and personal myths of origin. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

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