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Biography for Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D.
Treasurer
In addition to maintaining a full time private practice in New York City, I am a member of the teaching faculty in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. When I was getting my Ph.D. in the late seventies, I joined a congressionally mandated research team to do an epidemiological study of Vietnam Veterans. I was particularly interested in what had caused the psychological breakdown of so many Vietnam veterans on their return home. And I wanted to understand this Post Vietnam Syndrome, as we then called it. Consistent with my psychodynamic training, I was sure that I would find predisposing factors leading men (there were no women in our study) to break down. I was wrong. I found that at the most intense levels of combat, predisposition played no role in determining who would become dysfunctional. Wondering about these findings set me on a course that led to a career of writing and teaching about the psychodynamic causes and consequences of adult onset trauma — a topic that went largely unrecognized by psychoanalysts until 9/11/2001. With its emphasis on diversity and theoretical innovation, Section V has provided me with a professional home and stimulating panels in which to present some of these ideas. Working with like-minded, enthusiastic colleagues on the board has been consistently rewarding.
Ghislaine_Boulanger@psychoanalysis.net
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