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Biography for David Downing, Psy.D.
Member-at-Large
David L Downing, Psy.D., is a graduate of Wright State University School of Professional Psychology in Dayton, Ohio. He received his certificate in psychoanalysis from the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago. He is the Past-President and current Treasurer of the Chicago Open Chapter for the Study of Psychoanalysis, a local chapter of the APA's Division 39 (Psychoanalysis). He was a founder, and is Charter and current Treasurer of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. He is the President of Section IV, Local Chapters, of Division of Psychoanalysis (39), of the American Psychological Association, and Co-Chairperson of the Division's Education and Training Committee. He is presently Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and Associate Professor at the University of Indianapolis, School of Psychological Sciences. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has written and presented on psychoanalytical perspectives on the arts and humanities; the psychoanalytical treatment of severe psychopathology; psychoanalytical object-relations theory and psychotherapy; and psychoanalytical perspectives on organisational, professional, and social dynamics, amongst other things. He is especially interested in current trends toward industrialisation, commodification, and corporatisation in the health care matrix, and the impact upon psychotherapy, in general, and psychoanalysis, in particular. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, and consultation/supervision in Chicago and Indianapolis.
ddowning@uindy.edu
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