Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D.                    www.ghislaineboulanger.com
About My Practice:
Now Available:
Wounded by Reality:
Understanding and Treating Adult Onset
Trauma

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When I was writing my dissertation in the late
seventies, I joined a congressionally mandated team
that had undertaken an epidemiological study of
Vietnam veterans. I was particularly interested in what
had caused the psychological breakdown of so many
veterans on their return home, and I wanted to
understand this Post Vietnam Syndrome, as we then
called it.

My findings were so unexpected that they led to a
career of treating survivors of catstrophes, and to
writing and teaching about the psychodynamic causes
and consequences of adult onset trauma--a topic that
had been largely ignored by American psychoanalysts
until September 11, 2001.

I am also particularly interested in working with people
who are facing cross cultural dilemmas and questions
of so called "assimilation." Whether they have come to
America by choice or whether the decision was made
out of necessity, immigrants find that these issues play
a crucial role in their lives and in the lives of their
children.
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APA's current ethics policy that supports
the use of psychologists in U.S.
government facilities that do not observe
international human rights law. A number
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Titles of Recent Articles:
Selected Translations:
1971 The Life and Work of Wilhelm Reich by
Michel Cattier. The Horizon Press, N.Y.

1971  
The Affair of Gabrielle Russier,
Introduction by Mavis Gallant, Preface by
Raymond Jean  Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y.

1971  
The Fig Tree, a novel by Francoise
Xenakis.  Walker and Company, N.Y.

1970
My Sister Edith Piaf, by Simone Berteaut.
London; Allen

1968  
Negritude and Jewishness in Dominated
Man
by Albert Memmi.  Orion, N.Y.
Teaching Positions:
click here for full bibliography
and links to downloadable files
Class Reading Lists:
DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIES
(click on class name)
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Special Interests:
From Voyeur to Witness:  The
Recovery of Symbolic Function
After Massive Psychic Trauma

Lot's Wife, Cary Grant and the
American Dream:
Psychoanalysis with
Emigrants

Wounded by Reality:  The
Phenomenology and
Treatment of Adult Onset
Trauma (article version)

The Cost of Survival:
Psychoanalysis with Adult
Onset Trauma
I am a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.  Since 1982,
I have worked with adults individually and in couples both intensively and in brief
psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I also treat adolescents and their families. My Ph.D. is from the
Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University (1981), and I have
completed postdoctoral training at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy (1986) and at the
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy(1997).
I am a member of the supervisory and teaching
faculty in the Clinical Psychology Program at
Teachers College, Columbia University , and I have
taught courses on trauma at psychoanalytic
institutes across the country.