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

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or to order this book
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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.
In 2006, in reaction to  the American
Psychological Association's collaboration
with the Bush administration's policy of
placing persons deemed to be enemy
combattants in detention places like
Guantanamo Bay and CIA black sites, where
they were held in violation of international
human rights law, I decided to withhold my
membership dues and began a listserv for
like-minded psychologists
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/withholdapa
dues/ .   
On September 15 2008,  the APA
membership voted on a referendum that
proposed withdrawing psychologists from
these illegal sites unless they are working
directly for the persons being detained or for
an independent third party working to
protect human rights.  The referendum
carried by a vote of 58% to 41% ....(
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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:
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Special Interests:
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).
Currently, I am a member of the teaching
faculty at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  I was
previously on the teaching and supervisory
faculty at the Clinical Psychology Program at
Teachers College, Columbia University,
where I taught the Dynamic Psychotherapies
course for over ten years (
link to curriculum
for that course).  In addition, I am invited to
teach in psychoanalytic prorgrams and
institutes both here in the United States and
internationally.  
www.ghislaineboulanger.com
Monitoring the APA
Working in New Orleans
It is my privilege to have been invited to join the
Far Fund Project, a Louisianna based program
exploring Hurricane Katrina's effects on the
therapeutic community in New Orleans.   To read
an account of this project go to:  
http://www.farfundprojectnola.com/Home_Page.
php .  For a copy of my lecture given at their
opening event in February 2009 go to:

http://www.farfundprojectnola.com/Upcoming_Pr
ograms.html