Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D.   
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.
In November 2009, after years of struggling to
reverse American Psychological Association policies
growing out of their complicity in illegal and
inhumane detentions in the “war on terror,” a number
of psychologists concluded that the APA had
demonstrated such profound ethical failures that
they could no longer, in good conscience, remain
affiliated with the organization.

These actions, among others, have led us to take this
step:

  • The composition, deliberations, and process of
    the 2005 APA President’s Task Force on
    Psychological Ethics and National Security
    that constituted a series of violations of  APA's
    own bylaws.

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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
Resigning from the American Psychological
Association
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_Programs.html