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.
I have withheld my dues from the
American Psychological Association
since January 2007 in protest over
the APA's collaboration with the
United States military in places like
Guantanamo Bay and CIA black sites
where persons are held in violation
of international human rights law.  
This collaboration has been
particularly galling because other
professional organizations such as
the American Psychiatric Association
and the American Medical
Association have condemned these
practices, as have human rights
groups such as Physicians for Human
Responsibility and the International
Committee of the Red Cross.     

However, on September 15 2008,  
the APA membership voted on a
referendum...
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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:
Class Reading Lists:
DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIES
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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).
 I am a member of the teaching faculty in the New
York Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis, and I am invited to teach in
psychoanalytic programs and institutes both in the
United States and internationally.