Editor Mental Health

Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss,

Psy.D, MA, MHC-LP, CASAC-T

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ACADEMIC WORK

• Bard College, faculty, Bard Prison Initiative (2021) Faculty in Public Health Strand, developing curriculum in psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies, with a focus on the history of psychoanalysis and DSM-5 and PDM-2 diagnostic criteria. Coursework focuses on psychodynamics and the psychosocial contextualization of early British, American, and Central European theory as we prepare incarcerated students for graduate school degrees in social work and mental health counseling.

• Bard College, faculty, Citizen Science (2021-present) Science-based critical thinking intensive.

• Bard College, faculty, First year Seminar, Bard Hugh School Early College (2022-present)

• Bard College, faculty, Language and Thinking (2011- present). Faculty in Bard College’s signature interdisciplinary program for incoming freshmen.

• Bard College, Institute for Writing and Thinking (2013-2017). Faculty associate and consultant for workshops and in-school programs.

• Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities (2013). Curated/produced series on Music in The Holocaust: Jewish Identity, and Cosmopolitanism. Subsequent programs planned on Music, Diaspora Jewry, and the Nationalities Question (music of emigré communities in Shanghai, Brazil and Argentina, and Kerala, India).

CLINICAL WORK

• Karen Horney Clinic/American Institute of Psychoanalysis (2021-present) Fellow in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• Stone Mountain Counseling Center and Grunblatt Psychology Associates (2018-2021).

• Westchester Medical Center/Methadone Treatment Program (2016-2018). As a clinician with an extensive background in the psychodynamics of attachment and the psychotherapeutic alliance, spearheaded psychosocial programming.

I have presented at interdisciplinary conferences in the US and abroad and authored a number of papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals internationally (Barbara Budrich, Oxford, Cambridge, Elsevier) as well as nationally syndicated periodicals (The New York Times, Tikkun Magazine). These include:

• “Personality Disorders, Attachment, and National Trauma: A Psychosociological Approach to Psychodynamic Therapy” in Library of Professional Psychology, Issue 4: The Psychology of Political Behavior

• “Post-Emancipation Jewry and the Betrayal of Bildung.” Politics, Culture and Socialization. The Journal of the International Political Science Association, Volume I, No. 3, (2010): 67-89.

• “The Use and Abuse of Music and Musicians in the Holocaust.” Politics, Groups and the Individual. International Journal of Political Psychology and Political Socialization. Special Issue on Women, Politics and Communication, Volume 9, Numbers 3 and 4 (2000): 61-81.

• “Lessons from Music of the Holocaust,” New York Times, Education Life, January 7, 2000, 5.

• “The Terezin Music Industry,” Prague Post, May 25, 1999, 13.

• Work on Theresienstadt Ghetto referenced in Sheldon G. Levy, “Conformity and Obedience,” Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, ed., Lester R. Kurtz, Oxford: Elsevier, 2000, 2008.

• Forthcoming manuscript, Songs in the Wilderness: Music in the Holocaust and the Betrayal of ‘Bildung’ (Syracuse University Press/Judaic Traditions in Literature, Art and Music).

• TIKKUN. The “Paradise” Ghetto and the Tragedy of Misrecognition: A Cautionary Tale for Our Times (Spring 2019).

• Upcoming article on the psychology of vaccine skepticism, VACCINE (Elsevier Science Direct).

DIRECTOR, THE TEREZIN PUBLISHING PROJECT, New York / Prague (1995-2018).

• Editor/originating publisher, Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community. By Adler, H. G. .(Belinda Cooper, trans.), Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1955, 1962; New York: Cambridge University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Terezin Publishing Project, Spring 2018). The Terezin Publishing Project has also brought out a reprint of The Terezin Requiem (Bor, Josef (Edith Pargeter, trans.), New York: Knopf 1963) and Psychological Life in Terezin (Emil Utitz (Wm. MacEnchroe, trans.), Prague: Terezin Publishing Project: 1999) Komponisten in Theresienstadt (Dusseldorf, ed. Krasa Foun- dation: 1997).

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• 92 St.Y/Untenberg Poetry Center (2018). Panel on H.G. Adler and the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

• Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities (2016) “Translating the Holocaust: H. G. Adler as Writer and Thinker”

• Marlene Myerson JCC/Manhattan JCC.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Finalist, National Jewish Book Award (editor/originating publisher) for Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community (2018).

• Nominee, National Book Award (editor/originating publisher), for Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community, in new category of works-in-translation (2018).

• Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley (“Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity, and Cosmopolitanism,” Bard College, 2013)

• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (for Songs in the Wilderness: Music in the Holocaust and the Betrayal of ‘Bildung.’)

• Internaciones (for H.G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941-1942: The Face of a Coerced Community) • Low Wood Foundation (for H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community)

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

• International Society of Political Psychology (1997-present)

• International Psychohistorical Association (1997)-present

EDUCATION

• Mentalization-Based Treatment, Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute, McClean Hospital/Harvard University/Anna Freud Centre, London, and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Gunderson PDI at McClean Hospital/Harvard University/Columbia University, NY. Currently completing Supervisor-level certification through GPDI.

• Advanced Graduate Certificate, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Karen Horney Clinic, American Institute of Psychoanalysis, NY

• Advanced Graduate Certificate, Mental Health Counseling, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY (2018).

• Certification in Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling, State University of New York, Ulster, NY (2014).

• Certification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Training and Research Institute for Relational Self-Psychology (KOHUT INSTITUTE/TRISP), NY (2009).

• Psy.D, Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Critical Theory, The Wright Institute/Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, CA (2012).

• MA/MS, Sociology and Historical Studies, Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, NY (2003).

• BA, The New School for Social Research, NY (2000).

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