Research, Clinical Work & Scholarship
My career in psychology has spanned research, clinical practice, and teaching. My academic research focused primarily on depression—especially late-life depression—as well as personality disorders and personality development across the lifespan. My research training included fellowships in mental health statistics at NYU and geriatric neuropsychiatry at Columbia University, and my work was supported by federal research and career development awards from the NIMH and NIA. My clinical training and work were shaped by psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, alongside evidence-based treatments and a longstanding interest in how people change.
My research focused extensively on depression in later life, including vascular depression, antidepressant treatment response, cognitive functioning, and neuroimaging. Much of this work examined how biological, cognitive, and clinical factors interact to shape depression and its treatment in older adults.
A second area of my research examined personality and identity development across adulthood. This work included personality disorders, identity and intimacy, and how personality and the sense of self develop and change over the course of adult life.
My research also examined the relationship between cognition and treatment, including executive functioning, cognitive training, and factors associated with treatment response. This work explored how differences in cognitive functioning may influence both psychological health and the effectiveness of treatment.
I completed my clinical psychology internship at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Medical Center and my psychoanalytic training at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Over the course of my clinical career, I worked primarily with personality disorders and related difficulties, drawing on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches as well as contemporary evidence-based treatments. Over more than two decades of clinical practice, my work reflected a longstanding interest in personality, relationships, and the processes through which people change.
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