Papers & Presentations

I am often invited to speak at professional psychology, psychoanalytic, and analytic psychology meetings.  This listing will give you a sense of my professional interests and preoccupations over the years, and a sense of the things I feel matter most.

Affect, Inter-subjectivity and Transformational Moments in Psychotherapy
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2011)

Assessing Affect in Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Employee Assistance/Psychological Services, NSA (2011)

Celtic Myth and Individuation
Baltimore Jung Working Group (2009)

Numinosity and Psychoanalysis
Washington Psychoanalysis Center Colloquium (2009)

The Dreaming Mind: Unconscious Processes: Inter-subjectivity and Change in Psychotherapy
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2008)

Ethical Vulnerability and Self-Care
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2008)

Psyche and Spirit: psychoanalytic mysticism in Freud, Jung, Bion, and Lacan
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychology and Religion (2008)

The New Face of Psychoanalysis
Maryland Psychological Association, and Loyola University Maryland Departments of Clinical Psychology and Pastoral Counseling (2007)

An Evening with John M. Hayes
Washington Society for Jungian Psychology (2006)

Shame and Transformative Experience in Psychotherapy
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2005)

Have You No Shame?
(with Andrew Morrison, MD) Pro-Bono Counseling Project of Maryland (2005)

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Spirituality
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2003)

Psyche and Spirit: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Spirituality
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2003)

Perversity and Transformation:  Transference and Counter-transference
American Academy of Psychotherapists and Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2002)

Update in Professional Ethics
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2002) (2000)

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Dreams in Psychotherapy
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2001)

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Professional Ethics
Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (2001)

Analytic Vision in Psychotherapy
Employee Assistance Service/Psychological Services NSA/CIA (2000)

When Knowledge Fails
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2000)

Analytic Process and Analytic Space: Openings to the Sacred
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (2000)

Shame and the Shadow
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1998)

The Difference in Jung and the Difference it Makes
Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (1997)

Myth and Healing
University Lecture – Salisbury University (1996)

Character and Character Pathology in Analytic Psychology
Baltimore Psychological Association (1996)

Character Style and Character Pathology: Perspectives from Analytic Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1996)

Archetypes of the Masculine and Feminine: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1995)

The Healing Potential of Madness: Explorations in Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1993)

Jung and the Problem of Evil
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1993)

Jungian Approaches to Marital Therapy
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1992)

Marriage and Individuation
Mid-Hudson Jungian Psychology Association (1991)

Jungian Approaches to Psychotherapy of Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1990)

Transformation and Individuation in Celtic Myth
Baltimore Jung Working Group (1989)

Jungian Analysis of Narcissism: Beyond Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology
Washington DC  Psychological Association (1988)

Body and Soul in Psychology: Contemporary Jungian Approaches
Maryland Psychological Association Foundation (1987)

St. Brendan’s Voyage and the Journey of the Self
Washington Society for Jungian Psychology (1986)

Celtic Consciousness in the Culture of Narcissism
Washington Society for Jungian Psychology (1985)

Developmental Approaches to Understanding Children
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University (1979, 1980)

Ego Identity and Moral Development
Doctoral Dissertation, Catholic University University of America (1977)