INTERSECT Alumni and Dissertations
Shaun Halper: The Inheritance: A Qualitative Study of how Psychodynamic Therapists Work with Intergenerational Trauma
Jo Eidman: The Transmission Of Ghosts: Caregiver Representational Risk And Child Object Relations
Ellie Sherwin: Therapist Engagement with Patient Nonverbal Behavior: Exploring These Interactions as a Mechanism of Change In Virtual and In-Person Short-Term Psychotherapy
Rebeca De Costa: Psychological Abuse, Emotional Distress, and Making Meaning Among Victims of IPV
Oded Hadar: Underneath The Symbolic in Psychotherapy: Vocal Rhythm Coordination and Its Relations with the Working Alliance in Short-Term Psychodynamic Treatment
Alex Shapiro: Unraveling Loneliness: Object Relations, Emotional Capacity and Social Contact
Bassem Barada: Mentalized Affectivity and Its Role in Acculturative Adjustment and Wellbeing
Elliot Rayman: Reflective Functioning and Adult Play in Short-Term Psychotherapy: Exploring Their Interaction and Associations with Symptom Change
Leecey Cameron: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Racial Identity Development and Integration in Multiracial Individuals
Kari Gray: The Development of Affect and Defense in Childhood and Adolescence
Alexis Brown: The Psychological Outcomes of Police Brutality and Coping Among Black Adults
Ben Bernstein: Therapist Feelings of Incompetence and Their Relationship to the Working Alliance and Outcome in Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Tamzin Baker: How a diagnosis of breast cancer while pregnant affects the mother’s ability to attach to their child postpartum
Leo Cancelmo: Psychotherapy Process and Negative Countertrasferential Reaction
Sean Donohue: Therapist Self-Disclosure and its Effects on Clinical Treatments
Hannah Dunn: Documenting the Intergenerational Transmission of Object Relations From Caregiver to Child
Annie Egleson: Divorce as a Developmental Process
Helen Feldman: The Dance Between Therapist Engagement of Affect and Working Alliance Over the Course of Short-Term Psychotherapy
Michael Ferrara: Learning to End: Student Therapist Termination at a Psychodynamic Training Clinic
Ani Fredman: The Makings of Creativity: Maps of Maternal Phantasy
Charlotte Gendron: Adult Play and its Relations to the Working Alliance and Psychosocial Dysfunction in Short-Term Psychotherapy
Roberta Goldman: Cultural Humility in Psychotherapy: The Role of Therapist and Patient Ethnoracial Identities and Ethnoracial Match
Kseniia Gvozdieva: The Contribution of Adverse Childhood Experiences to the Interplay Between Insecure Attachment Characteristics, Trait Emotional Intelligence, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, and Personality Organization
Michelle Hernandez
Navjot “Nav” Kaur: What Are We Doing if Not Creating? Examining Creativity and Emotional Intelligence as Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy Outcomes
Anusha Kumar
Eva Leighton: Loneliness, Interpersonal Sensitivity and the Mechanisms Through Which the Dimensions of Trait Emotional Intelligence May Protect Against Clinical Depression
Lian Malki Schubert
Kat McNeal: Growth Mindset and Health
Aura-Maria Morales: The Contribution of Trait Emotional Intelligence to the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Psychiatric Symptoms in Adulthood
Priya Puliyampet
Molly Rappaport: Joint Laughter Between Patient and Therapist: Exploring the Function of These Moments and Their Relationship to the Working Alliance in Short-Term Psychotherapy
Emma Routhier: An Exploration of the Relation Between Psychological Functioning and Reactions to Global Climate Change for Late Adolescents in New York City
Victoria Schilder: Early Adversity, Emotion Regulation, Object Relation Functioning and the Moderating Effect of Gender Identity: A Community Sample Study
Talia Schulder: A Multi-Dimensional Look into COVID-19 and its Reverberating Psychological Consequences
Ariel Westerman: Countertransference and the Patient’s Experience: Exploring How Engagement with Affect is Related to Short-Term Psychotherapy Outcomes
Tecora Williams
Laurel Wright: Affect, Behavior & (Dys)Regulation: Integrating Youth's Projective Tests and Self-Reports