Candidate for
School Director; City of Berkeley

Candidate Biographical Information

Occupation/Employer:
BUSD School Board Director & Psychotherapist

Professional / Working Career:

• 1998 to Date BUSD School Board Director
• 1979 to 2004 Private Practice, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: adult & couple therapy
• 1979 to 1980 Instructor, John F. Kennedy University Graduate School of Psychology
• 1972 to 1979 Co-Founder, Chief Social Worker-Administrator, Berkeley Therapy Institute
• 1972 to 1973 Consultant Faculty, California School of Professional Psychology
• 1971 to 1972 Consultant to Phoenix House Residential Treatment Center, Concord
• 1970 to 1971 Chief Social Worker, Day Treatment Center, Contra Costa County Mental Health Services
• 1966 to 1968 Caseworker, Contra Costa County Department of Social Services

• President, Vice-President, Director Berkeley School Board
• Mayor's Task Force on Health
• Student Attendance Review Board
• City-School "2X2" Committee
• Board Audit Committee
• Citywide Collaborative for Youth
• Bekeley Integrated Resources Steeing Committee (BIRI)
• Berkeley High School Youth Court Advisory Board
• Parent Outreach Committee
• Special Education Task Force
• Director, Alameda County School Board Association
• Berkeley High Development Board
• District Wide BSEP Planning & Oversight Committee
• Chair Berkeley High School "Bathroom Moms"
• Founding Director Beth El Homeless Meal Program
• Oxford, Willard, Longfellow, Berkeley High PTA

• B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
• M.S.W., Smith College for Social Work, 1970
• Graduate, Masterson Institute Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1991
• Masters in Governance, California School Board Association, 2006

Publications:
"The Woman Without a Brain: Dissociative Defenses in the Closet Narcissist," Paper Presented at Masterson Group Annual San Francisco Conference: "Comparing Object Relation Approaches, March 1998."

"Disavowed Narcissism: Fusion and Externalizing Defenses in the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self," "Disorders of the Self-New Therapeutic Horizons," James F. Masterson, M.D. & Ralph Klien, M.D. Brunner/Mazel, 1995.

"The Dance Away Lover, and other roles we play in love and sex, and marriage." Goldstien, Zuckerman (Issel), and Larner. Wm. Morrow & Co., 1977.

Hobbies:
Amateur Mycologist