Former Director, Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology
Ph.D., City University of New York
Description
Dr. Papouchis is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and has been Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical since 1984. After receiving his doctorate from the City University of New York he completed Post-doctoral training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University in 1978. During this time he served on the clinical faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he received training in family therapy and served as Chairman of the Hospital Services Research Advisory Committee and Associate Director of the Adolescent Inpatient Service. He has served as Chair of the Education and Training Committee of Division 39 of APA, and is a member of the postdoctoral faculty of the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the International Society for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and is an occasional reviewer for the journals Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr.Papouchis has published and presented a number of papers related to the treatment of adolescents and maintains a private practice in New York City and in Montclair, New Jersey.Personal Statement:
My major theoretical approach to research and clinical work is the integration of attachment theory and object relational theories incorporating the work in reflective functioning as it is applied to attachment phenomena. I am also engaged in the investigation of the complexity of the therapy process, issues related to supervision and cultural factors that influence the development of the therapeutic alliance as they impact the outcome of psychotherapy. My research team, composed of a small group of doctoral students, discusses research projects focused on mindfulness, reflective functioning and attachment and their relationship to a range of psychological phenomena. I plan to enlarge the subject matter of my research to include the inclusion of Interpersonal Neurobiology into research projects. Together with another faculty member, I lead a bi-weekly research group in the discussion of clinical training in psychotherapy and the impact of cultural biases in conducting psychotherapy.
Publications
Selected Presentations, posters and publications:Mahoney, M. B., Saunders, B. A., Cain, N., Hurvich, M., & Papouchis, N. (2013, May). Priming mortality salience: Supraliminal, subliminal and ‘double-death’ priming techniques. Poster session presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Association Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., USA.
Ackerman, A. & Papouchis, N. (February, 2013) The role of dissociation in the translation of trauma to borderline pathology. Presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. New York, N.Y.
Hundt, S. & Papouchis, N. (2013) Impacts of parent-child bonding on ego identity development of ethnic minority undergraduate students. Presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. New York, N.Y.
Fernandez, A., Samstag, L.W., Papouchis, N. & Mcguire H. (October 2012). The Impact of language on the negotiation of multiple cultural identities. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the National Latino/a Psychological Association, New Brunswick, NJ.
Fernandez, A., Samstag, L.W., Papouchis, N. & Mcguire H. (August 2012). Bilingual Latinos negotiating multiple cultural identities: The impact of language. Poster presented in Division 45 Program (ethnic Minority concerns) at the 120th APA Convention, Orlando, Fla.
Lewis, K. & Papouchis, N. (March 2012) Psychological mindedness and distress in adults with histories of physical and sexual abuse. Poster presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological association. Pittsburg, Pa.
Jamadi, M., Wong, P.S., Mcguire, H. & Papouchis, N. (2011). Does self-construal impact awareness of emotion in others? Paper presented at the International Conference of Indigenous & Cultural Psychology, Bali, Indonesia.
Papouchis, N. (November, 2011). Borrowing some concepts from clinical psychology for the Prosthodontists’s consulting room. Paper presented at the 41st annual session of the American College of Prosthodontists. Scottsdale, AZ.
Regalado, G., Papouchis, N., Duncan, J., & Wong, P.S. (March, 2011). Implicit and explicit identity and attitudes among first-generation and U.S.-born East Asians and Latinos. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA.
Jamadi, M., Mcguire, H., Papouchis, N. & Wong, P.S. (March, 2010). Support for construct validity of self-construal reformulated as a multidimensional construct. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, N.Y.
Jamadi, M., Mcguire, H., Papouchis, N. & Wong, P.S. (2010). Does self- construal impact awareness of emotion in others. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Spinelli, J., Wong, P.S., Papouchis, N., & Ritzler, B. (January, 2010). The relationship between ego defense mechanisms and reflective functioning. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, N.Y.
Mendelsohn, L., Samstag, L., Papouchis, N. & Castro-Blanco, D. (September, 2007). Evaluating alliance ruptures: Assessment of learned skills, trainee characteristics, and clinical experience. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Psychotherapy Research. New York, N.Y.
Klein, B., Nimroody, T & Papouchis, N. (March, 2007). An intergenerational look at child rearing: The impact of mother's level of reflective functioning on child's representation of limit setting. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment. Arlington, Va
Papouchis, N. & Saunders, B. (2014). Psychotherapy research with African American children and adolescents. In (Eds) Conway, F. & Vaughans, K. Psychotherapy and research with children of color. (in preparation)
Papouchis, N. & Saunders, B. (2014). Psychotherapy research with Hispanic children and adolescents. In (Eds) Conway, F. & Vaughans, K. Psychotherapy and research with children of color. (in preparation)
Papouchis, N. (2006). Book review. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice and Training. 43 (2) pp. 244-246.
Papouchis, N. (2000). Book review. Reaching across boundaries of culture and class: widening the scope of psychotherapy. Edited by Perez-Foster. R.M., Moskowitz, M. & Javier, A.R. Journal of psychotherapy integration, 10 (4), 459-464.
Lew, A., Allen, R. & Papouchis, N. (1998). Achievement motivation orientation and fear of success in Asian American students. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54(1), 97-108.
Benveniste, P.S., Papouchis, N., Hurvich M. & Allen, R. (1998). Rorschach assessment of annihilation anxiety and ego functioning. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 15 (3), 536-566.
