Interests
Child and adolescent psychology; culture, biology and psychology; environmental psychology.
Current Research:
Courses Taught:
Child Psychopathology (syllabus): CCPX5034001
Child Development, Ecopsychology, and Climate Change (Syllabus): 59303 - CCPX 4199 - 00
Education
Wesleyan University (BA), New York University (graduate anthropology), City College (Clinical PhD), William Alanson White Institute (certificate in psychoanalysis)
Additional Appointments
Adjunct Faculty City College Clinical PhD proram
Associate editor Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Editorical Board Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Recent Publications
Bodnar, S. et. al. (in press). The Environment as an Object Relationship: A Two-Part Study. Ecopsychology.
Bodnar, S. (2018) Hamilton: The “Activist Client” Is no Longer an Academic Exercise. Psychoanalytic Dialogues (27) 6 p. 694 – 703
Bodnar, S (2018) November 8, 2016: The Day I Became a White Clinician Journal of Clinical Psychology (74)1
Bodnar, S. (2015) Inside Out: Making Stories From Kaleidoscopic Realities Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25 (6), p. 687 -693.
Bodnar, S. (2018) Dialogues of the Heart, Living and Trusting Through Moments of Betrayal. Psychoanalytic Dialogues (5), p. 581-585.
Bodnar, S. (2008) Wasted and Bombed; Clinical Enactments of a changing relationship to the Earth, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18 484-513.
Child Psychopathology:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sErWGcdJDgoyC828nJQBgJldSAoGGQl61-TQXyOIP9A/edit?usp=sharing
Child Wellness and the Natural World:
Spring 2023:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ps4tccnNddjoj0tHSztWvYVIQ40m8hNjtYRn7KYecE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1saSypkGaisspZ6WTa262g_E2gKDduxJ8rrVLaoRVnPI/edit?usp=sharing
I am currently the clinical director for the Stamford Wellness Center, a community based mental health center in a rural farming area of the Catskills.
Susan Bodnar, PhD
7 W.81st Street Tel: 212-721-0637
New York, NY 10024 Susanbodnarphd@gmail.com
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Research Affiliate: Center for Environmental Decision Making, Columbia University, 2008 – 2009.
Program Development and Coordination (1990-2014):
Bodnar, S. (2019, in press). The Loss of Innocence: Confronting Class Differences in the Practice of Psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Bodnar, S. (2018). Dialogues of the Heart: Living and Trusting Through Moments of Betrayal. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28 (5):581-585 ·
Bodnar, S. (2018). November 8, 2016: The Day I Became a White Clinician. Journal of Clinical Psychology 74:5, p. 722-729.
Bodnar, S. (2017) Hamilton: The “Activist Client” Is No Longer an Academic Exercise, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:6, 694-702.
Bodnar, S. (2017) “Horton Hears a Who and I Do To!” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 27:2. p.27-29.
Bodnar, S. (2015) “Inside Out: Making Stories from Kaleidoscopic Realities”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25:6, p. 687-693.
Bodnar, S. (2014). Narratives from the field: Garnering local knowledge in a changing ecological world, Ecopsychology, March 2014.
Bodnar, S. (2011) “It’s Snowing Less”: Narratives of a Transformed Relationship Between Humans and their Environments. In Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis, ed. N.Totton & MJ Rust, Karnac Press:London.
Bodnar, S. (2008) Wasted and Bombed; Clinical Enactments of a Changing Relationship to the Earth, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18, 484-513.
Bodnar, S. (2006) I’m in the Milk and the Milk’s in me: Eros in the Clinical Relationship, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 16, 45-89.
Bodnar, S. (2005) Reflections upon the Roundtable Discussion on Culture, Psychoanalytic Perspectives 2, 15-17.
Bodnar, S. (2004) Review of Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and its Dilemmas in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 9, 360-362.
Bodnar, S. (2004) “Remember where you come from: Dissociative Process in Multicultural Individuals, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 14, 581-603.
Bodnar, S. (1997) Gidget Goes to Sing-Sing: An Interpersonal Therapeutic Approach to HIV-Positive Substance Abusers. In: Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, ed. Mark Blechner, Analytic Press: Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Bodnar, S. (1997) Dances with Men: The Impact of Multiple Losses in My Practice of Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy. In: Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, ed. Mark Blechner, Analytic Press: Hillsdale, New Jersey.
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"I've been an urban psychologist for over twenty years. Born in Pennsylvania, I have traveled internationally, and have lived in New York City most of my life. Ethnographic data inform my clinical practice. I'm the proud mother of a son and a daughter and happily married. We live with cats and a dog. I'm a fan of theater and music. My gardening and time outdoors form a core component of how I view the importance and centrality of psychological work."
Trying to make the ideas of psychology accessible to underserved populations.
Making private practice clinical care accessible to people of all incomes.
Integrating the ideas of psychology with those of environmental science.
Currently the principal investigator of the Development, Environment and Wellness lab.
The DEW Lab is a lab that mentors student projects that focus on the intersection of psychology and ecopsychology. We have published papers on the environment as an object relationship (Bodnar et al) , a relationship to the environment and climate saving actions (O'Neill et al), ACE's and the relationship to the environment and have given numerous presentations to professional organizations.
Susan Bodnar, PI, is currently editing a special issue of the journal Ecopsychology on ecotherapy.
https://dewlab.wixsite.com/dewlab
APA, APA Division 39, International Association of Relational Psychologists and Psychoanalysts, Stephen Mitchell Relational Center, The Stamford Wellness Center