Richard L. Rubens, Ph.D.
Psychologist, P.C.
CURRICULUM
VITAE
OFFICE ADDRESS: 340 West 72 Street, 8A DATE
OF BIRTH: 20 May 1946
New York, NY 10023
EDUCATION:
1977 - 1981 William
Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, New
York, N.Y.;
Certificate in Psychoanalysis.
1973 - 1974 Harvard
University Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Boston, Mass.; Internship in
Clinical Psychology.
1971 - 1976 Teachers
College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
1968 - 1971 Hebrew
Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, N.Y.; B.H.L. in Rabbinic Studies.
1964 - 1968 Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.;
B.A. in History of Art.
ACADEMIC HONORS:
1977 – 1979 Clinic
Fellowship, William Alanson White Institute.
1977 – 1979 Elected
to membership in Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America.
1976 Dissertation
research at Columbia University accepted as Outstanding.
1971 – 1973 National
Institute of Mental Health, Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Columbia
University.
1968 Graduated
magna cum laude from Yale University,
with Departmental Honors with Exceptional Distinction.
1967 & 1968 Twice
won A. Conger Goodyear Award, Yale University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2006 – 2019 International
Team Member, The Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science,
London, UK
1999 - present Supervising
Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, New York, N.Y.
1989 - present Supervisor
of Psychotherapy, William Alanson White Institute, New York, N.Y.
1985 - present Teaching
Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, New York, N.Y.
1976 - present Private
practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
1995 - 2011 Adjunct
Professor, Clinical Psychology Department,
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1997 - 1999 Faculty,
Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Kansas City, MO
1981 - 1998 Faculty
and Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, N.Y.
1984 - 1995 Adjunct
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology Department, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1985 - 1989 Faculty,
Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, N.Y.
1987 - 1988 Visiting
Faculty, Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis, White Plains, N.Y.
1980 - 1983 Supervising
Psychologist, Clinical Psychology Internship Program, Psychiatric Institute,
Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1978 - 1984 Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Department, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1977 - 1978 Consulting
Psychologist, Mid-Bergen Community Mental Health Center, Paramus, N.J.
1977 - 1978 Instructor,
Program in Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1975 - 1977 Chief
Psychologist, Central Bergen Community Mental Health Center, Saddle Brook, N.J.
1974 - 1975 Staff
Psychologist, Central
Bergen Community Mental Health Center, Saddle Brook, N.J.
1969 Community
Organizer, Bronx Council for Welfare Rights, Bronx, N.Y.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Forum for Urban Design: Fellow
Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and
Development: Member
William
Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society:
Member.
American
Psychological Association: Member,
Division 39, Section 1.
Harry
Stack Sullivan Society of the William Alanson White Institute: President, 1980-1981; Secretary, 1979-1980.
LICENSURE: New York.
PUBLICATIONS:
Rubens,
R. L. Polarities of Experience: The Psychology of the Real. New York: Popolano Press, 2017.
Rubens, R. L. Thoughts on psychoanalytic supervision. [unpublished paper] 1998.
Rubens,
R. L. The meaning of structure in Fairbairn. International
Review of Psychoanalysis, 1984, 11 (4), 429-440.
Rubens, R. L. & Lapidus, L.B. Stimulus barrier functioning and
patterns of arousal in schizophrenics and normal controls. In, L. Bellak and L. Goldsmith, The Broad Scope of Ego Function Assessment.
New York: Wiley, 1984.
Rubens, R.L. Donatello
and the Tragic Sense of Life. Dissertation, Yale University. 1968.