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Curriculum Vitae

Geoffrey A. Robinson-Wood, Psy. D.

182 Windmill Road

Campton, NH 03223-4664

(603) 536 - 1902 (o)

(508) 308 - 5745 (cellular)

grobinsonwood@robinsonwoodappliedpsych.com

Education and Certifications

2009     Licensed as Practicing Psychologist in New Hampshire, License # 1187

2006     Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D), Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology Widener University Chester, PA

2003     Certification as Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, specializing in early childhood treatment

2001     M.A. Psychology Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology; Widener University, Chester, PA

2001     Classical Training Psychoanalysis -Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Analyst. Philadelphia, PA

1997     Bachelor of Science –Psychology Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY

Honors and Awards

2003     Dissertation: Assessing the Ego Maturity of a Prelingually Deaf Boy: A Diagnostic Case Study Employing The “World” Sand Tray Test.

1998     The National Dean’s List

1997     Recipient of the Stephen L. Cohen Prize in Psychology.

1997     Cum Laude with Honors in major field (Psychology) Honors Thesis: Assessing the Fantasies of Altruism and Malevolence in ALH Narrative; The

              Theoretical and Clinical Implications of Object Relations Representations.

1997     Hobart Deans’ Citizenship Award.

1997     Durfee Scholar. Scholarship recognition

1997     Deans’ List

1997     Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship

1996     Hale Scholar. Scholarship recognition

1996     The Druid Society of Hobart College. Life Member of the Senior Honorary Society

1996     Dean’s List

1996     Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship

1995     Hobart Scholar. Scholarship recognition

1995     Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship

1994     Hobart Dean Scholar. Scholarship recognition

1994     Deans’ List

Professional Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association 8058-5709
  • Division 39 – Division of Psychoanalysis
  • Division 35: Society for the Psychology of Women
  • Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
  • New York Association for Play Therapy
  • New Hampshire Psychological Association

Specialization, Key Competencies, and Areas of Expertise

  • Alternatives to DSM-IV diagnostic conventions
  • Assessment and psycho-diagnosis of infants, and children.
  • Attachment status and separation-individuation correlations.
  • Early infant play therapy; psychotherapy.
  • Father-daughter attachment. The father wound. The father’s role in the emotional and intellectual development of his daughter.
  • Psychotherapy of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing; American Sign Language fluency.
  • Patient diversity: racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, class, disability, age, religion and sexual orientation.
  • Sandtray apparatus as a psycho-diagnostic tool and adjunct to therapy.
  • Theory and treatment of Schizophrenia. Prodromal diagnostics.
  • Transference and Counter transference as it concerns the intersection between the patient’s and therapist’s racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, ses,
  • religious, and sexual identity.

Professional Experience -Current

Professional Experience –Previous

Training –Internships/Practica

Research

Principal Presentations, Workshops and Invited Addresses

Imagining the Future: The Effects of Gender and SES on the Anticipated Life History Narratives of Young Adults. Poster Presentation. Society for Research in Child Development. April, 1999 Gender, Future Events, and Mental Health: Data form the Anticipated Life History Project. Paper presentation, Society for Research in Adult Development, Boston, MA June, 1997.

Understanding Our Anger, Understanding Our Fear. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2002, December

Sanitized Grief. 20th Century Bereavement. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, February

Championing your personal Genius. A lecture and workshop developed for Philadelphians Concerned About Housing, Philadelphia, PA 19139 2003, March

The Self Without Integrity. The Contemporary Esteem Model. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, April

Your Newborn’s Wellbeing. A Shared Learning. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, May

Punishment, anger and anxiety. Guidance and Love. Reaching out to our Children. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing.

Philadelphia, PA 2003, July

Publications

Wood, G. A. (2003) Assessing the Ego Maturity of a Prelingually Deaf Boy: A Diagnostic Case Study Employing the “World” Sand Tray Test. Widener University;

Institute for Graduate clinical Psychology. (Dissertation Abstracts International 75/05, p 1890)

Segal, H. G., G. Wood, D. & K. Demeis & H. Smith (2003) Future Events, early experience & mental health: Clinical assessment using the Anticipated Life History measure. Assessment, 10 (1), 29-40

Segal, H. G., DeMeis, D. K., Wood, G. A., & Smith, H. L. (2001). Assessing future possible selves by gender and socioeconomic status using the Anticipated Life History measure. Journal of Personality, 69(1), 57- 87.

Unpublished Manuscripts

Segal, H. G., D. K. Demeis, & G. Wood (1998) Anticipated Life History Scoring Manual. Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Wood, G. A., M. Steele, & H. Steele, (1996) Dollhouse Procedure Coding Manual. Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the Anna Freud Centre.

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