Requiem for Vietnam: Reflections and Countertransferences of a Psychoanalyst

Training and supervising analyst and former director at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored five books and numerous papers on post-traumatic stress, many as part of a study group including Bonnie Green, Ph.D. and Mary Grace, M.S., M.Ed. The impact of the clinical encounter on the therapist and the usefulness of countertransference in deepening clinical work are central themes to his writings. His book, with John P. Wilson, Trauma, Culture and Metaphor (Routledge, 2013) highlights the role of trauma-specific metaphor in the recovery process. He served as the fourth president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is the recipient of the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in Traumatic Stress and the Edith Sabshin Award for excellence in psychoanalytic teaching. Recently, he has worked at the Cincinnati Veterans Hospital in their outreach program to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.