Pre-Stroke
- Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, New York University (1975)
- Downstate Medical Center State Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Faculty
- Graduate Division, City College of New York, Clinical Supervisor
- Private Practice
Research and Clinical papers in major peer reviewed journals, including The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The Bulletin of the Menninger Institute, Frontiers In Infant Psychiatry
Stroke
Stroke in JFK airport returning from presenting paper at the First International Infant Psychiatry Conference, Portugal (1980).
Lost expressive speech. Cerebral By-Pass Surgery.
Resumed Private Practice, Continued City College Supervision
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Hospital, Faculty
Post Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, student
Art/Rehab
My graphic art is a product of the planned and unplanned elements of my life. I began with shy ink drawings of weeds and wildflowers on a Maine island pre-stroke. Art was prescribed as brain/speech balance therapy. I drew, painted in watercolor and then acrylics. I could feel the difference in my brain.
Parsons School of Design, New York City, drawing and painting
Tacoma Community College, Tacoma WA., life drawing, mono-prints, sculpture
Shows
Great Mother Gallery, 1988, 1992, 1993
Brain Trauma
Retired from Private Practice (2003), then resumed (2009)
Providence Medical Center, Neuro-Rehabilitation Service (2012…)
Art/Rehab
With new celebellar damage I upped the ante and refocused my rehab strategies. I fell in love with the beautiful patterns of my brain’s cerebral arteries and began exploring digital layering of angiogram images with conte self portraits, paintings, and photographs. Limited Edition Prints.
Digital technology, Private lessons
Body/Mind Practices: Nia attained White Belt, Sodakon Karate attained Green Belt, Third Degree Reike, Therapeutic Touch, Satnam Resayan
Shows
National Aphasia Association, “Speaking Out” 2006, 2008, DeForest Gallery, 2006, Renu Gallery, 2010, US Bank, Ashland OR, 2015
Publications
The American Psychologist, Cover and Interview, Stroke Rehabilitation, “A lost Adulthood”, The Persimmon Tree, “Through the Eyes….” with art, “Short Takes: Money”, Journal of Play, “Reshaping a Brain Through Play” interview, Through the Eyes of an Aphasic, limited edition retrospective, Ruth’s World 2012, 2013, 2014, limited edition poetry and photographs.
Memoir
Without Utterance: Tales from the Other Side of Language, with extensive color art, Starseed Publications — available on-line from the publisher or on-line stores Paperback and downloadable digital formats, www.amzon.com
Without Utterance: Tales from the Other Side of Language, Audiobook, narrator, Nora Funaro, at www.audible.com/Free-Trial
Talks
National Aphasia Association, New Jersey Speech and Language Assoc., Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation, NYC, Providence Medical Center, Medford, OR, Jefferson Exchange NPR Talk Radio (Listen Here), Nia Get In podcast (Listen Here), also community and professional groups local and regional
Media
Interviews with art illustration: Journal Of Play, American Psychologist, Mail Tribune Medford, Ashland Tidings
