Research

At BGSP psychoanalytic research is an integral aspect of our graduate programs. Through researching a topic of interest, students develop their ability to carefully observe phenomena with a psychoanalytic focus while developing critical thinking skills. Research topics range from systematic single or multiple case studies to the examination of psychoanalytic aspects of social or cultural phenomena.

Here are a sample of the Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations that have been completed at BGSP:

ISV Doctoral Research

Eliana Caligaris (2005): Prostitutes go home on Good Friday: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography on the Experience of Prostitution in Brazil

Michal Ginach (2004): Are we fighting for our survival? What is behind the Israeli politics of ein breira (no choice)?

Robin Gomolin (2005): The Intergenerational Transmission of Holocaust Trauma: A Systematic Review of a Psychoanalytic Theory

Miriam Riss (2004): Tolerance for Violence: Comparing People’s Responses to Two Recent Acts of Aggression

Doctoral Research

Rodrigo Barahona (2005): The Psychoanalytic Meaning of Notices of Non-compliance in the Psychotherapy of Opiate Addiction

Daniel Gilhooley (2005): Stepping Back: An Empirical Study of Regression in the Analytic Hour

Gohar Homayounpour (2006): The Transferential Nature of Language in the Analytic Situation: Can One be in Analysis in the Wrong Language?

Joan White (2005): Life as Pain: Psychic Restructuring After Catastrophic Trauma

Master’s Theses

Brigitte Zakari (2005) The Role of Resistance in the Development of the Narcissistic Transference

Claudia Melville (2006) Immigration: Its Unconscious Fantasies and Motivations

Daniel De Lima (2004) Clinical Considerations about the Immigrant

Daniella Colodro (2003) Anti-Depressant Medication and Psychoanalysis: A Survey

Elizabeth Truslow (1999) Modern Psychoanalytic Framework and the Treatment of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Gohar Homayounpour (2002) In the Name of Times Past: A Psychoanalytic Textual Analysis of Ancient Persian and Greek Mythologies

Jeff Madonna (2002) Occupational Choice in Light of Father/Son Relationships

Jill Weiss (1997) Attention Deficit Disorder: A Narcissistic Defense?

Karina Balkh (2004) The Dynamic of a Love Affair with a Married Individual

Miriam Riss (1997) Dynamics of Risk Taking: Attitudes, Dispositions and Defenses

Max Cavallaro (2004) Smoking Initiation: A Rite of Passion

Rodrigo Barahona (2000) Resistance in the Evolution of a Group of PreOedipal Patients

Paraskevas Kassinos (2003) Echoes From the Roots of the Psyche: A Study of the Oceanic Feeling in the Dreams of Young Adults

Certificate Research

Robin Gomolin (2003) ABSTRACT