Eugene Goldwater, M.D., Cert. Psya., Adjunct Faculty, BGSP

Contact information
Eugene Goldwater
9 Forest Edge Road, Amherst, MA 01002
egoldwater@oit.umass.edu

Background
My undergraduate education was at Harvard College (A.B., 1966) and my medical degree (M.D., 1970) is from Columbia University.  I served in the U.S. Army from 1972 to 1974.  I directed three alcoholism rehabilitation programs, the first during my military service and two more after completion of my psychiatric training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (Board Certified, 1977).  I also worked for 17 years in an inner-city community mental health center in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  My psychoanalytic studies started at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York and continued at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, from whose certificate program I graduated in 1987.  (I have actually been teaching at BGSP since 1979.)

My personal life includes a marriage of over 40 years, two children, and many avocational interests.  I am a dancer, musician and singer, and have been the leader of the international folk dance band Panharmonium since 1992.  I also created the large mobile “Mother and Child” that hangs (most of the time) in the front hall of BGSP.

I have taught, lectured and written about a wide variety of subjects, including fantasy and creativity, childhood and maturation, men and women, and sex and violence.  Here is a list of my published papers, with brief descriptions:

Publications
Published Papers
(2010) "Happiness: a Structural Theory", Modern Psychoanalysis, 35:147-163.
(2007) "The Joy of Violence", Modern Psychoanalysis, 32:20-42.
(2004) "Getting Mad and Getting Even", Modern Psychoanalysis, 29:23-36.
(2001) "To Make a Marriage", Modern Psychoanalysis, 26:63-68.
(1998) "What Do Men Fear?", Modern Psychoanalysis, 23:211-224.
(1997) "From Pleasure to Reality, through Fantasy: What do Children Need?", Modern Psychoanalysis, 22:167-173.
(1994) "Impulsivity, Aggression, Fantasy, Space and Time," Modern Psychoanalysis, 19:19-26.
(1990) "Male Sexuality and Male Aggression," Modern Psychoanalysis, 15:225-236.
(1989) "What Do Men Want?", Modern Psychoanalysis, 14:75-87.
(1978) "A Model for Understanding and Treating the Impulsive Patient," Modern Psychoanalysis, 3:173-196.
Unpublished Papers and Presentations
(2010)"Revolution by Fable: Freudianism and Feminism in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
(2008) "Psychoanalysis and Parenting" (transciption)
(2008) "Magic for Grownups: Applications of Emotional and Symbolic Communication".
(2007) "Dealing with Difficult People".
(2007) "Emotional Self-Defense".
(2004) "Getting to No: The Role of the Negative in Liberating Desire".
(2001) "Prejudice, Transference and Sex".
(2000) "Truths and Lies in Teaching and other Relationships".
(1998) "Refugees from the Garden of Eden".
(1998) "The Roots of Creativity".
(1987) "Fantasy and Modern Psychoanalytic Therapy," certificate thesis.