VOL. 11
New Core Faculty Member: Dr. Christina Biedermann , PsyD
Dr. Christina Biedermann, PsyD (She/Her) Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Christina Biedermann, PsyD, ABAP, is an Associate Professor at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at National Louis University as well as a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is also Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and board certified in assessment psychology. Dr. Biedermann attended Davidson College (Davidson, NC) as an undergraduate before pursuing doctoral training at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (now Williams James College, in Boston, MA), interning at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and completing an APA-approved predoctoral internship at the Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She then went on to complete a 4-year advanced postdoctoral training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center (Stockbridge, MA). She is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and serves as a reviewer for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy . She has published and presented at national conferences on working with complex trauma, suicidality, treatment resistance, psychological assessment, and feminist advocacy, as well as lectured at the Yale Child Study Center, the Yale-Riggs Family and Infant Mental Health training program, and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 35 and 39), the Illinois Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, the Society for Personality Assessment, and the International Society for Rorschach and Projective Methods. Her current research interests include: Reproductive Psychology and Justice, Motherhood and Maternal Subjectivity, Gender, Women’s Mental Health Complex Trauma, Severe Psychopathology, Personality Disorders, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalysis. She and her students are currently engaged in several qualitative projects studying various aspect of maternal subjectivity. Dr. Biedermann brings her extensive experience working in clinical, academic, and research settings, her passion for teaching, and her investment in advocacy. We are fortunate to have her joining our program faculty. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Biedermann to our ISPP and NLU communities!
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