ANTHONY D. BRAM, PH.D. Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.A. 515 Horne Street, Suite #210 Topeka, KS 66608 785-354-0727 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Dept. Of Agriculture Clinical Psychology, 1997. GPA 4.0. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Sport Psychology (Phys. Educ. & Exercise Sci.), 1990 GPA 4.0. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Political Science, 1986. GPA 3.5. Cum Laude. AWARDS AND HONORS American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, 2001-2002 Scientific Writing Award, Menninger Alumni Association, 2001 Herbert Robinson Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 1992 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Michigan State University, 1989-1990 Master s Thesis Research Grant, Institute for the Study of Youth Sport, 1989 PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND MEMBERSHIPS Licensed in the State of Kansas, LP-1029 Candidate in the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, 2001-present; Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1998-2001 Stormont-Vail Hospital, Medical Staff Privileges, 2001-present American Psychological Association, 1991-present Society for Personality Assessment, 1993-present American Psychoanalytic Association, Affiliate Member, 2003-present CURRENT POSITIONS Private Practitioner. Topeka, KS, 5/04-present (full-time0. Provide Psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychological testing/diagnostic evaluation, and consultation. Services provided for children, adolescents, and adults. Specialty cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders. 1
Director of Training. Heritage Mental Health Clinic, Topeka, KS, 8/02-present (part-time). Coordinate post-doctoral training in Clinical Psychology and graduate practicum training for Psychology and Social Work students. supervise psychological testing and psychotherapy.. Teach seminars on inference-making, psychodynamic understanding of the Rorschach, and cognitive-behavior therapy. PREVIOUS CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Clinical Psychologist and Founding Partner. Heritage Mental Health Clinic, Topeka, KS, 5/01-4/04. Provided outpatient psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychological testing, and diagnostic evaluations at newly-formed group private practice. Staff Psychologist. The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. 9/99-7/01. Provided individual and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Organizer of and lead clinician in the Anxiety Management Clinic at Menninger Outpatient Center. Also provided child and adult psychological testing in outpatient and inpatient settings. Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology. The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. 9/97-8/99. Two-year APA-approved fellowship for specialty training in psycho diagnostics and psychotherapy. Rotations included hospital doctor/ primary clinician for the Professionals in Crisis/Addiction Recovery program inpatient, residential, and day hospital programs; psychological testing with inpatient and outpatient adults and children; brief and longterm psychotherapy with adults and children (psychodynamic, cognitivebehavior, and EMDR); co-led group therapy for children; and provided supervision to graduate students. Predoctoral Intern in Clinical Psychology. Seacoast Mental Health Center, Portsmouth, NH. 9/96-8/97. APA-approved internship. Provided outpatient mental health services in large community mental health center. Primary responsibilities involved psychotherapy (individual, marital, and group) with adults. Also included psychological testing with children, adolescents, and adults. Diagnostic Consultant. Psychological Educational Associates, Inc., Kansas City, MO. 6/95-5/96. Psychological testing with children and adolescents. Inpatient Mental Health Worker. The Menninger Clinic, Trauma Recovery Program/ Eating Disorder Unit, Topeka, KS> 6/94-8/94. Assisted staff in milieu treatment of inpatients. Participated in psychoeducational groups and team treatment planning. PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Psychologist. Child and Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Ks, 4/00-7/01. Assessed feasibility of study involving follow-up of adult children who had participated in an earlier attachment study with their then-teenage mothers. Also contributed to chart review of a follow-up study of young adults who had previously attended the Menninger Preschool Day Treatment Program. Developed manual for reliably coding CBCL s based on chart data. 2
Principal Investigator. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 7/97-present. Study of links among interpersonal functioning, health, and social cognition/object relations. Supervised graduate student assistant. Co-investigator. The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS, 5/99-8/00. Study contrasting Projective stories (content and narrative structure) told by patients in English and their native language. Research Consultant. The Menninger clinic, Topeka, KS, 5/96-5/01. Study of effects of trauma and dissociation on object relations. Duties include training research team on coding interviews for dimensions of object relations as well as methodological/statistical consultation. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks. Completed 5/96. Research on developmental antecedents of adult object relations and other aspects of psychological functioning. Employed longitudinal interview, self-report, and projective test data. Research Assistant. Edge Educational Publishing, Lawrence, KS, 8/95-6/96. Assisted on NIMH-funded study of social skills training and group dynamics in elementary school classrooms. Primary duties involved observation and coding of student and teacher behavior. Principal Investigator. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 6/93-10/94. Study of impact of various direct and vicarious experiences on perceptions of psychotherapy. Explored such topics as the effects of media portrayals of psychotherapy and perceptions of therapists management of counter transference. Research Assistant. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks, 6/92-1/93. Assisted social psychologist in compiling measures for Study of couples psychological and physical coping with HIV. Research Assistant / Clinical Interviewer. Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 8/90-8/91. Structured interviewing including the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). Subject recruitment, telephone screening, developed coding system for alcohol history charts. Research Assistant. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1/90-6/90. Assisted in study on non-verbal expression of emotion. Contributed to the development of coding system. Master s Thesis. School of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Completed 11/89. Field Experiment investigating effects of traditional and nontraditional statistical feedback on self-efficacy, enjoyment, satisfaction, and persistence of athletes ages 10-12. Supervised six research assistants. Independent Study. College of Education, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI< 6/88-9/88. Reviewed literature and wrote up study involving behavior modification program for curbing smokeless tobacco use among high school baseball players. 3
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE Faculty Instructor. Post-doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology, Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS, 10/00-5/01. Taught advanced courses on psychoanalytic application of the Comprehensive System in Rorschach interpretation. Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 8/91-5/92, 8/92-12/92. Assistant for undergraduate Personality course. Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 8/91-5/92. Assistant for undergraduate psychology of Women course. Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1/93-5/93. Assistant for undergraduate Abnormal Psychology. PUBLICATIONS A.D., & Bjorgvinsson, T. (in press). A psychodynamic clinician s foray into cognitive-behavioral therapy utilizing exposure-response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder. American Journal of Psychotherapy. A.D., & Gabbard, G.O. (2001). Potential space and reflective functioning: Toward conceptual clarification and preliminary clinical implications. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82, 685-699. A.D. (2001). [Review of the book The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together]. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65, 107-109. A.D., Gallant, S.J., & Segrin, C. (1999). A longitudinal investigation of object relation: Child-rearing antecedents, stability in adulthood, and construct validation. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 159-188. A.D. (1997). Perceptions of psychotherapy and psychotherapist: Implications from a study of undergraduates. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 28, 170-178. A.D. (1995). The physically ill or dying psychotherapist: A review of ethical and clinical considerations. Psychotherapy, 32, 568-580. A.D., & Feltz, D.L. (1995). Effects of batting performance feedback on motivational factors and batting performance in youth baseball. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, 1367-1378. Katsavdakis, K., Sayed, M., A., & Bartlett, A. (2001). How was this story told in the mother tongue? An integrative perspective. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65, 246-265. 4
PRESENTATIONS A., & Kaufman, M. (2004, June). Enhancing psychodynamic psychotherapy with cognitive-behavioral work. Presented to the Kansas Medical Education Program, Topeka, KS. A., & Bartlett, A. (2004, May). The use of cognitive-behavioral therapy in Psychodynamic psychotherapy: A case report and discussion. Presented to The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society, Kansas City, MO. A. (2002, May). Cognitive-behavioral therapy in psychoanalytic treatment: A case presentation. Presented to Kenneth Frank, Ph.D., at the Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Philadelphia, PA. A. (2002, May). Cognitive-behavior therapy for children and adolescents: Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety-spectrum and related disorders. 3-hour Continuing Education Workshop presented at Family Service and Guidance Center, Topeka, KS. A. (2001, December). The effect of theoretical perspective on listening: A psychoanalytic case presentation. Presented to Arnold Rothstein, M.D., and Estelle Shane, M.D., at the Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY. A., & Stein, A. (2001, January). An introduction to the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI). Continuing Education presented to the Psychology Discipline at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. A., & Stein, H. (2001, January). Resilience and psychopathology in Children of teenage mothers: A research consultation for a proposed longitudinal study. (presentation to Stuart Hauser, M.D., Ph.D.) Continuing Education at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. A. (2000, February). A psychodynamic Clinician s foray into exposure therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Continuing Education presented to the Staff Seminar on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. Bjorgvinsson, T., A., & Hart, J. (2000, November). Open-ended cognitive- Behavioral group therapy for social phobia. Poster presented at Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA. Bjorgvinsson, T., & A. (2000, June). Keys to effective treatments for Anxiety disorders: Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Continuing Education presented at the Menninger Outpatient Center, Topeka, KS. Katsavdakis, K., Sayed, M., A., Bartlett, A. (2000, February). The use of projective test in the treatment and diagnosis of bilingual and polylingual patients. Continuing Education presented to the Psychology Discipline at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS. Katsavdakis, K., Sayed, M., A., & Bartlett, A. (2000, May). How was this Story told in the mother tongue? An integrative perspective. Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Chicago, IL. 5
Feltz, D., Thornton, D., A., & Albrecht, R. (1989, June). High school baseball players and smokeless tobacco use: The effects of a program to modify use and a profile of players experiences. Poster presented at the Conference of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Kent, OH. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Committee on Student Associates. American Psychoanalytic Association, 1/03- present. Co-chair. Navigating the Royal Road: Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy. Special Event for Students and Trainees, Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 6/04, San Francisco, CA. Co-chair. In the Beginning: Psychodynamic Case Formulation and Treatment Planning. Special Event for Students and Trainees, Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1/04, New York, NY. Co-chair. The View From Here: Multiple Perspectives on a Clinical Hour. Special Event for Students and Trainees, Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 6/03, Boston, MA. Co-chair. In the Eye of the Storm: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy with Seriously Disturbed Patients. Special Event for Students and Trainees, Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1/03, New York, NY. Committee Member. Search committee for the position of Director of Postdoctoral Training. Menninger, 6/00. Colloquium coordinator. Organized lecture series on psychodynamic diagnostics, Treatment planning, and related topics. Lectures presented for University of Kansas Clinical Psychology students by Menninger Clinic staff psychologists. 8/95-6/96. Ad hoc reviewer. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1994. 6