EMPLOYER I.D. #: 521136447 (SCHARFF, M.D., P.A.)
Born: January 8, 1941, St. Louis, Missouri
Married: to Jill Savege Scharff, 5 children
Office Address: 6612 Kennedy Drive
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
CURRENT POSITIONS:
- Co-Director, International Institute of Object Relations Therapy (IIORT) Chair,
Two-Year Program in Object Relations Theory and Practice:Chair,
Satellite Clinical Application Program;
Faculty IIORT programs in Long Island, Manhattan and Chevy Chase - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown Medical School
- Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Teaching Analyst, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute
- Co-Editor, Library of Object Relations
- Consultant in Psychiatry and Family Therapy, Child and Family Services,Washington, D.C., and Jewish Social Services, Rockville, MD
- Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, National Capital Military Psychiatry Residency Program
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Grade School and High School: St. Louis Country Day
School, Graduated, 1958. College: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958-1962,
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, June 1962. Medical School: Harvard, 1962-1966, M.D., 1966. Internship in Medicine: Tufts-New England Medical Center,
Boston, Massachusetts, June 1966-June 1967. Psychiatric Residency: Massachusetts Mental Health Center,
Boston, Massachusetts, July 1967 - June 1969. Fellowship in Child Psychiatry: Beth Israel Hospital
(Harvard), Boston, Massachusetts, July 1969-June 1970. Teaching Fellow: Harvard Medical School, July 1967-June 1970.
(Concurrent with other appointments.) Honorary Senior Registrar: Adolescent Department, Tavistock
Clinic, London, England. July 1972-1973. Adolescent Fellow and Teaching Fellow: Children's Hospital and
George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1973-1974. Training in Child and Adult Psychoanalysis, Washington
Psychoanalytic Institute, 1977-1984.
POSITIONS HELD
1969-present Private Practice, part-time or full-time, in Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, including Psychosexual, Marital, and Family Psychiatry.
1970 - 1972 U.S. Public Health Service Psychiatrist, Rank of "Surgeon", (equivalent of Lieutenant Commander, Navy) Assignment: Faculty of NIMH - Saint Elizabeths Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program:
1970 - 1971 Teaching Child, Community, and Adult Psychiatry.
1971 - 1972 Chairman, First Year Psychiatric Residency and Internship programs.
1972 - 1973 Honorary Senior Registrar, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, in Child, Adolescent, and Community Psychiatry.
1972 - 1973 Staff Member, Center for Applied Social Research, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London. (Principal Investigator, School Leaving Project).
1973 - 1981 Director, Psychotherapy and Sex Therapy Program, Preterm, Washington, D.C. (Psychiatric supervision and teaching, clinical work in Marital and Psychosexual Therapy, Mental Health Education and Administration).
1973 - 1974 Adolescent Fellow, Hillcrest Children's Center/Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C
1973 - 1974 Staff (part-time) Area B Mental Health Center Youth Services.
1974 --1975 Psychiatrist, Hillcrest Children's Center, Washington, D.C. Responsibility for Family and Group Programs, and Psychiatric Supervision of Staff).
1975 -1976 Staff Psychiatrist, Alcohol Grant Program, Area A Mental Health Center, Washington, D.C. (Supervision, teaching, consultation, assessment, and treatment responsibilities).
1975 - 1981 Academic Staff. Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
1977-present Faculty and Teaching Analyst (1990), Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
1981 - 1987 Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Practice, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.
1981-present Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, to Clinical Professor (1990), Georgetown University Medical School
1987 - 1994 Director, Washington School of Psychiatry, Chair, Object Relations Theory and Therapy Program, 1989-1993
1987-present Associate Clinical Professor to Clinical Professor (1990), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.
MEDICAL LICENSES:
Active: District of Columbia, Maryland,
Diplomat: National Board of Medicine, 1967.
Inactive: Massachusetts, Virginia, California
BOARD CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Adult Psychiatry - 1975, Child Psychiatry - 1976
American Psychoanalytic Association: certified in Psycho-analysis - 1986
Certified Sex Therapist, American Association of Sex Educators,Counselors and Therapists, 1979
American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, Certified as Clinical Member 1988
ORGANIZATIONS:
1971 - 1988 (Fellow-77) American Orthopsychiatric Association
1974 - American Psychiatric Association
1975 - Washington Council of Child Psychiatry, Member
1976 - American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors & Therapists. President Elect 1987-1988, President 1988/89. Certified Sex Therapist (1979).
1978 - American Psychoanalytic Association, Affiliate Member (1978) to Member (1986). Member, Committee on the Community & Society 1988 - 1991.
1979 - Washington Psychoanalytic Association, Affiliate Member (1979) to Member (1984)
1981 - 1994 A.K. Rice Institute, Member
1986 - American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, (Fellow)
1986 - International Psycho-Analytic Association, Member
1987 - Society for Sex Therapy and Research
1988 - American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, Clinical Member
1993 - International Association of Group Psychotherapy
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
1989 - 1996 Journal of Sex Education and Therapy
1988-1994 Psychiatry
1989 - Dialogues: Relational Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
1990 - 1992 The Psychodynamic Letter
OFFICES HELD
American Association of Sex Educators Counselors & Therapists
President-Elect 1987-88. President 1988-89.
Washington School of Psychiatry Executive Council 1979 - 83.
AWARDS
1987 Outstanding Achievement Award. From the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. For services provided at the University's Medical School, 1981 - 1987.
1996 International Association of Marriage and Family Counseling Distinguished Presenter
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
1987-1994 As Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry, organized many conferences, workshops and lecture series, including four national conferences and one institute annually as Chair of the Object Relations Theory and Therapy Training Program, featuring prominent object relations theorists from the U.S. and Great Britain.
1994 - 1997 As Director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy’s two-year program in Object Relations Theory and Practice, organized the following international conferences:
July, 1995, “Theory and Practice of Object Relations Therapy,” with Arthur Hyatt Williams October, 1995, “Love and Hate in the Therapeutic Setting,” with Glen Gabbard, M.D.
November, 1995, “Brief Therapeutic Encounters,” with Robin Anderson, M.D.
February, 1996, “Individual and Organizational Development,” with Anton Obholzer, M.D.
May, 1996, “Guntrip and Self Psychology,” with Jeremy Hazell, Ll.B., B.A.P., and Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D.
July, 1996: Infant Observation and Research Contributions to Object Relations Theory and Practice,” with Gianna Williams, Ph.D.; Stephen Suomi, Ph.D. and Mary Sue Moore, Ph.D.
October, 1996, “Visions and Revisions” with Christopher Bollas, Ph.D.
January, 1997, “Current Concepts of Kleinian Theory and Practice,” with Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Ph.D.
February, 1997, “Addiction, Perversion, Trauma,” with Earl Hopper, Ph.D.
April, 1997, “Creativity, Regression and Acting Out,” with Gregorio Kohon, M.D.
October, 1997, “Between Conflict and Fragmentation: Theory and Technique,” with Salman Akhtar, M.D.
January, 1998, “Narcissism and Spirituality,” with Neville Symington
April, 1998, “Therapy with the Severely Disturbed Child and Adult,” with Anne Alvarez
1995 Treating Trauma and Divorce, co-sponsored with the Instituto de Psicologia Clinica y Psicoterapia, Panama City, Panama, January 12-13, 1995.
Traumatic Realities and Object Relations, co-sponsored with the Object Relations Group of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, February 24-25, 1995.
1996 Fairbairn Conference, co-sponsored byPsychoanalytic Dialogues, New York Academy of Medicine and IIORT, New York City, October 4-6, 1996
BOOKS:
- Between Two Worlds: Aspects of the Transition from School to Work, David E. Scharff and J. M. M. Hill, Careers, Consultants Books, London, 1976.
- The Sexual Relationship: An Object Relations View of Sex and the Family. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Boston & London,1982 - (in "The International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process.")
- Object Relations Family Therapy, (with Jill Savege Scharff) Jason Aronson, 1987.
- Issue Editor with L. David Levi: The Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Dimensions: An Unresolved Dilemma. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 8:4:88. The Analytic Press,Hillsdale, New Jersey.
- Object Relations Couple Therapy, (with Jill Savege Scharff), Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ.,1991.
- Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self, Jason Aronson,Northvale, NJ, (1992).
- Scharff Notes: A Primer of Object Relations Therapy, (with Jill Savege Scharff). Jason Aronson,Northvale, NJ, (1992)
- From Instinct to Self: The Collected Papers of W.R.D.Fairbairn. Vols. I & II. (edited with Elinor Fairbairn Birtles).Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ, (1994)
- Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma, (with Jill Savege Scharff). Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ (1994)
- Object Relations Theory and Practice Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ (1995).(Edited, with extensive introduction)
- Object Relations Individual Therapy, with Jill Scharff. Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ (1998).
- Fairbairn Then and Now, edited with Neil Skolnick. Analytic Press (1998).
- Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument: The Affective Learning of Psychotherapy. Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ (2000)
The Psychoanalytic Century: Freud's Legacy for the Future.Other Press, NY (2001)
Theories and Strategies of Family Therapy(with Jill Savege Scharff).Allyn & Bacon (2002)
ARTICLES:
- "Case Report of a Borderline Patient", Psychiatric Opinion, April, 1969.
- "The Transition from School to Work: Group Work in London High Schools", In When Schools Care, Irving Berkovitz, editor. Brunner/Mazel, 1975.
- "Sex Is a Family Affair: Sources of Discord and Harmony", Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. Vol. 11, # 1, Spring, 1976.
- "Expressions of Ambivalence in Sexual Relationships", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. Vol. 11, # 1, Spring, 1976.
- "The Power of Sex to Sustain Marriage", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. Vol. 12, #8, August, 1978, p. 8 - 25.
- "Truth and Consequences in Sex and Marital Therapy: "The Revelation of Secrets in the Therapeutic Context." Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Vol. 4, # 1, Spring 1977.
- "Childhood Origins of Sexual Difficulty", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. Vol. 12, # 9, Sept., 1978, p. 61 - 70.
- Teaching and Learning: An Experiential Conference" (with Jill Savege Scharff) Journal of Personality and Social Systems, Vol. 2, # 1, 1979, p. 53 - 78.
- "L'impossible dilemme" in Choisir de Donner La Vie: Proceedings of the International Colloquium of "Choisir", Oct 5 - 7, 1979 at UNESCO, Paris. Paris, Gallimard. (1979) pp 293 - 300.
- "The Use of a Sex Rap Group in an Adolescent Medical Clinic", David E. Scharff, Thomas Silber, Gordon Tripp, et al. Adolescence. Vol. 15, # 60, Winter, 1980.
- "Between Two Worlds: Emotional Needs of Adolescents Facing the Transition from School to Work', In Responding to Adolescent Needs, editor Max Sugar, S. P. Medical and Scientific Books, New York, 1980.
- Commentary on "Helping Parents with Quarreling Siblings" by H. and J. Rosenstock. Medical Aspects of Human sexuality 17, 1. January 1983. p 104 - 108.
- Book Review of: The Family's Construction of Reality, by David Reiss, Psychiatry, Nov., 1983.
- "Painful Memories", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. 1985. Vol. 18 # 12. Dec. 1984. p 88 - 100.
- "How to Caution Children About Talking to Strangers", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 19:6. June 1985 p 188 - 209. Scharff,D.E., Drake,F.R., Scharff, J.S., Ehemann, L.J.
- "An Object Relations Approach to Inhibited Sexual Desire," in Sexual Desire Disorders, S.R. Lieblum and R.C. Rosen, eds. New York, NY., Guilford (1988)pp 45 -74fi
- "Countertransference as the Interface Between the Intra- psychic and the Interpersonal". Epilogue to "The Intra- psychic and Interpersonal Dimensions: An Unresolved Dilemma. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 8:4:1988 pp 598 - 602
- "An Object Relations Approach to Sexuality in Family Life". In Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy, ed J.S. Scharff, Northvale N.J., Jason Aronson 1989. pp 399 - 417
- "Transference, Countertransference and Technique in Object Relations Family Therapy". In Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy, ed. J.S Scharff, Northvale N.J., Jason Aronson 1989. pp 421-445
- "Family Therapy and Sexual Development: An Object Relations Approach," Intimate Environments, D. Kantor and B. Okun eds., New York, NY., Guilford (1989) pp 1 -27.
- "Transference and Countertransference with Young Children in Family Therapy" in "Children and Family Therapy: Treatment & Training" ed. J.Zilbach, Special issue of Psychotherapy and The Familyï, Vol 5 # 3/4 1989.
- "Sexual Development & Sexual Psychopathology; An Object Relations Point of View". In îThe Handbook of Developmental Psychopathologyï. Michael Lewis & Suzanne M. Miller,editors, New York: Plenum, 1990.
- Book Review of “Fairbairn's Journey to the Interior”by J.D.Sutherland. "Psychiatry", Vol. 53, NO.3, pp 324-326 (1990).
- "Relational Concepts and Their Implications". Book reviewon Stephen Mitchell's Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp 429-38 (1990).
- "The Early Phase of Treatment: An Object Relations Approach". Psychiatric Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 2, (1992).
- "Using Countertransference in Family Therapy" (with Jill Savege Scharff). Family Therapy Networker, September-October, 1991, pp. 73-78.
- "The Object Relations of the Therapist." The Clinical Supervisor, 1992,Vol. 10, No. 2.
- Book Review of “The Relevance of the Family to Psychoanalytic Theory” by Theodore Lidz, M.D. “The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association”, Vol. 44 #1, 1996.
- "Object Relations Couple Therapy," with Jill Savege Scharff. Invited article, American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 51 #2, 1997.
- "Sex and Intimacy,"The Intimate Couple, eds. Carlson, J. and Sperry, L.Brunner/Mazell, 1999.
- "Object Relations Brief Therapy”co-author with Michael Stadter, inBrief Therapy with Individuals and Couples, edited by John Carlson and Len Sperry, Zeig, Tucker &Theisen, Inc., 2000.
- "Fairbairn and the Self as an Organized System: Chaos Theory as a New Paradigm", Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2000.
- "Applying Psychoanalysis to Couple Therapy: The Treatment of a Couple with Sexualized Persecutory Internal Objects Resulting from Trauma", Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Fall 2001.
GROUP RELATIONS TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
- Residential Conferences in group work and organizational behavior. July 6 - 12, 1971 November 12 - 17, Sponsored by the A. K. Rice Institute.
- Residential Group Relations Conference, Leicester, England, April 6 - 19, 1973. Sponsored by Tavistock Institute.
- Group Relations and Organizations. Course at American University taught by Kenn Rogers, Ph.D. Spring, 1972.
MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTATION
- Urban Sisters Coalition Schools, Boston, 1969 - 1970.
- Anacostia Community School Project, Washington, D.C. 1970-72.
- Secondary Schools, Inner London Education Authority, 1972 - 1973.
- McKinley High School, Wash., DC. 1973-74.
- Wilson High School, Wash., DC., 1975-76.
- Columbia Road Pre-School, 1976-79.
- Capitol East Day Care Center, 1979-80.
- Teaching and supervision of Mental Health Consultation, 1970 - 1981.
CONSULTATION AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
- School Consultation Project, 1970 - 72, Anacostia Community School Project, Washington, DC.(Results summarized in paper presented,April,1972, American Orthopsychiatric Association Meetings).
- Research on psychological aspects of "The Transition from School to Work", carried at Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London, under the supervision of J.M.M. Hill, Director, Center for Applied Social Research,Sept. 1972 - July 1973 and in Washington D.C. 1973 - 1974. Published as Between Two Worlds: Aspects of the Transition from School to Work
- Collaboration in pilot project in training student teachers, with Mildred Marshak,Ph.D., Institute of Education, University of London, 1972 - 1973.
- Clinical Research in Sex Therapy and Family Dynamics, 1974 - 1981
- Research project, USUHS, "Risk Factors in Medical Student Development":March, 84-86.Results presented at International Group Psychotherapy Association, Zagreb 1986, and Tavistock Clinic Conference on Training, August, 1987.
- Consultation and Training to Office of the Assistant Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor, Oct. 1985.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1967 - 1970 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry.
1970 - 1972 NIMH - St. Elizabeths Hospital, Training Officer NIMH Psychiatric Residency Program.
1972 - 1973 Tavistock Clinic, London, Honorary Senior Registrar
1973 - 1981 George Washington University, Instructor (1973/4) Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. and Assistant Clinical Professor, 1974 - 1981.
1977 - 1994 Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry,
1981 - Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatryand Family Practice, 1981-87. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, 1987-89. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, 1990.
1981 - Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, to Clinical Professor (1990), Georgetown University School of Medicine.
PART-TIME TEACHING
- 1974-81 George Washington University, Co-Chair, 1st year Psychiatry Course.
- 1975-76 Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital National Medical Center. Head, Group and Family Course.
- 1974-81 Resident supervision and teaching, George Washington University andChildren's Hospital.
- 1975-80 Director, one and two day conferences: "Teaching and Learning, an Experiential Conference". American University; The Mark Twain School, Rockville, Maryland; Honors Program, University of Maryland.
- 1977-6/94 Washington School of Psychiatry. Psychoanalytic Family Therapy Program, Faculty 1977 - ; Advanced Psychotherapy Program Faculty, 1986 - ; Child and Adolescent Program Faculty,1986 -. Clinical Program in Psychotherapy.Practice, 1989 - .
- 1980-87 Consultant, Group Relations Conferences, A.K.Rice Institute. Director, A.K. Rice Group Relations Conference on Governmental Issues (1984 & 85)
- 1981 - Supervision and teaching to residents and child fellows, Georgetown Medical School, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital, George Washington Medical School.
- 1994 - Consultant in Psychiatry and Family Therapy, Child and Family Services, Washington, D. C.
- 1995 - Consultant in Couple Therapy, Jewish Social Services, Rockville, MD.
PRESENTATIONS:
Numerous presentations since 1971. Examples during last 20 years include:
Grand Rounds and Presentations:
Suburban Hospital, Children's Hospital, Georgetown Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Bethesda Naval Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Community Psychiatric Clinic, Arlington Mental Health Center,
Northwest Clinic of the District of Columbia, The American University Counseling Center. The Greater Washington Society of Clinical Social Workers; Lecture on Adolescent Sexuality at the Psychiatric Institute Foundations Program on Adolescence, April1988; University Hospitals, Cleveland (1986); Tavistock Clinic -several times since 1975; Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Oct. 1988; Friends of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, Oct. 1988; Payne Whitney Department of Social Work, May 1989; Bethesda Naval Hospital, Dept. of Psychiatry, 1991; University of Utah Medical School, Nov. 1991.
The Washington School of Psychiatry: 1978 - 1994
Freud; October 1989, Discussant, at the WSP Co-
Yearly presentations on Object Relations Family Therapy at Annual Family Therapy Symposia; other Washington School of Psychiatry meetings, including The Kingdom of Oedipus (1988); Dreaming Sincesponsored Annual Meeting of National Association for Self Psychology, Wash. D.C., Oct. 1988.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING PRESENTATIONS