STEVEN POSER

8 Patchin Place #2F                                                             P.O.  Box 122

New York, New York 10011                                               Salt Point, New York 12578      Email: stevenposerphd@gmailcom                                     cell:  845-281-9887                                                                 

Steven Poser, Ph.D. has been practicing psychoanalysis in New York City for more than 25 years. He was a clinical intern at the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center from 1994-6 as psychotherapist on a locked ward of 40 chronically schizophrenic women. He was a faculty member, training analyst, supervisor, and chair of the research committee at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York from 2001 until 2021. Since 2015 he has been a member of the bi-weekly faculty psychotherapy conference of the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital. He is the author of The Misfit (2011), a psychological study of Marilyn Monroe and her treatment relationship with her last psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, and Though This Be Madness (2014), a study of the visionary American artist Forrest Bess. His review essay on the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2016. In 2022 he completed This Is Me, Is That You? a memoir of his work with three chronically psychotic women he came to know in the course of his clinical internship.  Also an accomplished visual artist, he has had numerous exhibitions of  his work and maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley. He is a three-time Gradiva Award winner from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for his work both as an artist and curator.

Education

Certification in Psychoanalysis, 2001, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, NY

Clinical internship, Hudson River Psychiatric Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 1994-6

Ph.D. 1973, M.A. 1970, (Philosophy), University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

B.A., 1967, Honors, Earlham College,  Richmond, Indiana.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program 1978-9

Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan 1972-3

NDEA Fellow, Vanderbilt University 1967-8

Harvard University, summer 1967

Awards

2023  Honorary Membership, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis

2016 Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis                      (NAAP) Best Art Exhibition, “"Psyche, Symbol, and Trauma: The Art of                                                          Lilli Gettinger (1920-1999)"  Co-curator with Patricia Llosa, Center for Modern                Psychoanalytic Studies, March 21 - June 27, 2015

2015 Gradiva Award for Best Art Exhibition, NAAP,  “Id-Ego-Superego: Art from the                 Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center,”  Center for Modern                                                               Psychoanalytic Studies, New York,  March - June, 2014.

1997 Gradiva Award, NAAP,  Twelve paintings.

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, painting, l986-7

Helena Rubinstein Foundation Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art, l978-9

Canada Council for the Arts Fellowship, l970, renewed l971 and l972

NDEA Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, l968-9

Publications

2022  Reissue of The Misfit.  Rosettabooks: New York. electronically published on

Amazon. Account of  Marilyn Monroe’s psychopathology and her treatment relationship with her last psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson.

2019  “Lucia,” Chapter 5 in Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness, eds.                   Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles, Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

2016 “Christopher Bollas on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenia”

                  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 64 - 2.

2016  “Dennis Oppenheim at MOCA, 1973”  in Dennis Oppenheim: Performance Works

                ’69 - ’73. New York: Skira Rizzoli.  Personal memoir of the pioneering

                 conceptual artist.

2014   Though This Be Madness. RosettaBooks; New York.  Kindle Single electronically             published on Amazon.  The first monograph on the life and work of outsider artist                             Forrest Bess.

2012 Die Aussenseiterin:Marilyn hinter der Maske.   Amazon Crossing.  Electronically

         published on German language  Kindle Store, Amazon.de

2011  The Misfit. Rosettabooks:New York. Electronically published on Amazon.

2009a  "The Unconscious Motivation to Become a Murderer in Camus' 'The Stranger'"

                  Journal of the Albert Camus Society.  London: UK

2009b  “CMPS 2009 Annual Fall Scientific Conference, “ The Analyst,  Vol. XVIII, No. 1.

2008  “The Life and Death of  the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art”

              Modern Psychoanalysis,  Vol. 33 No. 1 pp. 128-141.

2007  “The Soul, the Mind and the Psychoanalyst: The Creation of the

                 Psychoanalytic Setting in Patients with Psychotic Aspects,” ( review)

                 Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 No. 1.

2006  “The Life and Death of the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art”

                Art Criticism, Vol.20, No.2.

2005  “The Case Study and Psychoanalytic Education “ co-authored with Nigel Mackay,                               Modern Psychoanalysis,  Spring, 2005.

2002a  “Finding a Shape: The Creation of Psychic Structure in a Psychoanalytic Setting”

                 Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol .27, No.2.

2002b "Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to                             the Treatment of Primitive Mental States" by Judith L. Mitrani (review)

             Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 No. 1.

2000  "The Unconscious Motivation to Become a Murderer in Camus' 'The Stranger'"

                Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol.25, No. 2.

1997  "The Talking Cure," (review) Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 22, No. 2.

1994  "Art and Psychoanalysis," (review) Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol.19, No.1.

1991 "Masters of the Arctic", GRAPHIS, December.

1989a  "Other People's Myths", Art and Artists, Vol. 18, No. 4. 

1989b  "Masterpieces of Latin American Art", Latin American Art.

1985  "The Anti-Aesthetic, Essays on Postmodern Culture," Art and Artists, Vol.14,

               No.4.

1984  "The Fugitive Image", catalogue essay, Association pour un Musée d'Art Moderne,

               Galerie Erich Franck, Geneva, Switzerland.

1983a    "Teleconferencing, Computers, and Art", All Area, No.2.

1983b   "Picturing Things in the Event of Change," Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia.

1980     "Rebecca Horn's 'Der Eintanzer'," Artsmagazine, January.

1979a  "William  Childress, 'The Ghost in the Machine'," program notes, Whitney Museum                      of  American Art, Department of Film and Video, November 1979

1979b   "Structure," Flash Art No.867, Milan Italy.

Public Lectures

“Marilyn on the Couch,”  Grand Rounds, Dept. of Psychiatry, Alta Bates Medical Center,

          Berkeley, California. April 10, 2023

 “This Is Me, Is That You?  My Work with Schizophrenic Patients,“ National

Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York, February 19, 2023

“The Creative Unconscious on the Stage and in the Consulting Room,” Mt. Sinai Hospital,     

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy Conference,  January 19, 2023

“Marilyn on the Couch,”  Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty                           Psychotherapy Conference, November 11, 2022

“The Life and Death of the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art,”

            Department of Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy Conference, Spring, 2022

“This is Me, Is That You?  Prologue to a Memoir,” Department of Psychiatry, Faculty                  Psychotherapy Conference,  Fall, 2022

“Comic Interventions in a Case of Paranoid Schizophrenia,” Mt. Sinai Hospital,                            Department of Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy Conference,  Spring 2021

“Debussy Comes to Harlem: Sonny Rollins and the Art of Jazz Improvisation”, Mt. Sinai             Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy Conference,  Fall 2020

“The President and First Lady of Jazz: The Musical Romance of Lester Young and Billie                         Holiday”,  Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy    Conference,  Fall 2019

“Daddy’s Girl“ case presentation, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty

Psychotherapy Conference, Spring 2019

“Monk’s Mood,”  On the music of Thelonious Monk. Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of              Psychiatry, Faculty Psychotherapy Conference,  Fall 2018

”On the Feeling of Having Already Died,"  Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,            Faculty Psychotherapy Conference, April 13, 2017

"Art and Artist":  A Retrospective"  Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,                        Psychotherapy Conference, February 16, 2017.

"Case Presentation of an Hysterical Psychosis,” Mt. Sinai Hospital, Department of                        Psychiatry, Psychotherapy Conference, May 26, 2016

"Marilyn Monroe, The Misfit" American Institute of Psychoanalysis, New York, March

                 23, 2016

“Marilyn Monroe: The Misfit”, Mt. Sinai Hospital Department of Psychiatry                                 Psychotherapy conference, New York, October 20, 2015.

Panel Discussion on “Madness and Literature”  Teachers College, Columbia University,

          New York, October 20, 2015.

“Transformations of Trauma in Art,” symposium, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic        Studies, New York,  April 17, 2015.

“Art, Sex, and Madness,” Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies,  November, 2014.

“Breakdown/Breakthrough: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown – Christopher Bollas’

             ‘Catch Them Before They Fall’. “   Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies,

               New York,  June 5 and 12, 2013

“The Creative Unconscious on the Stage and in the Consulting Room,”  presentation

         delivered  July 21, 2012 with Sam Schacht,  Art and the Psyche conference NYU

         Kimmel Center, New York.

Interview with Michel Schneider for Radio France, Paris, on Marilyn Monroe and Ralph   

       Greenson, her psychopathology and the unorthodox and tragic treatment relationship

        between them.  February 21, 2012.  Broadcast August 3, 2012 www.franceculture.fr.

Steven Poser, “The Misfit” podcast interview with Tracy Morgan, New Books in

          Psychoanalysis, August 31, 2012.

 “It Ain’t What You Make, It’s What Makes You Do It,”  public lecture and seminar, on

            the work of conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim. Performa 11, Performa Institute,              

           New  York, November 17, 2011.

“Marilyn Monroe and Ralph Greenson: Reflections on a Tragic Alliance,”

              Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York,  October 22, 2010.

 “Recognizing, Understanding, and Treating the Borderline Personality,” workshop,                                 with Dr. Eugene Kalin, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies,  New York,

             June 3-24, 2009

“The Life and Death of the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art,”

              Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center lecture series at Stony Brook

        Southampton,  NY August 19, 2007.

“The Life and Death of the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art,”

             paper delivered at conference on The Fate of Interiority in Modern and     Postmodern Art, Stony Brook University Manhattan campus March 5, 2005

Panel Discussion with Dennis Oppenheim and Eleanor Heartney,

      White Box Gallery, New York NY February 13, 2004

“New Directions in the Psychoanalytic Case Study,” paper delivered at the North

      American Society for Psychotherapy Research, Newport, RI, November 6, 2003.

 "World Creation Myths", Staten Island Society, Archaeological  Institute of America,                  Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, September 27, 1998

"Psyche and Shamanism in Oceania," Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz, NY                                   September 22 and 29, 1995

"Painting and the Unconscious," Drew University, Madison, NJ, September 23, 1993

"Painting and the Unconscious," Mid-Hudson Jung Society, Millbrook, NY, May 8,1993

"Understanding Myth," Woodstock Public Library Forum, Woodstock, NY, May 19, l990

"World Creation Myths," six lectures delivered at the Kleinert Art Center, Woodstock, NY                      February   March l990

"Mythologies of Oceania," lecture series delivered at the Field Museum of Natural History,                      Chicago, Illinois, December 23, l989

"World Creation Myths," lecture series delivered at the American Museum of Natural                               History, New York, NY, October-November, 1988

Exhibitions

“New Work, Paintings 2022-3” Artist’s Studio and Gallery, Salt Point, NY

           May-October 2023

 “Hudson River Landscapes and Abstractions,” Artist’s Studio and Gallery,

 Salt Point,  New York, May - October, 2022

”Inside/Outside”  recent paintings, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY,

              October19 - December 4, 2016

"Hudson River Landscape Abstractions,"  McDaris Fine Art, Hudson, NY August 2015

"Psyche, Symbol, and Trauma: The Art Lilli Gettinger (1920-1999)"  Co-curator with

        Patricia Llosa, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, March 21 - June 27, 2015

Curator, “Id-Ego-Superego: Art from the Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric                      Center,”  Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York,  March - June,    2014.

Curator,  Fall Art Show,  Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York,

              October –December, 2013

“Constructions,” Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY. March – April 2010

Curator, “Dreamwork”  Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies,  New York,

       June- September  2009

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York,  April 17- May 25, 2008

“Presence, “ curated by Ken Feingold,  Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, 16

West 10^th Street   New York, October-December 2007.

Homage to the Victims of 9/11, Cuneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY,                                                  September 2005

White Box Gallery, Benefit Auction, 525 West 26th Street, New York, NY,

            October 12, 2004

White Box Gallery Benefit Auction, James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, New York                    October 28, 2003

“Reflections of the Unconscious,” Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, 16 West

10tStreet New York NY, November - December 2003.

Art Society of Kingston, Senate House, Kingston NY October 2003

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY October - November 2003

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY, September- October 2001

Axel Raben Gallery, New York, NY, March - April 2001

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY, June - July 2000

"TRANS, Ein Uberzeichnungsprojekt," Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany,

         April  May, 1999

"Parallel Universes," curated by Amy Cheng, Eighth Floor Gallery,

         473 Broadway, New York NY, November 1997

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY, November - December 1997

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

        annual "Art on Paper" exhibition,  November 12  January 21, 1996

College Art Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

        September-October 1994

"Matters of the Spirit," Gallery Emanuel, Great Neck, New York, February-March 1994  

"Psychic Landscapes," Northampton College, PA, January 1994

Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York, June-September, 1993

Millbrook Gallery, Millbrook, New York, May l993

Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, New York, October l992

New York Open Center Art Gallery, 83 Spring Street, New York, Apri-lMay, l99l

Teaching

Faculty, Training Analyst, Supervisor, member of the Research Committee,

            Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York 2001- 2021.

            Courses, workshops, and individual tutorials on clinical writing,                 psychoanalytic theory, history, and the single case study.

Guest Faculty, “Critical Perspectives” summer institute, Columbia University,

          Teacher’s College, New York, NY  July – August, 2013.

Studio Teaching

Visiting Artist, Boston University, School of Fine Arts, 1998

Visiting Artist, State University of New York, New Paltz, 1998