ABOUT DR. GOODMAN

Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Long Island University. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and New City, New York. Dr. Goodman received a Bachelor of Science degree from M.I.T. in 1983, a Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991. He completed a child clinical psychology internship at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, in 1991, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in developmental research at Columbia University under Larry Aber in 1993, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the research and treatment of borderline personality disorder under Frank Yeomans and Otto Kernberg in 1995. Dr. Goodman was Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College from 1995 to 1998 and was Assistant Unit Chief of the children’s psychiatric inpatient unit. He also holds adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and is an advanced candidate in the child and adult programs at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society. Dr. Goodman is the author of over a dozen articles on the development of psychopathology in high-risk infants, children, and adults. He published his first book, The Internal World and Attachment (The Analytic Press), in December of 2002. On April 27, 2006, Long Island University awarded Dr. Goodman the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement for his book. His next book will be titled, Transforming the Internal World and Attachment (Jason Aronson).