Helen Schucman, Ph.D.
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Curriculum Vitae
Education:
B.A.,
New York University, 1936
M.A.,
New York University, 1952
Ph.D., New
York University, 1957
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1971-1976
Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1963-1971
Chief Psychologist, Neurological Institute, 1963
Instructor,
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia
University,
1962 - 1963
Research
Consultant, Study on prediction of reading, spelling and writing
disabilities in
children,
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1962 - 1968
Research
Consultant, Division of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Medical College,
1961-1968
Chief
Research Psychologist, Child Development Program, College of Physicians
and
Surgeons,
Columbia University, 1959 - 1968
Associate
Research Scientist, Department of Educational Psychology, New
York
University,
1958 - 1959
Research Consultant, Institute for Retarded Children of the Shield of David, 1958 --
Instructor, Department of Educational Psychology, New York University, 1958 - 1959
Associate
Psychologist, Institute for Retarded Children of the Shield of
David,
1957 - 1958
Psychologist
to Professional Advisor for Parents Association, Children with
Retarded
Mental
Development, 1953 - 1957
Professional Societies:
American
Academy of Mental Retardation
American
Association of University Professors
American
Association of Mental Deficiency (Fellow)
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
American
Psychological Association
Eastern
Psychological Association
International
Council of Psychologists (Fellow)
New York
Academy of Science
New York
State Psychological Association
New York
Society for Projective Techniques
Psi Chi
Psychometric
Society
Other:
Who's
Who in the East
Who's
Who of American Women
American
Men of Science
Certified
Psychologist, State of New York
Research Grants:
Principal
Investigator on research grant awarded to New York University
by U.S. Office
of
Education
Measurement of the Educability of Severely Mentally Retarded Children (1958-59)
Co-Principal Investigator on following research grants awarded by Human Ecology Fund:
Investigations
of the Personality Assessment System in Patients with Psychosomatic
Symptoms (1960-61)
Personality
Assessment System and Learning Behavior (1961-62)
Formulation
of a Personality Theory (1961)
Learning
Behavior and Personality Traits (1962-63)
Prediction
of Overt Behavior by Means of the Personality Assessment System (1963-64)
Co-Principal
Investigator on following grant awarded by the Geschicter Foundation:
Prediction
of Overt Behavior by Means of the Personality Assessment
System
(1965
- 1966)
Co-Principal
Investigator on following research contract awarded by Psychological Assessment
Associations:
Brief
Procedures for the Personality Assessment System Evaluation (1967-68)
Publications and Papers:
Schucman,
H. A method for measuring educability in severely mentally retarded
children: Part
I. Training School Bulletin, 1957, 54, 52-54.
Schucman,
H. A method for measuring educability in severely mentally retarded
children: Part
II. Training School Bulletin, 1957, 54, 80-83.
Schucman,
H. A method for measuring educability in severely mentally retarded
children: Part
III. Training School Bulletin, 1958, 55, 2-4.
Schucman,
H. Evaluating the educability of the severely mentally retarded
child.
Psychological
Monographs, 1960, 74 (14, Whole No. 501).
Schucman, H. Research in learning behavior of retarded children, paper presented at the regional meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, October, 1961.
Schucman,
H., Saunders, D. R., & Thetford, W. N. An application of
syndrome analysis.
American
Psychologist, 1962, 17, 359 (ab).
Schucman,
H. Learning responses as predictions of classroom behavior.
American
Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1962, 66, 70 (ref.).
Michaels, J. & Schucman, H. Observations on the psychodynamics of Parents of Retarded Children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1962, 66, 568-573.
Schucman,
H. Overt symptoms and theoretical categories, in Measurement
of
personality
traits resulting from interaction of ability and environment.
New
York: Human Ecology
Fund, 1962, 4-5.
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. The personality assessment system. Human Ecology Fund, 1962. (Preliminary monograph).
Schucman, H. Psychodynamics of parents of retarded children. American Psychologist, 1962, 17, 341 (ab.).
Saunders,
D. R. & Schucman, H. Syndrome analysis, paper presented
at the
Psychonomic
Society, 1962.
Schucman,
H. Differential modifications of behavior in patient groups. In
W. N. Thetford (Chm.),
Multitrait, multilevel personality assessment. American Psychologist,
1963, 18,
411 (ab.).
Schucman, H. An educability index for trainable children. American Psychologist, 1963, 18, 390 (ab.).
Schucman,
H. Further observations on the psychodynamics of parents of
retarded
children.Training
School Bulletin, 1963, 60, 70-74.
Schucman,
H. Personality features and adaptation associated with somatic
reactions to stress. In
W. N. Thetford (Chm.), Human Ecology. American Psychologist,
1964,
19,
485 (ref.).
Schucman, H. Special techniques in testing the trainable child. American Psychologist, 1964, 19, 270 (ab.).
Schucman,
H. Development of an educability index for the trainable child.
Excerpta
Medica, International Congress Series, 1967, No. 153, 33-34.
Thetford,
W. N., Schucman, H., & Farmer, C. Psychological testing
of children with headaches. In
A. P. Friedman & E. Harms (Eds.) Headaches in children.
Springfield:
C. C. Thomas, 1967, Pp. 82-114.
Schucman,
H. & Thetford, W. N. Expressed symptoms and personality
traits in
conversion
hysteria. Psychological
Reports, 1968, 23, 231-243.
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. Personality patterns in migraine and ulcerative colitis patients. Psychological Reports, 1968, 23, 1206.
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. Self-choices, preferences, and personality traits. Psychological Reports, 1969, 25, 659-667.
Hunter,
M. H. & Schucman, H. Early identification and treatment
of the infant retardate
and his
family. Tokyo: Nippon Shoni Iji Shuppan Sha Co.,
1970. Japanese
translation.English
version to follow.
Schucman, H. & Thetford, W. N. A comparison of personality traits in ulcerative colitis and migraine patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1970, 76, (in press).
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. Conversion reactions and personality traits. Psychological Reports, 1970, (in press).
Thetford,
W. N. & Schucman, H. Motivational factors and adaptive behavior.
Chapter
17). In Downey, J. A. & Darling, R. C. (Eds.), The physiologic
basis of rehabilitation
medicine. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1971, (in press).