Curriculum Vitae

Professional Licensure:

• Psychology , New York and Idaho

 Professional Experience:

Education

• 2015
  Level I Certificate in  Internal Family Systems-White Plains, NY 
  The Center for Self- Leadership
  Oak Park, Illinois

• 1994-2013
  Level I,II and III Certificates in EMDR
  - The Open Center, New York, New York
  - Omega, Rhinebeck, New York
  EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association)
  Austin, Texas

• 2007
  Advanced Specialization in Couples and Family Therapy,
  NYU Postdoctoral  Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
  New York, New York

• 1998
  Certificate in Psychoanalysis
  Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
  New York, New York

• 1988
  Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
  Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy
  New York New York

• 1985
  Doctorate in   Psychology,  University of Northern Colorado
  Greeley, Colorado

• 1978
  Masters in Psychology
  (Applied Behavior Analysis)
  University of the Pacific
  Stockton, California

• 1974
  Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
  West Virginia University
  Morgantown, West Virginia

Teaching

Supervision

Honors & Fellowships

• Undergraduate Psychology Scholarship, Bethany College
  Bethany, WV 1970

• Psi Chi National Psychology Honorary, West Virginia University
  Morgantown, WV 1972

• Academic Fellowship Award, University of the Pacific
  Stockton, California 1975

• Academic Fellowship Award, University of Northern Colorado
  Greeley, Colorado 1982-83

Selected Presentations

• Hunter, P. (2023). Considering The Context: Straightjacket Or Holding Environment (Therapist Tendencies Toward Hoarding Power Duringtreatment). Presented at the SEPI (Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration)  XXXIX ANNUAL MEETING. Vancouver, British Columbia, May 11-13.

• Hunter, P. (2023).  The Contemporary Relational Movement : From One Person Subjectivity To Two Person Context. Presented at the SEPI (Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration)  XXXIX ANNUAL MEETING. Vancouver, British Columbia, May 11-13.

• Hunter, P. (2021). Preoedipal Politics. Presented at the  Psychology of the Other (Virtual)  Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

• Hunter, P. (2021). The Complexity Beyond the Wall.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division 39 meeting Virtual Conference, August, 2021.

• Hunter, P. (2021). Revulsion and Fear and Curiosity,: Working with Abusive Alters. Presented at the ISSTD virtual conference, April 2021.

• Hunter, P. (2018). "EMDR: An Integrative Psychotherapy Process." Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) Conference, New York, New York, May31-June 2.
  

• Hunter, P. (2017). "Psychoanalysis and Trauma: Room for Improvement." Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 18-21.

• Hunter, P. (2016). "Magical Free Association: EMDR, Psychoanalysis and Trauma." Presented at the Second Annual Washington Conference on 'Listening to Trauma: Insights and Actions,' Washington.D.C,, October 20-22, 2016.

• Hunter, P. (June 2015). Relational Psychoanalysis to the Rescue: My Work in a Trauma Treatment Clinic.  Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

• Hunter, P.  (May 2015).  Magical Free Association: EMDR  , Psychoanalysis and Trauma. Presented at the Saturday Seminar meeting of the National Institute for Psychotherapies Trauma Treatment Clinic, New York, New York.

Selected Publications

• Hunter, P (Summer,2004) Review of RM Billow’s Relational group psychotherapy: From basic assumptions to passion, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, Volume XX!V, Number 3, p. 63.

• Hunter, P. (Summer 2004). Transforming trauma into something better: my work with female ex-offenders.  Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, XXIV (3)p.53.

• Hunter, P.(Spring 2003). Trauma, transformation and remembering: A short story. The Participant Observer: The Newsletter of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. 3, p.1-3.

• Hunter,P., Hirst,B, Klamka,K., Masters,C., &  McCorkle,B. & Nowell, M.(1992). Teens and abuse: what you don’t know can hurt you.  Booklet made possible by a grant from the Pepsi Cola Company. 
  

• Hunter, P. (2017). "Psychoanalysis and Trauma: Room for Improvement." Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 18-21.

• Masters, C.,Hunter,P., McCorkle,B & Henderson,G. (1992). You don’t have to be afraid: children talk with children about abuse.  Booklet made possible by a grant from the Pepsi Cola Company.

• Ellis, A & Hunter, P. (1991). Why am I always broke: How to be sane about money.  New York: A Lyle Stuart Book, Carol Publishing Group. Chinese translation, Harcourt Brace International Division, New York. 1993. German translation, Mvg-verlag, Muchen Landsberg ,1993. Spanish translation: Selector Acualidad Editorial, 1992.

• Hunter,P. (1991). Psychotherapy with a patient with borderline features. Book chapter in C. Silverstein’s  (Ed)Gays, Lesbians, and their Therapists. New York: Norton.

Member

• American Psychological Association, Division 39, Division 56

• New York State Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis

• International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

• International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

• EMDR International Association

• SEPI (Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration)