Mark T. Sammons, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
New York State License # 015718
EDUCATION
2006-Present Candidate, Postgraduate Program in Group Psychotherapy, Adelphi University
2002-Present Candidate, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, Adelphi University
1995-2002 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Derner Institute, Adelphi University
1995-1997 M.A. Clinical and School Psychology, Derner Institute, Adelphi University
1993-1995 M.A. Developmental Psychology, Teacher's College, Columbia University
1979-1980 Certificate in Organic Gardening and Farming, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz
1975-1979 B.A. Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz
EMPLOYMENT
2008-Present Private Practice, New York, NY
Provide psychological services on an outpatient basis in a private office setting
2008 Instructor, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
Presented a series of lectures on the clinical psychoanalytic theory of Object Relations
2005-2008 Clinical Director, The Village Institute for Psychotherapy, New York, NY
Responsibilities included quality assurance of clinical services to a diverse outpatient population, supervision and training of staff psychotherapists, development and management of specialized clinical programs, and direct provision of outpatient psychological services
2004-2007 Adjunct Clinical Supervisor, Adelphi University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Garden City, NY
Provide supervision of psychological evaluations and psychotherapy to doctoral candidates
2003-2005 Private Practice, New York, NY
Provide psychological services on an outpatient basis in a private office setting
2002-2004 Assistant Psychologist, Office of Jerry Finkelstein, Ph.D., New York, NY
Provided psychological services on an outpatient basis in a private office setting, under direct supervision of a licensed psychologist
2000-2003 Staff Psychotherapist, The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY
Provided psychological services in an urban outpatient clinical setting under direct supervision of a licensed psychologist
2000-2001 Staff Psychotherapist, The Village Institute for Psychotherapy, New York, NY
Recieved training and supervision in the delivery of psychological services in an urban outpatient clinical setting under direct supervision of a licensed psychologist
1999-2000 Psychology Intern, The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY
Recieved training and supervision in diagnostic assessment and individual and group psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults in an urban outpatient clinical setting
1996-1999 Research Fellow, The Glass Institute for Basic Psychoanalytic Research, New York, NY
Design and application of computerized language measures for use in psychotherapy research; content analysis of psychotherapy sessions
1996-1998 Teaching Assistant, , Adelphi University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Garden City, NY
Provided instruction in the administration, scoring and interpretation of psychodiagnostic tests
1996-1997 Extern, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens, NY
Engaged in supervised diagnostic assessment, and individual and group psychotherapy with adult psychiatric inpatients
1994-1995 Extern, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
Assisted in a behavioral intervention as part of a pilot study aimed at the prevention of conduct disorder
1994-1995 Teaching Assistant, Teacher's College, Columbia University New York, NY
Provided course support for two lecture courses on theories of human development; ran discussion sections; presented lectures on Object Relations theories, and sexuality.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1998-2000 International Psychoanalytic Association Research Grant
Co-Principal Investigator, "A Comparison of FRAMES, Computerized Referential Activity, and Jones' 100 Item Q-Sort as Measures of Psychotherapeutic Process and Change"
1996-1999 Forty Five Foundation Research Fellowship
Conducted supervised research and provided research design and statistical support for a systematic program of studies of psychotherapy process
1995 American Psychological Association Student Division Paper Award
"Rousseau, Levinson, and Benjamin: Domination, Dependency and the Politics of Authenticity"
1979 Undergraduate Thesis Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Cosmic Element Production: The Distribution of Light Isotopes as a Sensitive Cosmological Test"
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Sammons, M. (2003). An Investigation of the Analysis of Transference in the Case of Mrs. C. Doctoral dissertation, Adelphi University.
Siegel, P., Sammons, M. & Dahl, H. (2002). FRAMES: The method in action and the assessment of its reliability. Psychotherapy Research, 12,1, 59-78.
Sammons, M. (1999). The obscured object of (lesbian) desire: A review of Judith Roof's A Lure of Knowledge. Book review in Psychoculture, II, 1, 2-4.
Sammons, M. and Kupferman, L. (1999). A lexical analysis of Computerized Referential Activity distributions. Presentation to the Collaborative Analytic Multisite Project at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, December 17.
Sammons, M. & Dube, J.E. (1999). Item analysis of Computerized Referential Activity. Panel presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Braga, Portugal, June 18.
Dahl, H., Siegel, P., Sammons, M., Henry, W., and Critchfield, K. (1999). A comparison of FRAMES and SASB as measures of pathology and psychotherapy treatment process. Panel presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Braga, Portugal, June 17.
Dahl, H., Sammons, M., and Siegel, P. (1999). How to find FRAMES. Pre-conference workshop on FRAMES (Fundamental Repetitive and Maladaptive Emotion Structures) research at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Braga, Portugal, June 16.
Sammons, M. (1998). What's black and white and red all over: A review of Joel Kovel's Red Hunting in the Promised Land. Book review in Psychoculture, 1, 2, 5-6.
Sammons, M. (1998). Convergent validation of psychotherapy process research measures in two psychoanalytic sessions. Presentation to the Collaborative Analytic Multisite Project at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, December 18.
Sammons, M. and Siegel, P. (1998). Una comparison de FRAMES con el CCRT y la CRA. Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologica, VII, 131-145.
Siegel, P. and Sammons, M. (1998). FRAMES: Idiographic and nomothetic measures of personality. Panel presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Snowbird, Utah, June 27.
Sammons, M. and Siegel, P. (1998). A study of the evolution and outcome of FRAMES in the case of Mrs. C. Panel presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Snowbird, Utah, June 27.
Maskit, B. & Sammons, M. (1998). New approaches to the quantitative analysis of Computerized Referential Activity. Panel presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Snowbird, Utah, June 25.
Siegel, P. and Sammons, M. (1998). A methodolocial comparison of FRAMES and CCRTs. Presentation in the pre-conference workshop on CCRT research at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Snowbird, Utah, June 24.
Sammons, M. and Siegel, P. (1997). A comparison of FRAMES and CCRTs across 3 psychoanalytic treatments. Presentation to the Collaborative Analytic Multisite Project at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, December 18.
Siegel, P. & Sammons, M. (1997). FRAMES: Their construction, reliabilities, and validities. Panel presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Geilo, Norway, June 26.
Sammons, M. & Siegel, P. (1997). A comparison of FRAMES with Core Conflictual Relationship Themes and Computerized Referential Activity. Panel presentation at the 20th Ulm Workshop on Empirical Research in Psychoanalysis. Ulm, Germany, June 20.
Sammons, M. and Siegel, P. (1996). FRAMES and CCRTs across 3 sessions in the case of Mrs. C. Panel presentation to the Collaborative Analytic Multisite Project at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, December 20.
Sammons, M. (1995). Rousseau, Levinson, and Benjamin: Domination, dependency and the politics of authenticity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. New York, NY, August 14.