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Diplomas / Degrees

Ph.D., New York University (1975)

Recent Courses

Cognition
Colloquium I
Coloquium II
Continuing Doctoral Thesis Supervision I
Continuing Doctoral Thesis Supervision III
Continuing Doctoral Thesis Supervision IV
Doctoral Thesis Supervision I
Doctoral Thesis Supervision II
Doctoral Thesis Supervision III
Ongoing Dissertation Supervision
Ongoing Doctoral Thesis Supervision
Ongoing Doctoral Thesis Supervision
Psychological Research 1
Psychological Research II
Psychological Research III
Psychological Research IV

Research Interests

Intersection of cognitive science, and affective neuroscience with psychoanalysis; psychotherapy process research; computerized language analysis

Grants / Sponsored Research

American Psychoanalytic Association, Fund for Psychoanalytic Research (2007-2009) $20,000 per year; “Using Process Notes to Explore Treatment Effectiveness and Changes in Theory and Technique over Five Decades in the Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. (Co-P.I. Leon Hoffman, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Institute )

$14,000 per year renewable annually for graduate student fellowships from the Pacella Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Research grant of $3,500, N.Y. Psychoanalytic Foundation

Books

Bucci, W. and Freedman, N., Eds. (2007). From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the work of Robert Wallerstein. London: International Psychoanalytical Association Press.

Bucci, W. (1997). Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science; A Multiple Code Theory. N.Y.: Guilford Press.

Book Chapters

Bucci, W. (2009). Lo spettro dei processi dissociativi. Implicazioni per la relazione terapeutica. In G. Moccia, L. Solano (Eds.). Psicoanalisi e neuroscienze: Risonanze interdisciplinari. (pp. 29-53). Milan: Franco Angeli.

Bucci, W. (2007). New Perspectives on the multiple code theory; The role of bodily experience in emotional organization. In F. S. Anderson (Eds.). Bodies in Treatment; The Unspoken Dimension. (pp. 51-77). Hillsdale: The Analytic Press, Inc.,.

Bucci, W. (2005). ) Basic concepts and methods of psychoanalytic process research. In Person, E., Cooper, A., and Gabbard, G (Eds.). Textbook of Psychoanalysis,. (pp. pp. 339-355). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Recent Articles

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Bucci, W. (2008, 4). New perspectives on the dissociative disorders; Review of: Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, Measurement and Theoretical Issues. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Bucci, W. (2007, 12). Four Domains of Experience in the Therapeutic Discourse. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 27, 617-639

Bucci, W., Maskit, B. (2007, 12). Beneath the surface of the therapeutic interaction; The psychoanalytic method in modern dress. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 55, 1355-1397

Bucci, W. (2007, 10). Dissociation from the perspective of multiple code theory: Part I; Psychological roots and implications for psychoanalytic treatment. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43, 305-326

Bucci, W. (2007, 9). Dissociation from the perspective of multiple code theory: Part II; The spectrum of dissociative processes in the psychoanalytic relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,, 43, 305-326

Invited Presentations and Lectures

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Bucci, W., Maskit, B., Hoffman, L. (13 June 2009). • Using Process Notes to Explore Treatment Effectiveness and Changes in Theory and Technique over Five Decades in the Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. . Rapaport-Klein Research Forum, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA

Bucci, W. (23 April 2009). • Identifying Impasse and Opportunity in the Therapeutic Interaction:The Referential Process in Research and Practice. Keynote Address; Annual Meeting, Div. Psa (39) , APA, San Antonio, TX

Bucci, W. (04 March 2009). • Converging Evidence for the Referential Process From Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. . Keynote Address; International Conference on Empirical Research on the Referential Process; LaSapienza University, Rome Italy.

Bucci, W. (21 June 2007). Beyond Subjectivity;Multiple Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Process. • Long Island Psychoanalytic Society,

Bucci, W. (22 April 2007). Beneath the Surface of the Therapeutic Encounter, Multiple Subjectivities, Multiple Codes. Scientific Award Address, Div. Psa (39) APA, Phila. Pa

Conference Presentations and Papers

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Bromberg, P., Bucci W., Chefetz, R.A. (01 April 2006). The Dissociative Mind: Psychological Roots and Psychoanalytic Processes in Action. • The International Society for the Study of Dissociation Full Day Professional Seminar,, Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y.

Freedman, N., Webster, J., Lasky, R., Bucci, W., Jurist, E. (01 March 2006). The Ordinary and Extraordinary Counter-transference. • The IPTAR Section on Investigative Psychoanalysis at the N.Y. Academy of Sciences.Invited Presentation;, N.Y., N.Y.

Bucci, W., Damasio, A.R., LeDoux, J., Litowitz, B.E., Modell, A.H (01 January 2006). What Use is Consciousness?A Clinical-Neuroscience Roundtable. American Psychoanalytic Association, Invited Symposium,, N.Y., N.Y.

Fertuck, E., Bucci, W., and Blatt, S.J. (01 December 2005). An Empirical Foray into the Macroprocesses of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Evidence for Differential Modes of Therapeutic Action,. • Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, Invited Presentation:, N.Y., N.Y.

Bucci, W. (01 November 2005). The vicious circle of traumatic experience; A multiple code perspective,. • International Congress: A Permanent Wound: Assessment and Treatment of Traumatic Experiences, Invited presentation:, Palermo, Italy,

Selected Dissertations Chaired

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Graham, E. (2008). Telling silences in analytic sessions: clinical meanings of pauses and affective valence in the referential process. .Derner Institute, Adelphi Univ.
Lockman, D. (2008). The relationship between the referential process and adult attachment style. .Derner Institute, Adelphi Univ.
Lowder, G. (2007). . It’s hard to say: the challenge of connecting emotions and language for first time mothers. .Derner Institute, Adelphi Univ.
Roy, M. (2007). Patients’ post-termination, self-reported effectiveness of treatment and the representation of the therapeutic dialogue. .Derner Institute, Adelphi Univ.
Seewaldt, V. (2006). Using the CCRT to Interpret the TAT: Understanding the Phenomenon of “Card Pull”.Derner Institute, Adelphi Univ.

Honors and Accomplishments

Scholarship/Research Award for 2006, Division of Psychoanalysis, (Division 39) American Psychological Association;
Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association;
Honorary Member, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR);
Honorary Member, N.Y. Psychoanalytic Institute

Professional Activities

Co-Director of Research, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute;

Director of Research, The Bernard L. Pacella Parent Child Center at The New York Psychoanalytic Society;

Visiting Scholar, New York Psychoanalytic Institute;

Visiting Professor in Psychoanalytic Research, University College, London;

Faculty of International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme;

Chair, Committee on Research Associates of the American Psychoanalytic Association;

Member, Certification Advisory, Research and Development Committee (CARD) ; Committee on Research Education (CRED); and Task Force on Outcome and Efficacy Research; American Psychoanalytic Association.

Editorial Boards: Critical Issues in Psychoanalysis; Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Psychoanalytic Inquiry; Clinical Neuropsychiatry.