Faculty

Wynn Schwartz, PhD

University of Colorado-Boulder, 1976
Dr. Schwartz is a clinical and experimental psychologist and research psychoanalyst. He teaches Introduction to Psychodynamics and Theory and Practice of Supervision. Dr. Schwartz has been interested in clarifying fundamental aspects of the subject matters of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, dreaming and hypnosis. His published work has been both conceptual and experimental. Some of his experimental studies have focused on dreaming and problem representation and dreaming and memory, and others on hypnosis and episodic memory. As a student of Descriptive Psychology, Dr. Schwartz has been especially concerned with theory-free, pre- empirical formulations of what he believes are central subject matters for psychology, such as the concepts of action and responsibility, the range of the possible phenomena that are covered by the term “hypnosis”, the limits and nature of psychotherapy, and the concept of “person”. Dr. Schwartz is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Extension School. He has been a professor at Wellesley College and has taught at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. He maintains a psychotherapy practice in Boston.

Updated 9/17/07