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Class of 1970, On the Internet: Elizabeth Danto

FROM: Hunter College School of Social Work

Elizabeth DANTO:
- Associate Professor of Social Work
- PhD, Clinical Social Work, New York University
- MS, Social Work, Columbia University
- BA, Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College

Chair, “Foundations of Social Work Practice” sequence including the advanced social work practice electives (Aging, Disability, Multi-cultural, Authoritarian Settings, Workers and their Families, Ethics and Values, HIV/AIDS and Chronic Illness, Foster Care and Adoption, Developmental Disabilities)

Professor, Human Behavior in the Social Environment (entire sequence), Social Welfare Policy and Services, Child Welfare Policy, Ethics and Values in Social Work Practice, Professional Seminar, Foundations of Social Work Practice, Employment Policy

Field of Practice: Occupational social work

Professional Interests:
Postmodern theories and their application to social work
History of psychoanalysis
Workplace social services
Diversity and multi-culturalism

Current Research:
History of psychoanalysis and urban social activism;
Cultural studies in the areas of mental health and occupational health;
Uses of “narrative” and of oral history methodology.

Selected Publications:

BOOKS

“Freud’s Free Clinics, Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938,”
Columbia University Press, May 2005
"Meticulous research and awesome grasp of the movement's early days in Vienna and Berlin"
Village Voice, August 2005

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Modernism, Psychoanalysis and Début de Siècle Vienna” in M. Plotkin and J. Damousi, The Transnational Unconscious, New York, Macmillan, forthcoming Spring 2007

“People at Work: A Developmental Approach” in D. Moxley & J. Finch, (eds.) Sourcebook of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Practice, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, December 2004

“Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Developing Cultural Competency in EAPs” with Frances Curtis, in V. Jackson & L. Lopez, (eds.) Cultural Competency in Managed Behavioral Healthcare, Manissas Communications Group, Fall 1999

ARTICLES

“What’s Cost Got to Do With It? Perspectives from the Free Psychoanalytic Clinics,” The American Psychoanalyst, Spring 2006

“Trade Unions,” Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Spring 2006

“Jean-Martin Charcot,” “Sigmund Freud,” “Franz Joseph” and “Karl Lueger” encyclopedia entries for J. Bell, (ed.) Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800-1924, Volume 6 of the Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionary of Cultural Eras, Greenwood Press, December 2002.

“Sex, Class and Social Work: Wilhelm Reich’s Free Clinics and the Activist History Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalytic Social Work, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 55-72.

“The Berlin Poliklinik: Psychoanalytic Innovation in Weimar Germany” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 47, No.4, December 1999.

“The Ambulatorium: Freud’s Free Clinic in Vienna,” May 1998 issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

“Conflict vs. Cohesion: EAP-Based Diversity Training in Small Groups” Employee Assistance Quarterly, Vol. 15, No.1, 1999, pp.32-41.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of “Reinventing Depression” by Callahan and Berios, Journal of the Social History of Medicine, Spring 2005

Review of “Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology” by Sonu Shamdasani, Journal of the Social History of Medicine, December 2004

Review of “Death of a ‘Jewish Science’” by Goggin & Goggin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, forthcoming 2002.

Review of “Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing” by Stanley W. Jackson in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp 704-708

Review of “Risky Business: Managing Employee Violence in the Workplace” by Lynne McClure in Readings, American Orthopsychiatric Association, March 1997, pp.44-46

RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS

PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant, 2005
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award, 2004
“Salute to Scholars,” CUNY-wide honor for outstanding scholarship, 2002
DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service, Faculty Research Grant, 2002
Research Foundation/CUNY, Distance Learning Demonstration Project, 2001
Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Development Award, 2000
President’s Teaching and Research Incentive Award, 1999
Rockefeller Archive Center Research Award, 1999
American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow, 1998-1999
Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who Among American Women, Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care, and Who’s Who in Human Services consistently since 1989.




SOURCE: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/faculty/danto.htm




Elizabeth Danto ('70)
Elizabeth Danto ('70)