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CURRICULUM VITAE

Jane Rubin, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist PSY14820

2434 Milvia Street, Berkeley CA 94704
2169 Union Street, San Francisco CA 94123
510.495.6208 /510.304.7282

EDUCATION

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1969-1971
(Religious Studies)

A.B. University of California, Berkeley, CA 1973
(Religious Studies)

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, CA 1984
(Philosophy)

Dissertation: Too Much of Nothing: Modern Culture, the Self and Salvation in Kierkegaard’s Thought

Ph.D. The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA 1994
(Clinical Psychology)

Dissertation: The Forcible Administration of Anti-Psychotic Medications to Involuntarily Detained Patients: An Empirical Study of Clinical Judgments of Dangerousness in the Aftermath of the Riese Decision

Psy.D. Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA 2008
(Psychoanalysis)

Graduation Paper: Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan’s Later Work From An Intersubjective Perspective

TEACHING POSITIONS

Adjunct Faculty
The Wright Institute
2000-present
Courses taught: Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity Theory

Adjunct Faculty
California School of Professional Psychology
1995-2000
Course taught: Dissertation Proposal Development: Hermeneutics

Adjunct Faculty
San Francisco School of Psychology
1995, 1996
Courses taught: Self Psychology, Advanced Psychotherapy

Lecturer
Program In Religious Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1989-1994
Courses taught: Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Psychology, Anti-Religion in Modern Thought, Religion and Its Critics, Kierkegaard

Lecturer
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
1988, 1991
Courses taught: Conceptions of the Person in Ethics and the Health Sciences, Philosophy of Science for the Human Sciences

Visiting Assistant Professor
Program In Religious Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1987-1989

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
1984-1987
Courses taught: Religion and Personality, Interpretations of Religion, Religion and Modern Culture, Contemporary Religious Thought, Existentialism and Religious Thought: Kierkegaard

Acting Instructor
Department of Philosophy and Program in Religious Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1980-1981
Courses taught: Psychology of Religion, Kierkegaard

Teaching Associate
Department of Philosophy and Program in Religious Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1978-1980
Courses taught: The Later Heidegger

Teaching Assistant
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
1976-1978

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Associate Research Psychologist
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
1988-1991
Research Grant: Expertise in Critical Care Nursing
Patricia Benner, Principal Investigator

CLINICAL POSITIONS

Faculty, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, North

Clinical Supervisor
The Wright Institute Clinic
2000-present

Case Conference Instructor
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, North
1999-present

Clinical Supervisor
Department of Outpatient Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco-Mt. Zion Hospital
1997-1999

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

PUBLICATIONS

“Why Schizophrenia Is Not Philosophy”, (Review of Louis L. Sass, The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber and the Schizophrenic Mind), Contemporary Psychology, October, 1995.

“Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nurses” in Patricia Benner, Christine Tanner and Katherine Chesla, Expertise In Nursing Practice:Clinical Knowing, Clinical Judgment and Skillful Ethical Comportment, Springer Press, 1995.

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Jane Rubin, “Kierkegaard On The Nihilism of The Present Age: The Case of Commitment As Addiction”, Synthese: An International Journal For Epistemology, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science, January, 1994.

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Jane Rubin, “Kierkegaard, Division II and Later Heidegger” in Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I, The MIT Press, 1991.

“Narcissism and Nihilism: Kohut and Kierkegaard On The Modern Self” in Douglas Detrick and Susan Detrick, eds., Self Psychology: Comparisons And Contrasts, The Analytic Press, 1989.

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Jane Rubin, “You Can’t Get Something For Nothing: Kierkegaard and Heidegger On How Not To Overcome Nihilism”, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, March, 1987.

INVITED LECTURES, SEMINARS AND CASE PRESENTATIONS

Moderator and Discussant, “Moving Along: Reflections on the Boston Change Process Study Group”, The 32nd Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self, Los Angeles, California, 2007.

Moderator and Discussant, “Religion and Spirituality” Original Papers Series, The 22nd Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1999.

“Alternative Philosophical Conceptualizations of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy– Another Look”, International Society of Phenomenological Studies” Asilomar, CA, 1999.

“Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory” (Seminar for Fourth Year Candidates) Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, 1999.

“Heidegger On Interpretation” (Seminar for Candidates), San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1999.

Case Presentation, Pre-Conference Advanced Course, The 21st Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, San Diego, CA, 1998.

“How Philosophy Changes Public Practices”, Humanities Matters: The 10th Anniversary Conference of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, CA, 1998.

Case Presentation, Annual Conference, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis-North, 1997.

“Psychoanalysis on The Eve of the Millenium: Philosophical Background”, The Intensive Study Group, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco, CA, 1996.

Case Presentation, Annual Conference, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis-North, 1996.

“Impediments to the Development of Ethical Judgment in Health Care Professionals”, III World Congress of Bioethics, San Francisco, CA, 1996.

“Interpretive Psychotherapy Research”, Annual International Meeting, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Berkeley, CA, 1992.

“Kierkegaard on Philosophy and Modern Nihilism”, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, OR, 1998.

“Intentionality in Self-Psychology and Existential Philosophy”, American Psychological Association, New York, NY, 1987.

Narcissism and Nihilism: Kohut and Kierkegaard on the Modern Self”, University of California, San Francisco, 1987.

“The Denial of Difference: Kierkegaard’s Criticism of Christian Nihilism”, Indiana Academy of Religion, Indianapolis, IN, 1985.

FELLOWSHIPS

Lilly Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1986
Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1986
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 1981-82
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Dissertation Fellowship, 1980-81
University of California Regents Fellowship, 1979-80
Danforth Fellowship, 1974-78

AWARDS

Awarded Distinction, Ph.D. Qualifying Examination, University of California, Berkeley, 1979
Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 1973