CURRICULUM VITAE
Vanessa Rawlings Sinclair, Psy.D.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Doctor of Psychology (2007) Clinical Psychology, Psychodynamic Concentration – Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
Bachelor of Arts (2001) Psychology (Magna Cum Laude) – Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
POST-DOCTORAL STUDIES
Lacanian study group (2012-2017) New York, NY, USA.
Psychoanalytic Candidate (2010-2013) New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, New York, NY, USA.
CLINICAL WORK
Private Practice (2010-present) New York, NY, USA –> Sweden.
Psychologist–Level II (2009-2012) Department of Psychiatry/ AIDS Center Program – Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Postdoctoral Resident (2007-2008) Counseling and Psychological Services – Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA.
Psychology Intern (2006-2007) Neurological Institute at North Broward Medical Center, Memory Disorder Center – The Bridge Outpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Pompano Beach, FL, USA.
Psychological Testing Assistant (2005-2006) Private practice of Efrain A. Gonzalez, Psy.D., ABPP, South Miami, FL, USA.
Psychology Extern (2004-2005) Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.
Psychology Trainee (2003-2006) Intensive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Clinic – Psychology Services Center, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
Behavioral Tutor / Personal Care Assistant (2003-2005) Spectrum Life Care Services, Inc., Cooper City, FL, USA.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Sinclair, V.R. (ed.) (2023). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond. London: Routledge.
Sinclair, V.R. & Abrahamsson, C. (eds.) (2022). The Fenris Wolf, vol. 11. Vimmerby: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. & Punzi, E. (eds.) (2021). Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy. Stockholm: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. (2021). Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation. London: Routledge.
Sinclair, V.R. (ed.) (2019). Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry. Stockholm: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. & Steinkoler, M. (eds.) (2019). On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Sinclair, V.R. & Abrahamsson, C. (eds.) (2017). The Fenris Wolf, vol. 9. Stockholm: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. (2016). “Polymorphous Perversity and Pandrogeny.” In Carl Abrahamsson (ed.) The Fenris Wolf, vol. 8. Stockholm: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. & Lambrecht, I. (2016). “Ritual and Psychoanalytic Spaces as Transitional, featuring Sangoma Trance States.” In Carl Abrahamsson (ed.) The Fenris Wolf, vol. 8. Stockholm: Trapart Books.
Sinclair, V.R. (2015). “Das Unbehagen of Duchamp, Dada & Psychoanalysis.” Division/Review: Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum of APA Division 39, No. 10 Spring 2015.
Sinclair, V.R. (2014). “The Zeitgest Creating Psychoanalysis and Dada.” In Carl Abrahamsson (ed.) The Fenris Wolf, vol. 7. Stockholm: Edda Publishing.
Sinclair, V.R. (2011). “On Beginning the Treatment.” The Candidate Connection: Newsletter of the APsaA Candidates’ Council. 13(2), 3.
Sinclair, V.R. (2005). “Toward a National Research Agenda in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.” Psyche & Sol. 15(2), 15.
Montgomery, D.D., Canyock, E.M., Fogel, M., Sinclair, V.R., & Spector, D. (2004). “Frontal Alpha Asymmetry: A State or Trait Measure of Affective Response.” Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, 29(1), 293.
Sinclair, V.R. (2004). “Is Psychoanalysis in Crisis?” Psyche & Sol, 14(3), 16.
Sinclair, V.R. (2004). “Taming the HIPPA Beast.” Psyche & Sol, 14(2), 14.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult residency, co-hosted with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, online, 2021-present.
Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema conference co-organized with Carl Abrahamsson, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022.
Psychoanalysis to Come: Community and Culture, co-organized with Emma Lieber and Kasper Opstrup, Husets KBH, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020. (canceled)
Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, co-organized with Carl Abrahamsson, Schloss Pienzenau and Brunnenburg, Merano, Italy, 2019.
Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, co-organized with Carl Abrahamsson, Candid Arts Trust, London, England, 2016.
On Violence and Psychoanalysis: Civilization and its Bliss-contents, co-organized with Manya Steinkoler, Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, USA, 2015.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
2023
Sinclair, V.R. “Freud and the Occult” presented at the Last Tuesday Society, Victor Wynd Museum, online.
2022
Sinclair, V.R. “Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity & Pandrogeny” presented at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York City, online.
Sinclair, V.R. “Glitchcraft: Creating Magic Through Filmwork” presented at Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema conference, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sinclair, V.R. “The Tenderness of the Cut” as part of the exhibition that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany.
Respondent/ discussant for Dany Nobus’ “Group Pathology and the Analysis of the Ego: On the Dissolution of Psychoanalytic Organisations and the Question of Psychoanalytic Training,” ABF, Stockholm, Sweden. (canceled)
2021
Sinclair, V.R. “Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art” presented at Cast off! Lacan and the arts, Fondation de la Psychanalyse, Paris, online.
Sinclair, V.R. “Freud’s Explorations of the Occult” presented at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York City, online.
Sinclair, V.R. Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) presented at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York City, online.
Sinclair, V.R. & Steinkoler, M. On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) presented at Reckoning / Foresight, the 40th annual conference of APA, Division 39, New York, NY, USA, online.
2020
Sinclair, V.R. “Creativity, Dreams & the Unconscious” at Aquarius Rising (Reimagined), online.
Sinclair, V.R., Johanssen, J., Millar, I., Steele, J. & Zeavin, H. “Connection and Community Through Technology” panel presented at The Psychology of Global Crises 2020 conference, The American University of Paris, online.
2019
Sinclair, V.R. “Psychoanalysis and Necromancy” presented at Death Matters: Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings, the 1st international conference of the Queer Death Studies Network, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
Sinclair, V.R. “Scansion as applied in psychoanalysis and the arts” presented at the High Seminar of the Department of Philosophy, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sinclair, V.R. “Scansion in Psychoanalysis & Art: Another Royal Road” presented at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, Sweden
Sinclair, V.R. “Inpatient / Outsider: Art Created in Psychiatric Institutions” presented at The Immaterial and Material Heritage of Psychiatry conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sinclair, V.R. “The Crusade Against Magical Thinking” presented at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis conference, Schloss Brunnenburg, Merano, Italy.
Sinclair, V.R. “The Colonial Crusade Against Magical Thinking” presented at Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmission, Psychoanalysis and Politics conference, Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sinclair, V.R. “Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: Another Royal Road,” presented at The Truths of Psychoanalysis, the 11th annual conference of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018
Sinclair, V.R. “The Cut-up Method of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin” presented at the conference Conjuring Creativity: Art and the Esoteric, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden.
2017
Sinclair, V.R. “The Cut in Creation,” presented at Maryland Institute for Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD, USA.
2016
Sinclair, V.R. & Foisy, K.V. “The Cut in Creation” presented at Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Candid Arts Trust, London, England.
Sinclair, V.R. “Cutting-up the Image of the Father/ Reconstructing the Third,” presented as part of the exhibition Father Figures are Hard to Find, NGBK, Berlin, Germany.
2015
Sinclair, V.R., Gherovici, P., Dean, T. & Lichtenstein, D. “Systematized Violence in American Mental Health,” panel presented at On Violence and Psychoanalysis: Civilization and its Bliss-contents, Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, USA.
2013
Sinclair, V.R. “Psychoanalysis: An Urban Experience,” presented at The New School for Public Engagement, Undergraduate Studies Department of Social Sciences. New York, NY, USA.
Sinclair, V.R. “Laughter and Psychoanalysis,” Das Unbehagen and Associated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) conference. Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, USA.
2012
Sinclair, V.R. “The Great Mr. Gatsby: A case study of systematized violence in American mental health,” presented at Associated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) 10th anniversary conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
2008
Sinclair, V.R. “Addressing Women’s Issues: Rape and Sexual Abuse, Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues,” presented at Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA.
2005
Madura, M.I., Montgomery, D.D., Burns, W.J., & Sinclair, V.R. “Alexithymia, Dissociation, and Stress.”American Psychological Association (APA) 113th Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA.
2004
Montgomery, D.D., Canyock, E.M., Fogel, M., Sinclair, V.R., & Spector, D. “Frontal Alpha Asymmetry: A State or Trait Measure of Affective Response.” Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback 35th Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS
Senior Research Fellow, Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS) College, Dublin, Ireland, 2021-2022.
Lecturer in the “Occulturas” summer program, Escuela Incierta, Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, 2018.
Guest Lecturer at Maryland Institute for Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD, USA, on invitation from Mikita Brottman, Ph.D. as part of her course on “The Uncanny,” 2017.
Guest Professor with Jamieson Webster, Ph.D. for the seminar “Gender, Sexuality & Perversion,” Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA, 2013.
Professor & Supervisor, Psychological Testing Didactics & Seminar, APA-Accredited Internship Program, Department of Psychiatry – Affiliated with New York University, School of Medicine – Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2009-2012.
Teaching Assistant for Bady Quintar, Ph.D. “Projective Personality Assessment,” Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 2006.
DIRECTED STUDY (DISSERTATION EQUIVALENT)
A Comparative Study of Select Theorists of the Two Schools of Object Relations, Supervisor: Robert C. Lane, Ph.D., ABPP. Completed 2006.
SELECT RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, Forensic Concentration, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. Supervisors: David Shapiro, Ph.D. & Lenore Walker, Ph.D., 2005-2006.
Graduate Research Assistant, Biofeedback Laboratory, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. Supervisors: Doil D. Montgomery, Ph.D. & William J. Burns, Ph.D., 2003-2004.
SELECT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Section IX – Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Division 39, American Psychological Association (APA), Member, 2021-present.
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (PCS), International Advisory Board Member, 2021-present.
The International Association for Spielrein Studies, Member, 2020-present.
Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, Founding Member, 2012-present.
American Psychological Association (APA), Division 39, Member, 2004-2017.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Member, 2014-2016.
American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), NYPSI Candidate Delegate, APsaA Candidates’ Council, Digital Media & Communications Committee, Chair, 2011-2013.
Gay-Straight Student Alliance (GSSA), Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Vice President, 2004-2006.
Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP), Psyche & Sol, Editorial Board Member, 2004-2006.
HONORS
Humanitarian of the Year Award Winner, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, 2004.