My interests include psychodynamic therapy, the interface of literature with science and practice, the elements of change in psychotherapy, hypnosis, and how therapy skills can best be acquired by trainees. In addition I have abiding interests in human memory, forensic psychology, suggestion, and the neural substrate of consciousness. I direct the ongoing case-based psychotherapy outcome research project carried-out at the UT Psychological Clinic. This research tracks change in individual patients throughout the course of therapy, enabling us to discern whether the therapy is working, when it is working, and sometimes why. I teach the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy course and the Research Design course. I founded, developed, and supervise our psychiatric emergency room placement in which doctoral clinical students are embedded an acute care inpatient unit. Recently I have worked with the UT Theater Department in a collaborative project exploaring the common training ground our clinical students have with MFA acting students. I also offer a number of special advanced seminars in psychoanalytic technique and in clinical hypnosis.
LIST OF TWENTY SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (DOWNLOADS)
Mike Finn (2nd 2nd yr. grad student) on Freud's actual couch in London
