Part-Time Clinical Faculty
See also : Core Clinical Faculty
Jack Barlow, Ph.D.
Dr. Barlow graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in March 1973 in Clinical Psychology. He maintains an active interest in the theory underlying the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the processes of transference, countertransference, insight, inference, and the language heuristics that underlie theory and personal experience.
Since 1975 Dr. Barlow has been employed with the Psychology Department. Currently he holds the rank of Associate Professor (part-time). His main responsibilities include clinical supervision of upper level graduate students, teaching a graduate seminar and serving on doctoral committees. British Object Relations Theory constitutes the main conceptual orientation of Dr. Barlow’s professional practice and the primary subject area for his course “Object Relations Theory.”
Outside the University he has maintained a continuous private practice in Knoxville since 1976 working primarily with adults and adolescents. His practice consists primarily of intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy, brief psychotherapy, couples therapy and consultations. He also has served as a consultant to the following agencies; The Haslam Center, an adolescent psychiatric program, the Regional Diagnostic Center at Knox County Juvenile Court, Morristown Mental Health Center, Morristown, Tennessee, and The Florence Crittenton Agency. He is currently an active member of the American Psychological Association, the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society and the
Center for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, University of Tennessee, where he holds a position of Advisory Board Member.
Formally he was the Director of Adult Out-Patient Service at Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee and a Peer Reviewer or the American Psychological Association, Professional Review Services Program, Washington, D.C.
Larry F. Brown, Ph.D.
I received my doctorate from the University of Tennessee; my research interests focused on the Rorschach. My internship was at Topeka State Hospital, where I worked chiefly with adolescents on a long-term inpatient unit. The internship had a prominent assessment emphasis, with some of the training through the Menninger Clinic.
I subsequently worked for many years at an adolescent residential treatment facility, where for a time I was clinical director. Currently I have an outpatient practice, more or less equal parts assessment and psychotherapy. My patients are primarily adolescents and young adults.
My theoretical orientation is psychoanalytic. My interests include individual psychotherapy, adolescence, and projective testing.
Joyce Cartor, Ph.D.
Dr. Joyce M. Cartor completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Tennessee in 1987. She is in the private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults, adolescents and couples in Knoxville, Tennessee. She also teaches undergraduate psychology at Pellissippi State Technical Community College. In the past she has consulted with Peninsula Village, an outdoor program for seriously disturbed adolescents, and has taught undergraduate classes at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, and at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr. Cartor was one of the founding members of the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society and has served on its board in the past as Treasurer and as President. She is currently serving the board as Member at Large. She is a member of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association and a member of the Self Psychology Association. Her orientation and training in the theory and practice of psychotherapy is broadly psychoanalytic, with particular attention paid to self psychological principles and constructs and to developmental trajectories, deficits and arrests.
Jeffrey W. Erickson, Ph.D., P.C.
Dr. Erickson moved south in 1972 to enter the University of Tennessee training program in Clinical Psychology. He interned at the University of Colorado Medical Center and returned to Tennessee to begin his career in the Community Mental Health Center arena. Private practice soon followed and continues today.
A specialized interest in working with children and adolescents began at the University of Richmond and continued to hold sway at Tennessee. Trained in multiple theoretical orientations, Dr. Erickson feels most comfortable in a psychodynamic orientation but recognizes the influential role of predispositional circumstances. Dr. Erickson’s specialized interests within the pediatric population include conditions of trauma, anxiety, depression, and disorders of mood.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Erickson has an active interest in Forensic Psychology as it is applied to an array of legal situations, e.g., custody determination, expert testimony, effect of trauma on psychological functioning, and attorney consultation.
Lance T. Laurence, Ph.D.
Bill MacGillivray, Ph.D.
Dr. MacGillivray graduated from the Clinical Training Program of the University of Tennessee and is in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee. He worked for many years at Peninsula Hospital with adolescents and adults who were dealing with substance abuse and/or psychiatric problems and gained considerable experience in areas of group, individual and family psychotherapy. He worked extensively with treatment staff both in the inpatient units as well as the halfway house programs of the hospital. Over the last few years, he has been working in Anderson County school system, providing assessments and consultation to teachers and other school staff.
In the Knoxville community, he has been involved with the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society since its inception and has served on its board in varying capacities for 8 years. In national organizations, he has been involved with both the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers (NCMHPC) and the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of APA. Currently, he is board member, secretary and newsletter editor for NCMHPC and board member and newsletter editor for Division 39. He is also a member of the Interdivisional Task Force on Managed Care and Health Care Policy.
His interest, orientation and training is in theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is particularly interested in the tasks of late adolescence and early adulthood and the difficulty many young people experience in making this transition in a culture that more and more undermines establishment of secure sense of purpose and direction.
Bruce Seidner, Ph.D.
Dr. Bruce Seidner is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in independent practice specializing in forensic evaluations and child custody evaluations for the courts and legal community. He continues to maintain an active psychotherapy practice serving children, adolescents, adults and families.
He earned his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1987. While in graduate school he worked in Community Mental Health Centers in East Tennessee. Prior to entering U.T. he worked and studied at the Menninger Foundation, a psychiatric residential hospital with a long tradition of exceptional treatment. Subsequent to completing his degree Dr. Seidner was staff psychologist on the Youth Chemical Dependency program, a long-term residential program of Peninsula Hospital until 1989 when he entered full time private practice. He has conducted an outpatient forensic evaluation, mediation, and psychotherapy practice at the Northshore Group since 1993.
Dr. Seidner is active in a number of professional organizations and has been president of the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Association and the Tennessee Valley Mediation Association. He is a member of the Knoxville Area, Tennessee and American Psychological Associations and is an adjunct faculty member in doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
R. Jeff Slavin, Ph.D.
I, like all the adjuncts, supervise as a labor of love. I am a psychodynamically oriented University of Tennessee clinical graduate (1976) and have a full private practice of long term patients of all ages. By the end of the week, it is refreshing to sit down with eager, bright, clinical students and supervise their work.
For supervision to be effective there must be an atmosphere of safety, mutual respect, and trust. I share my own cases and countertransference with my supervisees to illustrate points of psychodynamic theory and practice. They also share their own work, and when trust is established, their mistakes. This is hopefully a growth experience for both of us. I start by assigning a book on psychoanalytic case formulation (Nancy McWilliams) and ask the supervisee to formulate their cases from this perspective as a starting point. Additional readings are assigned related to self psychology, intersubjective theory, and object relations as they apply. This helps tie theory & practice together.
Supervisees often become friends and occasionally come to my home for dinner and enjoy my wife's super cooking when schedules get disrupted and we need a change of atmosphere from the clinic. Basically I see my role as a mentor who can offer hope that we can still survive and practice effectively in today's hostile managed care environment.
Kathryn White, Ph.D.
Dr Kathryn White is in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she has been involved in professional and community organizations. She has served as president on the board of the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society as well as the board of the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee. She is a graduate of the Clinical Training Program of the University of Tennessee and did her residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Her theoretical orientation is broadly psychodynamic, with particular interest in contemporary psychoanalytic approaches. In her private practice she works with adults and adolescents, with some couple and family work. Dr White enjoys the opportunity to be a clinical mentor in supervision. She sees her job as three fold: fostering the individual's growth in personal style and mature professional identity, developing an understanding of dynamics and case conceptualization as the foundation for clinical decisions, and the training of the use of technique in the therapy process. In assessment supervision, Dr White is interested in how one uses assessment to create an integrated understanding of an individual, as well as how to communicate that information in therapeutic and empathic ways. Dr White has particular interests in the Rorschach, in the use of metaphor and story, and in dream interpretation. And, for fun, she and some of the other adjuncts enjoy introducing students to hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains and state parks.