Jerome S Blackman, MD, FIPA, FACPsa, FABP.   He has been a distinguished member and leader in VPsaS since 1986.   He has been our President twice and currently is the Chair of our Program Committee.   The following is a list of his more recent publications, presentations, and academic accomplishments.

(2025) Re-certified as Fellow, American Board of Psychoanalysis

(2024) Honored with 6th Jerome S Blackman, MD Lectureship in Psychoanalysis, by Eastern Virginia Medical School Dept of Psychiatry, October.

Daniel Prezant, Ph.D., New York City, President of the American

Psychoanalytic Association, presented:

‘The Use of Defense Interpretation in Adults and Children’; and

‘Workshop on Defense and Compromise Formations.’

(2024) October – December:  Series of 10 lectures on Technique in analytic psychotherapy for mental health practitioners. ONLINE for Object Relations Institute, New York City.

(2024) 20 1-hour lectures on Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.  Jian dan xin li.  Shanghai.

(2024) Appointed Faculty and taught medical students, Midwestern Medical School Dept of Psychiatry.

(2023)  With Dr. Kathleen Dring, wrote:  Developmental Evaluation of Children and Adolescents: A Psychodynamic Guide.  NY; Routledge.

PUBLISHED PAPERS RECENTLY

  • (2025 In press) “A developmental approach to supervision of psychoanalytic

therapies.”  American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

  • 2024 “Shyness.” In: S. Akhtar & M. O’Neill (Eds.). Unlit Corners :

Eight Less Studied Character Traits. London: Karnac.

  • 2023 “Defensive Arrogance in Seductive Adults.” [In French]. Topique

97-112.  Paris. https://www.revuetopique.com/numero/?numero=TOP_159 .

  • 2023 “Some Arguments about Free Association as a Technique.”

American Journal of Psychoanalysis 83:22-35.

https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-023-09393-y. New York.

INVITATIONAL PUBLISHED REVIEWS

 

  • 2024 Blackman, J., “A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma: Post-Traumatic

Mental Functioning, the Zero Process, and the Construction of Reality. (The International Psychoanalytic Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and

Applications Series)”. By Joseph Fernando (2023). Routledge. New York. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York.

  • 2024 Blackman, J., “Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and

Psychoanalytic Philosophy (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis).” By Jon Mills.  (2022) Routledge. New York. American Journal of Psychoanalysis. New York.

  • 2024 Blackman, J., “The Overwhelming Accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt:”

Review of Mark I West (Ed.), “Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading.”  Lanham. MD:  Rowman & Littlefield.

 

•2020                Blackman, J., “Silent Virtues:  Patience, Curiosity, Privacy, Intimacy, Humility,

and Dignity.” By Salman Akhtar. (2018). Routledge. American Journal of

 Psychoanalysis 80: 362–370.

 

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITY 

  • 2025

    Program Chair, Virginia Psychoanalytic Society

  • 2024-present Consultant to the North American Editor, Inter-Regional

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED) of the

International Psychoanalytic Association.

https://online.flippingbook.com/view/544664/

  • 2023- present Coastal Virginia Medical Society

Founding Board Member.

  • 2022- present Association Internationale Interactions de la Psychanalyse, Paris,

France. (2023-present) International Scientific Committee.

 

COURSES TAUGHT SOLO

 

  • 2024 • Jiao Tong Medical School. 30 hours of ONSITE lectures and case

Supervision regarding personality disorders (second week of a 3-week planned series). Shanghai, China. August 7-11.

  • Yang Juan Group. 18 hours of ONSITE lectures on advanced technique in analytic psychotherapy. Nanjing, China. Aug 13-15.
  • Lingyu International Psychology Center. 30 hours of ONSITE lectures and

supervision, Hangzhou, China.  Aug 16-20.

  • Shanxi Medical University 2 hours of ONSITE lectures and supervision

regarding psychoanalytic considerations of adolescence. Taiyuan, China. Aug 21-22.

  • LaiBiXi Group. 24 hours of ONSITE lectures on child and adolescent

development and its effects on adult psychopathology; and supervision of cases. Shenyang, China.

 

  • Jiao Yumei Group. Weekly 1-hour ONLINE supervision of Dynamic

Psychotherapy Supervisors. Shanghai, China.

 

  • Qin Hai Group. Weekly 1-hour ONLINE Group Supervision seminars to

Advanced Professionals. Shanghai, China.

  • Yin Fang Group through Tongji University. Weekly 1-hour ONLINE Group

Supervision of Dynamic Psychotherapy Supervisors. Shanghai,

China.

  • Yang Juan Group. Weekly 2-hour ONLINE Lectures on Special Topics in

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  Nanjing, China.

  • Lingyu International Psychology Center. Weekly 2-hour ONLINE lectures on

Defenses and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.  Hangzhou, China.

GUEST LECTURES AND PRESENTATONS

 

  • 2025 Contraindications to the use of antidepressant medications. Coastal Virginia

Medical Society.  ONLINE.  2-hour presentation Feb 15. 

 

  • 2024 1-hour ONLINE presentations to the International Psychohistory Society Annual

Meeting.

  • Rescue Fantasies, Idealization, and Transferences regarding 4 U.S.

Presidents. June 1.

  • Psychoanalytic Differential Diagnosis of Antisemitism. June 1.
  • Superego Variations in Genocidal Leaders throughout History. June.

Sexual Predators. 1.5-hour ONLINE presentation to Psychotherapy Division,

Dept of Psychiatry, Icahn Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York City.

May 16.

“Co-sleeping and its discontents. With a discussion by Dr. Aileen Kim.”

ONLINE. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, Richmond, VA. February.

“What is a normal person? From a psychoanalytic standpoint.” Professor

Taryn Myers’s Course on Abnormal Psychology, Virginia Wesleyan

College, ONSITE.

 

  • 2023 “The deleterious effects of co-sleeping at each stage of child development.”

1.5-hour ONLINE presentation to Psychotherapy Division,

Dept of Psychiatry, Icahn Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York City

“168 Psychoanalytic Terms which have been lost, faded out, or not caught

on.” Association International Interactions de le Psychanalyse (A2IP). ONLINE. Paris, France.

“Why men have extramarital affairs.” 1.5-hour ONLINE presentation to

Psychotherapy Division, Dept of Psychiatry, Icahn Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. October.

“Rescue fantasies, Splitting, Idealization, Inhibition of Critical Judgment, and Magical Parental Transferences to Presidents as an Antidote to Fear.”  Psychohistory Forum ONLINE.  January.

“Denial and Minimization of Danger throughout History.” International

Psychohistory Association ONLINE.