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Overview

My interest in teaching comes from my desire to prepare students to do meaningful work in social, educational, and mental health climates that more often opt for superficial engagement. Rather than reflect these climates, I hope to prepare students to question and creatively address them. I hope to convey this is in both the content I teach as well as in my approach to the material and in what I embody as a clinician and teacher.

I believe this kind of teaching and learning happens in relationship. I enjoy and actively foster my relationships with students. I am available to mentor, support, and challenge students as they undergo the educational and developmental processes required to become effective and ethical clinicians.

I teach at Adler because its mission supports critical and creative thinking about the climates we live, learn, and practice in, as well as a relationship-based approach to education. I appreciate the opportunity to work and teach in a thoughtful climate focused on excellence and integrity.

Education

Board Certification in Assessment Psychology, American Board of Assessment Psychology, June 2018.

Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Austen Riggs Center (Stockbridge, MA), May 2010.

Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (Boston, MA), June 2006.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (BA), Concentration in Gender Studies, Davidson College (Davidson, NC), May 1999.

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Assessment Psychology, Fellow

American Board of Assessment Psychology, Diplomate

American Psychoanalytic Association, Active Member

American Psychological Association, Member
Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women, Member since 2020
Division 39, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Member since 2007
Division 56, Division of Trauma Psychology, Member since 2020

Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis- Clinical Associate Faculty

Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Member

Illinois Psychological Association, Associate Chair, Women’s Issues Section

International Psychoanalytic Association, Active Member

International Society for Rorschach and Projective Methods, Member

Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), PSYPACT Commission, Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

Society for Personality Assessment, Co-Chair, Psychoanalytic Assessment Interest Group

Select Publications

Biedermann, C. (2021). Teaching a model of formulation for psychoanalytic assessment reports. In Yalof, J. & Bram, A. (Eds.) Psychoanalytic assessment applications for different settings. Routledge.

Biedermann, C., Ridenour, J., & Biel, S. (2019). Psychodynamic psychological testing in the mental health inpatient setting: A way of listening, learning, and holding patients and psychotherapists. In Turel, M. & Siglag, M. (Eds.) Clinical psychology in the mental health inpatient setting. Routledge.

Weinberg, E. & Biedermann, C. (2017). Review of The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy, by Efrat Ginot, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 53(3), 432-440.

Biedermann, C. (2014). Return: A conversation with Liza Johnson, filmmaker. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31(2), 245-254.

Biedermann, C. (2014). Untold Stories, Hidden Wounds: War Trauma and Its Treatment, A Conference at the Austen Riggs Center, October 12-13, 2012. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31(2), 179-181.

Fowler, J.C., Hilsenroth, M.J., Groat, M., Biel, S., Biedermann, C., & Ackerman, S. (2012). Risk factors for medically serious suicide attempts: Evidence for a psychodynamic formulation of suicidal crisis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60(3), 555-576.

Biedermann, C. (2011). Establishing a transference. DIVISION/Review, 1(3), 34-35.

Select Presentations

Career Development Plenary (March 2023). Invited plenary presentation at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, Austin, TX.
Common Pitfalls and Roadblocks to Successful Assessment Training (March 2022). Invited panel presentation at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, Chicago, IL.
Keeping Supervisors in Mind (March 2022). Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, Chicago, IL.
Creating Everyday Feminist Advocacy: Building Identity, Community, and Hope (March 2022). Workshop presented at the annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference, Chicago, IL.
Navigating Graduate School, Clinical Training, and Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic (October 2021). Chaired virtual graduate student roundtable at the annual Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
Gender, Feminism, and Violence Against Women: Student Roundtable (October 2021). Proposed and chaired virtual graduate student roundtable at the annual Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
In Transition: Change in a Transgender Patient (March 2021). Paper presented virtually at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference.
Daring to Psychoanalyze Truth Embedded in Internet Memes (October 2020). Invited participant in virtual graduate student roundtable at the annual Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
In Transition: Change in a Transgender Patient (March 2020). Paper presented virtually at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference. (Conference canceled).
Case Presentation (March 2020). Invited presentation at the Assessment and the Analytic Identity Discussion Group, American Psychoanalytic Association. (Conference canceled).
Psychoanalytic Integration: Reflections and Possibilities (March 2018). Chair, Presenter, and Discussant on an integrated panel entitled Neurocognitive Testing, Personality Assessment, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: An Integrative Clinical Illustration at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, Washington, DC.
The Personality Assessment (March 2017). Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Change: A Review of Major Efforts to Assess Therapeutic Change Using Projective Measures. (March 2016). Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, Chicago, IL.
Locating Ourselves in the Legacy: Where Are We in the Practice and Teaching of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Assessment? (March 2015). Moderator and participant in a roundtable discussion at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New York, NY.
Cognitive and Emotional Vulnerabilities Contributing to Treatment Resistance. (April 2013). Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, San Diego, CA.
Dependency and Defense: Using Projective Tests to Understand Self-Destructive Uses of ECT. (April 2010). Poster presented at the Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Traumas of Impingement and Traumas of Absence: An Exploratory Rorschach Study. (November 2009). Eric J. Peters & Christina Biedermann. Paper presented at the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Washington, D.C.
Patients at Risk: Predicting Remission from Suicidal Ideation Using the SCORS. (April 2008). A. Jill Clemence, Adrian Bailey, Spencer Biel, Christina B. Coulombe, & Michael Groat. Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Real Time: Clinical Utility of SCORS Ratings and the TAT as Applied to an Ongoing Clinical Case. (April 2008). Christina B. Coulombe, J. Christopher Fowler, Steven Ackerman, & Adrian Bailey. Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New Orleans, LA.
The Rorschach Suicide Constellation and Medically Serious Attempts. (April 2008). Michael Groat, J. Christopher Fowler, Steven Ackerman, Spencer Biel, & Christina B. Coulombe. Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New Orleans, LA.
The Rorschach and Medically Serious Suicide Attempts: The Riggs Index. (April 2008). J. Christopher Fowler, Steven Ackerman, Spencer Biel, Christina B. Coulombe, & Michael Groat. Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New Orleans, LA.
TAT vs. RAP: Assessing Object Relations Across Stimuli. (April 2008). Adrian Bailey, J. Christopher Fowler, Steven Ackerman, Spencer Biel, A. Jill Clemence, Christina B. Coulombe, & Michael Groat. Paper presented at the annual Society for Personality Assessment Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Awards

Adler University Excellence In Teaching Award, May 2022

Adler University Seed Grant, Chicago, IL, May-August 2022
Title: Bring Little Explorers to the Avondale Restorative Justice Court
Collaborator: Angela Sedeno, PhD

Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, June 2004-August 2005
Title: Encountering Privilege: The Effects of the Racial and Social Class Differential on the Identity Development of Disadvantaged
African-American Students at an Independent Boarding Schoo

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