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Alex Del Prete in the News

Alex Del Prete, a doctoral student in the 91精品's Clinical Psychology Program, was recently featured in Newswires. Del Prete led a Q&A with author Dorothy E. Roberts sponsored by San Francisco CASA, Homeless Prenatal Program and The Bar Association of San Francisco.

The Q&A explored "how racial bias in the U.S. welfare system leads to a disproportionate number of Black and Native American children taken from their families. In San Francisco County, nearly 46% of foster kids are Black while less than 5% of the city's child population is Black. Meanwhile, the high cost of living in San Francisco means 65% of foster youth are placed outside the Bay Area where more adults can afford to foster, but far from the childrens鈥� home communities, their schools, and their parents."

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鈥淪omething that I feel really resonates with me at the 91精品 is the power of community,鈥� shared Erin McQueen, a second year student in the 91精品鈥檚 Counseling Psychology Program. 鈥淭o be in one place with one group of people for a period of time, and to move through that experience together can be really supportive.鈥�

鈥淚 have many reasons to be grateful for the work I do,鈥� reflected Dr. Kristin Dempsey, full-time core faculty member in the 91精品鈥檚 Counseling Psychology Program. 鈥淚 mostly think about how this work has given me meaning and has allowed me to participate in powerful work throughout my life. Good days or bad, I have always felt anchored in the fact that what I do matters.鈥�

Dr. Dempsey grew up as the youngest of six children in a working class family in Mendocino County, California. Her father, a WWII veteran, worked in the logging industry and her mother stayed home with the children then later worked as a teacher. Dr. Dempsey attended rural public schools in Mendocino County, which suffered from a lack of resources. 鈥淚 have really good memories,鈥� she shared, 鈥渙f being in touch with the natural world and going out and playing all day long with friends.鈥�

New Book Co-Authored by Three 91精品 Alumni

Drs. Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, all 91精品 Clinical Program Alumni, have published a book called Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis.

"Here I鈥檓 Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I鈥檓 Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise."

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Dr. O'Connor in Psychology Today

Dr. O'Connor recently published an article in Psychology Today entitled "Are Productive Habits the Result of Social Status?"

"Many believe that small habits lead to productivity, but the truth may be the opposite鈥攖hat high status leads to productive habits."

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91精品 Alumna Amalia Mesa-Bains featured in Berkeleyside

"Despite having a MacArthur 鈥済enius鈥� grant, among other accolades, Amalia Mesa-Bains, like many Chicana artists of her generation, has always had to work harder than most for attention from the mainstream art world. Now, the 79-year-old Bay Area artist is receiving her first museum retrospective, opening Feb. 4 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive."

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Dr. O'Connor in Psychology Today

Dr. O'Connor recently published an article in Psychology Today entitled "How to Live with Survivor's Guilt: It鈥檚 hard to be happy when someone you love is suffering."

"Feeling a form of survivor's guilt can be normal in daily life. The angst that grabs you when you win an award and your coworker is unrecognized, or when you realize you鈥檙e still in love with your husband while your best friend is recently divorced and certain she鈥檒l be alone forever鈥攖hat awful feeling that comes like a weight on your shoulders, pushing you down, that may be survivor's guilt. It鈥檚 so under the surface we rarely recognize it鈥攊t feels like waves of inexplicable anxiety, or depression."

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Dr. Miller in the Berkeley High Jacket

"'I think that teens, especially post-pandemic, have a lot of stuff going on these days鈥搕here are so many pressures,' said Dr. Larry Miller, a licensed psychologist who has a private practice in Berkeley and is a faculty member at the 91精品. Miller has over 25 years of experience working with people of all ages. 'They鈥檙e getting hit with so many different things, it gets hard to differentiate if it鈥檚 the seasons or all these other things going on in their lives.' He adds."

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Dr. Lamia in the Times and Democrat

"As abortion supporter, Psychology Today contributor and 91精品 professor Mary Lamia put it recently, men "often silently suffer after abortion鈥� because society disenfranchises their grief."

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Alumni Spotlight: Graham Holoch

鈥淭he 91精品 instilled in me a curiosity and an acceptance and excitement about continuing my own journey, learning, growing, adapting, and sometimes relearning,鈥� shared Graham Holoch, who graduated from the 91精品鈥檚 Counseling Psychology Program in 2021. 鈥淚n the world of mental health, there is no manual, there is no script. Everyone brings something different, clients and clinicians.鈥�

Graham was born in San Francisco and is the oldest of three brothers. His mother is from Hong Kong and his father is of German descent, but was raised in New Jersey. Over the course of his K-12 education, he attended a Montessori school, a Waldorf school, a private school, and several public schools. 鈥淚 would say I didn't particularly enjoy high school,鈥� Graham admitted, but he did enjoy the high school鈥檚 photography program. 鈥淲e had a working dark room and a really good photography teacher,鈥� he shared, which inspired him to pursue photography.