Bio

 

Billie Pivnick, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY, specializing in treating children and families confronting difficulties with traumatic loss, including those that result from adoption and mass catastrophe.  She is faculty and supervisor in the William Alanson White Institute Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, the New Directions Program in Psychoanalytic Writing, Columbia University Teachers College Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program, and is former head of the Graduate Dance Therapy Program at Pratt Institute.

Dr. Pivnick is the co-chair of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee of APA’s Division 39 and is co-host of the podcast Couched which features conversations between analysts and various artists, academics, and cultural influencers. She also co-founded The Community Collaboratory, a web-based learning community (sponsored by Div. 39 Sections 9 and 5) for psychoanalysts working in community settings.

Further, she is the Consulting Psychologist to the Parkside School and to Thinc Design, the exhibition designers partnered with the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, the Connecticut Science Center, and The Smithsonian. She is the winner of Division 39’s 2015 Schillinger Memorial Essay Award for her essay, “Spaces to Stand In: Applying Clinical Psychoanalysis to the Relational Design of the National September 11 Memorial Museum,” and IPTAR’s 1992 Stanley Berger Award for the contribution to psychoanalysis made by her research.

Dr. Pivnick is the author of some two dozen articles published in academic texts and peer-reviewed journals. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, and is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

 

HONORS

2015  Recipient of the Schillinger Memorial Essay Award of APA Division 39 Section Five for essay, “Spaces to stand in: Applying clinical psychoanalysis to the relational design of the National September 11 Memorial Museum.”

1992  Recipient of the Stanley Berger Award of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research for the contribution made to the field of psychoanalysis by the Ph.D. dissertation, “Symbolization and its discontents: The impact of threatened object loss on the discourse and symptomatology of hospitalized psychotic patients.”