Professional
Biography:
Orin
Borders, Ph.D.
California Psychology License
#Psy8742
QUALIFICATIONS
Twenty-five
years of experience doing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy
with
adults and children in private practice, teaching hospital and community mental
health
settings.
EDUCATION
BA
in Anthropology, UC Berkeley 1970
MA
in Social Anthropology, UC
PhD
in Clinical Psychology, UC Davis 1982
AWARDS
Regents Fellowship, University of California, 1975-77
Co-recipient of Devereaux Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journal of Psychological Anthropology, 1978
EXPERIENCE
1984-Present
Psychotherapy
with a large range of troubled individuals, couples, families, adults and
children.
Specialized in long-term relational psychoanalytic
psychotherapy with individuals and couples. Conducted
several many-years-long therapy groups. Conducted
workshops for coulples struggling with the borderline/narcissistic-styled
dynamic. Collaborated with several therapists in long-term conjoint couples therapy. Psychotherapy
supervision.
1982-84
Staff
Psychologist, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
University of California,
Provided
psychotherapy and psychological evaluations to spinal cord injured patients
(paraplegic and quadraplegic), chronic pain patients, and psychosomatic
patients.
Also provided psychological consultation to diverse hospital
services concerning psychological aspects of medical illness, death and
dying.
1980-81
Research Associate, Bi-Valley Medical Clinic
Provided
research consultation and data analysis of extensive study of the use of
limit-setting in the methadone treatment of heroin
addiction.
1977-79
Clinical Director, Midtown Manor Residential
Treatment
Center
Provided psychotherapy to a diverse range of schizophrenic, bi-polar and character-disorded patients and directed/supervised staff of six psychotherapists.
1977-79
Psychological
Intern, Department of Psychiatry,
School
of
Medicine
University
of
California
, DavisProvided psychotherapy to a broad range of patient populations.
1976-77
Psychological Assistant
Conducted
psychological evaluations of children with varied neuromuscular
disabilities.
1974-81
Research
Activities
Worked
as a research assistant and associate on several cross-cultural studies: a
comprehensive Rorschach study of an entire Yukon Eskimo village, a study
comparing/contrasting Chinese and Japanese familial attitudes related to
autonomy, attachment, achievement and family affiliation, a study of the
relevance of familial attitudes to delinquency among lower and middle class
urban Japanese, a study comparing interpersonal attitudes among Black, Hispanic
and White incarcerated young adults. Consulted on a study of
Irish villager interpersonal-familial attitudes. Served as coordinator to
Berkeley/Mount Zion Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Cultural Contributions To Mental Illness. Worked as research
assistant on Rorschach data from NIMH Schizophrenic Twins Project.
PUBLICATIONS
John J.
McCarthy and Orin T. Borders. “Limit setting on drug abuse in methadone
maintenance patients.”
Am. J.
Psychiatry, Dec 1985; 142: 1419 - 1423.
George DeVos and Orin
Borders. "A
Rorschach Comparison of Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Japanese Family
Members." Journal of Psychological
Anthropology. 1979, 2(4):425-442.
George Devos, Lisabeth
Hauswald and Orin Borders. "Cultural Differences in
Family Socialization: A Psychocultural Comparison of Chinese and Japanese. In
Japan Princeton , New
Jersey Princeton University
Alice Yukon
Bryce Boyer, George DeVos,
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