Case Studies in the Lives of Persons

Dr. Wynn Schwartz is a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School where he offers a supervision seminar for The Cambridge Health Alliance. He has been a professor at William James College, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, and Wellesley College, and has served on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of The American Journal of Psychotherapy and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. His research interests include empathy and empathic action; dreaming and problem representation; maturation and behavior change; and the role of liberation, improvisation, and play in psychotherapy. His published work has centered on the theory neutral concept of persons and the detection of nonhuman persons; hypnosis and altered states of consciousness; and the practice and training of empathy. He is the author of Descriptive Psychology and The Person Concept: Essential Attributes of Persons and Behavior, published by Academic Press-Elsevier, 2019. The book's focus is the interdependent, formal, and substantive relations of individual persons, intentional action, culture, language, and world. It was a 2020 American Psychological Association nominee for the William James Book Award. As a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, he maintains a private practice in Boston where he provides individuals and couples.