About me
James E. Gorney, Ph.D. received his Doctorate from the University of Chicago. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship and served on the supervisory staff at the Austen Riggs Center. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute and has taught at New York Hospital-Cornell, Duquesne, and the University of Tennessee. He is the author of various papers on innovations in psychoanalytic theory, Winnicott, Lacan, and self-psychology. He is the recipient of the Hans Strupp award for excellence in psychoanalytic education and the ISPS-US Bertram Karon Memorial award for essay writing. Dr Gorney is currently in independent practice in Knoxville, Tennessee.