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Biographical Sketch - Charlotte Schwab, Ph.D.

Charlotte Charlotte, Ph.D
Psychotherapist (25 years), lecturer, seminar and workshop leader
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse

Published: May 18, 1998

Specialties:

  • counseling women in recovery from sexual harassment; clergy sexual misconduct - including former wives of clergy; helping women and men create healthy relationships.

Work Experience

  • Former professor, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. - Sociology, Social Psychology, Women's Studies, Social Work

  • Guest Faculty and Keynoter, Hebrew Union College

  • Lecturer, Seminar Leader: Jewish Theological Seminary, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Albert Einstein Medical College, American Psychological Association, etc.: sexual harassment, rabbinic sexual misconduct, gender roles, depression, etc.

Professional Activities:

  • Conducting research and writing on rabbinic sexual misconduct

  • Counseling women in recovery from clergy abuse

Selected publications and papers:

  • "A Training Model for Gynecologists and Psychiatrists: Rape Trauma Syndrome" Mt Sinai Hospital

  • "Values and Therapy: How To Choose A Therapist" in Susan Friedman, et. al. eds., A Woman's Guuide To Therapy: Prentice Hall.

  • "Feminist Therapy, Why is it in such Demand?" Montefiore Hospital/North Central Bronx Departments of Psychiatry

  • "Effective Communication Skills, Introducing a New Model: VECAM (tm)" Contract.

  • "Communication and Negotiation Skills for Women in Business and the Professions" WTIC Hartford.

  • "Self-Esteem and Success" New York Gotham

  • "Helping Women Attain PositiveSelf-Identity and Self-Defined Success," American Psychological Association.

  • "Men and Women: Power, Spirituality and Communication" New York Open Center, 1993.

  • "Ethics for Rabbis: Avoiding Sexual Misconduct" Jewish Theological Seminary. January, 1998.

  • "Acheiving Success in the '90's" Ask Corporate Women. 1996.

  • "Victims of Sexual Abuse by Rabbis Suffer Their Own and Community Denial: A Psychotherapist Gives Seven Steps for Recovery." A Paper Presented with a Seminar at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. January, 1998.