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Arthur Lynch
Adjunct Associate Professor

Dr. Lynch has taught courses at CUSSW in Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Clinical Applications to Psychopathology, and Ego Psychology and Object Relations Theory since 1983. Dr. Lynch received a D.S.W. from Columbia University in 1983 and an M.S.W. in 1976 from Adelphi University.

Since earning his MSW, Dr. Lynch has worked in a diversity of settings including: family and children¹s services, substance abuse services and mental health services. In these fields Dr. Lynch has held a variety of positions from clinician through supervisor to director. Currently, he is the Director of Mental Health Services for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation¹s Office of Correctional Health Services. Dr. Lynch's publications include:

Lynch, A.A., Richards, A.D. (1999) An Historical Overview: From Ego Psychology to Contemporary Conflict Theory.

Richards, A.D., & Lynch, A.A. (1997) Merton Gill: A place in the psychoanalytic firmament. The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXIV

Lynch, A.A. (1996) Book review of Psychotherapy of Addicted Persons, by Edward Kaufman. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Vol. 44 (1).

Bachant, J., Lynch, A. and Richards, A. (1996) On Perspectives, theories, model, and friends: A reply to the relationalists. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 13 (1), pp. 153-156.

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