Dr Gibbs Williams - Synchronicities and Coincidences

Gibbs A. Williams. Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York.
His choice of profession is an outgrowth of three major interests -
philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. He received a B.A.
from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy; an M.S. in
psychology from Yeshiva University; and a Ph.D. in vocational
rehabilitation counseling from New York University. His
dissertation topic studied the relationship among male heroin
addicts, selected treatment programs, and ego weakness. He
continued his involvement with addiction, working with a number of
New York substance abuse programs. He was the assistant director of
Odyssey House, a therapeutic community. His duties included
planning, developing, and coordinating therapy; participating in
overall policy decisions and patient evaluations; administering and
interpreting psychological tests; leading and supervising
individual, group, and marathon therapy sessions; giving lectures
and conducting educational seminars; participating in,
coordinating, and leading family and marital therapy groups;
organizing and administering a group home (''the pressure cooker'')
for thirty addicts. Other substance abuse programs included
Samaritan Village (formerly known as The Samaritan Half-Way
Society) as well as the female program run by the New York State
Narcotics Control Commission. He was the primary care consultant
for The Lowell Institute, an outpatient program for substance
abusers (drugs and alcohol). He received a certificate in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy from The Greenwich Institute in 1980
and went on to become an instructor and supervisor in the same
institute. The courses he taught there included Ego Strength/Ego
Weakness; Ego Psychology; and Transference/ Countertransference. He
taught a course on crisis intervention to incoming interns for ten
years. Additionally he has taught at other colleges and learning
centers in New York. These include New York University, The New
York School For Social Research, Adelphi University, The Discovery
Center, and The Open Center. He is also on the faculty of The
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, on the alcoholism
training faculty. Other courses he has taught include:
Psychopathology and Mental Health; The Addictive Personality;
Psychoanalysis and The Occult; Decoding Meaningful Coincidences:
Spirituality And The Agnostic Addict; Coping With Hard Times
(stress management), Crisis Intervention and Psychoanalysis, and
Striving For Wholeness: Preventing Substance Abuse in
Pre-Teens.

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