CURRICULUM VITAE

ERIC J. PETERS, PH.D.
17 Housatonic St.
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 418-7691 (office) ~ (888) 665-7247 (fax)

Education:
2008-2012	Post-doctoral Fellowship, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
2003-2007	Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1993-1996	B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Professional Affiliations:
       2011-	American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
       2004-	Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Personality Assessment 
2004-	American Psychological Association, Division 39 
2004-	International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia 

Publications:
Peters, E., Handler, L., White, K., & Winkel, J. (2008). ‘Am I going crazy, doc?’: A self psychology approach to Therapeutic Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 90, 421–434, 2008
Hilsenroth, M., Menaker, J., Peters, E., & Pincus, A. (2007). Borderline Personality Disorder and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 14, 365-376.
Peters, E., Hilsenroth, M., Eudell, E., Blagys, M., & Handler, L. (2006). Reliability and validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale in clinical use. Psychotherapy Research, 16, 606-614.
Hilsenroth, M., Peters, E., & Ackerman, S. (2004). The development of therapeutic alliance during psychological assessment: Patient and therapist perspectives across treatment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 83, 332-344.

Selected Paper Presentations:
Peters, E. & Biedermann, C. (2009) Traumas of Impingement and Traumas of Absence: An Exploratory
        Rorschach Study. Presented at the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, 
        Washington D.C.
Peters, E. (2009). Psychodynamic psychotherapy with psychotic patients: An analysis of longitudinal
        change. Presented at the New England Society for Psychotherapy Research (NESPR) Fall Conference,
        Williams, MA. 
Dellinger, L., Peters, E., & Handler, L. (2007). Assessment of object relational functioning using the Rorschach and TAT: A study of self-injurers. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Washington, D.C.	
Peters, E. (2006). What to do when Big Bird comes after you: Working with visual hallucinations in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Presented at the Division 39 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 
Peters, E., Handler, L., & White, K. (2006). 'Am I going crazy doc': Therapeutic Assessment with a severely disturbed male. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA.
Sims, C., Handler, L., Peters, E., Edlis, G., & Dellinger, L. (2006). Use of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale as an indicator of psychological functioning in an outpatient sample. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA.
Peters, E., Karon, B., & Sims, C. (2005). Pre- to post-treatment change in the object relations of schizophrenic patients: And/also/if/only response-ability. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses, Boston, MA.
Peters, E., Karon, B., Sims, C., Handler, L., & Kinney, A. (2005). Pre- to post-treatment change in the object relations of schizophrenic patients. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.
Peters, E., Handler, L., White, K., & Winkel, J. (2005). Therapeutic assessment with a pre-psychotic male patient. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.
Hoffman, P., Martin, B., Sims, C., & Peters, E. (2004). Object relations and defensive functioning. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.
Peters, E. & Hilsenroth, M. (2004). Object relations and interpersonal behavior: Concurrent validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Miami, FL.
Hoffman, P., Martin, B., Sims, C., & Peters, E., Haag, I., et al. (2004). Object relations and segregated systems using the Adult Attachment Projective and the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Miami, FL.
Peters, E., Blagys, M., Eudell, E., & Hilsenroth, M. (2003). Reliability and validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale in clinical use. Presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Francisco, CA.