Psychology Professor Earns LIU's Top Honor for Scholarship

C.W. Post Psychologist and Author is 2006 Winner of Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement

Dr. Geoff Goodman of White Plains, N.Y., associate professor of psychology at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has won the University's highest honor for scholarship, the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement (TASA) for a Single Scholarly Work. He won the TASA award based on his first book, The Internal World and Attachment, which was published to critical acclaim in December of 2002.

Goodman, a licensed clinical and school psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and New City, N.Y., received the award in ceremonies at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University on April 27, 2006.

Goodman received a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, a Master of Arts in developmental psychology from Columbia University in 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from Northwestern University in 1991.  He completed a child clinical psychology internship at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, in 1991; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in developmental research at Columbia University under Larry Aber in 1993, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the research and treatment of borderline personality disorder under Frank Yeomans and Otto Kernberg in 1995.

Dr. Goodman was an instructor of psychology in psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College from 1995 to 1998 and was assistant unit chief of the children's psychiatric inpatient unit.  He also holds adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and is an advanced candidate in the child and adult programs at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society. Dr. Goodman is the author of more than a dozen articles on the development of psychopathology in high-risk infants, children and adults. 

The University presents TASA honors every other year to recognize faculty members for extraordinary scholarly achievement.  A jury of distinguished scholars and artists outside the University reviews nominations and selects winners based on their scholarly contributions, especially those achieved while employed at Long Island University, and reputation among academic peers. Winners receive a $1,200 award and engraved medal. Also winning a TASA award this year was Kristina Arp, professor of philosophy at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.

Posted: June 19, 2006