Education

Harvard University
Ed.D.

Human Development, March, l988.

Dissertation supervised by Jerome Kagan.

University of Chicago

Human Development, one year graduate study towards Ph.D.

Harvard University

Ed.M.

Counseling & Consulting Psychology, 1979-1980.

Lawrence University

B.A.

English and Music (vocal performance) double major, l973-l977.

Professional Appointments

St. Michael’s College

Colchester, VT

Professor: Teaching clinical courses; 1996-present.

Bryn Mawr College

Dept. of Psychology 

Bryn Mawr, PA

Assistant Professor:  Teaching developmental and clinical courses to graduate Clinical Developmental students and to undergraduates; supervising dissertations and masters theses; leading research training groups; September 1989-1996.

Boston Institute for Psychotherapy

Instructor:  Taught course to practicing psychologists and social workers doing post-graduate work: "New Research on Infancy", January, l989.

Mt. Ida Jr. College

Newton, MA

Part-time Lecturer:  Taught three under-graduate "Introduction to Psychology" courses and one upper level course, "Psychology of the Life Cycle", 1984-5.

Harvard Graduate

School of Education

Teaching Fellow: Advanced Seminar in

Family Therapy for Dr. Rachel Hare- Mustin; Taught every other class meeting; trained students in various family therapy techniques; presented

theory; graded papers and exams; led           

exercises; Spring l983; Fall 1983.

Teaching Fellow: Adolescent Development

for Dr. Carol Gilligan; instructed a weekly class of graduate students; led discussions; graded papers and exams; Spring, l984.

Teaching Fellow: Psychology of Moral

Development for Dr. Carol Gilligan; instructed a weekly class of graduate students; led discussions; graded papers and exams; Spring l984.

Melrose-Mindoro High School, Wisconsin

English Teacher Taught sophomore and junior English classes; directed school musical; l977-78.

Honors and Awards

Editorial Board for American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Elected to Board of the Association for Moral Education 1998-2001

Elected to be a “Fellow” of Division 35 Psychology of Women) by the American Psychological Association. 1998.

Grant from the MacArthur Foundation for research in the development of morality in the second year of life, l985.

Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in Adult Development and Aging, University of Chicago, l982.

Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, Lawrence University, l977.

Membership in Professional Organizations

American Psychological Association

Division 35 (Women) -- Fellow

Association for Moral Education (Board Member)

Board Member of  Neighborkeepers (a project to fight poverty through community connections)

Steering Committee, Anti-Violence Prevention project in Vermont

American Orthopsychiatry Association

Society for Research in Child Development (1989-1996)

Supported Research

Faculty Grants, Saint Michael’s College. The Secret Lives of Girls; An Internet Survey on Childhood Sexual Play & Games

Grant from the Social Science Research Council at Saint Michael’s College. “The Secret Lives of Girls”

Faculty Grant, l990-9l, Bryn Mawr Coll. "Signs of Early Empathy in a Daycare Setting" and "A Survey of Normal Childhood Sexual Play & Games"

Faculty Grant, l991-92, Bryn Mawr Coll.

"Response to Distress in a Daycare Setting"; "Moral Development of Toddlers of Adolescent Mothers"

Biomedical Research Grant, l991-92

“Physiological Aspects of Early Moral Development"

PEW Award for a Summer Assistant, l99l; “Physiological Aspects of Early Moral Development"

Scholarly Publications

BOOKS

Lamb, S. & Brown, L. M. (August, 2006). Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Dreams, NY: St. Martin's Press.
 

Lamb, S. (August, 2006) Sex, Therapy, & Kids: Addressing their Concerns through Talk and Play,  NY: W.W. Norton.
 

Lamb, S., & Murphy, J. (Eds.) (2002)Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy, NY: Oxford University Press.

Lamb, S. (March, 2002) The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do -- Sex Play, Aggression, and their Guilt. NY: Free Press.

Lamb, S. (Ed.) (1999), New Versions Of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept. New York University Press.

Lamb, S. (1996). The Trouble with Blame: Victims, Perpetrators and Responsibility. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kagan, J., & Lamb, S. (1987). The Emergence of Morality in Young Children, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  ARTICLES & CHAPTERS 

Lamb, S. (2006). Truth and Forgiveness. In N. Potter (Ed.), Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Lamb, S. (2006). Forgiveness, Women, and Responsibility to the Group, Human Rights.

Remillard, A., & Lamb, S. (2005).  Adolescent girls’ coping with relational aggression.  Sex Roles.

Lamb, S. (2005) Forgiveness therapy: The context and conflict or spring cleaning for a “spotless mind”, submitted to the Journal of Theoretical Psychology and Philosophy. 

Lamb, S. (2004) Sexual Tensions in Girls’ Friendships. Feminism & Psychology, 14, 376-382.

Lamb, S. (2003). Not with my Daughter. Psychotherapy Networker, May/June, 44-49. 

Lamb, S. (2003) The psychology of condemnation: Underlying emotions and their symbolic expression in condemning and blaming.  Brooklyn Law Review, 68, 929-958.

Haaken, J., & Lamb, S. (2000). The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse.  Society, 37, (4) in a symposium entitled “Classifying Sexual Behavior.”

Lamb, S. (1999) Constructing the victim: Popular images and lasting labels.  In Lamb, S. (Ed.) (1999), New Versions Of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept. New York University Press.

Lamb, S., & Feeny, N. C. (1999). New Directions in Early Moral Development: Toward a    More Neutral Approach, In W. Van Haaften (Ed.), Moral education and moral development: Recent theoretical and empirical approaches.

Lamb, S. (1997) Sex education and moral education: Teaching for pleasure, about fantasy, and against abuse.  Journal of Moral Education.

Lamb, S., & Zakhireh, B. (1997). Toddlers' Attention to Distress of Peers in a Daycare Setting, Early Education and Development.

Lamb, S., & Keon, S. (1995) Blaming the perpetrator: Language that distorts reality in writing about men battering women, Psychology of Women Quarterly, 19, 209-220.

Lamb, S., & Feeny, N. C. (1995). Early Moral Sense and Socialization. In J. Gewirtz and Kurtines (Eds), Introduction to moral development, NY: Allyn & Bacon.

Lamb, S., & Edgar-Smith, S. (1994). Aspects of disclosure. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 9, 307-326.  

Becker, D., & Lamb, S. (1994). Sex bias in the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 25, 55-61.

Lamb, S., & Coakley, M. (1993). Normal childhood sexual play and games: Differentiating play from abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect, 17, 515-526.

Lamb, S. (1993). First moral sense: An examination of the appearance of morally related behaviours in the second year of life, Journal of Moral Education, 22, 97-109.

Lamb, S. (1992). An objectivist in social constructionist clothing. American Psychologist, 47, 80-81.

Lamb, S. (1992). The beginnings of morality. In A. Garrod (Ed.), Emerging Themes in Moral Development, NY: Teacher's College Press.

Lamb, S. (1991). Internal state words: Their relation to moral development and maternal communications about moral development. First Language, 11, 391-406.

Lamb, S. (1991). Acts without agents: An analysis of linguistic avoidance in the professional literature on men who batter women. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 61, 250-257.

Lamb, S. (1991). First moral sense: Aspects of and contributors to a beginning morality in the second year of life. In W. Kurtines and J. Gewirtz (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development: Vol. 2. Research (pp. 171-189). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lamb, S., Cullinan, M., & Edgar-Smith, S. (1991). Normal" Childhood Sexual Play: An examination of adults' memories of mutual delight, perceptions of normality, and extent of coercion in the sexual games they played as children In L. M. Mauro and J. H. Woods (Eds.), Building bridges: Interdisciplinary research in child abuse and neglect, Phil., PA: Child Welfare Training and Research Institute, 23-34.

Lamb, S., & Hare-Mustin, R. T. (1990).          therapists' fantasies in working with couples: The unstable triad, In R. Chasin, H. Grunebaum, & M. Herzig (Eds.), One couple: Four realities: Multiple perspectives on couple therapy, NY: Guilford.

Jellinek, M. S., Murphy, J.M., Robinson, X., Feins, X., Fenton, T., and Lamb, S. (1988).      Pediatric symptom checklist: Screening school age children for psychosocial dysfunction. Pediatrics.

Lamb, S. (1987). Treating sexually abused children: A reply. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57.

Lamb, S. (1986). Treating sexually abused children:     Issues of blame and responsibility,

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 56.

Hare-Mustin, R. T., & Lamb, S. (1984). Attitudes of counselors who see adolescents and their families. Journal of Marital and Family_Therapy.

REVIEWS: 

Lamb, S. (2004) Untitled review of Reavey and Warner (eds) New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Scripts and Dangerous Dialogues, for British Women’s Review of Books.

Lamb, S. (2003) Untitled review of Carol Gilligan’s The Birth of Pleasure,published in Journal of Moral Education,(July).

Lamb, S. (2003) Too Many Cooks: APA Experts on Teen-age Girls.  Review of Zager and Rubenstein’s  The Inside Story on Teen Girls: Experts Answer Teens’/Parents’ Questions (APA) published in Psychology of Women Quarterly

Lamb, S.  (2003) Untitled review of Dylan Evans’ Emotions: The Science of Sentiment, (Oxford UP) published in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Lamb, S. (2001) Fighting Femmes.  Review of Dana Jack’s The Mask of Anger, Harvard U. P.,  to be published in Feminism and Psychology.

Lamb, S. (1999). Everything nice, and not. Review of Lyn Mikel Brown’s (1998) Raising their voices; Harvard UP; review appearing in Readings: Journal of the Orthopsychiatry Association, June.

Lamb, S. (1999). Of L. May’s, Masculinity & Morality, Cornell University Press.  For Journal of Moral Education.

Lamb, S. (1995).  Of H. S. Ghuman & R. M.

Sarles (Eds). Handbook of adolescent inpatient psychiatric treatment. for Child Development Abstracts.

Lamb, S. (1995). Of A. Fogel (l993). Developing Through Relationships: Origins of Communication, Self, and Culture, for Psycholinguistics.

Lamb, S., & Wozniak, R. (1990). Of J. Valsiner (Ed.) Child development within culturally structured environments: Vols. 1 & 2. Developmental coconstruction: metatheory in search of method. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 853-854.

OP-ED PIECES: 

Lamb, S. & Brown, L. M. (2005) “Lipstick and Lace, " Boston Globe, December.

Lamb, S. “Sex: When its Child’s Play”, Boston Globe, April, 1997.

Lamb, S.  “False Remedies Hinder Abuse Prevention”, Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1997.

Lamb, S. “Some Victims Don’t Need Pity,” Boston Globe, July, 1999.

Editorial Reviews

Signs

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

Child Abuse & Neglect.

Psychology of Women Quarterly.

American Psychologist

Violence & Victims

John Wiley & Sons, Oxford University Press, Westview Press, Cornell University Press.

Lectures & Conferences  

Chair, Symposium, Sexualization of Girls.APA (New Orleans, Aug. 2006). 

Packaging Girlhood: Stereotypes of Girls through Marketers’ Schemes, APA (New Orleans, Aug. 2006).

Forgiveness in Couples Therapy:  Obscuring the “Truth”/Reinstating the Status Quo. Paper in symposium for a Presidential Hour at APA (New Orleans, Aug. 2006).  

Repression and Forgiveness: An Examination of Pseudoforgiveness, with Francesca Anelli. Poster presented at the Association for Moral Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.  

Packaging Girlhood: Stereotypes of Girls in the Media, with Lyn Mikel-Brown, at the Association for Women in Psychology conference (Ypsilanti, Apr. 2006). 

Plenary speaker. Association for Women in Psychology, Sexual Tensions and Aggressive Acts in Girls’ Friendships.  Philadelphia (Feb. 2004).

Whose Story Now?  Victim Narratives and Victim Performances. Paper given at the annual meetings of the APA (Toronto, August. 2003)

 Forgiveness Therapy: The Context and Conflict for Victims of Violence. Paper given at the annual meetings of the APA (Toronto, August. 2003)

The Evolution of Responsibility: Chidren and the Law.  Talk given at the Association for Moral Education (Krakow, July, 2003)

Invited Discussant for “Narratives of Trauma & Resilience: Variations on a Theme” Association for Women in Psychology, (New Jersey, Feb. 2003).

Invited Discussant for “Turning Trauma On Its Head”. Association for Women in Psychology, (New Jersey, Feb. 2003).

The Secret Lives of Girls.  Varying lectures on this topic presented at the following colleges and meetings: 

Colby College, ME (March 2002);

Division of Psychoanalytic Therapy in APA meetings (NY April, 2002);

Harvard Graduate School of Education (April 2002);

Fairhaven College, WA (May 2002);

Adult Development Association Annual Meeting (New York, June, 2002);

Russell Sage College (Troy, NY November, 2002);

Hiram College (OH, Feb. 2003); Swarthmore College (PA, April, 2003); University of Vermont (November, 2003)

Keynote speaker.  Adolescence and Sexuality: Pleasure, Power, and Pain. Vermont Network Against Violence; training workshop for youth advocates. 

Plenary speaker for national conference, “Transforming the Conversation” Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. (Burlington, Aug, 2003).

University of Maine invited speaker for all day workshop on girls: “Girls will be girls? Sex, Aggression, and Self-Image” (October 2002)

Brooklyn Law School invited respondent for symposium on “Responsibility and Blame: Psychological and Legal Perspectives” (October 2002)

Good Girls and Guilt.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education, (2000) Glasgow, Scotland.

Remorse, Reparation, and Forgiveness of Sex Offenders.  Paper presented at the XXVIIth meetings of the International Congress of Psychology, (2000) Stockholm, Sweden.

Current Images and Lasting Labels: New Versions of Victims paper presented    at the annual conference of the Association of Women in Psychology (1999), Providence, Rhode Island.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and the Construction of Victims, paper presented at the annual meeting of the APA (1999), August, Boston.

Excessive Behaviors and Attributions of Responsibility (with Brooke Gincavage). Paper accepted for presentation at the American Orthopsychiatric Association Conference (1999, Washington, D.C.)

Program committee, discussant, and chair for several panels at the Association for Moral Education meetings at Dartmouth College,  November,1998.

Forgiveness in Civic Life.  Paper presented at the Association for Moral Education meetings in Atlanta, November, 1997.

The Making of Victims; the Development of Perpetrators, paper given at the Trinity College Gender Development   Symposium, October, 1997.

New Versions of Victims, paper given at APA, August, 1997, in Chicago.

Coping and Sexual Abuse: Problems of Definition, Measurement, and Neglect of the Unconscious.  Paper presented at the 5^th International Family Violence      Laboratory Research Conference at Durham, NH.

Sex, Sex Education, and Moral Development, paper given at the Association for Moral Education, Ottawa, November, 1996.

The Making of Victims; the Development of Perpetrators, paper given at the National Conference on Child Victimization, Washington, D.C., November, 1995.

Early Moral Development" Toward a More     Neutral Approach, paper given at the Association for Moral Education, New York, November, 1995.

Effects of Repeated Questioning on Preschoolers (APA, August, 1995)

New Directions in Early Moral Development,  Invited Speaker, by the National Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development, The Netherlands, June, 1995.

Moral Development of Toddlers of Adolescent Mothers (SRCD, March, 1995).

Toddlers' Attention to Distress in Peers Sept, l994, Child Development Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood    Johnson Medical Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Toddlers' Attention to Distress in Peers

Jean Piaget Society, June, l993.

Morality in the Second Year of Life:  Physiological Correlates, Society for Research in Child Development.    March, l993.

Attention to Distress in Toddlers  Society for Research in Child Development. March, l993.

Social Therapy or Psychotherapy.  Eating Disorders and Feminism:A Contradiction in Terms?  Bryn Mawr College, February, l993.

Physiological correlates to moral development in toddlers. Psychology Department. Yale University, September, l992

Differential Moral Responsivity in the     Second Year of Life.  World Association of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, September, l992.

Differentiating Play from Abuse National Symposium on Child Abuse and Neglect, May, l992

Disclosure of Sexual Abuse and its Effects on Adult Outcome, National Symposium on Child Abuse and Neglect, May, l992

International Society for Play Therapy: presented workshop on "Teaching Play Therapy: Working with Issues of Counter- Transference", Breckenridge, CO, October 1991.

American Psychological Association (APA):  presented two research papers, "Acts Without Agents: Linguistic Avoidance in Journal Articles on Men Battering Women" through Division 35 (Psychology of Women) and "Normal Childhood Sexual Play and Games: Differentiating Play from Abuse" through Division 9 (Society for the Study of Social and Psychological Issues). San Francisco, August, l99l.

Temple University Conference on Research in Child Abuse and Neglect: presented paper on pilot study of the Normal Childhood Sexual Play and Games study, June, l990.

Eastern Psychological Association (EPA):presented research paper, "Transgressing in the Second Year of Life: Some Social Interactional Patterns between Mother and Child around Prohibitions", Philadelphia, March, l990.

Human Development Conference:  presented research on early childhood transgressions, Richmond, VA March, l990.

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD): Presented research paper "The Beginnings of Morality", Kansas City, April, l989.

Harvard Medical School of Continuing Education; lecture on moral issues in the treatment of sexual abuse, March, l989.

Harvard Medical School of Continuing Education; lead workshop on alternative approaches to long-term treatment of sexual abuse victims, March, l989.

Boston Institute for the Development of    Infants and their Parents; seminar on "The Beginnings of Morality"; November,1988.

Simmons College, Boston; guest lecturer on sexual abuse, l988.

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; guest lecturer on "The Origins of Empathy";l985.

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; guest lecturer on "Child Sexual Abuse: Causes and Treatment"; l985.

Mass. General Hospital; guest lecturer for the Lunchtime Series on "The Psychology of Abuse", l985.

Mt. Vernon Academy, Northfield, Mass.; guest lecturer for faculty workshop on Carol Gilligan's work and its application in the teaching of Literature, "In a Different Voice: Some Teaching Applications", l985.

Harvard University; chairman of Human Development Colloquium, l985.

Harvard University; scribe for national conference on the origins of early moral concepts; l984.

Harvard Medical School of Continuing Education; led workshop called "Working   with Couples", l983.

Research Experience:    

(Prior to College Teaching)

NIMH

Post-Doctoral Fellow

1988-1989 

The Victim Recovery Study; served as an NIMH Clinical Research Fellow researching childhood sexual abuse and the consequences of disclosure.  Conducted research; reviewed grants; analyzed data; wrote articles.

Project Director

1986-87

Development of a Brief Psychosocial Screening Instrument; directed administration, data collection, and data analysis for a validation study led by the Chief of Outpatient Service at Mass. General on an instrument pediatricians can use to determine which children may need psychological evaluations.

Director of Interview Study

1982, l984

Stress and Coping in Medical Students; directed interview study led by Drs. Carol Gilligan, Malkah Notman, & Carol Nadelson at New England Medical Center. Designed developmental/clinical interview; arranged interviewer training workshops; interviewed 25% of sample; supervised work-study students.

Research Assistant

1982-84

Assisted Dr. Hare-Mustin in preparing a    chapter on women and psychotherapy for The Women's Annual, l983; and on a project examining attitudes toward motherhood in China; reviewed literature and wrote critiques; interviewed women for pilot study.

Interviewed for project on student values at the University of Chicago with Dr. Fred Strodtbeck.

Research Assistant

1980-81

Worked with Dr. Carol Gilligan on a project examining women's development and late adolescents' ethical reasoning; coded data; interviewed subjects; analyzed interviews.

Clinical Experience

The Creamery Associates

(1998-present)

Psychologist: private practice providing psychotherapy to children and families.

Child Study Institute

1989-1996

Psychologist: providing psychotherapy for individuals and families, supervising students, teaching play therapy workshop.

Montgomery County

Bar Association

Psychologist/Evaluator: providing sexual abuse and divorce/custody evaluations for the court when requested.

Network of Victim Assistance (NOVA)

1993-present   

Consulting Psychologist:  providing monthly supervision for counseling staff and Director of Counseling in this clinic which offers free service to any victims of violence or sexual abuse in Bucks County.

Judge Baker Children's Center

1988-89

Psychologist: consultant for Department    of Social Services (Massachusetts) workers on child protection cases, did diagnostic, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and custody evaluations; administered and interpreted psychological testing; provided psychotherapy for parents, couples, and children.

Child Psychiatry

Mass. General Hospital

1982-1988 

Clinical Fellow:

Evaluations: did diagnostic, sexual abuse, and divorce and custody evaluations of children and their families; prepared court-ordered reports on many evaluations and appeared in court. 

Testing: administered and interpreted vocational, personality, learning, intellectual, and developmental tests; did a weekly psychological battery for the Eating Disorders Unit; especially experienced in Exner scoring system, WAIS-R, WISC-R, McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development.

Early Childhood: provided therapy for 2-5-year-olds; evaluated psychologically and developmentally children and infants at risk for SIDS and children and infants who were born prematurely; consulted to inpatient wards for developmental and clinical evaluations; conducted sexual abuse evaluations.

Psychotherapy: provided short- and long-term individual therapy for over 30 patients ranging in age from 2 to 28 years; provided play therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, crisis intervention after discovery of sexual abuse, therapy to bulimic and anorectic individuals, and traditional psychodynamically oriented therapy.

Cambridgeport Problem Center

1981

Psychotherapist; Provided therapy for adult, low-income, and minority clients at this multi-service agency; clients were either under major psychosocial stress or significantly disturbed.

Greenhouse, Inc.

1980-81

Intern: Provided therapy for young adult women seeking less traditional and more expressive psychotherapy.

Greater Lawrence Mental Health Center

1980

Intern: Assisted psychologist on hospital visits in order to assess mental status of violent and disturbed patients brought in by the police.  This

first contact involved on the spot counseling with families under stress.

References: 

Catherine Snow, Rachel Hare-Mustin, Jerome Kagan, Jeanne Marecek, Raji Mohan, Barry Krikstone