Judith Siegel MSW, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Curriculum Vitae
judith.siegel@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5949
bio
Judith Siegel has been a faculty member of the School of Social Work at NYU for the past twelve years. Prior to joining our faculty she was a faculty member of Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Siegel's most recent book is titled What Children Learn From Their Parents Marriage (2000; Harper Collins). Intimacy and family relationships are her areas of expertise, and other books on this subject include Repairing Intimacy (1992; Jason Aronson), and Countertransference and Couples Therapy (1997; Norton). Recent journal articles relating to couples include: The Dyadic Splitting Scale in The American Journal of Family Therapy (2002); The Re-enactment of Abuse in the Marital Relationship in the Journal of Family Social Work (2001); Destructive Conflict in Non-violent Couples: A Treatment Guide, in Journal of Emotional Abuse (1999); Defensive Splitting in Couples Treatment in the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis (1998); Countertransference as Projective Identification in the Journal of Couples (1995); Analysis of Projective Identification, in the Journal of Clinical Social Work (1991), and Money and Marriage in the Journal of Independent Social Work (1990). She has also written and co-authored several articles on premenstrual syndrome and on the psychosomatic consequences of divorce.
Dr. Siegel's primary focus is couples treatment, which she approaches from a perspective that integrates object relations, cognitive, systems and narrative concepts. One facet of her work has involved prevention against the high divorce rate of parents with young children, and Dr. Siegel has written articles in parenting magazines and given 'expert' media advice in this area. Dr. Siegel's interest in defensive splitting in couples has resulted in the development of a practice model as well as the creation of an assessment tool that is presently being used in research on domestic violence.