I. Scholarship  II. Clinical Practice  III. Teaching and Supervision

Scholarship

My scholarship examines the intersection of cultural and personal dimensions in human experience. I focus on the process of psychological development that leads from unconscious, scripted social and cultural positions to knowledgeable participation in the life-world. I examine how human beings develop within social, cultural, political and historical contexts, and in turn, how they respond to these contexts through situated acts of psychological and political agency. My current interest is in memory and identity and the extent to which they are integrally dependent on the social and cultural groups in which we participate. My scholarship is theoretical in nature, informed by my dual training in philosophy and psychology. It includes considerations from phenomenology, hermeneutics, narrative and social theory, cultural psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis.

I have lectured and written widely on the interface of social theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Before coming to Simon Fraser University I was Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. I previously taught at a number of different universities, including New School University, Long Island University, Northeastern University, and Harvard University. My departmental affiliations bridged the humanities and social sciences.

I am Co-Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Editorial Board Member, Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Clinical Practice

I am Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Associate Member of the Department of Psychology at SFU, and a practicing clinical psychologist. I maintain a private psychotherapy practice in Vancouver and am a registered psychologist in British Columbia and New York. I also provide psychotherapy supervision to mental health professionals and teach in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. I have almost twenty years of private practice experience and my psychotherapy office is located on West Broadway in Kitsilano. I can be reached by phone at 778 388 3089 or via email.

I am a trained and certified relational psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with clinical expertise in interpersonal psychoanalysis, existential-humanistic therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, and dialectical-behaviour therapy. I have worked in various therapeutic and medical settings and before moving to Vancouver was Senior Attending Psychologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York.

My ongoing psychoanalytic affiliations are with the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York (interpersonal psychoanalysis; see www.wawhite.org), and the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles (intersubjective psychoanalysis; see www.icpla.edu).

Teaching and Supervision

I teach courses in the Educational Psychology and Counselling Psychology programs and supervise graduate students from three programs within the Faculty of Education: Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology, and Educational Philosophy. I currently teach in two main subject areas: social and cultural contexts of human development and education (EDUC 385, EDUC 842) and theories of psychotherapy, psychopathology and psychological experience (EDUC 323, EDUC 862). Using an interdisciplinary perspective, I explore how theories and concepts of psychological development are embedded in specific cultural and political contexts and sets of values of which we are often unaware.

In addition, I teach at the William Alanson White Institute in New York, and at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.

On teaching leave, 2012-2013 (during this time correspondence will be limited)

Email: roger.frie@sfu.ca

Phone: (778) 388-3089

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University

Affiliate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia

Faculty and Supervisor, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York

Associate Member, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND POST-DOCTORAL EDUCATION

Registered Psychologist, College of Psychologists of British Columbia

Licensed Clinical Psychologist, New York State Department of Education

Certificate in Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute, New York

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and Dialectical-Behavior Therapy, Columbia University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Frie, R. & Coburn, W. J. Eds. (2011). Persons in Context: The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.

Frie, R. & Orange, D. Eds. (2009). Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.

Frie, R. Ed. (2008). Psychological Agency: Theory, Practice, and Culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Burston, D. & Frie, R. (2006). Psychotherapy as a Human Science. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.

Frie, R. Ed. (2003). Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism.  London: Routledge.

Frie, R. (1997). Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan, and Habermas. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Frie, R. (2012). The lived experience of loneliness: An existential-phenomenological perspective. In B. Willock, L. Bohm, &  R. Curtis (Eds.), Loneliness and longing: Conscious and unconscious aspects (pp. 29-37). New York: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2012). Existential therapy and post-Cartesian psychoanalysis: Historical perspectives and confluence. In L. Barnett and G. Madison (Eds.), Existential psychotherapy: Legacy, vibrancy and dialogue (pp. 21-33). London: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2011). Culture and context: From individualism to situated experience. In R. Frie & W. J. Coburn (Eds.), Persons in context: The challenge of individuality in theory and practice (pp. 3-19). New York: Routledge.

Frie, R. & Coburn, W. J. (2011). Experience in context. In R. Frie & W. J. Coburn (Eds.), Persons in context: The challenge of individuality in theory and practice (pp. xv-xxx). New York: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2010). From subjectivity to intersubjective speech: Habermas and Lacan. In D. Rasmussen & J. Swindal (Eds.), Juergen Habermas II: SAGE Masters of Social Thought Series, Vol 4 (pp. 3-34). London: Sage.

Frie, R. (2009). Reconfiguring psychological agency. In R. Frie & D. Orange (Eds.), Beyond postmodernism: New dimensions in theory and practice (pp. 162-182). London: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2009). Modernism and postmodernism: Coherence or fragmentation? In R. Frie & D. Orange (Eds.), Beyond postmodernism: New dimensions in theory and practice (pp. 1-23). London: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2009). Forward. In R. Funk (Ed.), The clinical Erich Fromm: Personal accounts and papers on therapeutic technique (pp. vi-x). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. [Spanish Trans: Frie, R. (2011). Prólogo. In R. Funk (Ed.), Recordando a Erich Fromm: Testimonios de sus alumnus sobre el hombre y el teraeuta (pp. 7-12). Madrid: Paidós.]

Frie, R. (2008). Navigating cultural contexts: Agency and bicultural identity. In R. Frie (Ed.), Psychological agency: Theory, practice, and culture (pp. 223-40). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Frie, R. (2008). The situated nature of psychological agency. In R. Frie (Ed.), Psychological agency: Theory, practice, and culture (pp. 1-31). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Frie, R. (2007). The lived body: From Freud and Merleau-Ponty to contemporary psychoanalysis. In J. Muller and J. Tillman (Eds.), The embodied subject: Minding the body in psychoanalysis (pp. 55-66). Lanham MD: Aronson.

Frie, R., & Reis, B. (2005). Intersubjectivity: From theory through practice. In J. Mills (Ed.), Relational and intersubjective perspectives in psychoanalysis: A critique (pp. 3-33). Lanham, MD: Aronson.

Frie, R. (2004). Formulating unconscious experience: From Freud to Binswanger and Sullivan.” In J. Mills (Ed.), Psychoanalysis at the limit: Epistemology, mind, and the question of science (pp. 31-48). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Frie, R. (2003). Language and subjectivity: From Binswanger through Lacan. In R. Frie (Ed.), Understanding experience: Psychotherapy and postmodernism (pp. 154-182). London: Routledge.

Frie, R. (2003). Rethinking psychological agency. In R. Frie (Ed.), Understanding experience: Psychotherapy and postmodernism (pp. 1-27). London: Routledge.

SELECTED ARTICLES

Frie, R. (in press). The nature and meaning of human finitude: Psychoanalytic and philosophical reflections. American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Frie, R. (2013). Culture and language: Bilingualism in the German-Jewish experience and across contexts. Clinical Social Work Journal, 41, 11-19.

Frie, R. (2012). On difference, dialogue and context: Otherness and its attenuation. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 32, 230-235.

Frie, R. (2012). On culture, history, and memory: Encountering the “narrative unconscious.” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48, 329-343.

Frie, R. (2012). Memory and responsibility: Navigating identity and shame in the German-Jewish experience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 29, 206-225.

Frie, R. (2012). Psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and the possibility for dialogue: Freud, Pfister and Binswanger. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 21, 106-116.

Frie, R. (2011). Irreducible cultural contexts: German-Jewish experience, trauma and identity in a bilingual analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 6, 136-158.

Frie, R. (2011). Hermeneutics, culture and the legacy of shame: Reply to Shou and Sucharov International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 6, 178-186.

Frie, R. (2011). Identity and lived experience after postmodernity: Between multiplicity and continuity. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 42, 46-60.

Frie, R. (2011). Situated experience: Psychological agency, meaning and morality in worldly contexts. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 6, 298-309.

Frie, R. (2010). A hermeneutics of exploration: The interpretive turn from Binswanger to Gadamer. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 30, 79-93.

Frie, R. (2010). Compassion and dialogue: Understanding the other in context. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 5, 451-466.

Frie, R. (2008). Fundamentally embodied: The experience of psychological agency. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 44, 367-376.

Frie, R. (2003). Erich Fromm and the postmodern debate. Psychoanalytic Review, 90, 855-868.

Frie, R. (2002). Binswanger, Sullivan und die interpersonelle Psychoanalyse. Luzifer-Amor: Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse, 29, 105-122.

Frie, R. (2002). Modernism or postmodernism? Binswanger, Sullivan and the problem of agency in contemporary psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38, 534-573.

Frie, R., & Hoffmann, K. (2002). Binswanger, Heidegger and Antisemitism: Reply to Abigail Bray: “The silence surrounding ‘Ellen West’: Binswanger and Foucault”. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 32, 231-240.

Frie, R., & Reis, B. (2001). Understanding intersubjectivity: Psychoanalytic formulations and their philosophical underpinnings. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 37, 297-327.

Frie, R. (2000). The existential and the interpersonal: Ludwig Binswanger and Harry Stack Sullivan. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 40, 108-130.

Frie, R. (1999). Psychoanalysis and the linguistic turn. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 35, 673-697.

Frie, R. (1999). Interpreting a misinterpretation: Ludwig Binswanger and Martin Heidegger. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 29, 244-258.

Frie, R. (1999). Subjectivity revisited: Sartre, Lacan, and early German Romanticism. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 30, 1-13.

Frie, R. (1999). Existential analysis: From psychoanalysis to postmodernism and beyond. The Humanistic Psychologist, 27, 3-14.

Frie, R. (1999). Language, communication, and therapeutic interaction. The Humanistic Psychologist, 27, 89-113.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES (SINCE 2008)

Frie, R. (2013, January). The limits of knowing: A hermeneutic view of the unconscious. Paper presented to the American Psychoanalytic Association 2013 National Meeting, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2013, January). The cultural school of psychoanalysis. Invited presentation, William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2012, October). The self in context and culture. Plenary paper presented to the 35th Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, Washington, DC.

Frie, R. (2012, May). Memory and family narrative in post-war Germany: The imperative to remember. Paper presented to the Narrative Matters Conference, The American University of Paris, France.

Frie, R. (2012, March). Ernst Becker in culture and context. Discussion paper presented to the American Psychological Association, Div. 24 Midwinter Meeting, Austin, TX.

Frie, R. (2012, January). The sociocultural turn in contemporary psychoanalysis. Clinical presentation given to the Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, October). Featured Speaker: Confronting otherness and negotiating identity. Paper presented to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Frie, R. (2011, October). Attenuating otherness. Discussion paper presented to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA,

Frie, R. (2011, October). Psychoanalysis, culture, and the legacy of individualism: Thinking and practicing socioculturally. Paper presented to the 34th Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, June). Psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis: Possibilities for convergence? Invited paper presented to the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Irreducible contexts: German-Jewish experience, culture and identity in a bilingual psychoanalysis. Clinical presentation given to the Lacan Salon, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Beyond individualism: Responding to the needs of the other through culture. Paper presented at the Bystanders No More: Psychotherapeutic Dialogues for the Politically Silenced Conference, New York Academy of Medicine, New York.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Multiple identities, multiple languages. Clinical presentation given to the William Alanson White Institute Clinical Services, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2011, April). The culture of individualism: Understanding persons in context. Invited lecture given to the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, March). Culture, language, trauma. Invited plenary address to American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, March). Identity and Culture in the German-Jewish Experience: A Bilingual Case Study. Invited lecture given to Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Education, Burnaby, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, January). Working with clients across cultures: Understanding cultural multiplicity and the importance of identity negotiation. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.

Frie, R. (2010, August). Multiplicity and identity: Negotiating cultural identity through time. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Frie, R. (2010, May). Changing paradigms in contemporary psychology. Invited lecture given to the Vancouver Area School Counsellors, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2010, April). Psychoanalysis Across Contexts: The Impact of Culture, History and Identity. Clinical presentation given to the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2010, March). Psychotherapy across culture and language. Clinical presentation given to the Clinical Psychological Program, Simon Fraser University, Department of Psychology. Burnaby, BC.

Frie, R. (2009, October). Compassion and dialogue: Bridging the psychoanalytic and philosophical understanding of the other. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self. Chicago, IL.

Frie, R. (2009, August). Beyond phenomenological psychology: The work of Ludwig Binswanger. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2009, August). Working bilingually and biculturally. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2009, March). Working therapeutically across language and culture. Clinical presentation in Psychotherapy Lecture Series, George Washington University, Department of Professional Psychology, Washington DC.

Frie, R. (2009, January). Compassion and human nature. Invited response to Martha Nussbaum lecture: The human animal: Beyond reason and instinct. William Alanson White Institute Scientific Society Meeting. New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2008, October). Psychological agency within sociality. Paper presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self. Baltimore, MD.

Frie, R. (2008, August). Chair of invited plenary symposium: Psychological agency across contexts. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Frie, R. (2008, August). Invited plenary presentation: Agency in cultural context. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Frie, R. (2008, July). The lived experience of loneliness: An existential-phenomenological approach. Paper presented at the International Association of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2008, June). Agency and biculturalism: A culturally variable concept of agency. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.

Frie, R. (2008, June). Navigating multiplicity in therapy. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.

Frie, R. (2008, April). Postmodernism and the question of agency in interpersonal psychoanalysis. Invited lecture given to New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY.

HONOURS AND FELLOWSHIPS (SINCE 2008)

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Author Prize,  2011, 2012

Fellow of the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology, Canadian Psychological Association, 2010

Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions, American Psychological Association, Division 24, 2008

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

Section for the History and Philosophy of Psychology (CPA)

Section for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology (CPA)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Div. 24 (APA)

Humanistic Psychology, Div. 32 (APA)

Psychoanalytic Psychology, Div. 39 (APA)

William Alanson White Institute Scientific Society

Council Member, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society, Cambridge

Member of Trinity College, Cambridge University