Psychology For The Gifted: Bios

Jerald Grobman, MD

Dr. Grobman is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice in New York City where ,for the last 25 years, he has specialized in the psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy of gifted adolescents and adults .Currently he is a member of the Attending Staff of the Lenox Hill Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry where he is a senior supervisor in the psychology intern and externship training program. For a number of years he was the psychiatric consultant to the Open Heart Surgical Team at Lenox Hill Hospital. From 1975-1980 he was an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Tufts University School of Medicine. While there, he established and was the director of the Group Psychotherapy Training Program and was a training instructor in the American Group Psychotherapy Association’s National Training Institute. He also developed a full service community-based mental health center and was the psychiatric consultant to the guidance staff of a middle school. Dr. Grobman has published in the fields of community psychiatry, group psychotherapy and consultation/liason psychiatry. His most recent paper, Underachievement in Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist’s View, has been published in, The Journal of Gifted Secondary Education 2006,17:199-209

Dr. Grobman is a member of the SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) professional advisory board.
He is a life member of The American Psychiatric Association
He has presented at the annual convention of The National Association for Gifted Children
He has presented at the Wallace Symposium, the Nassau Community College, the College of New Rochelle (AGEUS conference) and is a regular presenter at the SENG conferences.

Madelon Sann, LCSW

Madelon Sann is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work. She is a licensed social worker, a certified supervisor of the psychotheraputic process and a certified group psychoanalyst. She maintains private practices in New York and New Jersey. For the past thirty years she has specialized in the psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy of gifted children and adults. She began her career as a child therapist at the Jewish Board of Guardians (currently JBFCS) where she was a senior caseworker, a group therapy coordinator and an assistant director of the Montague School for Girls. She then became the Chief Social Worker at The Center for Marital and Family Therapy. Her work with children includes extensive experience in parent guidance. For a number of years she wrote a parent guidance column in the monthly magazine of a local school for gifted children. She has worked in consultation with psychologists, learning specialists, occupational therapists and speech and hearing therapists. She has had special training in the diagnosis and treatment of children on the PDD-autism spectrum.

Currently she is on the teaching faculty of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, Inc. and IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalysis, Training and Research). Her past teaching experiences include leading a continuous case seminar in the “Treatment of Children “ at the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Program., Group Therapy at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, courses in the graduate Social Work Department at NYU, in “The Treatment of Children” and “Group Work." She was a field supervisor for the Hunter College School of Social Work, an instructor in the training institute of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and led workshops in ‘Psychodynamic Process Groups’, ‘The Transference Process in Group Psychotherapy’ and ‘Separation-Termination in Group Psychotherapy ‘.

Madelon Sann is a fellow in the New York State Society of Clinical Social Workers
She Has been a member of NASW for 30 years
She is a member of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work

Jerald Grobman M.D.
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Madelon Sann L.C.S.W.
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New York,N.Y. 10075
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