Barbara Eisold, a psychologist, is a faculty member of NYU’ S postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has been performing psychological assessments of asylum seekers as a volunteer for over twenty years. For some time, she was a major participant in a program established at the NYU Postdoc program to train its students in the routine of assessment. Beyond her private psychotherapy practice, her background has also included work as a volunteer with people with AIDS, collaboration with the I Have a Dream Foundation (where she established a mental health clinic) and child-related teacher consultation to a day care program. Her publications include a book on asylum seekers, (Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum-Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process: Encounters with Well-Founded Fear) and articles on various subjects which have appeared in journals such as The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies and Psychoanalytic Studies.
Barbara Eisold, PhD
