Christina Biedermann, Psy.D., ABAP
Title:
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise:
- Assessment Psychology
- Complex Trauma
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminist Psychology
- Reproductive Psychology
Biography:
Christina Biedermann, PsyD, ABAP, is an Associate Professor at the Illinois School of Professional
Psychology at National Louis University as well as a practicing clinical psychologist and
psychoanalyst. She is also Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and
board certified in assessment psychology.
Dr. Biedermann attended Davidson College (Davidson, NC) as an undergraduate before pursuing
doctoral training at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (now Williams James
College, in Boston, MA), interning at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard
Medical School, and completing an APA-approved predoctoral internship at the Northampton
Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She then went on to complete a 4-year advanced postdoctoral
training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center (Stockbridge, MA).
She is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and
serves as a reviewer for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. She
has published and presented at national conferences on working with complex trauma, suicidality,
treatment resistance, psychological assessment, and feminist advocacy, as well as lectured at the
Yale Child Study Center, the Yale-Riggs Family and Infant Mental Health training program, and the
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is a member of the American Psychological
Association (Divisions 35 and 39), the Illinois Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic
Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis,
the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, the Society for Personality Assessment, and the International
Society for Rorschach and Projective Methods.
Her current research interests include: Reproductive Psychology and Justice, Motherhood and
Maternal Subjectivity, Gender, Women’s Mental Health Complex Trauma, Severe Psychopathology,
Personality Disorders, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalysis. She and her students are
currently engaged in several qualitative projects studying various aspect of maternal subjectivity.
Education:
- PSYD, Clinical Psychology, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston, Massachusetts
- BS, Psychology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Contact Information:
Christina Biedermann, Psy.D., ABAP
phone/fax: 815.413.3003
cbiedermann@nl.edu | www.nl.edu
18 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
