Jerome S. Blackman
M.D., D.F.A.P.A., F.I.P.A., F.A.C.Psa.
CURRENT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Professor Of Clinical Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk.
Adjunct Professor Of Psychology, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk.
Psychiatry Residency Faculty, Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia
Training & Supervising Analyst, NY Freudian Society, Washington, D.C.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Hampton Roads, Virginia 1986-present
Williamsburg, Virginia 1993-1995
New Orleans, Louisiana 1975-1986
CURRENT HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
Consulting Staff (Honorary), Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
-Continuing Medical Education Committee
Courtesy Staff, Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center
PAST FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
-Guest Teaching Analyst, Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, 2007
-Psychology Internship Faculty Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia 1992-
2003.
-Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Virginia Wesleyan College, 1991-97.
-Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 1987-95.
-Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Tulane Medical School, New Orleans 1981-1986.
-Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology & Psychiatric Consultant, Tulane Medical
Center Psoriasis Center, New Orleans 1983-1986.
-Consultant/Instructor, Tulane School of Social Work, New Orleans 1975-1980.
-Instructor in Psychiatry, Charity Hospital of New Orleans, 1975.
-Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, East Carolina University Medical School, North
Carolina
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
-Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences, 1964-1967.
-Tulane Medical School M.D. 1971.
-Charity Hospital, New Orleans Internship Certificate 1972.
-Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, Dept of Psychiatry
Residency Certificate, 1975.
-New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 1984.
HONORS AND AWARDS
“Jerome S. Blackman, M.D. Teacher of the Year Award”
created in my honor by United States Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Psychiatry Faculty and Residents, June 1992. Given yearly to a faculty member for outstanding teaching.
Fellow, American College of Psychoanalysts (National Honorary), 2006
Edith Sabshin Teaching Award, American Psychoanalytic Association, 2000
Teacher of the Year Awards, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Department of Psychiatry: 2005, 2001, 1998, 1993, 1992, 1990; SUPERVISOR of the Year Award 1994
Teacher of the Year Award, Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry 1991
Clinical Faculty Award (for Teaching) Tulane Medical School Department of Psychiatry 1986
Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 1986
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2009
Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1987
Fellow, International Psychoanalytical Association, 2004
National and International CERTIFICATIONS
Psychoanalysis
Board on Professional Standards, American Psychoanalytic Association, 1995
New Orleans Institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1984
New York Freudian Society - International Psychoanalytical Association, 1994
Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 1980: No. 20277
Medicine
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1972: No. 120380
Federal Licensing Examination, 1971
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American College of Psychoanalysts, 2006-
Secretary-General, 2007-
Chair, Honors Committee, 2009-
China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, 2007-
Board of Directors, 2008-
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2009
Instructor (through videoconferencing), Shanghai Mental Health Center and Beijing University,
Basic Analytic Theory and Child Development, 2008-9
Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, 1987-
President, 1994-1996
Chair, Membership Committee, 1996-2006
Tidewater Academy of Psychiatry 1987-
President, 1991-1992
American Psychoanalytic Association, 1975-
Committee on Psychiatry Residency Education, 2009-
Virginia Beach Medical Society, 1986-
Medical-Legal Liaison Committee, 1989-
Psychoanalysts of Hampton Roads (Virginia), 2007-
Charter Member & Secretary, 2007-
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
(2010 in press) 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself (translated into Romanian). New York:
Routledge.
(2010 in press) Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders.
New York: Routledge.
(2003) 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself. New York: Brunner-Routledge
(2002) DCM: Diagnostic & Clinical Manual of Disturbances in Mental Functioning. Norfolk,
Virginia: Colley Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
(2001) On Childless Stepparents. In: Stepparenting: Creating and Recreating Families in America
Today. Eds: Cath, S. & Shopper, M. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press, pp. 168-182.
(2002) Shift from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation during the Termination Phase of
Psychoanalysis. In: Objects of Desire: The Sexual Deviations, Eds. K. Gould, M.D., S. Kramer,
M.D., A. Freedman, M.D. & C. Socarides, M.D. Madison, Connecticut: International
Universities Press.
(1991) Instinctualization of Ego Functions and Ego Defects in Male Homosexuals: Implications for
Psychoanalytic Treatment. In: The Homosexualities & the Therapeutic Process. Eds: Volkan,
V. & Socarides, C. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Journal ARTICLES
(2008) Sexual intercourse as a defense against oral shame in an adult woman. With A. Kim, M.D.
submitted to Int J Psychoanal; pending review.
(2003) Dynamic supervision concerning a patient's request for medication. Psychoanalytic Quarterly
72:469-476.
(2000) Bizet’s Carmen on the Couch. Virginia Opera Voice. Fall, 2000.
(1997) Teaching psychodynamic technique during an observed analytic psychotherapy interview.
Academic Psychiatry 35:148-154.
(1994) Psychodynamic techniques during urgent consultation interviews. Journal of Psychotherapy
Practice & Research 3: 194-203.
(1991) Intellectual dysfunction in abused children. Academy Forum 35:7-10.
(1987) Character traits underlying self-neglect and their connection with heart disease. Journal of
the Louisiana State Medical Society 139(2): 31-34.
Reviewer of Books
Routledge Publisher, Division of Taylor and Francis, New York, 2004-
Selected SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
International
Psychoanalytic Multisystem Diagnosis and Treatment Selection. Poster: International
Psychoanalytical Association. Berlin, Germany 2007.
Visiting Lecturer, Shanghai Mental Health Center (Jiao Tong Medical School). Shanghai,
China. March 2009
presented
1) Defenses: Their Use in Diagnosis and Treatment; and
2) Case Supervision.
Visiting Lecturer, Peking University Department of Psychology. Beijing, China. March 2009.
presented
1) Why Men Have Extramarital Affairs
2) Case Supervision; and
3) Defenses: What are they, how do you find them, and what do you do with
them?
Visiting Lecturer, China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance Study Group. Beijing, China.
March 2009.
Multimodal Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. World Psychiatric Association. Florence, Italy. April
2009.
National
The psychiatrist's role in adult day care. National Council on the Aging. San Francisco 1985
Classical psychoanalysis: treatment of choice for phobic neurosis. American Academy of
Psychoanalysis, New Orleans 1985
Homosexual conflict and treatment. American Psychoanalytic Association, NY 1990
Homosexual conflict during the termination phase of analysis. American Psychoanalytic
Association, NY 1995
On loneliness. American Psychoanalytic Association, NY 2005
Defense mechanisms: their use in diagnosis, treatment, and suicide risk assessment. Grand
Rounds, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. November 2006.
Psychiatric diagnosis using the Diagnostic and Clinical Manual (Blackman, 2002). Analytic
Study Group, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. November 2006.
The first genital phase of development and its ramifications throughout life. Wisconsin
Psychoanalytic Institute, Milwaukee. February 2007.
State
Psychoanalysis of a patient with physical disability Virginia Psychoanalytic Society 1988.
Masochism: redefinition and differential diagnosis based on psychoanalytic concepts
Psychiatric Society of Virginia 1988.
Interpretation of oral regression as a diagnostic tool in the psychoanalytic treatment of
hysteria. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society 1990.
Theodore Roosevelt's blunder: animal fantasies as a regressive, maladaptive defense against
depressive affect. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society 1993.
Psychodynamic technique during consultation interviews. Medical College of Virginia 1993.
Teaching dynamic psychotherapy technique during a "live" analytic psychotherapy
interview. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society 1996.
Graphic representations of psychoanalytic theory of use in teaching. Virginia Psychoanalytic
Society 2000.
Dynamic supervision in the time of Prozac: a report of a good supervisory hour. Virginia
Psychoanalytic Society 2002.
Psychodynamic techniques in the initial interview. Sentara Mental Health Services 2003.
Dreams from the standpoint of a psychoanalyst. Chesapeake Bay Sleep Society Annual
Meeting 2003.
Psychic trauma: damage vs. upset vs. faking. Virginia Association of Rehabilitation
Professionals Annual Meeting 2004.
Mass psychosis: discussion of Dr. Messinger’s paper. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society 2005.
Neurosis: pathology and analytic treatment 2006. With Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. Virginia
Psychoanalytic Society Annual Meeting 2006.
PTSD vs. Malingering. Virginia Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Annual Meeting 2007.
Psychoanalytic diagnosis and erotic transference. Richmond Psychiatric Society. November
2008.
Local
Trials, Triggers & Treatment: The psychiatric problems of psoriasis patients. Tulane
Medical Center Psoriasis Symposium 1984.
Diagnosis of intellectual dysfunction in abused children.
Eastern Virginia Medical School Psychiatry Grand Rounds 1989.
Neurosurgical and psychiatric management of a patient with congenital kyphoscoliosis, Von
Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis, acute spastic paraplegia and depression with
psychotic elements. Virginia Beach General Hospital Grand Rounds with Peter Klara,
M.D. 1989.
“Crisis intervention psychoanalysis.” Eastern Virginia Medical School Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds 1993.
Sexual harassment lawsuits: the role of the mental health practitioner.
Eastern Virginia Medical School Psychiatry Grand Rounds 2000.
Update on differential diagnosis and treatment of depressions.
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Department of Family Practice 2002.
Why do men have extramarital affairs? Grand Rounds, Sentara Virginia Beach General
Hospital 2004.
Modern psychoanalytic approaches to dreams. Eastern Virginia Medical School
Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Norfolk. October 2004.
Selection of treatment for mental disturbances. Grand Rounds, Chesapeake General
Hospital, Chesapeake. January 2005
Correlation of current psychoanalytic theories with DSM-IV-TR diagnoses. CME
Presentation to Naval Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Faculty,
Portsmouth, Virginia. October 2005
Talk therapies vs. medication for mental disturbances. Medical Staff Grand Rounds, Bayside
General Hospital, Virginia Beach. December 2005
Psychopathy in women. CME presentation, Naval Medical Center Department of
Psychiatry Faculty, Portsmouth, Va. May 2006.
Differential Diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Grand Rounds, Sentara Virginia
Beach General Hospital, October 2006; and Grand Rounds, Sentara Bayside Hospital
January 2007
Dynamic techniques in suicide risk assessment: beyond standard questions, demographics,
and rating scales. Grand Rounds, Eastern Virginia Medical School Dept of Psychiatry.
April 2007.
The Effects of unresolved childhood and adolescent conflicts on adult psychopathology.
With Janet N. Schiff. FIPA. Grand Rounds, Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital,
October 2007.
Masochism and self-destructive behavior. Grand Rounds, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Department of Psychiatry. April 2008.
What is borderline personality and how is it treated? Grand Rounds, Sentara Virginia Beach
General Hospital, May 2008.
The psychopath. Grand Rounds, Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, October 2008.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, its childhood origins, and its treatment. Sentara Bayside
Hospital, February 2009.
Selected GUEST LECTURES
Supportive therapy. Virginia Consortium Psychology Doctoral Program (Old Dominion
University, College of William and Mary, Norfolk State University, & Eastern Virginia
Medical School) 1994- (yearly)
Beyond “A Beautiful Mind:” Current concepts of schizophrenia. Virginia Society of
Professional Transcriptionists. May 2002
Aggression and anger in the workplace. APT Corp, Virginia Beach. October 2002
Modern object relations theory. Presented to Psy.D. graduate students, Regent University,
Virginia Beach, November 2002
History of psychoanalytic theory from 19th century Freud to the 21st century. Richard
Oberdorfer’s 10th Grade Class on Modern European History, Norfolk Academy. August
2004.
Conscious & unconscious motivations for buying a house. Resource Bank Continuing
Education Seminars. Norfolk, October 2004.
Freud & beyond – an in-depth look at psychoanalytic theory, or: what your parents didn’t
tell you because they didn’t know. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Educational
Studies Program. Cambridge 2004.
Defense mechanisms in life. Norfolk Kiwanis Club. March 2005.
Character pathology in the movie, "Body Heat." Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk
1998, 2007.
Psychoanalytic perspectives on money. Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, March 2008.
Differential diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder vs. schizophrenia in regard to the
movie, “Sybil.” Virginia Wesleyan College Psychology Honor Society, 2008.
The first year of life/ the preschool years. 1st Lutheran Church, Norfolk, October 2008.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Virginia Opera, Statewide Board of Directors 1998-2005
Virginia Beach Child Advocacy Network, 1988-1990
Associated Catholic Charities, New Orleans 1982-1986
-Vice-president, Group Adolescent Homes Advisory Board
-Elderly Day Care Centers Advisory Board
Jewish Children's Regional Service, New Orleans, Board of Directors, 1984-1986
Volunteers of America Infant Nursery, New Orleans, Advisory Board, 1979-1983
Kingsley House Foundation, New Orleans Board of Directors, 1985-1986
Arthritis Foundation, New Orleans Board of Directors, 1982-1986
PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTANT TO
City Safety Director, Norfolk, 1990-
APT Corporation, Virginia Beach, 2002.
Virginia Beach Police Department. 1998-2001
Virginia Beach Social Services, Child Abuse & Foster Care Units, 1988-1990
Medicenter, Virginia Beach, 1989-1990
State of Louisiana Child Protection Centers & Foster Care Agencies, 1977-86
Designated Sexual Abuse Treatment Resource. (evaluated over 5000 cases
of physical, sexual, and neglectful abuse)
Vocational Rehabilitation Centers of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, 1977-86
Consultant-Lecturer, LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, Council on Aging, 1985
Normal-Life, Inc. Foundation for the Mentally Retarded, New Orleans. 1984-1985
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Public School System 1984-1985
Associated Catholic Charities Intensive Residential Treatment, New Orleans 1982-83
New Orleans Public School System, 1977-1981
New Orleans Veterans Administration Day Hospital 1980-1981
Methodist Home for Abused Children, New Orleans. 1980
Central City Mental Health Center, New Orleans. 1977-1980
New Orleans Mental Health Center, 1977-1980
Drug Research Methadone Clinic, New Orleans. 1975
