Jean McClung Goodwin grew up on a cattle ranch in Clay County, Texas. Her parents were freelance writers for true detective magazines. She attended Wichita Falls Senior High where she graduated as salutatorian and won a National Merit Scholarship. She studied Physical Anthropology at Harvard/Radcliffe and graduated summa cum laude. Her undergraduate thesis became a book, Human Birth at High Altitude. She graduated with an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1971 and with a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from UCLA in 1972. She did her first two years of psychiatric residency at Georgetown University Hospitals and finished her residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where she stayed on as faculty directing the psychiatric residency. It was in Albuquerque in the late 1970’s that she began consulting to child protective services and discovered that children’s complaints about sexual abuse were assumed to be fantasies. Correcting this assumption led to three books, Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families; Rediscovering Childhood Trauma; and Splintered Reflections: Images of the Body in Trauma (with Reina Attias). She worked as a Professor of Psychiatry at Medical College of Wisconsin and at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she retains a clinical appointment. She is board certified in General Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis. Since 1998 she has been in full time private practice in Galveston, Texas. She began psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and completed training at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (now the Center for Psychoanalytic Training) in 1999 where she continued on faculty and is now a training and supervising analyst. Since 2005 she has taught the standard dissociation course through ISST-D, together with other members of the Houston-Galveston Trauma Consortium. She is a fellow of ISST-D and of the American Psychiatric Association. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters as well as poetry and a book of short stories, Mischief and Mercy: Tales of the Saints (as Jean McClung). She is married to James S. Goodwin, Professor of Internal Medicine at UTMB and has four adult children and six grandchildren.
REFERENCES
1) Goodwin, J. M. (2013). The dissociative disorders. In L.W. Roberts, J.B. Layde & R. Balon (Eds.), International Handbook of Psychiatry. World Scientific: New Jersey, pp. 337-351.
2) Goodwin, J.M. (2018). Storm stress and the humble and perilous art of Stage Zero Intervention. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 16 (2): 128-131.
3) Courtois, C.A. & Ford, J. D. (2016). Walking the walk: The therapeutic relationship. In C.A. Courtois & J.D. Ford, Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach. Guilford Press: New York, pp. 269-297.
IMAGE Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon painted by Frederic Leighton, 1869. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a 2-dimensional, public domain work of art.
