Rhonda Ward, LCSW, FIPA, is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Social Work. She is a member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) as well as the New York Freudian Society, where she is currently chair of progression. She is faculty member and research associate at the IPTAR Program of Research in Psychoanalysis, and is faculty member of IPTAR's Respecialization Program. She is the co-author of The Upward Slope: a Study of Psychoanalytic Transformations. She is in private practice in New York City.
In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our... (more)