Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., BCD, is a faculty member at Wayne State University School of Social Work, where he was named a distinguished professor in 2008. A former visiting professor of social work at The University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand, he has also held appointments at the Boston University and Michigan State University Schools of Social Work. He has led workshops and lectured widely on clinical topics in this country as well as in France, Israel, New Zealand, and China. Dr. Brandell is a practicing psychoanalyst and social-worker psychotherapist, and completed his psychoanalytic training at Michigan Psychoanalytic Council. He obtained his doctorate at The University of Chicago, and his masters at The University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is (founding) editor of the journal, Psychoanalytic Social Work, and has published numerous articles and book chapters, as well as eight books, among them Psychodynamic Social Work; Of Mice and Metaphors: Therapeutic Storytelling with Children; and Attachment and Dynamic Practice (as co-author). A former chairperson of the AAPCSW National Study Group, he was named a distinguished social work practitioner by the National Academies of Practice in 2001. He maintains a small private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Ann Arbor (Michigan) and is also actively involved in clinical supervision and consultation.
