ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND HONORS
Positions and Employment:
Internship, Los Angeles County–University of Southern California Medical Center, 1968-1969
Resident in Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1969-1973
Research Fellow in Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1971-1972
Medical License, Colorado, 1972
Chief, Behavioral Sciences Branch, 3320th Retraining Group, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver Colorado, 1973-1975
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1975-1981
Director, Psychiatric Student Health Service, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1975-1978
Fellowship in Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1979-1982
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1981-1982
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1982- 2000
Certification in Adult Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1986
Certification in Child Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1989
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 2000-Present
Other Experience and Professional Memberships:
Candidate, Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1977-1984
Program Advisory Board, Judi's House for Grieving Children and Families, 2003-present
American Psychiatric Association [Fellow (1987); Distinguished Fellow (1998); Member, Committee on Sexual Abuse and Family Violence (1995-2001)]
Colorado Psychiatric Society [Member, Task Force on Disaster Response (1999-Present)]
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [Fellow (1999); Member, Committee on Infancy (1997-Present)]
Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society [Executive Committee (1982-1985); Program Chairman (1984-1985)]
Denver Psychoanalytic Society [Chairman, Awards Committee (1990-1994); Member, Program Committee (1997-1999)]; Member, Task Force on Columbine and Community Trauma (1999-Present)]
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis [Member, Admissions Committee (1992-1996); Member, Task Force on Analytic Outcome (1993-1995); Member, Child Analysis Committee (1990-2000)
National Association for Mental Illness
Colorado Association for Mental Illness
Reviewer for Journal for American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Infant Mental Health Journal, and Child Abuse and Neglect
Honors:
Honorable Mention, Lester H. Hofheimer Prize for Psychiatric Research, American Psychiatric Association, 1975
Herbert Gaskill Award for the most outstanding paper by a psychoanalytic candidate, Denver Psychoanalytic Society, 1984
Dane G. Prugh Award for Distinguished Teaching in Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1986
Dane G. Prugh Award for Distinguished Teaching in Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1989
Brandt F. Steele Award for outstanding accomplishments in the areas of teaching, research, and community service, Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, 2005
Best Doctors in America, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award, 2006
Clinical Faculty Award, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 2007
2nd Annual Robert J. Harmon Memorial Lecturer, Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health (June 10, 2008), 2008
Clinical Faculty Award, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 2009
Teaching Activities:
Faculty, Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1985-Present
Faculty, Irving Harris Training Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1997-Present
Clinical Activities:
Private practice in Adult and Child Psychiatry, 1982-Present
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PUBLICATIONS
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Gaensbauer, T. J. (1995). Trauma in the preverbal period: Symptoms, memories, and developmental impact. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 50: 122-149.
Gaensbauer, T. J. and Siegel, C. H. (1995). Therapeutic approaches to posttraumatic stress disorder in infants and toddlers. Infant Mental Health Journal, 16: 292-305.
Drell, M. J., Gaensbauer, T. J., Siegel, C. H., and Sugar, M. (1995). Clinical round Table: A case of trauma to a 21-month-old girl. Infant Mental Health Journal, 16: 318-333.
Gaensbauer, T. J. (2000). Psychotherapeutic treatment of traumatized infants and toddlers: A case report. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 5: 373-385.
Gaensbauer, T. J. (2002). Representations of trauma in infancy: Clinical and theoretical implications for the understanding of early memory. Infant Mental Health Journal, 23: 259-277.
Gaensbauer, T. J. (2003). Intergenerational transmission of trauma: The infant's experience. Infant Mental Health Journal, 24: 524-526. Commentary on: Schechter, D. S., Kaminer, T., Grienenberger, M. A., and Amat, J. (2003). Fits and starts: A mother-infant case-study involving intergenerational violent trauma and pseudoseizures across three generations. Infant Mental Health Journal, 24: 510-522.
Terr, L. C., Deeney, J. M., Drell, M., Dodson, J. W., Gaensbauer, T. J., Massie, H., Minde, K, Stewart, G., Teal, S., Winters, N. C. (2006). Playful “moments” in psychotherapy. J. Am. Acad. Child. Adolescent. Psychiatry, 45: 604-613.
Gaensbauer, T. J. and Jordan, L. (2009). Psychoanalytic perspectives on early trauma: Interviews with thirty analysts who treated an adult victim of a circumscribed trauma in early childhood. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 57: 947-977.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
Research Career Development Award K04-HD-00214 from the National Institute of Child Health and Development for grant entitled "Regulation of Affect in Infancy" (salary plus indirect costs), 1977-1982
Two small grants (<$10,000 each) from the Grant Foundation endowment fund of the Developmental Psychobiological Research Group of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1975-1982
Project grant totaling $57,874 for two years from the MacArthur Foundation for project entitled "Affect Regulation in Infancy: Normal and Pathological," 1982-1984
Grant of $15,000 from the Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse of the American Medical Association for a teaching videotape on the mental health needs of preschool victims of family violence, 1999-2003 [The project was sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Family Violence and Sexual Abuse; was the project coordinator, with the funds having been awarded to the Denver Psychoanalytic Foundation for administration and distribution.]