February 2004
CURRICULUM VITAE
STEPHEN KAHN
DATE OF BIRTH: May 5, 1950
HOME ADDRESS: OFFICE ADDRESS:
5406 South Kimbark 122 South Michigan
Chicago, IL 60615 Chicago, IL 6060
Phone: (773) 324-2920 Phone: (312) 957-0959
Answering Machine: (773) 324-1155
EDUCATION______________________________________________________________
BA. Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1973
Ph.D. Human Development, University of Chicago, 1984
Post-Doctoral
Clinical Fellowship in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School,
Department of Psychiatry, 1985
DISSERTATION___________________________________________________________
Title: The Outcome of Creative Potential:
Public Success and
Personal Expression in Men and Women
Artists at Mid-life
SCHOLARSHIPS___________________________________________________________
University of Chicago, Full Tuition Grants 1976, 1977, 1978
AWARDS/HONORS______________________________________________________________
2003:President-Elect, Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
"Best Book Published in the Field of Hypnosis in 1990" awarded by
the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________
1995- Qualitative research of the lives of prominent therapists
2004 who changed as a result of treating certain patients.
1980- Project Co-Director, Self-Hypnosis Study: Design of coding
1994 schemes for subjects' diaries, supervision of data management
and analyses, creation of new analysis schemes, co-leader of
weekly seminar (with Erika Fromm).
1985- Project Consultant, Stress and Illness Project: Designed
1988 treatment approaches for outcome evaluation research,
performed treatment, supervised statistical analyses (S. Maddi).
1980- Project Director, Longitudinal Study of Artists: Full
1984 responsibility for direction of project activities including
survey and interview design, coding schemes for open-ended data,
data management and analyses, biweekly meetings for discussion of
issues in creativity research, and writing of project reports and
papers (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob Getzels).
1977- Project Director, Stress and Illness Project: Devised
1979 survey, designed analyses, supervised computer input and
programming (Salvatore Maddi and Suzanne Kobasa).
1976- Project Coordinator, Cultural Symbols Project: Canvassed
1978 and interviewed respondents, coordinated project activity,
supervised computer programming (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).
1975- Adolescence Project: Devised and administered surveys,
1977 coded returned surveys, performed statistical analyses.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE_____________________________________________________
1980- Private Practice: Individual therapy and hypnotherapy.
Present
1984- Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellowship in Psychology, Harvard
1985 Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
1979- Clinical Internship: Tri-City Comprehensive Community
1980 Mental Health Center, East Chicago, Indiana: Clinical
Assessment, Individual, Couple, Family and Group Therapy.
1975 Member, Elgin State Hospital Evaluation Board: Evaluated
behavioral therapy programs, hospital-wide.
1973- Social Worker, Elgin State Hospital: Individual, Family,
1975 Group Therapy; designed ward behavioral therapy program.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE_____________________________________________________
2002- Beginning and Advanced Workshops on Therapy and
2004 Hypnotherapy, Illinois School of Professional Psychology.
1992- Beginning and Advanced Workshops on Therapy and
2004 Hypnotherapy, Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
1987- Beginning and Advanced Workshops on Therapy and
2002 Hypnotherapy, University of Chicago School of Social Work.
1987- Stress Management Workshops (for individuals and for
2004 couples), St. Xavier University.
1987- Stress Management Workshops, University of Chicago,
1996 Continuing Studies.
1983- Hypnotherapy Workshops at SCEH and for Institute for Clinical
2004 Hypnosis and Research(Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced,
Behavioral Medicine, Self-Hypnosis, Creativity Enhancement,
Performance Enhancement).
1994- Resilience Traning for Couples, St. Xavier University.
2004
1995- Stress Management for Single Parents, St. Xavier University.
2004
1995- Depression Workshop, St. Xavier University.
2004
1996- Substance Abuse Workshop, St. Xavier University.
2004
APPOINTMENTS____________________________________________________________
1993- Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychology, University
2002 of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry.
1993- Adjunctive Faculty, Chicago School of
Current Professional Psychology.
2001- Adjunctive Faculty, Illinois School of
Current Professional Psychology.
1993- Elected Fellow (Faculty Position)of the Society for
Current Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
1985- Research Associate, University of Chicago, Department of
1995 Psychology.
PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS_________________________________
Articles:
Kahn, S. (2002). Being the other therapist: The varieties of adjunctive experience in hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 50, 22-30.
Maddi, S. , Kahn, S. and Maddi, K. (1998). The effectiveness of hardiness training. Consulting Psychology Journal, 50, #2, 78-86.
Witz, M. and Kahn, S. (1991). Hypnosis and Huntington’s Disease. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 34, 79-90.
Lombard, L., Kahn, S., & Fromm, E. (1990). The role of imagery in self hypnosis: Its relationship to personality characteristics and gender. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 38, 25-38.
Kahn, S., Fromm, E., Lombard, L., & Sossi, M.S. (1989). The relation of self-reports of hypnotic depth in self-hypnosis to hypnotizability and imagery production. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37, 290-304.
Fromm, E., Lombard, L., Skinner, S.H., & Kahn, S. (1987-1988). The modes of the ego in self-hypnosis. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 7 (4), 335-349.
Kahn, S., Zimmerman, G., Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Getzels, J. (1985). The relationships between identity in young adulthood and intimacy at mid-life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49 (5), 1316-1322.
Kobasa, S., Maddi, S. & Kahn, S.(1982). Hardiness and Health: A Prospective Study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42 (1), 168-177.
Books:
Kahn, S. & Fromm, E. (2000). Changes in the Therapist. New Jersey: Erlbaum Press.
Fromm, E., & Kahn, S. (1990). Self-Hypnosis: The Chicago Paradigm. New York: The Guilford Press.
Csikszentmihalyi, M., Getzels, J., & Kahn, S. (1984). Talent
and Achievement: A Longitudinal Study of Artists.(Manuscript)
Book Chapters:
Kahn, S. & Fromm, E. (1992). "Self-Hypnosis, Personality, and
the Experiential Method" in Fromm, E. & Nash, M. Contemporary Hypnosis Research New York: The Guilford Press.
Kahn, S. (1990). "Phenomenological Explorations of Self-Hypnosis" in Fass, M.L. and Brown, D. Creative Mastery in Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum.
Book Reviews:
Kahn, S.(1984). Book review of Amabile, T.M., The Social Psychology of Creativity. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983. Contemporary Sociology.
Workbook:
Kahn, S. "Resilience: Stress Management For Couples"
Presentations:
"Self-Hypnosis and the Enhancement of Self." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2003.
"Why Change?: Questioning the Goals of Hypnotherapy." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2002.
"The Dialectical Nature of the Hypnotic Relationship." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2001.
"Can Couples be helped with Hypnosis?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2001.
"Working with Couples in Hypnosis." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2000.
"The Hypnotic Relationship and Implications for Treatment of Couples." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 2000.
"Eating Disorders and Athletes." Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sports Psychology, 1999.
"The Hypnotic Relationship." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1998.
"Hypnosis with Couples." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1994.
"Self-Hypnosis and Phenomenology." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1990.
"Stalking the Hardiness Concept: Twelve Years of Stress Research." Presentation at the Fielding Institute, Chicago, 1990.
"The Hardy Relationship." Presented at the International Hardiness Conference, August, 1987.
"The Measurement of Hardiness." Presented at the International Hardiness Conference, August, 1987.
"Art, Stress and Success." Chicago Artists Coalition, Northern Illinois University, 1986.
"Behavioral Medicine in a Community Hospital." Poster presentation at the 1985 Behavioral Medicine Conference, Burlington, MA.
"Hardiness as a Buffer to Stress." Presented at the Massachusetts Psychological Association, 1985.
"Self-Hypnotic Imagery and Personality." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical/Experimental Hypnosis, 1984.
"The Relation of Hypnotic Depth to Hypnotic Susceptibility and Imagery Production in Self-Hypnosis." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical/Experimental Hypnosis, 1984.
"Socio-Economic Background and Fine Arts Involvement in Adult Artists." Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, April, 1983.
"Aspects of Self-Hypnosis Proper." Presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, October, 1982.
REFERENCES_____________________________________________________________
Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D.
Harvard University Medical School
Cambridge Hospital
Cambridge, MA 02139
Marlin Hoover, Ph.D.
15010 South Ravinia Suite 14
Orland Park, IL
Tanya Luhrman, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
5730 South Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637