CV | Neil Gorman
Curriculum Vitae
Intro:
Over the course of my teaching and academic career, I’ve worked in a variety of different settings. My early work as a teacher was with “at-risk” teenagers who had been sent to therapeutic day schools and/or inpatient settings. These were students who frequently did not have much interest in education. Currently, I’m a professor who teaches Masters and Doctoral level students at a four-year university.
The journey has been really incredible!
One of my goals is to use this CV as a document that serves both to describe what I’ve done and to give the reader an idea of my personality, attitude, beliefs, and the direction I want to head as I move into the future. In other words, I want this document to both describe and explain me and the work I do.
Teaching Philosophy:
When I was getting my undergraduate degree in history, I had a favorite professor. One day, I decided to google this professor and one of the things that came up was an interview he had done. During the interview, the professor had been asked, “Can you explain your teaching philosophy?”
The professor replied, “Relaxed seriousness.” Then, he went on to explain that he wanted his classes, the content taught, and the attitude towards scholarship and intellectual honesty to be something that everyone in the classroom took very seriously. Nonetheless, the seriousness did not mean that the learning environment needed to be high-pressure or put people on edge in any way.
More than anything else I’ve ever read or heard about teaching has stuck with me more than this elegant expression of how one can teach. Being someone who believes in standing on the shoulders of giants in order to see far, I’ve adopted this as my philosophy as well.
I hope that I’m able to use this philosophy to help the students I’m lucky enough to teach to come face to face with the transformative power of learning.
Education:
2018-Current
Analytic Formation started. It is ongoing.
2012 – 2016
Doctorate in Clinical Social Work (DSW)
From Aurora University.
2007-2010
Masters in Social Work (MSW)
From Aurora University.
2000-2003
Bachelors in Liberal Arts & Sciences –History- (BA),
From Northern Illinois University.
1997-2000
Associate in Arts (AA),
From College of DuPage.
License & Certifications:
LCSW — License # 149.015460
PEL-IEIN — License # 682827
Higher Education Teaching Experience:
(Syllabi for any of the classes listed below will be made available upon request.)
Fall 2022
- Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) I of II
Summer 2022
- Advanced Clinical Social Work | Psychodynamic Application
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
- Practice I: Individual & Families
- Practice IV: Clinical Concentration
DSW courses:
- Clinical Seminar II — Working with Couples
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
MSW courses:
- Practice I: Individual & Families
- Practice II: Communities
- Practice IV: Clinical Concentration
- Advanced Macro Practice & Social Policy
DSW courses:
- Clinical Seminar I — Working with Individuals
- Clinical Seminar IV — Working with Groups
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
MSW courses:
- Practice IV: Clinical Concentration
DSW courses:
- History of Psychological Theory
- Clinical Seminar I – Working with Individuals
- Clinical Seminar II – Working with Couples
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
MSW courses:
- Advanced Clinical Practice w/ Adolescents
- Practice II: Communities
- Practice IV: Advanced Clinical Social Work (Psychodynamic Focus)
- Therapeutic Relationship & Integrated Psychodynamics
DSW courses:
- History of Psychological Theory
- Clinical Seminar I – Working with Individuals
- Clinical Seminar II – Working with Couples
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
MSW courses:
- Practice III: Clinical Methods
- Diagnostics & Psychopathology
- Therapeutic Relationship & Integrated Psychodynamics
- Advanced Clinical Practice w/ Adolescents
- Practice IV: Advanced Clinical Social Work (Psychodynamic Focus)
DSW courses:
- History of Psychological Theory
- Clinical Seminar I – Clinical Practice with Individuals
- Clinical Seminar II – Clinical Practice with Couples
- Organizational Analysis
Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
MSW courses:
- Practice II – Group Work
- Practice III – Theories & Methods
- Practice IV – Advanced Clinical Social Work (Psychodynamic Focus)
- Advanced Macro Social Work Practice
- Advanced Family Therapy
- Advanced Clinical Practice with Adolescents
DSW courses:
- History of Psychological Theory
Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
- Served as site supervisor for MSW interns @ Edgewood Clinical Services
Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
- Served as a Field Liaison
- Generalist Research Methods (first out of two research classes in a sequence)
- Practice III – Theories & Methods
- Practice IV – Advanced Clinical Social Work (Psychodynamic Focus)
- Advanced Psychodynamic Theory & Application
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
- Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) I of II
- Generalist Social Policy (first out of two research classes in a sequence)
Teaching Experience within the Lacanian Orientation:
2023
- Organized Linking Seminar II in Chicago. (Juan-Felipe Arango & Isolda Alvarez guests)
- Participted in the Lacanian Compass Members Meeting planning committee.
2022
- Organized Linking Seminar I in Chicago. (Tom Svolos guest)
- Organized/coordinated the intro to Lacan’s Écrits reading group at Aurora University.
- Participted in the Lacanian Compass Members Meeting planning committee.
2021
- Coordinated the Six Paradigms of Jouissance Reading Group. (Guest speakers: María Cristina Aguirre, Isolda Alvarez, Jeff Erbe, Juan Felipe Arango, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, & Tom Svolos)
- Coordinator for the "Cross Country" branch of the Lacanian Compass Clinical Research Seminar.
2020
- Coordinated the Éric Laurent Reading group Orienting test was Guiding Principles for any Psychoanalytic Act
- Coordinator for the "Cross Country" branch of the Lacanian Compass Clinical Research Seminar.
2019
- Coordinated the Jacques-Alain Miller Reading group. The orienting text was Turin Theory of the Subject of the School.
Other Teaching Experience:
2016-2020
- Coordinated the Advanced Clinical Specialization at the Aurora University School of Social Work.
2011 – 2012
- Certified CPI Instructor at Guiding Light Therapeutic Day School
2010 – 2012
- Full-time E-Learning Coordinator & Teacher at Guiding Light Education Center.
2007 – 2010
- Full-time teacher at Abraxas Youth and Family Services – Therapeutic Day School.
2003 – 2005
- Part-time teacher at Ombudsman Education Services
Clinical Experiences:
2020-current
Independent supervisor
- Provide individual and/or group weekly supervision to LPCs and LSWs looking to move to their clinical license (LCPC or LCSW).
- Providing psychoanalytic supervision (i.e. control) to interested individuals or groups.
2019 – 2021
Clinical Therapist @ SamaraCare Counseling
- Caseload of 8-15 clients per week (individuals, couples)
- Clients seen in face-to-face and telehealth platforms
2012 – 2016
LCSW & Clinical Supervisor @ Edgewood Clinical Services
- Caseload of 25-30 clients per week (individuals, couples, families, & group sessions)
- Supervised 3-5 employees and/or interns
2007 – 2010
Therapeutic Day School Teach @ Abraxas Youth and Family Services
- Taught history classes to 12-15 students, all of whom had been residentially placed in an ASAM level 3.5 substance abuse treatment.
- Worked closely with clinical staff to ensure that clinical needs were being met in the classroom.
2005 – 2007
Provisional Substance Abuse Counselor
- Worked on residential inpatient adolescent unit
- Caseload of 6-12 (all male court-mandated clients meeting level 3.5 ASAM criteria
- Conducted at last one 1:1 session with each client per week, two if possible.
- Conducting group therapy with clients at least 4 times per week.
- Worked on a treatment team with family & recreational therapists.