Raymond M. Bergner, Ph.D.
CSDT Director
Raymond M. Bergner, Ph.D. is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, and a psychotherapist with over 30 years experience in private practice. He is the author of three books and numerous articles in journals including Psychotherapy, American Journal of Psychotherapy, and The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. Dr. Bergner is a leading figure in the school of status dynamic therapy, a part of the intellectual discipline called Descriptive Psychology which grew up around the late Dr. Peter G. Ossorio in Boulder, Colorado. He is a founding member and past president of the Society for Descriptive Psychology, co-editor of Advances in Descriptive Psychology Volumes 3, 6, 7 and 8, and founding Director of the Center for Status Dynamic Therapy within the Descriptive Psychology Institute.
James R. Holmes, Ph.D.
CSDT Associate
James R. Holmes, Ph.D. Jim is a clinical psychologist with more than 40 years experience in psychotherapy, providing clinical training and teaching Descriptive Psychology. Jim had the good fortune to work with and learn from Peter Ossorio, the founder of Descriptive Psychology for almost 43 years. He retired several years ago after serving as Director of the Counseling Center and Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of West Florida. This spring Jim and Garnet, his partner and spouse, closed their private practice to have more time for grandchildren and other projects. Jim hopes to do more writing and offer workshops on practical applications of Descriptive Psychology.
Charlie Kantor, Ph.D.
CSDT Associate
Charlie Kantor Ph.D. received his doctorate In Clinical Psychology under Pete Ossorio in 1977. He has been a clinician both in a community mental health center and in private practice. Starting out as a child and adolescent therapist, he now sees a combination of kids, teens, families, couples and some adults in his full time private practice. He has utilized concepts of status dynamics and status dynamic therapy in his work with all these types of clients, and has given some workshops over the years based on those concepts as well.
Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D.
CSDT Associate
Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D. is a clinical and experimental psychologist and research psychoanalyst. He is a member of the Core Faculty of The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Extension School. He has been a professor at Wellesley College and has taught at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. He maintains a psychotherapy practice in Boston. As a student of Descriptive Psychology, Dr. Schwartz has been especially concerned with theory-free, pre- empirical formulations of what he believes are central subject matters for psychology, such as the concepts of action and responsibility, the range of the possible phenomena that are covered by the term “hypnosis”, the limits and nature of psychotherapy, and the concept of “person”. Recent publications have focused on the status dynamics of psychotherapy and supervision.
Walter J. Torres, Ph.D.
CSDT Associate
Walter J. Torres Ph.D. is a clinical and forensic psychologist practicing in Denver, Colorado. His first contact with Descriptive Psychology dates to 1972, when he took a Personality course from Peter Ossorio at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Since then, Descriptive Psychology has been the keystone to his conceptual and practical orientation in both the clinical and forensic domains. He is a past President of the Society of Descriptive Psychology. His recent Descriptive formulations and presentations include trauma and its treatment, and the nature, consequences and alleviation of humiliation.
