CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND FAMILY THERAPIST
Born 1931 in the USA
Settled in Israel 1973
Marital Status: Married twice – 6 children, 13 grandchildren
ACADEMIC TRAINING:
1952 Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B.A. With Distinction in Psychology, 1952
1957 University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1957
Dissertation: “Rorschach Areas Designated as Sex Populars”
Supervisor: Prof. Vincent Nowlis
1973-1994 Tel-Aviv University, School of Social Work
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
1973-1978 Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology
1978-1984 Associate Professor of Psychology
1983-1990 Founder and Director
Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Training Program in Family Therapy
1987-1990 Founder and Chairman
Graduate Family Therapy Program
1994 Retired
1992-1994 Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Department of Social Work
1993- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy
Founder and Director of School of Psychotherapy which was formally entitled, “Program for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy,” Department of Psychology and Martin Buber Center, 1993-1997 [later co-sponsored by Dept. of Psychology and School of Social Work, and housed in Magid Center for Continuing Education]
Member of Directorate of School of Psychotherapy, 1997-2007
1958-1962 Oakbourne Hospital
Inpatient treatment service affiliated with Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic West Chester, Pennsylvania
Chief Psychologist, Oakbourne Hospital
Supervisor Postdoctoral Joint Training Program Oakbourne Hospital and Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic
1962-1973 Guidance Consultants, psychological group practice
Paoli, PA
Director
CLINICAL LICENSING SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION, HONORS AND LEADERSHIP ROLES
Licensed Psychologist, New York State (inactive)
Licensed Psychologist, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (inactive)
Licensed Psychologist and Specialist in Clinical Psychology (Psychodiagnosis and Psychotherapy), and Accredited Supervisor, Ministry of Health, State of Israel
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology (1965)
Clinical Member and Accredited Supervisor, American Association Marriage and Family Therapy
Certified Family Therapist and Accredited Supervisor, Israel Association Marriage & Family Therapy
American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology (ABEPP)
“Certified as a Diplomate who has Demonstrated Advanced Competence in the Specialty of Clinical Psychology” (1965)
American Psychological Association
Elected Fellow, “In Recognition of Outstanding and Unusual Contribution to the Science and Profession of Psychology” (1988)
Israel Association for Marital and Family Therapy and Family Life Education
Founding President, 1976-1978
First President, 1978-1979
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
Election as “Master Family Therapist” (1985)
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
International Fellow Award, “Recognizing International Leadership and Contributions to the Family Therapy Field” (1985)
International Family Therapy Association
President-Elect 1993-1995
President 1995-1997
Immediate Past-President 1997-1999
Past President and Member of Board of Directors 1999-2001
“Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions to the International Family Therapy Association and the Advancement of Family Therapy as President and Member of the Board of Directors” (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001)
Israel Association for Marital and Family Therapy and Family Life Education
“Honoring Israel Charny on Assuming the Office of President of the International Family Therapy Association,” at the Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv University (1995)
See also the website of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem that is directed by Israel W. Charny at www.ihgjlm.com
Videotape: Is That All There Is? Live Therapy-Consultation to A Couple and their Therapist . In the “Master Therapist Series.” Produced and distributed by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Washington, D.C., Master Series Video No. 107 (1985).
“Charny consults with a young couple, in treatment for three years, whose relationship is enjoyable but who complain of dissatisfaction and feelings of ‘Is that all there is?’
Charny focuses on work histories and families of origin and reveals constraints each is laboring under in hesitating to progress beyond the achievements of their parents. The tape demonstrates Charny’s capacity to make authentic contact by disclosing his own immediate experiences and by attending to their experiences throughout the session.” (AAMFT Catalogue).
Selected Chapters in Books and Videos
Structuralism, paradoxical intervention and existentialism: the current philosophy and politics of family therapy. In Wolberg, Lewis R., and Aronson, Marvin L. (Eds.), Group and Family Therapy 1982. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1983, pp. 200-215.
The personal and family mental health of family therapists. In Kaslow, Florence Ed.), The International Book of Family Therapy. New York: Bruner/Mazel, 1983, pp. 41-53.
See also Kaslow, Florence. Editor’s Commentary: Affective responses to Charny’s analysis of the unique problems of family therapists, pp. 54-55.
What do therapists worry about?: A tool for experiential supervision. In Kaslow, Florence (Ed.), Models, Supervision and Training: Dilemmas and Challenges. New York: Haworth Press, 1986, pp. 17-28.
Respect for life – a universal value. In On Violence and Non-Violence. Tel-Aviv: Israel Association Social Work, 1987, pp. 319-. (Hebrew)
Evil in human personality: Disorders of doing harm to others in family relationships. In Kaslow, Florence (Ed.), Handbook of Relational Diagnosis and Dysfunctional Family Patterns. New York: Wiley, 1996, pp. 477-495.
Recovery of two (largely) autistic children through renunciation of maternal destructiveness in integrated individual and family therapy. In Wolberg, Lewis R., and Aronson, Marvin L. (Eds.), Group and Family Therapy 1980. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1980, pp. 250-281.
Staying together or separating and divorcing: Helping couples process their choices. In Everett, Craig A., and Lee, Robert E. (Eds.), When Marriages Fail: Systemic Family Therapy Interventions and Issues. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006, pp. 21-35.
An existential-dialectical perspective on staying together or separating and divorcing: The therapist’s choices in helping couples process their choices.
In Everett, C. A., and Lee, R. E. (Eds.), When Marriages Fail: Systemic Family Therapy Interventions and Issues: A Tribute to William C. Nichols. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006, pp. 21-35.
Charny Israel W., and Asinelli-Tal, Shlomit. Study of “sex-less (sex avoidant) young couples. In Nichols, William C. (Ed.), Family Therapy Around the World: A Festschrift for Florence W. Kaslow. NY: Haworth Press, 2004, pp. 197-217. With a small Dedication Note entitled, “Sex for Kaslow,” p. 198.
