Rate My Professor Ted Ellenhorn

Ted Ellenhorn, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University New England, specializing in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychology. He earned a BA from Pitzer College, an MA in School Psychology, and a PhD in Combined Clinical/Research Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in 1989, along with a Certificate from the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. A board-certified psychoanalyst, Dr. Ellenhorn is both a graduate and faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has maintained an independent clinical practice in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and consultation in Amherst, Massachusetts, for the past 32 years. Previously, he served as Principal of the Ellenhorn Consultation Group, providing leadership development, executive coaching, assessment, team building, and consultation on globalization and creativity. His prior academic appointments include Instructor in Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Adjunct Faculty and Supervisor at Smith College School for Social Work, Adjunct Assistant Research Professor at Adelphi University, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Clinical Psychology.

At Antioch University, Dr. Ellenhorn coordinates the Antioch Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Society for Your Dreams. He led teams that established the 2022 APA Specialty in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and its subspecialty in Psychoanalysis, authored the 2021 Division 39 Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychology Survey, and co-authored the APA Psychodynamic and Psychoanalysis Taxonomy. He has presented papers nationally on psychoanalytic pedagogy, dreams, silence, humor, nonverbal participation, psychotherapy process, discourse analysis, violence, PTSD, and the future of professional psychology. Dr. Ellenhorn serves as Chair of the Psychoanalysis Specialty Council and Representative to the Council of Specialties in Professional Psychology; President-Elect of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis; Co-Chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee; Diversity Representative to the ABPP Board of Trustees; and Mentorship Program Coordinator. He is on the Editorial Board of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice and reviews for Psychoanalytic Psychology. In 2024, he was awarded Fellow status by APA Division 39. His research interests encompass processes of objectification and dehumanization, dreams, verbal expression and health, intergenerational transmission, unconscious communication, character formation, and psychotherapy process.