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Alameda County, CA November 5, 2002 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Shirley Issel

Candidate for
Member, Board of Directors; Berkeley Unified School District

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Candidate Biographical Information

Occupation/Employer:
BUSD School Board Director & Psychotherapist

Professional / Working Career:

  • 1998 to Date BUSD School Board Director
  • 1979 to Date Private Practice, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: adult & couple therapy
  • 1979 to 1980 Instructor, John F. Kennedy University Graduate School of Psychology
  • 1972 to 1979 Co-Founder, Chief Social Worker-Administrator, Berkeley Therapy Institute
  • 1972 to 1973 Consultant Faculty, California School of Professional Psychology
  • 1971 to 1972 Consultant to Phoenix House Residential Treatment Center, Concord
  • 1970 to 1971 Chief Social Worker, Day Treatment Center, Contra Costa County Mental Health Services
  • 1966 to 1968 Caseworker, Contra Costa County Department of Social Services

Board Memberships/Community Activities:
  • President, Vice-President, Director Berkeley School Board
  • Member, Joint City-School "2X2" Committee
  • Director, Alameda County School Board Association
  • Berkeley High Development Board
  • District Wide BSEP Planning & Oversight Committee
  • Chair Bathroom Committee High School
  • Founding Director Beth El Homeless Meal Program
  • Oxford, Willard, Longfellow, Berkeley High PTA
  • BUSD/City Community Theater Committee
  • Berkeley High Development Group/Board
  • High School Principal Selection Advisory Committee

Education:
B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
M.S.W., Smith College for Social Work, 1970
Graduate, Masterson Institute Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1991

Residence in election jurisdiction:
35 Years

Publications:
"The Woman Without a Brain: Dissociative Defenses in the Closet Narcissist," Paper Presented at Masterson Group Annual San Francisco Conference: "Comparing Object Relation Approaches, March 1998."

"Disavowed Narcissism: Fusion and Externalizing Defenses in the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self," "Disorders of the Self-New Therapeutic Horizons," James F. Masterson, M.D. & Ralph Klien, M.D. Brunner/Mazel, 1995.

"The Dance Away Lover, and other roles we play in love and sex, and marriage." Goldstien, Zuckerman (Issel), and Larner. Wm. Morrow & Co., 1977.

Hobbies:
Amateur Mycologist

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