ABSTRACT
Dr. Joel was born in 1899. He received the Ph.D. degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California in 1934. He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and has received Diplomate status from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. He has taught at the Los Angeles City College and is at present a Lecturer at the University of Southern California. He has been Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Napa (California) State Hospital. Since 1948 he has been at the Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles, where he is Assistant Chief Clinical Psychologist in charge of psychotherapy. He has been Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern California chapter of the Society for Projective Techniques and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Projective Techniques. At present, he and Dr. Shapiro are working on a book on group psychotherapy, using a psychoanalytic approach with emphasis on the relationships within the group.
Dr. Shapiro received the Ph.D. degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California in 1950. His clinical internship, 1947–1950, was at the Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles. He began his personal psychoanalysis in 1948. He is interested in and has worked in the field of the dynamics of interpersonal relationship. At present, he is in the private practice of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and conducts similarly oriented therapy-groups at the Community Medical Center, Los Angeles.
