RUTH CODIER RESCH, Ph.D.

Professional Psychology

                    1975            Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, New York University, New York, NY
                    1975-2004    Private Practice
                    1975-1980    Downstate Medical Center State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY Assistant Profession Departments of
                                       Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Graduate
                                       Program in Research in Psychiatry

                    1976-1989    City College of New York, Graduate Division Clinical Supervisor, Adjunct Faculty, Graduate                                       Department of Psychology
                    1983-1987    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York Hospital Assistant Professor,                                                      Department of Psychiatry in Pediatrics
                    1983-1989    Post Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York University
                    2004-2008    Retired from Clinical Practice
                    2008- Returned to Practice in Psychotherapy and Coaching for Aphasia, Stroke Survivors and Families

Publications: Research and Clinical papers in major peer reviewed journals, including The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The Bulletin of the Menninger Institute, Frontiers in Infant Psychiatry, The New England Journal of Medicine, and citation in Vogue Magazine.

Current: Memoir of a Lost Adulthood, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2008, December

Advisory Board Member of the National Aphasia Association and Oregon State Representive Life Member: American Psychological Association

Catastrophic Illness

1980 Stroke in JKF Airport returning from presenting at first International Infant Psychiatry

                                        Conference in Portugal.
              Lost speech almost entirely. Underwent cutting edge cerebral artery by-pass brain surgery.
                    1981-present Speech rehabilitation, life management for aphasia
                    2001             Cerebral angioplasty to repair 1980 arterial surgical site
                    2003             Unrelated neurological affecting multitasking integration. Continuing rehabilitation.

Art: Begining as Rehabilitation Therapy

My work is a product of the planned and unplanned elements of my life. Beginning with ink drawings watercolors of weeds and wildflowers on a Maine Island, I began painting in acrylics in a gestural style after a catastrophic illness. More recently I fell in love with the exquisite patterns of my brain’s cerebral vessels and began exploring those medical images with digital technology using drawing, painting and photography.

       Education: 2005-present Digital technology
   1991-1995     Tacoma Community College - Life drawing and sculpture, printmaking,
   1981-1989     Parsons School of Design, New York City - Painting and drawing

       Shows:      2008             "Speaking Out 2008" National Aphasia Association, New York, NY Group Show and Keynote Speaker
   2006             "Speaking Out 2006" National Aphasia Association, Boston, MA     Group Show
   2006              DeForest Gallery, Ashland OR,    Group Show
   1992              Great Mother Gallery, McLeod, MT     Paintings
   1993              Great Mother Conference, McLeod, MT     Performance Art and paintings
   1988              Great Mother Gallery, Post Mills, VT     Paintings

Publication: 2006            The American Psychologist, September, Cover and Interview

Talks: 2008 Through the Eyes of an Aphasic, Keynote Speaker, National Aphasia Association Conference, Speaking Out 2008,

New York University, New York City