Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
 

Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Ph.D.

Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. 2007.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Excerpted in Boston Globe
Magazine; reviewed favorably in Boston Magazine and Publishers Weekly.

Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church.
2007. Co-Edited with Virginia Goldner. Mahwah, NJ: Taylor & Francis.

Appeared in the Documentary Film: Deliver Us From Evil. Winner: LA Film
Festival, 2006. Nominated: Best Documentary, 2007 Academy Awards. Now out
on DVD.

Supervision is A Relationship Too: A Contemporary Relational Perspective.
January 2007. Scientific Workshop for the North Carolina Psychoanalytic
Society, Chapel Hill.

Prelates, Predators, Priests and People in the Pews. May 2007.
Presentation to Manhattan and Brooklyn Voice of the Faithful. New York
City.

Bishops Play the Blame Game. January 2007. Article published in National
Catholic Reporter.

Bankruptcy and Sexual Abuse. March 2007. Op-Ed piece published in San
Diego Union-Tribune.

On Behalf of a Civil Window. March 2007. Testimony in favor of a one-year
civil window for sexual abuse litigation. Alaska State Senate Judiciary
Committee, Juneau.

Depending on when you update: August 19, 2007. Deliver Us From Evil will
be shown at APA in San Francisco,sponsored by Division 56 - the new Division
of Trauma Psychology. Following the film, discussions will be presented by
Christine Courtois, Ph.D., John Manly, Esq. (plaintiff's attorney), Patrick
Wall (former Benedictine monk), and 2 Jesuit priests.

Appointed: Practice Committee, Division 56 - Division of Trauma Psychology,
APA.

Appointed: Advisory Committee, Leadership Council on Child Abuse and
Interpersonal Violence.

Served as an expert witness for plaintiffs' attorneys in sexual abuse cases
in California, Alaska, Oregon, Arizona, Kentucky, and Florida.

Why It Takes So Long o Disclose Sexual Abuse. December 2006. Presentation
made at the Annual Meeting of the Native American Tribal Councils of
America. Palm Springs.