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  Shulman, Dennis G.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameDennis G. Shulman
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Demarest, New Jersey , United States
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Born 00, 1950 (74 years)
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Oct 02, 2019 03:11pm
Tags Jewish - Blind -
InfoDennis G. Shulman is a Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District. An internationally-recognized clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author and ordained rabbi, Dennis is entering this race because he knows that our nation and our congressional district can do better.

Yes, the challenges are grave, but facing difficult challenges is something Dennis has done all his life. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1950, the second of three children, Dennis began losing his sight at an early age. Yet, neither he nor his parents accepted that his disability would keep him from excelling at anything he set his mind to. He excelled in his studies and, midway through high school, he sought and won an unprecedented full scholarship to prestigious Worcester Academy. He graduated from the Academy third in his class.

By then totally blind, Dennis gained admission into Brandeis University, a highly competitive liberal arts college in Waltham, Massachusetts. With the support of readers supplied by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, whom he trained in the use of the University library, he managed a full course load. He graduated in the class of 1972 Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. That same year Dennis’ volunteer activities, primarily involving the developmentally disabled, earned him a Special White House Commendation for Outstanding Humanitarian Service and The David Aranow Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Welfare.

Dennis’ next move was to Harvard University where he began work toward a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice. Just two years into the program Dennis won a Training Fellowship from the National Institute for Mental Health and married his college sweetheart, medical student Pam Tropper. Also in that period, he began what has become an extended series of teaching positions, professional publications, postdoctoral studies and speaking engagements.

In 1979 Dennis opened his practice in psychoanalysis in New York City. Two years later, he moved to New Jersey (first Harrington Park and then Demarest) and received his license to practice here in 1982. In 1990-91 he served as senior content designer and on-air lecturer in the PBS series “The World of Abnormal Psychology.”

In 1997 he was the founding director of the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, at which he continues to serve. The National Training Program was Dennis’ creation. It is unique in the world of psychoanalytic training institutes attracting students (psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers) from all over the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Meanwhile, in the mid 1990s Dennis began to explore the connections between psychology and religion, discovering wisdom in the Bible that can inform contemporary life—“Taking the Bible not literally, but seriously” he explains. Ultimately, Dennis felt a strong calling and took up study for the rabbinate. He was ordained in 2003, the same year that saw the publication of his book, The Genius of Genesis: A Psychoanalyst and Rabbi Examines the First Book of the Bible. He now serves as the Associate Rabbi of Chavurah Beth Shalom, a progressive synagogue in Alpine.

Dennis has lived in Demarest for more than twenty years with Pam, his wife of 33 years, an Attending Physician at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. The couple has two daughters: Holly (age 24) is press secretary for Global Trade Watch in Washington, D.C. and Juliana (age 20) is in her Junior year at the University of Chicago.

Rabbi Dennis G. Shulman, Ph.D. knows that our nation and our congressional district can do better.

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