Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
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CAPS Staff : Rick Webb

Richard Webb
Ph.D., Temple University, Director

Rick has been at Haverford for more than 25 years, his previous professional position being at The Pathway School, a private school for children with learning disabilities and social/emotional problems. Rick has a special interest in assumptions about "truth", authority, and agency of change in psychotherapy. He earned his undergraduate degree at Denison University. In addition to his work at Haverford, Rick has a private practice.

Publications/Presentations

Webb, R.E. (1997). Helping students with their disgruntlement and capacity to suffer. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 12, 75-83.

Webb, R.E. (1994). Time limited therapy: The elision of an epistemology of wondering. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 12, 75-84.

Webb, R.E. & Restuccia, K.A. (1998). Truth, lies, and wondering. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 11, 117-132.

Webb, R.E. & Restuccia, K.A. (1997). The existential function of the Lacanian unconscious. Clinical Studies: International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 3, 81-96.

Webb, R.E. & Sells, M.A. (1995). Lacan and Bion: Psychoanalysis and the mystical language of "unsaying". Theory & Psychology, 5(2), 195-215. Reprinted in the Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 1997, 15, 243-264.

Webb, R.E. & Widseth, J.C. Trauma with and without agency. Under editorial review.

Webb, R.E. & Widseth, J.C. (2005). Commentary on Gregory Hatchett's "Reducing termination in university counseling services". Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 19, 49-59.

Webb, R.E. & Widseth, J.C. (1999). Lacan's tickling and Milner's joy. Clincial Studies: International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 67-84.

Webb, R.E., Bushnell, D.F., & Widseth, J.C. (1997). The birth and death of desire: The significance of Lacan's "Name of the Father"; in work with the sexually abused. Clinical Studies: International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2(2), 597-612.

Webb, R.E., Bushnell, D.R., & Widseth, J.C. (1993). Tiresias and the breast: Thinking about Lacan, interpretation, and caring. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 74, 597-612.

Webb, R.E., Widseth, J.C., & Ergas, R. Violence, psychosis, and boundary challenges in regressive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Under editiorial review.

Webb, R.E, Widseth, J.C., & John, K.B. (1997). Outsourcing and the role of psychological services on the college campus. NASPA Journal, 34, 186-198.

Webb, R.E., Widseth, J.C., & Ramirez, D.R. (1993). Between Cordelia and Guido: The consultant's role in urgent situations. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 7(3), 3-22. A version of this paper was presented at a symposium for college psychotherapists sponsored by the Tavistock Clinic, London, July, 1992.

Ward, R.M. & Webb, R.E. (2004). The dean's restraining order: "When thou art all the better part of me". Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 19(1), 3-12.

CAPS Study Group 2005-06: P.M. Constantinian, C.A. Guinyard, E.C. Hermosisima, P.D. Lehman, & R.E. Webb (2008). Personal transformation and readjustment in "homecoming." Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 22(3), 50-60.


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