Robert Shilkret

Norma Cutts DaFoe Professor of Psychology

Education

  • B.A., Johns Hopkins University
  • M.A., Clark University
  • Ph.D., Clark University

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Developmental Psychology
  • Concepts of Abnormality
  • Psychoanalytic Psychology (seminar)
  • Laboratory in Personality Research: Quantitative Methods
  • Laboratory in Psychological Assessment
  • First Love: Attachment Theory and Research (seminar)

Interests

My current work deals with college students’ development, including how they accomplish goals and overcome unconscious obstructions, and the relations between earlier parenting experiences and college adjustment. Students wishing to work with me should take courses first that familiarize them with these ideas.

Recent Publications

Markova, G., Shilkret, Rl, & Djalev, L. (in press). Parents’ attachment styles, mental representations, and institutionalization of children in Bulgaria. Infant Mental Health Journal.

Nol, J., Shilkret, C., & Shilkret, R. (2008). Control-mastery theory and contemporary social work practice. Smith College Studies in Social Work, Special Issue: Relational Paradigms for Contemporary Practice, 78, 263-273.

Shilkret, R. (2008, April 16). Can architecture cure? [Review of the book The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States]. PsycCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53, (No. 16), Article 2. Retrieved April 16, 2008, from the PsychCRITIQUES database.

Shilkret, R., & Shilkret, C. J. (2008). Attachment theory. In J. Berzoff, L. M. Flanagan, & P. Hertz (Eds.) Inside out and outside in: Psychodynamic clinical theory and psychopathology in contemporary multicultural contexts, 2nd edition (pp. 189-203). Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Schamess, G. & Shilkret, R. (2008). Ego psychology. In J. Berzoff, L. M. Flanagan, & P. Hertz (Eds.) Inside out and outside in: Psychodynamic clinical theory and psychopathology in contemporary multicultural contexts, 2nd edition (pp. 63-89). Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.