Name: Nicholas E. Brink, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist

Address: P.O. Box 94
Coburn, PA 16832

Phone & Fax: (814) 349-5968
or (570) 523-0023

E-mail: nbrink@dreamimages.info

License and Certificates:

Pennsylvania License PS001028-L

Diplomate In Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology

Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology

Degrees:

Ph.D. 1970 Educational Psychology, U.C.L.A.

M.A. 1965 Educational Psychology, U.C.L.A.

B.A. 1963 Psychology, U.C.L.A.

1982 — Present: The private practice of psychology. Services offered: Individual, family, and marital psychotherapy and hypnosis. Evaluation and therapy for emotional, family and marital problems, sex abuse, stress reduction, pain and other physical/psychosomatic problems.

Fall 1989: Adjunct professor, The Pennsylvania State University, taught introductory psychology.

1974-1982: Staff psychologist and (Beginning Jan. 1980) Director of Psychological Services at Danville State Hospital, Danville, PA. Administrator and supervisor of psychology department, started family therapy program, directed student internship program and provided psychotherapy for patients.

Summer 1981: Adjunct professor at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA. Taught intelligence testing.

1972-1973: Director, Strawberry Fields, a state funded small group home for retarded adolescents, State College, PA.

1970-1972: Research Associate, University Division of Instructional Services, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Consulted with faculty on classroom evaluation, test construction and research.

1968-1970: Research consultant and data analyst, U.C.L.A.

1964-1967: Tutor and teacher at the Fernald School, U.C.L.A.

Honor: HEW Fellowship in Special Education, 1967-1968.

American Psychological Association

Pennsylvania Psychological Association

American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

International Society of Hypnosis

Swedish Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery
Past President, Board Member

Association for the Study of Dreams

Book Review Editor, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, the Journal of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery

Brink, N.E. The effect of rewarding experience and achievement on level of aspiration of remedial students. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965.

Brink, N.E. The effect of item discrimination and range of item easiness on the standard error of ability estimates using the Rasch Model. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich.: No. 71 4863. 1970.

Brink, N.E. The effect of item discrimination in the Rasch Model. Proceedings, 79^th Annual Conference, APA, 1971.

Brink, N.E. Rasch’s Logistic Model vs. The Guttman Model. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972, 32 pp 921-927.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Traumatic Images. Bulletin of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, 2(2).

Brink, N.E. Hypnosis and Control. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1981, 24(2).

Brink, N.E. Metaphor Creation for Use within Family Therapy. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1982, 24(4).

Brink, N.E. Imagery and Family Therapy. In Imagery, Vol. 3 ed. J.E. Shorr, G Sobel-Whittington, P. Robin and J.A. Connella. New York: Plenum, 1983.

Brink, N.E. Three Stages of Hypno-Family Therapy for Psychosomatic Problems. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1987, 6(3).

Brink, N.E. The Power Struggle of Workers’ Compensation and Strategies for Intervention. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 1989, 20(1).

Brink, N.E. Using Imagery as a Planning and Treatment Guide in Therapy. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1989, 8(3).

Brink, N.E. The Healing Powers of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Imagery: Current Perspectives, ed. J.E. Shorr. New York: Plenum, 1990.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Pain: The Psychological Mechanisms That Intensify Pain. Mental Imagery, ed. R.G. Kunzendorf. New York: Plenum, 1991.

Brink, N.E. God Images. Mental Imagery, ed. R. G. Kunzendorf. New York: Plenum, 1991.

Brink, N.E. Ten Days in June. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1991, 11(1).

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Internal Power Struggles. Hypnosis: 175 Years after Mesmer, ed. W. Bongargtz. Konstanz, Germany: Universitats Verlag, 1992.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Internal Power Struggles. Hypnos: Swedish Journal of Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, 1992, 19(4).

Brink, N.E. Understanding the Imagery of Myth Through Hypnosis. Hypnos: Swedish Journal of Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, 1994, 21(1).

Brink, N.E. Hypnosis and Pain. Directions in Clinical Psychology, Vol. 5. New York: Hatherleigh, 1995.

Brink, N.E. Loki’s Children: A Mythical Understanding of Hypnosis in the Process of Change. Hypnos: Swedish Journal of Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine. 1995, 22(3).

Brink, N.E. Guided Imagery. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter. 1996, 16(1).

Brink, N.E Loki and Grendel: Imagery Therapy for Two Classes of Emotional Problems. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2001, in press.

Brink, N.E. Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2001.

Brink, N.E. Characteristics of Rasch’s logist model. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Convention, Minn., Minn., Feb. 1970.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Delusions. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Fall Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 1978.

Brink, N.E. Hypnosis and the Schizophrenic Patient. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention, Lancaster, PA, June 1981.

Brink, N.E. Control and Hypnotic Resistance in Family Therapy. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, D.C., August 1982.

Brink, N.E. Hypnosis, Silence, Ownership and Family Therapy. Paper presented at the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Oct. 1982.

Brink, N.E. Three Factors of Hypno-Family Therapy. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention, Lancaster, PA, June 1984.

Brink, N.E. and J.B. Sallade Hypnosis and Mutual Storytelling. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention, Lancaster, PA, June 1984.

Brink, N.E. Three Factors of Hypno-Family Therapy for Psychosomatic Problems. Paper presented at the 10^th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, August 1985.

Brink, N.E. Therapy for Disorders of Impulse Control. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention, Lancaster, PA, June 1986.

Brink, N.E. Using Imagery to Determine the Agenda and Evaluate Progress of Therapy. Paper presented at the 2^nd World Conference on Imagery, Toronto, Canada, June 1987.

Brink, N.E. The Power Struggle of Workers’ Compensation and Imagery Strategies for Therapy. Paper presented at the 11^th American Imagery Conference, New York City, Nov. 1987.

Brink, N.E. Imagery of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Paper presented at the 10^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, New Haven, Conn., June 1988.

Brink, N.E. Cognitive and Perceptual Stress Related Disorders. Paper presented at the 11^th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 1988.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with the Client’s Inner Power Struggle. Workshop presented at the 3^rd World Conference on Imagery, Washington, D.C., June 1989.

Brink, N.E. Techniques in Hypnotic Imagery. Workshop presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention, Lake Harmony, June 1989.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Pain: The Psychological Mechanisms That Intensify Pain. Workshop presented at the 12^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Lowell, Mass. June 1990.

Brink, N.E. God Images. Paper presented at the 12^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Lowell, MA, June 1990.

Brink, N.E. Dealing with Power Struggles. Paper presented at the 5^th European Congress of Hypnosis, Konstanz, Germany, August 1990.

Brink, N.E. Using Hypnotic Imagery in a Clinical Practice. Workshop presented at the 4^th World Conference on Imagery, Minn., MN, May 1991.

Brink, N.E. Going Back in Time. Workshop presented at the 14^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Montreal, Que., Canada, May 1992.

Brink, N.E. Understanding the Imagery of Myth. Workshop presented at the 5^th World Conference of Imagery, Milwaukee, WI, June 1993.

Brink, N.E. Loki's Children: A Mythical Understanding of Hypnosis in the Process of Change. Paper presented at the 6^th European Congress of Hypnosis, Vienna, Austria, August 1993.

Brink, N.E. Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Wounded Inner Child Through Imagery. Workshop presented at the 16^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Irvine, CA, June 1994.

Brink, N.E. The Native American Medicine Wheel. Lecture presented in Health Psychology, Bucknell University, Nov. 1994.

Brink, N.E. Loki’s Children: Becoming Free with Our Shadow Through Imagery. Workshop presented at the 6^th World Conference of Imagery, Cleveland, OH. June 1995.

Brink, N.E. Accessing the Unconscious Mind. Workshop presented at the 18^th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Chicago, IL, June 1996.

Brink, N.E. Going Beyond Anger in Dealing with Abuse. Paper presented at the 14^th International Congress of Hypnosis, San Diego, CA, June 1997.

Brink, N.E. Going Beyond Anger in Dealing with Abuse. Workshop presented at the 7^th World Conference of Imagery, Madison, WI, August 1997.

Brink, N.E. Loki and Grendel: Imagery Therapy for Two Classes of Emotional Problems. Keynote Address presented at the 21^st Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Hempstead, NY, June 2000.

Brink, N.E. Trapped Inside Oneself: Treating Vietnam Veterans. Workshop presented at the 22^nd Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Milwaukee, WI, June 2001.

Brink, N.E. reviewed: Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness, by Robert A. Johnson, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991 in Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1993, 12(4).

Brink, N.E. reviewed: Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, by Robert A. Johnson, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991 in Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1993, 12(4).

Brink, N.E. reviewed: Taming the Diet Dragon: Using Language and Imagery for Weight Control and Body Transformation, by Constance C. Kirk, St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn, 1992 in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1993, 36(1).

Brink, N.E. reviewed: Taming the Diet Dragon: Using Language and Imagery for Weight Control and Body Transformation, by Constance C. Kirk, St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn, 1992 in Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1994, 13(3).

Brink, N.E. reviewed: The Couple Who Became Each Other and Other Tales of Healing from a Hypnotherapist’s Casebook, by David L. Calof, New York: Bantam Books, 1996 in Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1999, 18(4).

Brink, N.E. reviewed: Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and Meaning of Dreams, by Ernest Hartmann, M.D., New York: Basic Books, 1998 in Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2000, 19(4).

Other Publications

Brink, N.E. chaired PPA committee and was primary author of the brochure Employee Assistance Programs, published by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, 1984.