Voluntary Faculty
Voluntary faculty are typically clinicians or others who are employed outside of the School but make significant contributions to department programs at the medical center or at affiliate institutions.
Voluntary rank detailsJenifer Nields, MD
Assistant Clinical ProfessorAbout
Research
Publications
2025
Book Essay: Before There Were Words, There Was Music Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . New York: Routledge, 2013, 168 pp., $38.39 paperback.Career Choices in Music Beyond the Pandemic: Musical and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 150 pp., $36 paperback.Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. By Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin . New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 328 pp., $35 paperback.
Nields J. Book Essay: Before There Were Words, There Was Music Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . New York: Routledge, 2013, 168 pp., $38.39 paperback.Career Choices in Music Beyond the Pandemic: Musical and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 150 pp., $36 paperback.Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. By Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin . New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 328 pp., $35 paperback. Journal Of The American Psychoanalytic Association 2025 DOI: 10.1177/00030651251344608.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
Musical and Sacred Resonances in Loewald's Writing
Nields J. Musical and Sacred Resonances in Loewald's Writing. 2024, 75-94. DOI: 10.4324/9781032685151-7.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2003
From unity to atonement: Some religious correlates of Hans Loewald's developmental theory
Nields J. From unity to atonement: Some religious correlates of Hans Loewald's developmental theory. The International Journal Of Psychoanalysis 2003, 84: 699-716. PMID: 12873369, DOI: 10.1516/gdpy-pgr5-470y-mlbd.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsReligious experienceReligious correlatesFreud's viewView of religionDevelopmental theoryRegressive elementsPsychoanalytic perspectiveReligious fundamentalismDialectical tensionLevel of internalisationLoewaldEgoEgo developmentRealityFaithReligionTheoryDefensive aspectsFreudPsychoanalytic literaturePerspectiveViewsFundamentalsDefenceUnderstanding
2000
In Reply
Nields J, Fallon B, Jastreboff P. In Reply. Journal Of Neuropsychiatry 2000, 12: 117-b-120. DOI: 10.1176/jnp.12.1.117-b.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1999
Carbamazepine in the Treatment of Lyme DiseaseInduced Hyperacusis
Nields J, Fallon B, Jastreboff P. Carbamazepine in the Treatment of Lyme DiseaseInduced Hyperacusis. Journal Of Neuropsychiatry 1999, 11: 97-99. PMID: 9990563, DOI: 10.1176/jnp.11.1.97.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1998
THE UNDERDIAGNOSIS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC LYME DISEASE IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Fallon B, Kochevar J, Gaito A, Nields J. THE UNDERDIAGNOSIS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC LYME DISEASE IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS. Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 1998, 21: 693-703. PMID: 9774805, DOI: 10.1016/s0193-953x(05)70032-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAdultAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityBlotting, WesternBorrelia burgdorferi GroupChildDepressionDiagnosis, DifferentialEncephalitis, Tick-BorneEncephalomyelitisEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayHumansLyme DiseaseMeningitis, BacterialMental DisordersMiddle AgedMultiple SclerosisNeuropsychological TestsPredictive Value of TestsSerologic TestsAcute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
Fallon B, Nields J. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. Journal Of Neuropsychiatry 1998, 10: 366-367. PMID: 9706548, DOI: 10.1176/jnp.10.3.366.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1994
Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness
Fallon B, Nields J. Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness. American Journal Of Psychiatry 1994, 151: 1571-1583. PMID: 7943444, DOI: 10.1176/ajp.151.11.1571.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCentral nervous systemLatency periodStandard antibiotic regimensNervous systemLate Lyme diseaseLyme diseaseAssociated with Lyme diseaseAntibiotic regimensNeuropsychiatric involvementImmune surveillanceNeurological involvementDifferential diagnosisMonths to yearsSkin infectionsCranial neuritisMajor depressionMultisystem illnessComputerized searchBipolar disorderPatientsEndemic areasObsessive-compulsive disorderAnorexia nervosaDepressive stateEarly signs
1993
Psychiatric manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
Fallon B, Nields J, Parsons B, Liebowitz M, Klein D. Psychiatric manifestations of Lyme borreliosis. The Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry 1993, 54: 263-8. PMID: 8335653.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPanic disorderOrganic mood syndromeMental health professionalsAntibiotic treatmentMood syndromesPsychiatric disordersPsychiatric symptomsPsychiatric presentationsAdequate antibiotic treatmentPanicManifestations of Lyme borreliosisDepressionSevere neurological damageDisordersManiaStructured interviewsHealth professionalsLyme borreliosisCardiac symptomsClinical pictureNeurological damagePatientsBorrelial infectionSymptomsInfectionReflections on a Year's Psychotherapy with a Psychotic Man
Nields J. Reflections on a Year's Psychotherapy with a Psychotic Man. The Psychoanalytic Study Of The Child 1993, 48: 357-378. PMID: 8234559, DOI: 10.1080/00797308.1993.11822391.Peer-Reviewed Original Research