Dr. Jerrold R. Brandell, of Ann Arbor, a professor in the School of Social Work, and chair of the university's psychodynamic practice sequence, received the Wayne State Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship for his work in the field of psychoanalytic social work recently.

A practicing psychoanalyst and social worker psychotherapist, he completed his psychoanalytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, his doctorate at the University of Chicago and his masters at The University of Wisconsin in Madison.

He is editor of the journal, Psychoanalytic Social Work, author of one book, Of Mice and Metaphors: Therapeutic Storytelling with Children, and editor of four others, among them Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work and Counter transference in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents.

Brandell is immediate past chairperson of the National Study Group of the Committee on Psychoanalysis, and in 2001 was named a distinguished practitioner by the National Academies of Practice. He completed one book project recently, an edited trans-disciplinary collection titled, "The Celluloid Couch: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies," to be published by the State University of New York Wayne State University is a premier institution offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.