My written contributions until now have focused broadly on  the influence of childhood trauma on the mind, and I have drawn on positivist and phenomenological paradigms to better understand this association.  My scholarly interests are currently in the areas of psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, Indian philosophy and mysticism, child abuse and neglect, and abusive intimate relationships.

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Books​​​​​

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Tailor, K.  (in progress).  A life, lived: Memoirs of a shrink.​

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Selected Articles

 

Woodgate, R. L., Tailor, K., Tennent, P., Gonzalez, M., Bell., A. (2024). Coping among Canadian youth living with anxiety: A phenomenological photovoice study. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 00221678241259110.

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Tailor, K., Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Piotrowski, C. (2015). Children exposed to intimate partner violence: Influences of parenting, family distress, and siblings. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 29-38.

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Piotrowski, C., Tailor, K., & Cormier, D. (2014). Siblings exposed to intimate partner violence: Linking sibling relationship quality and child adjustment problems. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38, 123-134.

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Tailor, K., Piotrowski, C., Woodgate, R. L., & Letourneau, N. (2014). Child sexual abuse and adult religious life: Challenges of theory and method. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23, 865-884.

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Tailor, K., & Letourneau, N. (2012). Forgotten survivors of intimate partner violence: The role of gender and mothering on infant development. Infant Mental Health Journal, 33, 294-306

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Tailor, K., & Letourneau, N. (2012). Infants exposed to intimate partner violence: Issues of gender and sex. Journal of Family Violence, 27, 477-488.

 

Selected Presentations

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Tailor, K. (2023). Working with the difficult patient: Leaving theory behind.  Clinical Seminar at Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, Victoria, BC.

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Tailor, K. (2016). Discovery of the Self in a psychotic patient: The impact of medication and psychotherapy on affectivity. Clinical Seminar at Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, Milwaukee, WI.

 

Woodgate, R.L., West, C. H., & Tailor, K. (2013). Existential challenges in children with cancer. Symposium at Inspiration, Innovation, Transformation: 2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, Vancouver, BC.

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Tailor, K., Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Piotrowski, C. C. (2013). Traumatized siblings in violent families: The role of mothering and family distress. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

 

Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Tailor, K., & Piotrowski, C. C. (2010). Post-traumatic stress symptoms in siblings exposed to intimate partner violence: The role of mother- child relationships. Symposium at 18th International Congress on Child Abuse & Neglect, Honolulu, HI.

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Selected Awards

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Scholars Program, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, American Psychological Association

 

Doctoral Foreign Study Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research 

 

Frederick Banting and Charles Best Graduate Scholarship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research 

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Memberships & Affiliations

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Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society​

 

Society for Humanistic Psychology, American Psychological Association​

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Canadian Psychological Association

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Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association

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