Dr. Brothers has published her work extensively. She has written many journal articles, book
chapters, and four books: The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988,
The Analytic Press), which was co-authored with Richard Ulman; Falling Backwards: An
Exploration of Trust and Self Experience (1995, Norton); Toward a Psychology of
Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008, The Analytic Press), and with Jon
Sletvold, A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice, and Supervision: TALKING
BODIES. She is currently writing a book with Jon Sletvold entitled, A Psychoanalytic
Exploration of the Pleasures, Perils, and Power of Relational Knowing.
Dr. Brothers has taught, supervised, and presented original papers in various parts of the
United States as well as in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, England,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey and Japan. She has
helped to organize many conferences, lectures, seminars and workshops for TRISP. In
2011, she chaired the committee that inaugurated a multi-disciplinary conference
entitled “Bystanders No More: Psychotherapeutic Dialogues for the Politically Silenced.”
She is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, has served as co-editor
of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context with Roger Frie from 2015 to 2019 and was chief editor
of eForum , the online magazine of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self
Psychology (IAPSP) from 2013 to 2023.