Publications

Books

(Forthcoming) with Jon Sletvold. A Psychoanalytic  Exploration of the Pleasures, Perils and Power of Relational Knowing.

(2023) with Jon Sletvold. A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Practice, Training and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. New York and London:Routledge.

(2008) Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. New York: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series, Analytic Press.

(1995) Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

(1988) with Richard B Ulman, The Shattered Self:  A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma. 

Hillsdale, NJ.: Analytic Press.

Chapters in Books

(2020) No Escape from Normal. In: What is Normal? Eds. R. Carrol and J. E.Ryan. London: Karnak

(2020) with Koichi Togashi, After the World Collapsed; Two Culturally Embedded Forms of Service to Others Following Wide-Scale Traumas. In: Race, Rage and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology and the Perils of Individualism. Eds .E. Severson and D. Goodman. New York: Routledge

(2018) Changing Societal Narratives: Fighting Crimes Against Humanity. In: Memories and Monsters. Eds .E. Severson and D. Goodman. New York: Routledge

(2016) Challenging the Success Failure Polarity. In Therapeutic Failures, eds. A Rolef Ben-Shahar & R. Shalit. Karnac

(2016) Screams and Shouts”: Trauma, Uncertainty, and the Ethical Turn. In D. Goodman and E. Severson, eds. The Ethical Turn: Otherness and Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Routledge

(2015) Gratitude and Existential Uncertainty: Commentary on “Beyond Alterity: The Path to Gratitude” by Marie Hoffman. In D. Goodman and M. Freeman, eds. Psychology and the Other. Oxford University Press

(2006) with Linda Raubolt. One wife’s story: A relational systems approach. In Power Games: Influence, Persuasion, and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training. ed, R. Raubolt, New York: Other Press.

(2003) Cinderella’s Gender Trouble; Sadomasochism as the Intersubjective Regulation of Uncertainty. In: Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution. eds, A. Roland, B. Ulanov, & C. Barbre. Westport, Ct: Praeger.

(2000) with Ellen Lewinberg. Surviving the Death of Oedipus: Tips for Self Psychologists. In: Progress in Self Psychology,  Vol. 16, ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1999) with Ellen Lewinberg. The Therapeutic Partnership: A Developmental View of Self-Psychological treatment as Bilateral Healing. In: Progress in Self Psychology,  Vol. 15, ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1998) Exploring the “Bi” Ways of Self-Experience: Dissociation, Alter Ego Selfobject Experience and Gender.  In: Progress in Self Psychology,  Vol. 14 , ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1997) The Leather Princess: Sadomasochism as the Rescripting of Trauma Scenarios.

In: Progress in Self Psychology,  Vol. 13, ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1994) Dr. Kohut and Mr. Z: Is This A Case of Alter-Ego Countertransference?

In: Progress in Self Psychology,  Vol. 10, ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1993) The Search for the Hidden Self: A Fresh Look at Alter-Ego Transferences.

In: Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 9, ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

(1992) Trust Disturbance and the Sexual Revictimization of Incest Survivors: A Self-Psychological Perspective. In: Progress in Self Psychology Vol. 8, ed A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

Journal Articles

(2022) with Jon Sletvold. Talking Bodies: A New Vision of Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 42(4).

(2021) with Jon Sletvold. A New Language for Traumatic Experience: From Dissociation-Enactment to the Fracturing of Embodied Wholeness. International Forum of Psychoanalysis.

(2021 with Jon Sletvold. The Emodiment of “Us and Them”: Fascist Experience in a Traumatized World. Ricerca Psicoanalitica. 2(21).

(2021) with Koichi Togashi. “Are We All Refugees?” Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 41(2)

(2020) with Annette Richard. When “Old ladies” Meet: On Being Seen and Heard in a Lonely World. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40(3):

(2020) Discussion of “Standing Against Silence: Czeslow Milosz, Denise Leverton and Poetry of Witness” by David Shaddock.” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 14(3):

(2020) The Square and the Cross: Discussion of “Mutual Empathy: Imagined Symbol and Realization in the Treatment of Trauma” by Sarah Pillsbury. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 14(2):

(2017) If Freud Were a Woman: Gender, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Being Human. Psychoanalytic Inquiry..37(6):419-424.

(2015) Bullies Close to Home. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 10:355-364..

(2014) War, Peace and Promise-Making: On Becoming a Late-Life Activist. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 34:7, 766-775

(2015) What I Learned From Paul Ornstein–And About Him. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. 10:2, 172-178.

(2014) ”Crimes Against Humanity” and the Societal Context of Trauma: Discussion of “A Sense of ‘Being Human’ and Twinship Experience by Koichi Togashi. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 9:4, 282-288.

(2014) Traumatic Attachments: Intergenerational Trauma, Dissociation and the Analytic Relationship. InternationalJournal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 9:1, 3-15.

(2012) Trauma, Gender and the Dark Side of Twinship. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 7:391-405.

(2012) Murakami, Connoisseur of Uncertainty: Discussion of Thomas Rosbrow’s “After the Quake–The Writer as Waking Dreamer and Trauma Analyst.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 22:1–6.

(2012) with Jane Lewis. On Homesickness, Exile, and the Self-Psychological Language of Home-Coming International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 7:2, 180-195.

(2009) On the Love of Work, the Work of Love, and What Kohut Didn’t Warn Us About Plying the Empathy Trade. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 4 (4):498-509.

(2009) Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis: Transforming Experiences of Unbearable Uncertainty. Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology. Annals of the New York Academy of Science. Vol. 1159:31-50.

(2008) Can Only a Self Psychologist Save Us? International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. 3 (4):501-503.

(2003) Clutching at Certainty: Thoughts on the Coercive Grip of Cult-Like Groups. Group. 27(2/3):79-88.

(2003) After the Towers Fell: Terror, Uncertainty, and Intersubjective Regulation. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 8(1): 68-76.

(2000) Beyond the Black Holes: Trauma, Trust Betrayal and Dissociation. Australian Journal of Psychoanalysis. 19:11-42.

(2000) with Ellen Lewinberg. Contemplating the Death of Oedipus. Gender and Psychoanalysis. 4 (4):497-516.

(1987) with Richard B. Ulman, A Self-Psychological Reevaluation of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its Treatment: Shattered Fantasies. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 15 (2) 175-203.

(1987) An Exchange of Views on Victimization. Additional notes on “The Usefulness of Self Psychology in Understanding and Treating a Case of Homosexual Pedophilia” by Daniel P. Juda, Ph.D. Dynamic Psychotherapy 5 (1) 83-85.

(1986) Discussion of “The Usefulness of Self Psychology in Understanding and Treating a Case of Homosexual Pedophilia” by Daniel P. Juda, Ph.D. Dynamic Psychotherapy 4 (2)124-126.