Writings


As a student of human behavior my interests, expressed through my writings, cover a wide spectrum. They cluster around several elements.

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Clinical Papers

These papers deal directly with individual treatments:

 

  1. A Psychotherapeutic Treatment Informed by Heinz Kohut’s
    Psychology of the Self
  2. The fee
  3. eSupervision
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Applied Psychoanalytic Papers

These papers view an array of human, but not directly treatment related, issues through the prism of psychoanalytic thinking:

 

  1. Turn of the Screw
  2. Wrinkle in time: Narcissism, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and a 16th Century Kabbalistic Myth
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Academic Papers

These papers discuss various general psychoanalytic and developmental ideas:

 

  1. Learning Self Psychology in Turkey
  2. Childhood Loss and Adoption: The Unending Search for the Perfect Other
  3. Time, Co-Created Space, and the Interpretive Process in Psychoanalysis: A Self Psychological Perspective
  4. Definition of Disorder of the Self
  5. TRAUMA, HEALING, FORGIVENESS: A process for the Jewish New Year to Academic Papers
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Book

Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self
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Family Business Articles

  1. When Family Business Hurts, Call a Doctor. Here’s Why.
  2. The Avoidance Template
  3. The Last Act
  4. Having “The Talk” for Elder Planning
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Book Reviews

  1. Review of Kohut’s Freudian Vision by Phillip Rubovitz-Seitz, M.D.
  2. Review of Intimate Attachments: Toward a New Self Psychology by Morton Shane, Estelle Shane and Mary Gales.