Member Activities and Publications
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Video Title: Let’s Talk Fabulous Show
Topic: Dream Wisdom
Host: Kim O’Neil / Greg Mahr, M.D., guest panel participant
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Podcast Title: The New Books Network
Host: Karyne Messina, EdD
Aired: 2023
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Title: Meet the Author – An Interview with Lewis Kirshner, MD
Topic: A discussion with Lewis Kirshner, MD on Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice published by Routledge in 2017
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Podcast Title: New Books Network
Topic: The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Racism in America: Episode 12, July 23, 2025
Host: Karyne Messina, EdD
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Podcast Title: New Books Network
Topic: Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults: Episode 4, March 16, 2025 Host: Karyne Messina, EdD
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Publications
2026
Title: The (Mis)-Uses of Holocaust Memory: The United States, Israel, and Palestine
Author: Judith M Hughs, Ph.D.
Published: Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics Number 97 (2026): 60-72
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Title: Ferite precoci e architecture dell’lo (Early Wounds and the Architecture of the Self)
Author: Giovanna Tatti
Published: 2026, Franco Angeli Editore
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Title: Knowledge, relationship, and innovation: artificial intelligence in clinical and psychoanalytic practice
Author: Giovanna Tatti and Elena Massardi
Published: Ricerca Psicoanalitica | pISSN 1827-4625 | Year XXXVII, n. 1, 2026 doi:10.4081/rp.2026.1101
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Title: Platonic Surrealism: A Modern Framework for Meaning Beyond Science and Religion
Author: Kevin Cann with a Foreword by Dr Frank Malone, Psy.D.
Published: Platonic Surrealism Press, 2026
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Title: Food Matters: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Author: Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Psy.D.
Published: Karnac Books, 2026
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2025
Title: Dream Wisdom Oracle
Author: Greg Mahr, M.D.
Published: Inner Traditions Press, 2025
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Title: FLEXIBLY FREUDIAN The Collected Works of Jeffrey H. Golland, Ph.D.
Author: Jeffrey H. Golland, Ph.D.
Published: International Psychoanalytic Books (IPBooks), 2025
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Title: Early maladaptive schemas from child maltreatment in depression and psychotherapeutic remediation: a predictive coding framework
Author: Alan Chen, M.D.
Published: Frontiers in Psychiatry, April 2025
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Title: The Paranoid Style of Donald J. Trump
Author: Judith Hughes, Ph.D.
Published: Free Associations, 2025
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Title: If the Shoe Fits, Wear It? Working Through the Cinderella Complex
Author: Suzan Sherman, M.F.A., L.P.
Published: The Psychoanalytic Review (112), 2025
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Title: Dream Wisdom Oracle: 46 Cards and a Guidebook
Author: Greg Mahr, M.D.
Published: Inner Traditions Press, November 2025
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Title: Flexibly Freudian: The Collected Works of Jeffrey H. Golland, PhD
Author: Jeffrey H. Golland, PhD
Published: 2025
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Title: The Dynamics of Grievance: Snapshots of the American Right
Author: Judith Hughes, PhD
Published: Free Associations (94), 2025
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Title: Newsletter of the American Group Psychotherapy Association
Author: Willard Ashley, Sr., DMin, REV, SCP, CGP
Published: 2025
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Title: Human Aggression and War: The Psychological Roots of Violence
Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD
Published: 2025
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Title: Improving Clinical Case Formulation in Developmental Psychopathology: A Case Commentary on PDM-2 in a Multimethod Assessment Framework
Author: Robert Gordon, PhD
Published: 2025
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2024
Title: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Homelessness
Co-Author: Dennis Debiak, PsyD
Published: The Psychoanalytic Review, 111(2), 135-166, 2024
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Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy and the Treatment Relationship from an Integrative Perspective Author: Alan Chen, MD
Published: 2024
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Title: Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography
Author: Jorgelina Corbatta, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: Why War Revisited: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Human Aggression
Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: The Return to the Consulting Room: Psychoanalytic Theories Compared
Author: Judith Hughes, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: Listening in with Michael Eigen
Author: Isolde Keilhofer, LP
Published: 2024
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Title: Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia
Author: Karyne Messina, EdD
Published: 2024
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Title: Amazing Things I've Learned as a Scientist, Therapist, and Forensic Psychologist
Author: Robert Gordon, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationships
Author: Ashis Roy, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: Harry's Peace: The War for a Mind
Author: James Bove, MD
Published: 2024
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Title: The Reversal of Helplessness with Displacement
Author: Lance Dodes, MD
Published: 2024
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Title: Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The unfortunate reality of a nation plagued by racism, patriarchy, and stark hypocrisy
Author: Karyne Messina, EdD
Published: 2024
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Title: An Editorial, "The Psychoanalytic Review", Vol. 111(1), Guilford Press
Author: Aleksandra Wagner, LP
Published: March 2024
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Title: "Illness, Aging, Dying, and the Psychoanalytic Process: Bibliography"
Author: Suzan Sherman, MFA, LP
Published: 2024
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Title: Measuring the Mental Functioning of Putin, Trump, and Zelensky (Published in: A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia Searching for Truth) Author: Robert Gordon, PhD
Published: 2024
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Title: The Spirit of the Drive in Neuropsychoanalysis
Author: Mark Kinet, MD
Published: 2024
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2023
Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy and the Treatment Relationship from an Integrative Perspective Author: Alan Chen, MD
Published: 2023
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Title: Psychotherapies in Positive Psychiatry
Author: César Alfonso, MD
Published: 2023
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Title: The Impact of Patient Suicide on Clinicians
Author: César Alfonso, MD
Published: 2023
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Title: Clinical Implications of Countertransference in the Treatment of Addictions
Author: César Alfonso, MD
Published: 2023
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Title: It's Not Me, It's You!: How Narcissists Get What They Want and How to Stop Them
Author: Karyne E. Messina, EdD
Published: 2023
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Title: Sensazione e proto-storia nel pensiero di Cristoph Tuercke
Chapter Title: Tuercke and the Interpretation of Facts
Author: Klaus Wiedermann, PhD
Published: 2023
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Title: Asking for things and listening to criticism: Two fundamental challenges in intimate relationships and targets for couple therapy
Author: Arthur Nielsen, MD
Published: 2023
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Title: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics”
Author: Judith Hughes, PhD
Published: 2023
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Title: Psychoanalytic Organizations: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Editor: Douglas Kirsner
Published: 2023
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Title: The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud
Author: Nathan Moses Szajnber, MD
Published: 2023 Click here to pre-order the book
Title: Religion and Death One Century Later
Author: Dorothea Leicher, LCSW
Published: The Journal of Psychohistory (2023)
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Title: Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender
Author: Shari Thurer, ScD Published: 2023 Click here to order the book
Title: Harry's Peace: The War for a Mind Author: James Bove, MD Published: 2023 Click here to order the book
Title: Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now
Author: Nathan Moses Szajnber, MD
Published: 2023 Click here to order the book
Title: La rivoluzione di Martha Harris: Il pensiero psicoanalitico e le sue applicazioni nelle istituzioni Author: Maria Paola Martelli, MA
Published: 2023 Click here to order the book
Title: How the Mind Works: Cases and Concepts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD
Published: 2023
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Title: The Jinn: Islam, Exorcism, and Psychology
Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD
Published: 2023
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Title: The Reception of Lacanian Theory and Practice by American psychoanalytic Training Programs Author: Lewis Kirshner, MD
Published: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71(5), 843 853 2023 Click here to read the article.
2022
Title: Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture
Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD
Published: 2022
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Title: "Domain-specific knowledge”: An additional “upgrade” to therapy integration
Author: Arthur Nielsen, MD
Published: 2022
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Title: Quantum Physics and Psyche: A Creative Perspective
Author: Ken Silvestro, PhD
Published: 2022
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Title: Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy
Author: Karyne E. Messina, EdD
Published: 2022
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Title: The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and the Language of the Soul Author: Greg Mahr, MD and Chris Drake, PhD
Published: 2022
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Title: Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender
Author: Shari Thurer, ScD
Published: 2022
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Title: From Trainees to Trainers
Author: Ning Li, MA, Maranda Sze, PhD and Wei Lan, MA Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2022)
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Title: Integrative Couple Therapy in Action: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Relationship Problems and Crises Author: Arthur Nielsen
Published: 2022
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Title: The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 Author: Judith Hughes, PhD
Published: 2022
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Title: The Journey of Individuation: Experiences of Chinese Patients Treated by Western Psychoanalysts Author: Ren Zhengjia MD, MPH, PhD and Zhongyao Xie, PhD
Published: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2022)
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Title: The Journey of Individuation: Experiences of Chinese Patients Treated by Western Psychoanalysts Author: Ren Zhengjia MD, MPH, PhD and Zhongyao Xie, PhD
Published: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2022)
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2021
Title: The Stream of Life: From Frozen Babies to the Birth of Psychic Life
Author: Maria Paola Martelli, MD, PhD
Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2021)
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Title: Aftermath: Healing from the Trump Presidency
Author: Karyne Messina, EdD
Published: 2021
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Title: Future Research from China on Distance Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment
Author: Ren Zhengjia MD, MPH, PhD
Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, A Journal in English and Chinese (2021) Click here to access the article
Title: An International Survey of the Concept of Effective Psychodynamic Treatment During the Pandemic Author: Robert Gordon, PhD, Zhenyu Shi, MD, PhD, David Scharff, MD, Ralph Fishkin, DO, and R Dennis Shelby, MSW, PhD Published: Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2021) Click here to access the article
Title: International Survey of Negative and Positive Reactions to Psychoanalytic Distance Treatment at the Beginning of the Pandemic
Author: Robert Gordon, PhD, Zhenyu Shi, MD, PhD, David Scharff, MD, Ralph Fishkin, DO and R Dennis Shelby, MSW, PhD Published: International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis (2021)
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2020
Title: Archetypal Nonviolence: Jung, King, and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma
Author: Renée Moreau Cunningham, MFT
Published: 2020
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Title: Psicoanalisi Online
Author: Giuseppe Craparo, PsyD
Published: 2020
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Title: Selma Fraiberg: A Life Journey in Psychoanalytic Social Work Author: Joel Kanter, LCSW
Published: Psychoanalytic Social Work (2020)
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Title: Care-seeking Behavior and Disclosure on Self-reported Mental Health Among Young Women in Urban Shanghai, China Author: Simone Schwank, PhD
Published: Health Psychology Open (2020)
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Title: CAPA in China
Author: Maranda Yee Tak Sze, PhD and Wendy Cuiqin Wen, MSc Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: Psychodynamic Distance Training and Treatment: The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance Research Author: Robert Gordon, PhD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The Psychoanalytic Education of CAPA Graduates
Author: Ralph Fishkin, DO
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The History of CAPA
Author: Elise Snyder, MD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy Training in China
Author: Ralph Fishkin, DO and Frederic Levine, PhD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The History of Psychoanalysis in China
Author: Hsuan-Ying Huang, MD, PhD and Douglas Kirsner, PhD Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: Distance Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China
Author: Lana Fishkin, MD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) Tour of a Lifetime
Author: Gerald Perman, MD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: CAPA Supervision
Author: Thomas Campbell, MD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The Experience of Supervising Chinese Students
Author: Neal Spira, MD
Published: Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2020)
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Title: The Effects of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences and Internal Beliefs on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Counselor Competence Among Chinese Counselors
Author: Fangsong Liu, PhD, Harold Chui, PhD, and Man Cheung Chung, PhD
Published: Psychotherapy (2020)
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Title: Comparing Chinese and US Practitioners’ Attitudes Towards Teletherapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic Author: Xiubing Wang, MA, Robert Gordon, PhD, and Elise W Snyder, MD
Published: Asia Pacific Psychiatry (2020)
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2019
Title: Perinatal Mental Health in China: Views of Health System Professionals in Shanghai Author: Simone Schwank, PhD
Published: Global Health Journal (2019)
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Title: Bisexuality and Its Vicissitudes: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Author: Roman Yumatov, M.A., LP, FIPA
Published: 2019
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2018
Title: Psychoanalysis in China
Author: Dorinda Welle, PhD
Published: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2018)
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Title: China’s Child Policy Shift and Its Impact on Shanghai and Hangzhou Women’s Decision-making Author: Simone Eliane Schwank, PhD
Published: International Journal of Women's Health (2018) Click here to access the article
Title: A Review of Effects of Disrupted Primary Caregiver Infant Relationship on Brain Development and Psychopathology Author: Zhenyu Shi, MD, PhD
Published: Chinese Mental Health Journal (2018)
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2017
Title: Narcissism and Sexuality: A Self Inflicted Wound
Author: Ken Silvestro, PhD
Published: 2017
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Title: Assessing Distance Training: How Well Does It Produce Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists?
Author: Robert Gordon, PhD and Jing Lan, PhD
Published: Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2017)
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Title: Male Sexuality and Gender in Psychoanalysis: Selected Essays
Author: Roman Yumatov, M.A., LP, FIPA
Published: 2017
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2016
Title: The Sound of the Other Hand Clapping
Author: Ken Silvestro, PhD
Published: 2016
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Title: What are the Characteristics and Concerns of High and Low Raters of Psychodynamic Treatment to Chinese Students over VCON?
Author: Robert Gordon, PhD, Xiubing Wang, MA, and Jane Tune, MA
Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2016)
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2015
Title: Comparing Psychodynamic Teaching, Supervision, and Psychotherapy Over Videoconferencing Technology with Chinese Students
Author: Robert M Gordon, PhD, Xiubing Wang, MA, and Jane Tune, MA
Published: Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2015)
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Title: H. S. Sullivan and “Interpersonal Learning”
Author: Joel Kanter, LCSW
Published: Taylor & Francis Online, 2015
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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JFqYxjw_gW3pNyqb8UVGIA
2014
Title: A Cross-cultural Study of Somatic Countertransference: A Brief Overview
Author: Adrienne Margarian, PhD
Published: Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (2014)
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Title: Helping, Healing and Interpreting: Sullivan, the Interpersonal School and Clinical Social Work Author: Joel Kanter, LCSW
Published: Taylor & Francis Online, 2013
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