Jill Salberg
Jill Salberg is a faculty member and clinical consultant/supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is a contributor to and the editor of the book Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives. She has co-edited two books with Sue Grand, - The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma and Trans-generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History
Biography
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP is a clinical adjunct associate professor of psychology, faculty member and clinical consultant/supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, faculty and supervisor at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She has written on reformulating concepts of termination, trans-generational transmission of attachment trauma, gender, Freud, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and Jewish studies. Her papers have been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality and American Imago and she has chapters in Relational Traditions, Vol. 5; The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud; and Answering a Question with a Question. She is a contributor to and the editor of the book Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives. She has co-edited two forthcoming books with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma and Trans-generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference. She has conceived of and co-edits a new book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group. She is in private practice in Manhattan.Education
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Ph.D. NYU University New York 1979
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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I have taught and written on reformulating concepts of termination, trans-generational transmission of attachment trauma, gender, Freud, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and Jewish studies. All of these areas continue to be on-going interests that I am working on.
Books
Articles
On the Precipice
Published: Oct 03, 2016 by Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
History
This discussion sees this transformative one-session treatment as a wonderful exemplar of the power of witnessing another person’s life and traumas. I imagine Freud, the patient, and the world at particular moments in historical and personal time, placing them all on a precipice. It is important to remember that although a precipice can be a point of great danger or even peril, it can also be the brink of something new and life transforming.
Trauma, Gender and the Stories of Jewish Women: The Other Within
Published: May 27, 2016 by Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Gender & Sexuality, Religion
This paper explores how trauma (individual, cultural, and historical) experiences and gender stories of women behaving more like men become intermingled. Drawing upon stories of women in Jewish literature (Beruriah and Yentl), psychoanalytic theories of gender, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, the author unpacks how women carry vulnerability and helplessness whereas men are seen as stronger and agentic.
Introduction:On the Evolution of Witnessing and Trauma Transmission
Published: Jun 22, 2015 by Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Authors: Jill Salberg
This special issue represents the cutting edge relational work on the witnessing of the Holocaust and the intergenerational transmission of that trauma's complex imprint.
Reimagining Yentl While Revisiting Feminism
Published: Sep 04, 2012 by Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Literature, Gender & Sexuality
Using psychoanalytic relational theories on multiple self-states and postmodern gender and sexuality perspectives, this article undertakes fleshing out the characters and the motives of Bashevis Singer in writing the story of Yentl's subjectivity, her multiply oriented desires from multiple self-states, —a male soul within the body of a female.
Leaning into Termination
Published: Dec 11, 2009 by Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Authors:
The author sets forth a call for reconsidering termination from a Relational perspective. She argues that many, if not all, terminations, are primed for enactment. The mutual processes of attaching and detaching, of growing close and then saying goodbye elicit powerful feelings and equally powerful dissociative processes. Specifically, she suggests that termination can be understood as co-created enactments of complex unconscious processes between patient and analyst.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Freud's Jewish Identity Revisited
Published: Jul 03, 2008 by Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Gender & Sexuality
This article looks at multiple aspects of Freud's life: the historical and cultural context in which he lived, the effects of anti-Semitism, the Haskalah/enlightenment movement and his parent's lives and personalities to re-view the affect it had on his theories. I believe that Freud formed a particular repression linking Jewishness, passivity and femininity and religion while elevating in his theories masculinity, activity, science and atheism.
The Vanishing Mother: Reply to Commentaries
Published: Jul 03, 2008 by Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Religion
In this response I draw attention to the instability of the figure of the mother within Freud's presentation of his life, as well as within psychoanalysis. I link this instability to the figure of a “spectral” mother and perhaps subversive aspects of femininity.
Jonah's Crisis: Commentary on Paper by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Published: Jun 26, 2008 by Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Religion
Using Relational and British Object Relations psychoanalytic theories, the author explores Jonah's state of mind, focusing on his profound despair. Most notably she finds that his despair is indicative of traumatic disappointment stemming from the sense of not being recognized by God, experiencing an acute disconnection. Jonah is then seen as being in crisis: incapable of self-reflection, caught in a dissociated self-state, and unable to inhabit and struggle with his own feelings.
"Who Wears the Pants Here?": Gender as Protest
Published: Jun 25, 2008 by Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Authors: Jill Salberg
Subjects:
Gender & Sexuality
This article looks at a case in which the analyst came to view the patient's gender performance as a form of protest as it became transacted within the transference-countertransference relationship. In drawing upon contemporary gender and relational psychoanalytic theories, the author considers the multiple layers of gender meanings held within the patient and within the analyst and concludes that gender is never fully resolved and will continue to carry shifting relational meanings.