1st Edition
Demons in the Consulting Room Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice
Introduction. Part I: Clinical. Kalb, Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Reluctant Ancestors. Atlas, The Dybbuk- It’s Me or Him. Fox, Occupation: A Ghost Story. Katz, Repressed Ghosts and Dissociated Vampires in the Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Treatment. McGleughlin, Do We Find or Lose Ourselves in the Negative? Part II: Community & Culture. Kuriloff, The Past is the Presence Between Us: Psychoanalysis and the Spectre of the Shoah. Dimen, Ghostliness and Boundary Violations. Sebek, Basic Uncertainty and Totalitarian Objects. Gump, The Presence of the Past: Transmission of Slavery’s Traumas. Etkind, Wounded Stories. Gerson, Afterword.
Biography
Adrienne Harris is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She published Gender as Soft Assembly in 2005. She writes about gender and development, about analytic subjectivity, and about the analysts developing and writing around the period of the First World War.
Margery Kalb is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She also teaches and supervises clinical work for the doctoral psychology program at Pace University. Dr. Kalb is the author of several papers on ghosts.
Susan Klebanoff is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Stephen Mitchell Center and is an adjunct clinical supervisor at the Ferkauf School of Yeshiva University. Klebanoff has previously co-authored a book on depression for middle school aged children and a chapter in a book on uncertainty in psychoanalysis.
