Patient Care, Consultation, Psychoanalysis
“Sometimes talking helps,” as a cherished mentor once said to me. My approach to patient care generally, and consultation and psychotherapy more specifically, is respectful, open, curious, and infused with over thirty years of clinical experience helping people live lives that have purpose and meaning. I have engaged with a wide range of patients often struggling with complex problems that require thoughtful and creative approaches to their clinical care.
I strive to be both a generous teacher and supportive consultant who lays stress on the clinician's own style of working and helping them find their own analytic voice. The task is far less about learning a "technique" and far more about helping younger analysts and therapists to trust themselves, their "inner voice," and to become more familiar with their natural leanings and biases.
Teaching and Study Groups
I have presented my work on psychoanalysis in the US, Europe, and South America, and have taught study groups in the Bay Area for many years and more recently via Zoom to clinicians and scholars from around the country and abroad. Utilizing a mixture of close-readings of key texts and detailed presentation and discussion of clinical cases, my groups are known for their lively openness to conversation, informed both by my literary sensibility (words and style matter!) and range of theoretical traditions from which I draw. While I am most influenced by Freud and Lacan, I am also fluent in several psychoanalytic idioms, including Winnicott, Bion, and Klein, and the Relational School.