Ghosts in the Consulting Room

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, about ghosts, 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.

CLINICAL 1. ‘ I aways wished I could stop time.’: An Adolescent Girl, Unresolved mourning and the Haunted Third Susan Klebanoff, 2. Ghostly Intrusions : Unformulated trauma and its transformation in the Therapeutic dyad Heather Ferguson 3. Travel Fever: Transgenerational Trauma and Witnessing in Analyst and Analysand Michael Feldman 4. Shadows, Ghosts and and Chimeraes: On some early modes of handling psycho-genetic heritage Joshua Durban 5. Vaginal Ghosts: Memorializing the disappeared Sue Grand COMMUNITY & CULTURE 6. Ghosts in Psychoanalysis Adrienne Harris, Michael Roth, Jack Drescher, Dan Butler, Don Troise & Douglas Kirsner 7. Empty Arms and Secret Shames: Ghosts in the NICU Zina Steinberg & Susan Kraemer 8. Mourning in the Hollow of Architecture and Psychoanalysis Julie Leavitt & Maria McVarish 9. First Kiss, Last word: Stairway to Heaven Adrienne Harris 10. Afterword Sam Gerson