Playing Hard at Life

Etty Cohen, Ph.D., received professional training in clinical social work (Haifa University) and psychotherapy (Department of Psychiatry, Rambam Medical Center) in Israel. She received her doctorate from New York University's Ehrenkranz School of Social Work and completed psychoanalytic training at New York's Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, where she now serves as a faculty member and supervisor in the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis of The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center and an adjunct professor at the NYU Ehrenkranz School of Social Work. A former major in the Israeli Defense Forces, Dr. Cohen is currently in private practice in New York City.

On the Road to Survival 1. Secrets and Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship 2. Enactments—The Language of Therapy with Traumatized Adolescents 3. Dreams—The Royal Road to Trauma 4. Dissociation and Cultural-Social Difference The Evolution of the Transference—Countepfransference—Engagement, Safety, and Erotic Phases 5. Engagement Phase—Resistance and the Antitherapeutic Alliance 6. Safety Phase—Mutual Tenderness 7. Erotic Phase—Confusion Between Tenderness and Passion Finding a Treatment Plan 8. Gender in the Dyad 9. Treatment Planning—Is it Possible? 10. Contact with Parents 11. Termination—Traumatic for Whom?