Psychoanalysis and Poetry: A Dialogue about Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers”

Senior Lecturer at Amsterdam University College and Research Professor of English Emerita, Brandeis University. Her book, An Accident to Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton (Routledge, 2012) was followed by four more recent article s about Anne Sexton’s relationships with mental health professionals. She is currently working on a novel about Ann Sexton and Her Kind

Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She has written numerous papers on love, sexuality, and psychoanalysis and is on the Editorial Board of JAPA. She has two online courses and is the recipient of several awards. Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Chinese and Farsi. Her third book titled Transference, Love, and Being: Essential Essays from the Field, was published in 2022 by Routledge and she has two forthcoming works, Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, July 2024) and a co-edited volume (with Murray Schwartz) of American Imago on Perverse Scenarios. Dr. Celenza is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA