Identification of the Self as an Aggressor: Intergenerational Vicissitudes of Victim/Victimizer Self-Representations

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches on the faculty of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and chairs the Education Committee. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. At the winter meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, she co-chairs the annual discussion group on Effects of the Holocaust and Genocide on Survivors and their Families. She was the recipient of the 2021 International Deanna Holtzman, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary/Applied Psychoanalysis Award Prize given by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute for her paper on work with asylum seekers. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Elise M. Hayman Award granted biennially by the International Psychoanalytic Association for the most cogent, relevant, and commendable work on the Holocaust and genocide. Her featured paper won the 2024 Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture and was presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in San Francisco on February 6, 2025.