The Dread of Falling and Dissolving: Further Thoughts

A senior clinical psychologist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst. She teaches and supervises at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; at Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Program of Psychotherapy, where she is Head of the Primitive Mental States advanced track of studies, which she initiated in 2007; and at Halfaba – Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy Studies, Tel Aviv. She also works as a senior clinical psychologist at Brill Mental Health Center (Ramat Chen), Tel Aviv, and in private practice. In 2006 she received the Honorary Mention of the Phillys Meadow Award in New York for excellence in psychoanalytical writing. In November 2008, in Los Angeles, she received the 12th Frances Tustin International Prize for her paper ‘The dread of falling and dissolving: Further thoughts’. In November 2018 she was appointed Chair of The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust. Her main interests in her publications and in her teaching focus on the understanding of primitive mental states, void existence, hypochondria, psychosomatic states, day dreaming, the concept of double, and therapeutic excess.