Inside Out and Outside in: Exploring the Interplay between Social and Psychic Structures in the Pandemic Era

Psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works primarily with LGBTQ adolescents and adults. She is a graduate of the International Institute of Psychoanalytic Training (IIPT), within the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI). Her writing includes chapters on the internet as a transitional space for transgender and gender non-conforming patients, psychoanalytic considerations of internet use as both adaptive and defensive amongst LGBTQ populations, and the impact of family and sociocultural context on LGBTQ identities and psychodynamics. Ms Eliza-Christie is a national faculty member of IPI and chair of its diversity committee.