The Organizing Functions of Dreaming: Pivotal Issues in Understanding and Working with Dreams*

President of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) and Past President of the Association for Autonomous Psychoanalytic Institutes (AAPI). He is a Co-founder and Board Director of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NYC), Founding Faculty Member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC), and Clinical Professor of Psychology at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. His books include Dream interpretation: A comparative study, Revised Edn, co-authored with Clemens Loew, and Self and motivational systems: Toward a theory of technique, The clinical exchange: Technique from the standpoint of self and motivational systems, and Spirit of inquiry: Communication in psychoanalysis, all co-authored with Joseph Lichtenberg and Frank Lachmann. He is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City and Tenafly, New Jersey.