Revisiting the Repetition Compulsion: Danger and Survival in Early Mental Functioning*

Training and supervising analyst and a faculty member at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. She has written on psychoanalytic research, the anaclitic countertransference, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and biology. Using biological and psychosocial data, Dr. Shepherd conducted empirical research that tested Hyman Spotnitz's hypothesis on the etiology of schizophrenia. Her paper, “Speaking the never spoken: the challenge of id analysis,” won the 2013 Gradiva Award for best article in psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in Cambridge and Brookline, Massachusetts.