Adolescence: A Battleground for Separation and Psychic Integration

On the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she is director of distance learning. She has written extensively about unconscious motivations of fictional characters as they resonate with the authors who create them. She also writes about dreaming and emotional communication, as each topic relates to human behaviors and clinical treatment. Recent papers include: “Aggression in dreams—Intersecting theories”; “Freud, modern psychoanalysis, and threat simulation theory”; and “Teaching modern psychoanalysis: Technique in the classroom.” She is in practice in Manhattan and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.