Unconscious Auto-Censorship in Academic Inquiry: A Personal Account

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, the Vagelos School of Medicine; Director, the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Faculty, the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, all at Columbia University. She is also Faculty, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Her interdisciplinary scholarship, largely concerned with creativity, mourning, and the interface of culture and psychoanalysis, has earned the Menninger, Liebert, Hartmann, CORST, Holtzman, and Ticho Prizes, among others. She is author of Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House (University of Virginia Press); co-editor, with Léon Wurmser, Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity (Routledge); and editor, The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration (Routledge). She is a long-time member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago, and a regular contributor of art criticism to The Brooklyn Rail. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan and in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.