Response to Layton: Considering the Sociopolitical Context of Dialectical Constructivism

Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the National Training Program for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the New York University Post-Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is a corresponding editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and has served on the board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a series of publications developing his “dialectical-constructivist” point of view, including his book Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View (The Analytic Press, 1998). Dr. Hoffman is in private practice in Chicago.Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the National Training Program for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the New York University Post-Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the editorial board of