Do We Find or Lose Ourselves in the Negative?

Jade McGleughlin, L.I.C.S.W., is a Supervising Analyst, Supervisor and Faculty Member at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Board of Directors, and is co-chair of the Curriculum Committee. She is an Assistant Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contributing Editor at Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is a past Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry for Harvard Medical School, former co-director Sexual Abuse Treatment Team, Children’s Hospital, Boston. Her most recent paper, “The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo,” appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, September 2011.
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