A Mutual Survival of Destructiveness and Its Creative Potential for Agency and Desire

Lauren Levine, Ph.D., is on the Faculty of the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program at City University of New York and Visiting Faculty at the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. She has published articles on transformative aspects of the analyst's personal analysis and their resonance in our work with patients, the impact of shame on the creative process, and the ways in which shame, recognition, and creativity are co-constructed in analytic realms, trauma and mutual vulnerability. Dr. Levine is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
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