A Courageous, Creative, Though Cautionary, Tale: Commentary on Dr. Lauren Levine’s Paper, “A Mutual Survival of Destructiveness and Its Creative Potential for Agency and Desire”

Stefanie Solow Glennon, Ph.D., is a graduate and supervising analyst at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, is on the teaching faculty and supervises at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and is teaching faculty and supervising analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. Dr. Glennon sits on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, for which she has been a reviewer of articles since the journal’s inception. She has written in the areas of immediate experience, obesity, mourning, artistic expression, termination, solitude, therapeutic action, and neuroscience and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City.
Correspondence should be addressed to Stefanie Solow Glennon, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, 330 West 58th Street, Suite 206, New York, NY 10019. E-mail: