Psychoanalytic Engagements With Death: Discussion of Martin Frommer’s “Death Is Nothing at All: On Contemplating Non-Existence”

Sam Gerson, Ph.D., is a founder and Past-President of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and Alliant International University where he is currently on the faculty and serves as a Training and Supervising Analyst. Dr. Gerson is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and an Editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. In 2007 he received the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust from the International Psychoanalytic Association for his paper “When the Third Is Dead: Memory, Mourning and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust” (2009, International Journal of Psychoanalysis). In addition to his research and writing about massive trauma, Dr. Gerson’s work covers a variety of aspects of intersubjectivity and psychopathology including the published papers “Hysteria and Humiliation” (2011, Psychoanalytic Dialogues) and “The Relational Unconscious” (2004, Psychoanalytic Quarterly).
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