In the Nutshell: Gestational Experience as Liminal Space: Commentary on Thomas Cohen’s Paper “Considering Gestational Life”

Lauren Levine, Ph.D., is Faculty and Co-Director of the One Year Introductory Program in Relational Studies at The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center; Visiting Faculty at the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, and the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens, Greece. She is a Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at City University of New York. Dr. Levine is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and has written and presented nationally and internationally about transformative aspects of the analyst’s own analysis and their resonance in work with patients, ways in which shame, recognition, and creativity are co-constructed in analytic realms, trauma, and mutual vulnerability. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
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