Commentary on “The Negative Transitional Object: Theoretical Elaboration and Clinical Illustration”

Van Dyke DeGolia, M.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in West Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the adult and child psychoanalytic programs and a senior faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, where he supervises child psychiatry fellows and teaches residents, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. In addition, he is the Co-Dean of Training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a faculty member of the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center in Los Angeles, where he supervises and teaches postdoctoral psychology and social work interns. In the past he has been the Director of the Child and Adolescent Analytic Program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and the Associate Dean of Training of the Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy. At the New Center for Psychoanalysis he teaches yearly courses on D. W. Winnicott’s developmental theory, relational psychoanalysis, the oedipal phase of psychosexual development, and developmental psychopathology and psychopharmacology.
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