Drops of Light into the Darkness: Migration, Immigration, and Human Rights

Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP, is Interim Director at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He spearheaded the creation of the Immigration and Human Rights Work Group. He is also Senior Research Fellow, Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, City University of New York and on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Turkish Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy. He is founding Board Member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center and Past President of IARPP, the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Psychoanalysis of the American Board of Professional Psychology. In 2016, he co-edited (with Eliot Jurist), “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities,” a special online issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology (33, Suppl 1). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Correspondence should be addressed to Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP, 303 Second Avenue, Suite 5, New York, NY 10003, USA. E-mail: