The Impossibility of Meaning: Joining and Rejoining: Reply to Cooney, Ferro, and Stern

Jade McGleughlin, L.I.C.S.W., is Past President, Supervisor, Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contributing Editor of Gender and Sexuality. She is a former Instructor in Psychiatry for Harvard Medical School, former Co-Director Sexual Abuse Treatment Team, Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, and Founder and Director, Center For Alternative Families. She is in private practice in Cambridge, MA providing consultation, supervision, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to children and adults. She specializes in consultations to difficult therapies. Her writing focuses on gender, the negative, the analyst’s necessary nonsovereignty, and uses of visual art to articulate problems in representation. She is a portrait painter.
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