Discussion of Danielle Novack’s “Analytic Fostering”

Editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues from 1998 to 2008; Founding Vice-President of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis; Founding Board Member of The Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center, author (with Mary-Gail Frawley O’Dea) of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers on the subjects of trauma, dissociation, multiplicity of self-states, erotic transference and countertransference, termination from a relational perspective, analytic love, mourning, and psychoanalytic imagination.