A Brief Discussion of “The Original Encounter: Psyche, Eros, and the Intercorporeal Bond”

Graduate and faculty member of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a member of the IPA, and a Board Certified Psychoanalyst. He received the Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture Prize in 2006 and has been the Beta Rank Memorial Lecturer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Margaret Jarvie Memorial Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, a presenter at The Tavistock, London, and the 2017 International Guest Lecturer for the Australian Psychoanalytic Society. He has also been a frequent guest speaker at the International Frances Tustin Trust meetings as well as at International Bion meetings. He was a founder, instructor, consultant and Chair of the Steering Committee of The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic, a project of The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. For many years he was Senior Child Psychotherapy Consultant to the Gunawirra Foundation, a project providing psychotherapy for at-risk Aboriginal youth in New South Wales, Australia. He is currently on the board of the Frances Tustin Trust, Tel Aviv, Israel. He teaches and consults in Australia, Germany, Scotland, Israel, Canada, and throughout the United States. He is the author of A Fruitful Harvest: Essays after Bion as well as many chapters in edited collections. His forthcoming book Facets of Psychoanalytic Listening will be published by Routledge in the W.R. Bion Studies Series in Fall 2026.