The Sacralization of the Intimate Edge: Heeding Spirituality’s Call for Mutual Experience within Clinical Work

Research psychoanalyst with a clinical private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, and across California through telehealth. He holds doctorates in psychoanalysis and in religious studies. Steven is a UC Berkeley research associate. He developed and directed Public Theologies of Technology and Presence, a research initiative that brought together scholars and journalists to investigate the ways in which technologies shift human relationships, based at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He has published many popular articles and essays such as for the Los Angeles Times, and serves on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.