For Joe the Bold: A Tribute

Psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she received an award for excellence in teaching in 2019. Dr. Hershberg is a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on variety of subjects, including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. Her most recent papers include “Mothering a Child with a Visible Facial Difference: The Gaze of the Mother and the Gaze of the Other” and “A Female Gaze in/on the Female Body in Art and Psychoanalysis: Paula Modersohn-Becker.” Dr. Hershberg is Co-Editor and contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg (2016). In 2023 she edited and contributed to an issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry entitled HOME.