Psychoanalytic Thinking of Trauma as a Work in Progress

CFS Training and Supervising Analyst, active in the Society’s governance and has taught many of the analytic training courses. She has been writing about understanding trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective for over 50 years. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the Metropolitan Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She was an active member of the group sponsored by the American Psychoanalytic Association dedicated to the study of the impact of the Holocaust on the children of the descendants. Her major publications include “Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France”, “Psychic Reality in Context: Psychoanalysis, Personal History and Trauma” and this writing was translated into German (Sigmund Freud Institute 2015) and French (Campagne Premiere 2018) and “Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria” (Routledge 2019).