Touching Becomes Touching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

Jonathan H. Slavin, PhD, ABPP, is Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Slavin has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association; Founding Director of the Tufts University Counseling Center (1971–2006); and Founding President, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently Dr. Slavin serves as Consulting Psychologist for the Ministry of Health, State of Israel, and for the Mental Health Department of the Israel Defence Forces. Most recently Dr. Slavin was Visiting Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University School for Psychotherapy; Ben-Gurion University Psychological Services; the Romanian-Dutch Foundation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; the Western Pennsylvania Forum for Relational and Body-Centered Psychotherapy; and The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Slavin's published work has focused on fundamental human elements in the psychoanalytic relationship including love, sexuality, desire, truthfulness, and personal agency and their role in the repair of the mind. He is in private practice in Newton Highlands, MA.