On Finding One’s Voice as an Analyst: Commentary on Matt Aibel’s “Being Railroaded: A Candidate’s Struggle to Stay on Track”

Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, ABPP, is author of The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1992). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the teaching Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute, New York City, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and on the faculty of the Mitchell Center for Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, as well as other institutes. She is also on the affiliate teaching faculty of the Erikson Institute fellowship program, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and consulting editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has lectured widely around the world on topics including therapeutic action, working at the “intimate edge,” countertransference, playfulness, working with trauma, and issues of desire, among other subjects. She is currently working on two new books: One is on issues of desire and therapeutic action, the other on intergenerational transmission of trauma. She is in private practice in New York City.
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