It’s Private: Introductory Comments on “First Encounters with Erotic Desire in Treatment”

Jonathan H. Slavin, PhD, ABPP, is Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University; Founding Director, Tufts University Counseling Center (1970–2006); Former President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association; and Founding President, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Slavin has served most recently as Consulting Psychologist/Visiting Lecturer at: the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute; Northwestern University School of Medicine; Ministry of Health and Israel Defence Forces, Mental Health Services, State of Israel; Tel-Aviv University; the University of Turin and the Turin Psychoanalytical Center; School of Comparative Psychotherapy, Florence, Italy; the University of Oxford; the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; the Institute for the Family, Mexico City; and the Austrian Association for Group Psychotherapy (ÖAGG). Dr. Slavin’s published work has focused on fundamental experiential elements in the therapy 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, Massachusetts.
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