Swimming into the Waves: Commentary on Annee Ackerman’s “First Encounters with Erotic Desire in Treatment”

Steven Kuchuck, DSW is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Co-Editor, Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series; President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; board member, supervisor, faculty, and former Co-Director of Curriculum for the psychoanalytic training program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; and faculty/supervisor for the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck lectures nationally and internationally, and his teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. In 2015 and 2016, he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book for Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (with co-editor Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.
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