Psychoanalysis And The Aesthetic Dimension: Commentary On Lisa Cataldo’s “Where God Is Between Us”

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst affiliated with Harvard University, the Austen Riggs Center, University of Monterrey, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Her interests include creativity, psychosis, resilience, and intergenerational trauma. Charles is the author of numerous books, including Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience; Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor; Learning from Experience: Guidebook for Clinicians; Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan; Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live; Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; and Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin). Her forthcoming publications include Women & Psychosis and Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown), and Play in Early Childhood Education (with Jill Bellinson).
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