Learning to Influence in Psychoanalysis: Discussion and Review of Psychoanalytic Supervision, by Nancy McWilliams, New York,  Guilford Press, 2021,  237 pages.

Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School: Adjunct Clinical Professor, and Supervising Analyst, 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 lectured and conducted workshops at: the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute; Northwestern University School of Medicine; Tel-Aviv University; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center; the University of Turin and the Turin Psychoanalytical Center; the School for Comparative Psychotherapy, Florence, Italy; the University of Oxford; the Austrian Association for Group Psychoanalysis, Vienna; the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; the University of Haifa; The Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis, Madrid; the Center for Psychodynamic Therapies, Istanbul; the Women’s Counseling Center, Jerusalem, Israel; the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center; the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology; and the South Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Slavin’s published work has focused on fundamental human elements in the psychoanalytic relationship including agency, love, sexuality, desire, and truthfulness and their role in the repair of the mind. He is in private practice, Newton Highlands, MA.