Reconsidering Regression in Psychoanalysis: Notes on a Central Yet Controversial Concept and Its Relation to Free Association

Author of five books on psychoanalysis, all published by Routledge. These include his “Rediscovering Psychoanalysis” trilogy, the third of which is titled Beyond Psychotherapy (2019), preceded by What Is Psychoanalysis? (2013) and Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay in Free Associative Praxis (2016). He is Director of Studies with the Parkmore Institute, which introduced the first ever Doctor of Psychoanalytic Studies (a professional degree for qualified psychoanalysts), and also Senior Research Fellow with the University of Witwatersrand's Institute for Social and Economic Research. He is a Training Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association, as well as a Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. Formerly, he was a Training Analyst for a decade with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and served as Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University in Detroit.