The Entanglement of Being: Sexuality Inside and Outside the Binary

A psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and teacher, Robin R. Chalfin holds a master’s degree from Smith College School for Social Work. She completed her postgraduate fellowship at the Victims of Violence Program and advanced study at the Institute for Existential-Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is an adjunct faculty member with the graduate-level Counseling and Psychology program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and serves as a board member and frequent lecturer for the New England Center for Existential Therapy. Her writing, teaching, and clinical practice are situated at the intersections of philosophy and psychology, concentrating on the areas of identity and difference, sexuality and gender, and relational violence. She recently contributed the chapter “Being Broken and Unbroken: Trauma, Heidegger and Befindlichkeit” to the anthology In the Wake of Trauma: Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other and “Identity-as-disclosive-space: Dasein, Discourse and Distortion” in the collection Race, Rage and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology and the Perils of Individualism.
CONTACT Robin Chalfin Division of Counseling and Psychology, Lesley University, The New England Center for Existential Therapy, 552 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 202, Cambridge MA 02139.