Publication Announcement by Lauren Levine (USA)
In this new title from the Routledge Relational Book Series, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved loss and trauma.
Through evocative clinical stories, Levine considers the impact of trauma and creativity on the challenge of creating one’s own story, resonant with personal authenticity and a shared sense of culture and history. She sees creativity as an essential aspect of aliveness and as transformative, emergent in the clinical process. Levine utilizes film, dance, poetry, literature and dreams as creative frames to explore diverse aspects of psychoanalytic process. As a psychoanalyst and writer, she is interested in the stories we tell, individually and collectively, as well as what gets disavowed and dissociated by experiences of relational, intergenerational and sociopolitical trauma. She is concerned too with whose stories get told and whose get erased, silenced and marginalized. This crucial question, what gets left out of the narrative, and the potential for an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim what has been lost, is at the heart of this volume.
Lauren Levine is joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She teaches and presents nationally and internationally, and has published articles about sociocultural, racial and relational trauma, resilience, and creativity. Dr. Levine is faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center where she’s co-director of the One Year Program in Relational Studies. She is visiting faculty at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (Athens, Greece) and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, and supervisor at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Dr. Levine is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
Lauren Levine, Ph.D.
New York, NY USA
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