Selected Worksessay
Lapsus linguae, or A Slip of the Tongue? A Sexual Violation in an Analytic Treatment and Its Personal and Theoretical Aftermath
an analyst reflects on her own experience of a sexual boundary violation anthology
With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
a new kind of clinical writing that integrates a social perspective into psychoanalytic clinical work Non-Fiction
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
A scintillating attempt to revivify Freud’s interest in “sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term” The Anthropological Imagination
A popular “anti-text” that introduces cultural anthropology Experimental Non-Fiction
Surviving Sexual Contradictions: A Startling and Different Look at a Day in the Life of a Professional Woman
Weaves together a fictional first-person narrative with a commentary on sex and politics |
BiographyMuriel Dimen, Ph.D. is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Lehman College (CUNY). On the faculties of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Adelphi University Derner Institute in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis, and other institutes, she is Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and an Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is also a founding board member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Muriel Dimen has written Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2003); Surviving Sexual Contradictions (NY: Macmillan, 1986); and The Anthropological Imagination (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1977). She has edited With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories (NY: Routledge, 2011). Her co-edited books are Gender in Psychoanalytic Space: Between Clinic and Culture with Virginia Goldner (NY: The Other Press, 2002); Storms in Her Head: New Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives on Breuer and Freud’s Studies on Hysteria with Adrienne Harris (NY: The Other Press, 2001); and Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus:Toward an Ethnography of Greece with Ernestine Friedl (Annals, New York Academy of Sciences 263, 1976). A Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University, Muriel Dimen practices and supervises in Manhattan. |
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