Books, Articles, and Publications
Blogs:
2024 – present: Contributor to Crowsfeet
2023 – present: Substack: Aging Without a Map
2010 – present: Psychology Today: Off the Couch
Books and Edited Journals:
February, 2018: I Know How You Feel: The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women’s Lives
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2015 (co-editor with Holly Starkman) Body Meets Mind: Contemporary 21st Century Perspectives on
Eating Disorders and Body Image. Special issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal, volume 44.
2014 Integrative clinical social work practice: A contemporary perspective. New York, NY: Springer.
2011 Issue Editor Special Edition of Clinical Social Work Journal on Integrating Theories in
Psychotherapeutic Practice
1997 Daydreaming: Unlock the Creative Power of Your Mind (Viking). August 1997 (Published in
paperback by Penguin, 1998).
1995 Issue Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry: "Feminine and Masculine Gender Identity," vol. 15, no. l.
Journal Articles since 1998 (earlier articles available on request):
2025: When Memories Get in the Way: Unlearning the Truths We Tell Ourselves.
Psychotherapy Networker
2024: The Myth of the Perfect Parent: Helping Clients Overcome Shame and Accept
Imperfection. Psychotherapy Networker
2024: When Your Client Prefers Chitchat: Finding Meaning in Unlikely Places:
Psychotherapy Networker
2023: The Amazon Package in Your Waiting Room: Unboxing Anger as a Path to
Vulnerability. Psychotherapy Networker
2021: Transitions, Eating Disorders, and Changing Selves: Interlocking Psychodynamics of Identity, Self,
Life Changes, and Eating Disorders. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 28:1, 1-24.
2018: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Split-off, “Not Me” Competitive Strivings in
Women’s Friendships and Sense of Self. Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
2018: Not Good at Friends: Bringing a Woman’s Friendships into the Frame in Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 46:1–7.
2016: Working with “Cyber” and “In the Flesh” friends in psychotherapy with college-aged adolescents
with eating disorders. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic
Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak. Tom Wooldridge (Editor)
2015 Social Media and Adolescent Development: Hazards, Pitfalls and Opportunities for Growth. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 43, pp. 201–208.
2015 Listening to Words, Hearing Feelings: Links Between Eating Disorders and Alexithymia. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 44, pp. 38-46.
2015 Alexithymia, Affect Regulation and Binge Drinking in College Students. Journal of College Student
Psychotherapy, volume 29, issue 2, pp.132-146.
2015 Social Media and Adolescent Development: Hazards, Pitfalls and Opportunities for Growth. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 43, pp. 201–208.
2014 Putting it all together: An integrative approach to psychotherapy with eating disorders.
Psychoanalytic Social Work, 21, pp.19-39
2014 Eating problems. In A. Gitterman (Ed.), Handbook of social work with vulnerable and resilient
populations (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
2014 Integration, Connection and Individuation in Shaeffer’s “Transference, Countertransference and
Mutuality in Relational Social Work with College Students.” The Clinical Social Work Journal, 42, pp. 22-26.
2009 Frozen In Time: Idealization and Parent-Blaming in the Therapeutic Process, Clinical Social Work
Journal, 38, 331-340.
2008 Hidden Eating Disorders: Attachment and Affect Regulation. Clinical Social Work Journal, 36,
pp.355–365.
2003 Separate but not alone: separation-individuation issues in college students with eating disorders,
Clinical Social Work Journal, 36, pp.355–365.
2002 Clinical Case Study: Adolescents and Separation, Psychotherapy Networker2001 Food For
Thought:Thinking, Talking and Feeling in Psychoanalysis with Individuals with Eating Disorders,
in Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions,
eds. J Petrucelli and C. Stuart, Jason Aronson, Inc.
2001 Money as a Tool for Exploring and Negotiating Separateness and Connectedness in the Therapeutic
Relationship, Clinical Social Work Journal, 29, 80-93.
2000 The Use of Telephone Therapy in Couples Treatment and The Use of Telephone Therapy in
Longterm Individual Treatment in Telephone Therapy, ed. J. Aronson. New York: Jason Aronson.
2000 Eat, Shop and Be Merry: Linking Eating and Shopping Disorders in I Shop, Therefore I Am:
Compulsive Buying and the Search For Self, ed. A. Benson. New York: Jason Aronson, Inc.
1998 Speaking of Feelings: Affects, Language and Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8, pp. 685-
705.
2024 – present: Contributor to Crowsfeet
2023 – present: Substack: Aging Without a Map
2010 – present: Psychology Today: Off the Couch
Books and Edited Journals:
February, 2018: I Know How You Feel: The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women’s Lives
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2015 (co-editor with Holly Starkman) Body Meets Mind: Contemporary 21st Century Perspectives on
Eating Disorders and Body Image. Special issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal, volume 44.
2014 Integrative clinical social work practice: A contemporary perspective. New York, NY: Springer.
2011 Issue Editor Special Edition of Clinical Social Work Journal on Integrating Theories in
Psychotherapeutic Practice
1997 Daydreaming: Unlock the Creative Power of Your Mind (Viking). August 1997 (Published in
paperback by Penguin, 1998).
1995 Issue Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry: "Feminine and Masculine Gender Identity," vol. 15, no. l.
Journal Articles since 1998 (earlier articles available on request):
2025: When Memories Get in the Way: Unlearning the Truths We Tell Ourselves.
Psychotherapy Networker
2024: The Myth of the Perfect Parent: Helping Clients Overcome Shame and Accept
Imperfection. Psychotherapy Networker
2024: When Your Client Prefers Chitchat: Finding Meaning in Unlikely Places:
Psychotherapy Networker
2023: The Amazon Package in Your Waiting Room: Unboxing Anger as a Path to
Vulnerability. Psychotherapy Networker
2021: Transitions, Eating Disorders, and Changing Selves: Interlocking Psychodynamics of Identity, Self,
Life Changes, and Eating Disorders. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 28:1, 1-24.
2018: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Split-off, “Not Me” Competitive Strivings in
Women’s Friendships and Sense of Self. Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
2018: Not Good at Friends: Bringing a Woman’s Friendships into the Frame in Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 46:1–7.
2016: Working with “Cyber” and “In the Flesh” friends in psychotherapy with college-aged adolescents
with eating disorders. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic
Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak. Tom Wooldridge (Editor)
2015 Social Media and Adolescent Development: Hazards, Pitfalls and Opportunities for Growth. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 43, pp. 201–208.
2015 Listening to Words, Hearing Feelings: Links Between Eating Disorders and Alexithymia. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 44, pp. 38-46.
2015 Alexithymia, Affect Regulation and Binge Drinking in College Students. Journal of College Student
Psychotherapy, volume 29, issue 2, pp.132-146.
2015 Social Media and Adolescent Development: Hazards, Pitfalls and Opportunities for Growth. Clinical
Social Work Journal, volume 43, pp. 201–208.
2014 Putting it all together: An integrative approach to psychotherapy with eating disorders.
Psychoanalytic Social Work, 21, pp.19-39
2014 Eating problems. In A. Gitterman (Ed.), Handbook of social work with vulnerable and resilient
populations (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
2014 Integration, Connection and Individuation in Shaeffer’s “Transference, Countertransference and
Mutuality in Relational Social Work with College Students.” The Clinical Social Work Journal, 42, pp. 22-26.
2009 Frozen In Time: Idealization and Parent-Blaming in the Therapeutic Process, Clinical Social Work
Journal, 38, 331-340.
2008 Hidden Eating Disorders: Attachment and Affect Regulation. Clinical Social Work Journal, 36,
pp.355–365.
2003 Separate but not alone: separation-individuation issues in college students with eating disorders,
Clinical Social Work Journal, 36, pp.355–365.
2002 Clinical Case Study: Adolescents and Separation, Psychotherapy Networker2001 Food For
Thought:Thinking, Talking and Feeling in Psychoanalysis with Individuals with Eating Disorders,
in Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions,
eds. J Petrucelli and C. Stuart, Jason Aronson, Inc.
2001 Money as a Tool for Exploring and Negotiating Separateness and Connectedness in the Therapeutic
Relationship, Clinical Social Work Journal, 29, 80-93.
2000 The Use of Telephone Therapy in Couples Treatment and The Use of Telephone Therapy in
Longterm Individual Treatment in Telephone Therapy, ed. J. Aronson. New York: Jason Aronson.
2000 Eat, Shop and Be Merry: Linking Eating and Shopping Disorders in I Shop, Therefore I Am:
Compulsive Buying and the Search For Self, ed. A. Benson. New York: Jason Aronson, Inc.
1998 Speaking of Feelings: Affects, Language and Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8, pp. 685-
705.
