A Courageous, Creative, Though Cautionary, Tale: Commentary on Dr. Lauren Levine’s Paper, “A Mutual Survival of Destructiveness and Its Creative Potential for Agency and Desire”

Abstract

This discussion lauds the richness and in-depth nature of Lauren Levine’s clinical work, including the efficacy of a much needed consultation with a colleague. The analytic work is viewed in light of concerns raised by senior relational analysts in a previous issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Additional thoughts stimulated by the presentation are offered by the discussant.

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Stefanie Solow Glennon

Stefanie Solow Glennon, Ph.D., is a graduate and supervising analyst at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, is on the teaching faculty and supervises at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and is teaching faculty and supervising analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. Dr. Glennon sits on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, for which she has been a reviewer of articles since the journal’s inception. She has written in the areas of immediate experience, obesity, mourning, artistic expression, termination, solitude, therapeutic action, and neuroscience and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City.