Introduction to “Working in the Midst of the Covid-19 Crisis: What Can Relational Psychoanalysis Offer?”

Abstract

These brief remarks will serve as an introduction to papers and commentaries culled from the first International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) online Symposium, “Working in the Midst of the Covid-19 Crisis: What Can Relational Psychoanalysis Offer?” held via Zoom on January 9th and 10th, 2021.

Keywords:

• relational psychoanalysis
• IARPP
• Covid-19
• pandemic
• analyst subjectivity

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Steven Kuchuck

Steven Kuchuck, DSW, is Senior Consulting Editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Immediate Past President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, for the psychoanalytic training program at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and other institutes. His most recent book, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, is published by Confer Books. In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.