From Presenting to Writing: A Journey of Exploration and Development:
For years, my professional focus revolved around presenting ideas—bringing theories to life in dynamic discussions at conferences and workshops. These engagements allowed me to explore psychoanalytic and philosophical frameworks, particularly in their intersections with culture, society, and human experience. Presenting became a platform to engage directly with audiences, challenge assumptions, and grapple with questions of identity, otherness, and transformation.
Over time, however, I found myself drawn toward a deeper, more sustained engagement with these ideas—one that extended beyond the ephemeral nature of presentations. Writing offered a space to develop and articulate clinical concepts with greater nuance, depth, and clarity. My work began to shift toward an exploration of openness and change, both as theoretical constructs and as lived experiences within psychotherapy. Writing became not just a way to share insights but a method of inquiry—a means of tracing the intricate patterns of thought, emotion, and interaction that define the therapeutic encounter.
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Recent Publications:
Finite Freedom: Diffraction Patterns in Psychotherapy
Published in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society (2024)
This paper integrates the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, key figures in feminist science and technology studies (STS), with the practice of psychotherapy. Drawing on their concepts of diffraction, situated knowledge, and entanglement, I explore how epistemology, ontology, and ethics converge in the therapeutic process. Through the story of my patient Marianna, I demonstrate how these ideas manifest in clinical practice, offering a framework for understanding agency as a collective, entangled phenomenon.
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Psychoanalysis Against Fascism: Fascism, Terrorism, and the Fascist and Terrorist Within
Published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2018)
This paper examines how psychoanalysis can resist complicity with societal violence and the psychological pressures of contemporary culture. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts, I critique the tendency to use theoretical frameworks as hegemonic tools that risk neutralizing the transformative potential of therapy. Instead, I advocate for an openness to being transformed by the other, challenging both therapist and patient to confront and move beyond internalized fascistic tendencies.
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Key Presentations:
While writing has become my primary focus, I continue to present at conferences to refine and share my ideas. A few highlights include:
"Transothering: Enjoy Your Displacement!" (APCS, 2019): This presentation explored how therapists can act as an "Other-function," guiding patients beyond familiar territories of sensibility to uncharted possibilities.
"Displacement in Itself" (APCS, 2019): Inspired by Deleuze’s notion of beginning anew, I discussed the transformative potential of embracing displacement as a mode of being, rather than a condition to overcome.
"Deleuze as Charon: Traversing the Gates of the Other into the New" (Psychology and the Other, 2019): This paper applied Deleuze’s critique of psychoanalysis to therapy, emphasizing the therapist’s role in facilitating encounters with the inassimilable.
A New Focus: Writing as Praxis
Today, my work is a synthesis of these explorations. Writing allows me to engage in a form of sustained thought, developing clinical ideas that resonate with the complexities of openness, change, and entanglement. It is an ongoing process—a dialogue between theory and practice, self and other, the familiar and the unknown. Through both my publications and my continued involvement in presentations, I aim to contribute to a psychotherapy that is as transformative as it is challenging, always seeking to move beyond the boundaries of the known.
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