• working with difficulty
• using enactment to deal with dissociation
• relational psychoanalytic approaches to working with trauma

Jessica Benjamin is an American psychoanalyst and feminist. She is currently on the faculty of New York University's Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Her early studies included social structure and feminism, but more recently she is known for her effort to explain the classical aspects of psychoanalysis using object relations, ego psychology, relational psychoanalysis, and feminist thought. She has made significant contributions to the concept of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis.

Her writings include The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (1988) in which she explores why we accept and perpetuate relationships of domination and submission, and Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition, Identification and Difference(1995) which examines the psychoanalytic theory of intersubjectivity.

Lecture Theatre
Tavistock Centre
120 Belsize Lane
London NW3

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