Helen K. Gediman
Helen K.Gediman, PhD, ABPP, FIPA, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is also a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst.She is a member and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society in both its New York City and Washington D.C. Programs. She is also a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); the Confederation of Independent Societies of the IPA (CIPS), and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), where she serves as a councillor on its Board of Directors as a delegate of Contemporary Freudians in APsaA (CFIA). Dr Gediman has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and is the author of Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art, and co-author of Ego Functions in Schizophrenics, Neurotics and Normals (with Leopold Bellak and Marvin S. Hurvich) and The Many Faces of Deceit (with Janice S. Lieberman). She is in full time private practice in New York City.
Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Normal and Pathological
Addresses two fantasies concerning love and death: the passionate wish to die together with a loved one; and the desire to extend one's life and loves beyond death.
The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy
This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity - both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with... (more)
Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy: A Psychoanalytic Study of Erotomania, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and Invasions of Privacy
Stalking is a predatory form of terrorizing people. Whether the tormenting erotomanic pursuit by the unrequited lover of his or her prey, or the secretive invasive surveillance in government-backed... (more)