Lisa Crilley
Lisa Crilley, LMFT, is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, clinical supervisor of young psychotherapists and associates, and senior candidate in psychoanalysis who is deeply invested in matters of psychic growth. Her particular clinical interests include personality development, complex trauma, compulsive ways of self-regulating, and primitive and psychotic states. Her rigorous training, which involved earning her master’s degree from Antioch University Los Angeles and continuing her studies at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS), laid the groundwork for her to become a vibrant, assiduous leader at LAISPS and in the psychoanalytic community. Crilley proudly represents LAISPS on the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) board and the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO). In addition to chairing LAISPS’s community relations program and cochairing the organization’s program committee and specialized training program, “Altered States of Body and Mind: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders,” Crilley also teaches and lectures at Los Angeles psychoanalytic institutes as well as in the community and is currently creating new programming for LAISPS focused on introducing psychoanalytic thinking to a general audience. Lisa is an avid reader; her book reviews have appeared in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies and the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
The Joy of Torment: Understanding and Managing Sadomasochism
A search for answers on the subject of sadomasochism: its origins, forms and functions, nature, and societal status. An international group of distinguished psychiatrists, psychologists, and... (more)