Muriel Dimen
Muriel Dimen, PhD, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Lehman College (CUNY). On the faculties of many institutes, she is Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a founding board member and former Treasurer of the International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. A Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, she practices in Manhattan and supervises nationally.
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
An attempt to revive Freud's root interest in "sexual impulses" in the ordinary sense of the term. Drawing on feminism, postmodernism and contemporary relational theory, Muriel Dimen takes a... (more)
With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as... (more)
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
This book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late... (more)