Anita Weinreb KatzDr. Anita Katz is in private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City. Anita Katz, PhD is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and at the Object Relations Institute. he is a senior member of IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) and IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association). She is a clinical supervisor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City University of New York. She has enjoyed and been enriched by the opportunity to present her work and to supervise psychotherapists in various cities in South America, Europe, Asia, Iceland, South Africa and the United States. Dr. Katz has presented and published on aspects of psychoanalysis (both theory and practice) at institutes in China, London, Berlin, Dublin, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and California, between 1998 and the present. She has presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association, on May 16, 1999, in Washington, D.C.; The Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, on September 9, 1999, in Mexico City, Mexico; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, on September 16, 2000; The Psychoanalytic Society of Long Island, on November 12, 2000; and the Object Relations Institute, on April 20, 2002, in New York City. Among Dr. Katz's many national and international presentations, Dr. Katz presented in London on the film American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes on July 6th, 2003, at "The Life Cycle" conference of the British Psychoanalytical Society on the topic of Family Knots and Abusive Ties. At Trinity College, on July 27, 2002, in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Katz presented her paper "Transformations and Endings in the film American Beauty." On November 18th, 2000, IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) celebrated its 40th Anniversary in New York City with a Conference entitled "Contemporary Perspectives on Enactment, Gender and the Dynamic Unconscious." On one of the panels that day, (which happened to be Dr. Katz's birthday), she presented her paper, "Growing Up, Getting Stuck, or Breaking Down in the film American Beauty: Oedipal and Pre-oedipal Revisitations in Two Generations." In March of 2002, Dr. Katz presented a workshop sponsored by the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, entitled Exploring Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique Through Cinema. In April 2002, she presented at the Institute under the topic of "Passionate Attachments: Fathers and Daughters" entitled "Fathers Facing Their Daughter's Emerging Sexuality." In March of 2005, Dr. Katz presented under the auspices of The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Her presentation, entitled "Rupture and Repair" delved into the process by which the rupture within the working alliance between therapist and patient was healed. In 2018, Anita Katz co-edited a book with Arlene Kramer Richards entitled Psychoanalysis in Fashion, published by IPBooks. In addition, she wrote several chapters, entitled Intimations of Youth and Unlimited Possibilities, Fashion Journey in Psychoanalysis: Looking As Well As Listening, and contributed to the Introduction. People in the fashion industry as well as the field of psychoanalysis contributed other chapters. Dr. Anita Katz has published many film and book reviews in several journals, including Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Review, Round Robin, and Psychoanalysis and the Arts, since the early 1970's. Dr. Katz wants to thank Alma Bond, Phyllis Dischel, Ada Frumerman, Eve Golden, Roz Goldner, Lynda Gunsberg, Norman Handelman, Jennifer Katz, Stanley Lieberman, Ilana Litvin, Joan Oliner, Doris Pfeffer, Arlene Kramer Richards, and the Martin Bergmann Study Group for their thoughtful readings of early versions of many of her writings. Read More Read Less