• Graduate, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 1996.
• D.M.H., University of California, San Francisco, 1980.
• M.S., Health and Medical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
• B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
  

• Clinical Psychologist, California, 1983

• "Response to Spezzano's Critique of 'Post-Modern Epistemology...'," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 8, no. 4, 1998.
• "The Titanic Also Could Have Been Saved by Better Planning: A Response to Spezzano," Fort DA, Spring, 1998.
• "Postmodern Epistemology, the Problem of Validation, and the Retreat from Therapeutics in Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 8, no. 1, 1998.
• "Replies to owen Renik, Kenneth Gergen, and Tim Dean," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 8, no. 1, 1998.
• "Shame and the Resistance to Jewish Renewal," in Lansky, M. and Morrison, A., eds., The Range of Shame, The Analytic Press, Hillsdale: New Jersey, 1997.
• "Cultural Norms and the Patient's Experience of the Analyst's Business Practices," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 1997.
• "Altruistic Love in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Resistance," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 6, no. 6, 1996.
• "Authenticity and Role-Playing in Control-Mastery Theory," Process Notes, vol. 2, no. 2, 1995.
• "Altruistic Love in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Resistances," Process Notes, vol. 2, no. 1, 1995.
• "Authenticity and the Psychology of Choice in the Analyst," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 2, 1995.
• "The Tendency to Neglect Therapeutic Aims in Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2, 1994.
• "Adaptive Sadomasochism and Psychological Growth," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 3, no. 2, 1993.
• "The Analyst's Use of Humor," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, 1993.
• "Narcissism and Family Structure: A Social-Historical Perspective," Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, vol. 3, no. 3, 1980 (with Ilene Philipson.)

• "The Political Psychology of Pedophilia in American Society," vol. 18, no. 3, 2003.
• "An Interview with Steve Earle" (along with Margot Duxler), vol. 18, no 2, 2003.
• "Rising Up With the Boss:  Bruce Springsteens and the Politics of Meaning,"  vol. 17, no. 6, 2002.
• "Post-Traumatic Love Syndrome," vol. 17, no. 1, 2002.
• "What's Love Got To Do With It? ... Everything," vol. 16, no. 5, 2001.
• "High Crimes and Jerry Springer: The Psychopathology of a Public Hanging," vol. 13, no. 6, 1998.
• "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: the Psychological and Social Problem of Altruism," vol. 13, no. 5, 1998.
• "Selfishness and the Politics of Meaning," vol. 13, no. 3, 1998.
• "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling: The Problem of Sexual Boredom," vol. 13, no. 2, 1998.
• "Post-Modernism and Psychoanalysis: Fiddling While Rome Burns," vol. 12, no. 2, 1997.
• "Why Can't the Left Take Yes for an Answer?," vol. 11, no. 5, 1996.
• "The Psychodynamics of Cynicism," vol. 11, no. 3, 1996.
• "Bruce Springsteen, Tom Joad, and the Politics of Meaning," vol. 11, no. 2, 1996.
• "Can We Still be Selfish After the Revolution: Sexual Ruthlessness," vol. 10, no. 2, 1995.
• "Shame and the Resistance to Spirituality," vol. 9, no. 6, 1994.
• "Helping the Patient Get Better: Psychoanalysis, Optimism, and Social Change," vol. 9, no. 3, 1994.
• "Psychoanalytic Update: The Old Psychoanalysis Just Ain't What It Used to Be," vol. 8, no. 3, 1993.
• "Psychoanalytic Update: Social Constructivism," vol. 8, no. 1, 1993 (with Kim Chernin).
• "Is Psychiatry Going Out of Its Mind?" vol. 4, no. 4, 1989.
• "The Nature of Mental Illness: A Response to Reginald Zelnik's 'On Schizophrenia, Reductionism, and Family Responsibility," 1990.
• "Looking for Addictions in All the Wrong Places," vol. 3, no. 6, 1988.
• "The Wooly Mammoth Fights Back," vol. 2, no. 2, 1987.

• "Embracing Post-Traumatic Sex," AlterNet.org, 2001
• "Priests, Sexual Abuse and Illusions of Innocence," AlterNet.org, 2002
• "Thought Crimes," AlterNet.org, 2002