Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. is the editor and/or co-editor of 7 books, most recently Irreverence and Psychoanalysis, and others including Body-States: Interpersonal/Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders, Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series); Unspeakable, Unknowing, Unsprung; Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing; Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire, and Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions. She is a psychologist/ psychoanalyst, maintains a private practice in New York City, and lectures nationally and internationally on the treatment of eating disorders, compulsions and addictions. You can sign up to get updates about her writing here.
Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. is the editor and/or co-editor of 7 books, most recently Irreverence and Psychoanalysis, and others including Body-States: Interpersonal/Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders, Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series); Unspeakable, Unknowing, Unsprung; Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing; Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire, and...
In this edited volume, Jean Petrucelli brings together the work of talented clinicians and researchers steeped in working with eating disordered patients for the past 10 to 35 years. Eating disorders are about body-states and their relational meanings. The split of mindbody functioning is enacted in many arenas in the eating disordered patient’s...
This anthology of interviews and essays joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminism to provide a timely analysis of the crushing effects of patriarchy and the role that psychoanalysis can play in moving us into a future defined by mutuality and respect.
Departing from the contemporary psychoanalytic view that the...
Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung delves into the mysteries of scandalous behavior- behavior that can seem shocking, unfathomable, or self-destructive - that is outrageous and offensive on the one hand, yet fascinating and exciting on the other. In the process, this anthology asks fundamental questions about the self: what the self is...
