| | Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS). Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP); Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM); Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; and Harvard Medical School. She is a contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, and a member of the editorial boards of numerous other psychoanalytic journals. She is actively engaged in mentoring, creating professional opportunities, and promoting community involvement and socially relevant research. Research interests include creativity, psychosis, resilience, reflective function and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Marilyn is also an artist, a poet, and a writer, and a former member of the Stockbridge Dream Group. She has presented her work nationally and internationally, publishing over 100 articles and book chapters and five books: Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience; Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor; Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians; Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan; and Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live; and five edited volumes: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin); Women and Psychosis and Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education: Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives (with Jill Bellinson). Forthcoming from APA Press: Trauma, Identity, and Development: A Clinician’s Guide.
REFERENCES
Charles, M. (2019). The dream and the image: Creative transformations in psychoanalytic space. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79(2): 174-195.
Koslowski, M., de Haas, M.-P. & Fischmann, T. (2023). Converging theories on dreaming: Between Freud, predictive processing, and psychedelic research. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17: 108177. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.108177.
Roesler, C. Dream interpretation and empirical dream research – an overview of research findings and their connections with psychoanalytic dream theories. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(2): 301-330.
IMAGE of dreamer from Can Stock
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