Robert S.White, MD is a graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he is currently on the faculty. He also directs the psychodynamic training program at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He has been a member of the North American Comparative Clinical Method Committee and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association's Committees on Clinical Observation and Working Parties. Dr. White has been in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dr. White has long been interested in comparative psychoanalytic theory. His lecture on metapsychology is based on a course he taught at the Institute on models of psychoanalysis. His mentors have described him as having “a passion for theory.” Dr. White’s involvement with the working parties of Clinical Comparative Method and Clinical Observation have broadened his interest in how psychoanalysis is practiced internationally. His following publications exemplify the comparative method: "The Interpersonal and Freudian Traditions: Convergences and Divergences" in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (49:427-454, 2001), and "Transformation and Interpretation: The Case of Adam, A Clinical Narrative and Discussion" in Psychoanalytic Quarterly (90:439-467, 2021), written with his collaborators in Clinical Observation (Hanly, Gullestad, and Bernardi).
REFERENCES
Blass, R. B. (2017). Committed to a single model and open to reality. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65: 845-858.
Levine, H. B. (2023). A metapsychology of the unrepresented. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 92: 11-25.
Ogden, T. H. (2020) Toward a revised form of analytic thinking and practice: The evolution of analytic theory of mind. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89: 219-243.
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