Writing, talks, publications, and resources on symptoms, trauma, embodied experience, eating disorders, and the practice of listening.
FEATURED
A place to begin
WRITING
20 publications
LISTEN
3 conversations
TEACHING
Selected presentations
Featured publication
2024 · Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context
Publications · 20 works
Inhabiting a Transgender Body: Hunger, Desire, and Danger
Courting Aliveness: A Review of Vitalization in Psychoanalysis
Meeting at the Precipice: Creative Visualization in the Treatment of Trauma
Searching for Embodied Connection in the Age of COVID-19
Pockets of Resilience: Musician-Patients’ Creative Responses to COVID-19
Selected presentations · 9 talks
How does the embodiment of memory affect therapeutic relationships?
Panel · Wilhelm Reich Center, William Alanson White Institute · Virtual
Visualizing the gaps: Guided meditation and hypnosis for therapists in turbulent times
Pre-conference workshop · 46th IAPSP Conference · Pasadena
Hunger artists: Enigmatic strivings in disordered eating
Panel · 46th IAPSP Conference · Pasadena
THREADS THROUGH THE WORK
SYMPTOMS & RELATIONAL HISTORY
What a symptom may be carrying
Eating disorders, their protective functions, and the histories within them.
TRAUMA & THE BODY
Experience beyond words
Memory, imagination, and ways of approaching experience that has not yet become a narrative.
MUSIC & RELATIONSHIPS
Listening between people
Creativity, belonging, and the relationships within musical groups.
In conversation · 3 podcasts
FOR MUSICIANS
The Inner Musician
A handout on performance anxiety, with self-hypnosis and visualization exercises drawn from Heather’s work with musicians.