I work with the unconscious to bring what is not yet a thought or feeling—indistinct, glossed over yet behaved—into awareness so that ego consciousness can participate in the outcome of your life, allowing you to live more freely.

Your job is to simply talk, mine to provide a safe holding environment and to listen for where that talk bumps up against resistance. Often such walls were erected in a developmental past of familial and cultural norms, shadowing the lived present and clouding its apprehension. These resistances can muck up relationships with partners and spouses, children and parents, and they can cloud our knowing what we want to do with our lives. We live as if responding to ghosts. However, when resistance softens, the “now” is less shadowed by the past and an unfamiliar world of experience opens up.

To learn more or to schedule a consultation, please email ronaldlieber@gmail.com.

Articles

“Love and Hate: A Theoretical Reflection on Key Concepts in the Modern Psychoanalytic Tradition.” Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36: 62-80.

“Love and Hate: From a Modern Analytic Clinical Perspective.” Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology. 36: 81-90.

Book Reviews

Models of the Mind. Arnold Rothstein, ed. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1985. In Modern Psychoanalysis, 14(1): 113-116.

The Clinical Diaries of Ferenczi. Judith Dupont, ed. Michael Balint and Nicholas Zaraday Jackson, trans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. In Modern Psychoanalysis, 14(2): 226-230.

Presentations

“Projective identification, Countertransference, Technique: A Meditation on Love and Hate.” Love and Hate: Dialectic Interaction. Washington Square Institute. New York City. May 18, 2014.

“On Losing the Ability to Dream.” On Violence: Civilization and Its Blisscontents. Das Ding, Das Unbehagen, Philadelphia Lacan Group. Fordham University. New York City. May 2, 2015.