Donna Bassin, M.P.S., Ph.D.

• 2016-2017       Nomination for NAAP Gradiva Award – “The Mourning After”
• 2014    Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
• 2008    Best Director Feature Documentary-The Big Muddy Film Festival
• 2007    The American Psychological Association, Section IX Achievement Award
• 2005    The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, Gradiva Award for Artwork Contributions to Psychoanalysis
   

• Faculty: Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, New York, NY
• Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology: Graduate Department of Art and Movement Therapy, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (1980-2010)

• Member of American Psychological Association: Division 39 Section 9, Member and Secretary
• Advisory Board: Social Justice and Human Rights Program, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
• Board of Directors: New Jersey Combat Paper Project
  
   

2017   “The Art(s) of Witness”. Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artist., ed. G. Hagman.  Routledge Press, N.Y. and London.
 

2016-2017   Screening and Commentary of The Mourning After, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 44^th Annual Conference. New York, New York.

2016   “Beyond “thank-you for your service”: The Creation of Post-War Veteran/Non-veteran Collaborative Mourning Spaces.” Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Community. Eds. J. Alpert and E. Goren.

2013   “A Day at the Zoo Through the Lens Of Jessica Benjamin’s Bonds of Love,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14:86-96, 2013.

2011   Reminiscence, Ritual, and Beyond Working Through. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21.

2007   “Electra’s Mourning.” Being and Doing: Essays on Gender, ed. D.Franco, M.H. Reso.

2007   “Picturing Herself: On Diane Arbus’s Revelations” Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

2003   “A Not-So-Temporary Occupation Inside Ground Zero.”  9/11: Trauma at Home.  Edited by J. Greenberg, University of Nebraska Press.

2002   “Writing from the Night Kitchen or from the Inside Out and the Outside In.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

1999   Bassin, D., Ed. Female Sexuality: Contemporary Engagement, NJ, Jason Aronson.

1994   Bassin, D., Honey, M. and Kaplan, M. Eds. Representations of Motherhood, New Haven: Yale University.

Film & Video Projects

2015-2016   The Mourning After.  Director/Producer.  Documentary.  Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing.

2008  Leave No Soldier.  Director/Producer.  Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival.