Co-chair of the Relational Track, Clinical Consultant
1976, B.A., University of Pennsylvania
1980, M.A., Emory University (Clinical Psychology)
1989, Ph.D., Georgia State University (Clinical Psychology)
2011, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis
Relational theory and psychoanalytic clinical process
The contribution of the sociocultural to the unconscious and the analytic dyad
Trans-generational transmission of trauma
Trauma and dissociation
Dean of Faculty, Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey
Faculty, The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center
Liner, D. (2023). Putting Laplanche’s “Originary Hermeneut” in a Relational context: A clinical illustration. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33, 27-39.
Liner, D. (2022). Mass trauma and cultural amnesia: A case study of a society’s untranslatable excess. Studies of Gender and Sexuality, 23, 65-77.
Liner, D. (2020). Screen remedies: Self-emergence in a gender nonconforming adolescent during COVID-19. European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Online Publication: http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/working-in-the-reverberation-of-apres-coup-three-ecologies-2/.
Liner, D. (2018). Attachment in Auschwitz: Transmission of interpersonal connection and responsibility under conditions of extremity and threats of annihilation. 37 th Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Liner, D. (2017). When the shadow of the Holocaust falls upon the analytic dyad. In S. Grand and J. Salberg (Eds.) Trans-generational trauma: Dialogues across history and difference. Routledge: New York
Liner, D. (1991). The treatment of adult incest survivors: An integrated approach. Joint Meeting of Divisions 29, 42 and 43 of The American Psychological Association. San Antonio, TX.
Liner, D. (1989). Dissociative phenomena and symptoms in abused children. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. San Francisco, CA.
Liner, D. (1988). Hypnotizability and dissociative symptomatology in abused versus nonabused children. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.