Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, Ph.D.

•      Past Director, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

•      Faculty and Clinical Consultant, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

•      Consulting Reviewer, Psychoanalytic Psychology

•      Clinical Consultant, Derner Institute, Adelphi University

•      Clinical Consultant, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University

Janet R. Zuckerman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Clinical Consultant at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, and Past Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she is on the teaching and supervisory faculty. She is in private practice in Larchmont, NY, practicing psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision. She leads private supervision groups and study groups on contemporary interpersonal/relational theory.

• Zuckerman, J. (2023). “Nasty Women” – Mobilizing Female Aggression to Potentiate Women and Silence the Patriarchy. In Petrucelli, Schoen, & Snider (Eds.), Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 263-284). New York: Routledge.

• Zuckerman, J. (2020). A Review of: Psychoanalysts, Psychologists and Psychiatrists Discuss Psychopathy and Human Evil. Itzkowitz & Howell (Eds.), Psychoanalytic Perspectives, v. 19, 238-245.

• Zuckerman, J. (2020, March 30), The therapist and the penguin, The New York Times.

• Zuckerman J. (2019). “Nasty Women”: Toward a New Narrative on Female Aggression. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, v. 55, 214-251.

• Zuckerman J. (2018). A Review of: Becoming Myself, Irvin D. Yalom. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, v. 78, 108-111.

• Zuckerman, J. (2016). A Review of: The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor, Harris & Kuchuck (Eds.), American Journal of Psychoanalysis, v. 76, 415-417.

• Zuckerman, J. (2015). A Review of: The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century, Mark Leffert. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, v. 75, 115 – 118.

• Zuckerman, J. (2014). Look Who’s Talking! The Ongoing Problem of the Female Voice. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, v. 11, 265-283.

• Zuckerman, J. (2014). Everybody’s Talking! Response to Commentaries. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, v. 11, 306-315.

• Zuckerman, J. (2012). Lateness, Enactment and Recognition. Psychoanalytic Psychology, v. 29, 472 – 493.

• Zuckerman, J. & Horelick, L. (2006). The Affective Experience of the Analyst in the Extra-analytic Moment. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, v. 66, 351-371.

• Zuckerman, J. & B. Buchsbaum (2006). I Don’t Know You: Transference and Countertransference Paradigms with Adoptees. Handbook of Adoption, Javier, Baden, Biafora & Camacho-Gingerich (Eds.), Sage Publishing.

• Zuckerman, J. & Buchsbaum, B. (2000). Strangers in a Strange Room: Transference and Countertransference Paradigms with Adoptees. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychology, v. 1, 9-28.