B.A. 1976, Cornell University
M.Ed. 1979, Harvard University
Ph.D. 1985, Boston University (Clinical Psychology)
Andrea Celenza, Ph.D.
Teaching Faculty, Interpersonal Track
- Erotic Transferences, Countertransferences and Erotic Perversion
- Sexual Boundary Violations
- History of Psychoanalytic Theorizing
- Psychoanalytic Technique
- Love in the Analytic Setting
Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Assistant Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School, Adjunct
Books
Celenza, A. Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios. New York: Routledge; 2014.
Celenza, A. Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts. New York: Jason Aronson; 2007.
Celenza, A. Lessons learned on or about the couch. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2017, 34(2):157-162.
Celenza, A. Different strokes in boundary artistry: Commentary on Cooper’s “Blurring boundaries or why do we refer to sexual misconduct with patients as ”Boundary Violation.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2016, 26(2): 215-222.
Celenza, A. Maternal erotic transferences and merger wishes. Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 2013, LIX, 4, 1-18.
Celenza, A. Perverse female relating: The objectified self. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2013, 49: 586-605.
Celenza, A. Reading Jessica. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2012, 13: 1–6.
Celenza, A. The analyst’s needs and desires. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2010; 20:60-69.
Celenza, A. Similarities with a (crucial) difference: Reply to commentaries by Shapiro and Marshall. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2010; 11(4): 200-204.
Celenza, A. The guilty pleasure of erotic countertransference: Searching for radial true. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2010; 11(4): 175-183.
Celenza, A. Mutual influence in contemporary film. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2010; 46(2); 215-223.
Celenza, A. Rehabilitation of Sexual Boundary Transgressors: A Humane and Knowledge-Based Approach. Psychiatric Times 2008; 25:36-43.
Celenza, A. Analytic love and power: Responsiveness and responsibility. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 2007; 27(3); 287-301.
Celenza, A. The threat of male-female erotic transference. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2006; 54(4):1207-1232.
Celenza, A. Sexual boundary violations: When is a couch just a couch? Psychoanalytic. Dialogues 2005; 16:113-128.
Celenza, A. Vis a vis the couch: Where is psychoanalysis? International. Journal of Psychoanalysis 2005; 86:1-14.
Celenza, A. Sexual boundary violations: How do they happen? Directions in Psychiatric Nursing 2005; 11(10);113-121.
Celenza, A. Sexual boundary violations: How do they happen? Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling 2005; 15(1):1-8.
Celenza, A. Sexual boundary violations: How do they happen? Directions in Psychiatry 2005; 25(14): 141-149.
Celenza, A., Gans, S., and Woolley, S.T. Love, psychosis and boundaries: A resident’s first psychotherapy case. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2004; 12:1-12.
Levine, H.B., Yanof, J.A., Brockman, D.D., Brunkow, K., Celenza, A., et al. Boundaries and postanalytic contacts in institutes. Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2004; 52(3), 873-901.
Celenza, A. Sexual misconduct in the Clergy: The search for the father. Gender and Sexuality 2004; 5(2):213-232.
Celenza, A. and Gabbard, G.O. Analysts who commit sexual boundary violations: A lost cause? Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2003; 51(2):617-636.
Gabbard, G., Peltz, M., Brockman, D.D., Brunkow, K., Celenza, A., et al. (2001). Speaking the unspeakable: Institutional reactions to boundary violations by Training Analysts. Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2001; 49(2), 659-673.
Celenza, A. Postmodern solutions and the limit-opportunity dialectic: The challenge of female penetration and male receptivity. Gender and Psychoanalysis 2000; 5(4), 347-359.
Celenza, A. Sadomasochistic relating: What’s sex got to do with it? Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2000; 69:3, 527-543.
Celenza, A. Precursors to therapist sexual misconduct. Psychoanalytic Psychology 1998; 15:3, 378-395.
Celenza A. Love and hate in the countertransference. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 1995;32(2):301-307.
Celenza A. The misuse of countertransference love in cases of sexual intimacies between therapists and patients. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1991; 8:501‑509.