Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. CEDS

B.S. 1978, Fordham University
Ph.D. 1987, St. John's University

· Interpersonal & Relational Treatment with Eating Disorders
· The creation of a new assessment tool: The BODI (Body Observational Diagnostic Interview) with the BODI Group (Members: K. Baker-Pitts, C. Bloom, L. Eichenbaum, L. Garafallou, S. Orbach, J. Petrucelli, V. Sliva, & S. Tortora) to study and assess the Intergenerational Transmission of Body Image and Embodiment
· The BodyMind aspect of Eating Disorders
· Body-States
· Self-States and Tennis

Director & Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service, William Alanson White Institute
Training & Supervising Analyst, Teaching Faculty, William Alanson White Institute

Teaching Faculty, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)

2021                 Petrucelli, J. Linking Self-States in Eating Disordered Patients:

               Multiplicity in Multidisciplinary Teams

Commentary on Paper by Danielle Novack, Ph.D. In Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol.31, Issue 2.

 

2020                       Petrucelli, J. Can we Speak to the “ism” in Racism? Changing the Conversation;  In a Special invited double Edition (Eds. Petrucelli, Schoen, White) entitled “Clinical & Political issues on Race & Ethnicity,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis Vol 56, Number 2-3., pp.191-200.

 

2020                       Petrucelli, J. (2020) Unpacking Packing While Being Lost in Lace., Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17:107-113. ISSN: 1551-806X (print)/2163-6958 (online) DO1:https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2019.1685314.

 

2019                       Chapter Authors. Petrucelli, J. & Rieppi, R. ; Shopping Addiction. In Savelle-Rocklin, N. & Akhtar, S. (Eds.) Beyond the Primal Addiction.London & NY: Routledge., Chapter 5 pps. 73-95.

 

2019                       Petrucelli, J. (2018). Can we live and work securely in our bodies? It's time to talk.                                                          In Special invited Edition entitled-- Sex, Power & Consent: Can We Talk?                                                                 Contemporary Psychoanalysis . Vol (54) Number 4., pp.621-633.

 

2018                       Chapter Author: The Secrets of Eating and the Eating of Secrets: Daring to be                                                         Known; in B. Willock, I. Sapountzis, & R.  Coleman Curtis (Eds) In On Knowing                                                     and Being Known, London: Routledge.

 

2018                       Chapter Author: The Interpersonal/Relational Psychodynamic Treatment of                                                           Eating Disorders; In A. Seubert & P. Virdi (Eds) A Trauma-informed Approach to                                                      Eating Disorders, New York: Springer Publishers.

 

2017                       Petrucelli, J. (2017). Make America 'HUGE' Again: Mindfulness (or The People)                                                     versus Donald Trump; Contemporary Psychoanalysis.Vol 53 (4).  Special Editor                                                         of the Volume., pp.447-453.

 

2017                       Chapter Author; The Low Spark of High Heeled 'Girls': Hyperdeadness and                                                           Hyperawareness with Eating Disordered Patients; in T. Wooldridge (Ed);                                                                Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak.                                                          (London: Routledge).

 

2017                       Book Co-Editor with S. Schoen; Unknowable, Unspeakable and Unsprung:                                                                     Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Truth, Scandal, Secrets & Lies.; Chapter entitled: Fear,                                                 Shame, Courage: Body-to-Body Interactions as we move towards Untapped Imperfection.                                                 (London: Routledge).

 

2016                       Chapter Author. Who Moved My 'Swiss' Cheese? Eating Disorders and the Use                                                    of Dissociation as an Attempt to fill in the 'Whole'.  In E. Howell & S. Itzkowitz,                                                    (Eds); The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working                                                                               With Trauma; published as part of the Relational Perspectives book series by                                                      Lew Aron & Adrienne Harris. (London: Routledge).

2015                       Petrucelli, J. Body-States, Body Image and Dissociation: When Not-Me is                                                                           ‘Not Body’. In Clinical Social Work Journal.    DOI: 10.1007/s10615-015-0539-0

2015                       Chapter Author. The Relational Montage of Eating Disorders in J. Bresler, K. Starr (Eds), Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synthesis, published as part of the Relational Perspectives book series edited by Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris; (NY & London: Routledge).

 

2015                       Book Editor and Chapter Author --- Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives in the Treatment of Eating Disorders; published as part of Donnel Stern’s Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book  Series; (NY & London: Routledge) Chapter Author of "Mermaids, Mistresses, and Medusa: Getting 'Inside Out and Outside In' the Relational Montage of an Eating Disorder"; 'My Body is a Cage': Interfacing Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment, Affect Regulation, Self-Regulation and the Regulation of Relatedness in Treatment with Patients with Eating Disorders." (London: Routledge.)            

 

2010                       Serve, Smash and Self-States: Tennis on the Couch and Courting Steve Mitchell. In Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 46, No. 4 pp 578-588.

 

2010                       Book Editor, Knowing, Not-Knowing & Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty; Chapter author, “Things That Go Bump in the Night: Secrets After Dark”, (London: Karnac Books).

 

2009                       Reissue - Co-Editor of the book with C. Stuart.  Hungers and Compulsion: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders & Addictions, Chapter entitled, “Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: An Interpersonal/Relational Look at Self-Regulation”. (NY: Rowan & Littlefield).

 

2007                       Chapter Author. When a Body Meets a Body: The Impact of the Therapist’s Body on Eating-Disordered Patients, in F. Anderson & L. Aron (Eds). Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension; (NY & London: The Analytic Press).

 

2006                       Book Editor, Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire; Chapter Author,

                               “Take a walk on the Wild Side: Regulation, Compulsion and Desire”; (London: Karnac Books).  

 

2005                       Chapter Author.  Feast or Famine: Eating Disorders and the Parent-child                                                                 Relationship, In S. Brown (Ed). What Do Mothers Want?, (Mahwah, NJ: The                                                              Analytic Press).

 

2004                    Chapter Author, Treating Eating Disorders. In R. Coombs (Ed) .Handbook of                                                            Addictive Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, (Hoboken, NJ.

                                John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

 

2001                                     Co-Editor of the book with C. Stuart.  Hungers and Compulsion: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders & Addictions, Chapter entitled, Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: An Interpersonal/Relational Look at Self-Regulation. (Northvale, NJ & London: Jason Aronson, Inc.)

 

1997                       Chapter Author. Playing with Fire: Transference, countertransference configurations in the treatment of an HIV+, sexually compulsive gay man,  in M. Blechner (Ed) Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to  AIDS and HIV, (Mahwah, NJ The Analytic Press).