Steven Kuchuck, DSW

--Faculty, Supervisor, Board Member, Adult Training and National Training Program (NTP), and former Co-Director of Curriculum (for the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program), National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP).

--Faculty, Supervisor and Executive Committee Member, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center

--Faculty and Supervisor, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia

--Faculty and Supervisor, Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP)

--Faculty, Supervisor and former Director of Training, Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA)

--Co-Editor, Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series

--Senior Consulting Editor (Former Editor in Chief 2010-2020), Psychoanalytic Perspectives

--President, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), 2018-2021.

--Faculty, Supervisor and former Director of Training, Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA)

--Clinical Supervisor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University--

Awards and Honors

--2015 Gradiva Award for Best Psychoanalytic Book “Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional”

--2016 Gradiva Award for Best Psychoanalytic Book “The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor” (coedited with Adrienne Harris)

Books:

Kuchuck, S. (2021). The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Central Concepts and Current Trends. London: Confer Books.

Harris, A. and Kuchuck, S. (2015). The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor. London: Routledge.

Kuchuck, S. (2014). Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional. London: Routledge.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Kuchuck, S. (2019). Farewell: In Remembrance of Lewis Aron Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 16 (3): 229-233.

Kuchuck, S. (2019) Relational Psychoanalysis: Origins, Scope and Recent Innovations in: Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress. London: Routledge. Edited by Aner Govrin and Jon Mills.

Kuchuck, S. (2018) The Analyst’s Subjectivity: On the impact of Inadvertent, Deliberate, and Silent Disclosure Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 15 (3): 265-274.

Kuchuck, S. (2017) From Ghost to Ancestor: Sándor Ferenczi’s Impact on Clinical Social Work American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77(2):146-162

Kuchuck, S. (2017). Postscript to chapter 17–A Critique of Relational Psychoanalysis by Jon Mills in Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research. London: Routledge. Edited by Roy E. Barsness

Kuchuck, S. Sopher, R. (2017). Relational Psychoanalysis Out of Context: Response to Jon Mills. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 14(3):364-376.

Kuchuck, S. (2016). Challenging Fathers: Margarethe Lutz’s Consultation with Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 13 (3):305-310

Kuchuck, S. (2016) The Impact of Sandor Ferenczi on Clinical Social Work in: The Ferenczi Tradition. London: Karnac. Edited by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel.

Kuchuck, S. (2016). The Supervisory Action of Psychoanalytic Writing: A Discussion of Rachel Altstein’s “Finding Words: How the Process and Products of Psychoanalytic Writing Can Channel the Therapeutic Action of the Very Treatment it sets Out to Describe”. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 13 (1): 79-88

Oates, S. and Kuchuck, S. (2016).  Privacy, Hiding, Silencing and Self-Revelation: A Conversation Between Steven Kuchuck and Steff Oates. Transactional Analysis Journal, 46 (4): 355-361.

Kuchuck, S. (2013) When Two Become Four: Patient, Analyst, Lover, Friend Psychoanalytic Perspectives 10: 220-234.

Kuchuck, S. (2013). Reflections on the Therapeutic Action of Desire. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14:133-139.

Atlas-Koch and Kuchuck, S. (2012). To Have and to Hold: Psychoanalytic Dialogues on the Desire to Own Psychoanalytic Dialogues 22:93-105.

Kuchuck, S. (2012). Please (Don’t) Want Me: The Therapeutic Action of Male Sexual Desire in the Treatment of Heterosexual Men. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48:544-562.

Kuchuck, S. (2009). Relational Psychoanalysis. In The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 760-762. Editors: D. Leeming, K. Madden, S. Marlan. Springer: New York.

Kuchuck, S. (2009). Do Ask, Do Tell?: Narcissistic Need as a Determinant of Analyst Self-Disclosure. The Psychoanalytic Review, 96:1007-1024.

Kuchuck, S. (2008). In the Shadow of the Towers: The Role of Retraumatization and Political Action in the Evolution of a Psychoanalyst. The Psychoanalytic Review, 95:417-436.

New York Times Essays and Letters:

Disaster Zone Therapy, October 13, 2015

The Patient I Abandoned, June 23, 2015

My Life in Therapy, August 26, 2010

Psychoanalysis: A Thing of the Past?  September 16, 2007

Till Therapy Do Us Part, April 26, 2005

Steven Kuchuck is Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program where he teaches the course “The Psychoanalyst’s Subjectivity: Theoretical and Clinical Implications” in the Independent Track.  He is a psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor and consultant in private practice in Manhattan and faculty member and supervisor at a number of psychoanalytic institutes in New York City and elsewhere.  His articles, book chapters and books focus primarily on the clinician’s subjectivity and the ways in which the person of the analyst impacts and is impacted by clinical work.  Dr. Kuchuck serves on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) where he is currently serving as President (2018-2021) and the Executive Committee of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center.  He is Co-Editor of Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series and Past Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

The psychoanalyst’s subjectivity

Clinician self-disclosure and use of self

Transference/countertransference dynamics