Bruce Reis, Ph.D, FIPA

B.A. 1983, Clark University

M.A. 1986, New York University

Ph.D. 1992, CSPP-Berkeley

Psychoanalytic Certificate, 2002, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis

IPTAR Respecialization Certificate, 2013

·         Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Relational Psychoanalysis

·         Freudian Intersubjectivity

French (non-Lacanian) Psychoanalysis

Intersubjectivity in Freudian, Bionian and Relational Models

Non-Interpretative Processes of Change

Regional North American Editor,  Associate Editor, and North American Editor for Book Reviews for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Former Editorial Board member of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Dialogues.

Fellow, International Psychoanalytic Association

Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)

Representative to IPTAR, Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS)

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Member, Boston Change Process Study Group

Supervisor, National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (NTP), National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) 

Books

Reis, B.E. (2020). Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process. New York: Routledge

Reis, B.E. & Grossmark, R. (2009). Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory. New York: Routledge

Publications with the Boston Change Process Study Group 

Boston Change Process Study Group (2018). Engagement and the Emergence of a Charged Other, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54:3, 540-559.

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Boston Change Process Study Group (2018). Moving Through and Being Moved By: Embodiment in Development and in the Therapeutic Relationship, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54:2, 299-321, DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2018.1456841

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Boston Change Process Study Group (2013). Enactment and the Emergence of New Relational Organization. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 61(4):727-749

Selected Publications 

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Bruce Reis (2019). Creative repetition, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100:6, 1306-1320.

Reis, B. (2018). Being-With: From Infancy Through Philosophy to Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Inq., 38(2):130-137.

Reis, B. (2018). Mingling and Stretching: Revisiting Arlow's “Fantasy, Memory, and Reality Testing”. Psychoanal Q., 87(1):159-170.

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Reis, B. (2016). Monsters, Dreams and Madness: Commentary on ‘The Arms of the Chimeras’. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 97(2):479-488.

Reis, B. (2015). How Deep the Sky: Discussion of Special Issue on Evolution of Witnessing. Contemp. Psychoanal., 51(2):333-347.

Reis, B. (2014). Some Questions regarding Reality, Subjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Theory Construction. Psychoanal Q., 83(4):939-948.

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Reis, B. (2012). Silence and Quiet: A Phenomenology of Wordlessness. DIVISION/Rev., 6:24-26.

Reis, B. (2011). Commentary on Frank Summers's “Kohut's Vision and the Nuclear Program of the Self”. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 6(3):306-314.

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Reis, B. (2011). Reading Kohut Through Husserl. Psychoanal. Inq., 31(1):75-83.

Reis, B. (2011). Zombie States: Reconsidering the Relationship between Life and Death Instincts. Psychoanal Q., 80(2):269-286.

Reis, B. (2010). A Human Family: Commentary on Paper by Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge, Chloé Lavanchy-Scaiola, and Nicolas Favez. Psychoanal. Dial., 20(2):151-157.

Reis, B. (2010). All Roads Do Not Lead to Rome. Psychoanal. Dial., 20(2):231-235.

Reis, B. (2010). Enactive Fields: An Approach to Interaction in the Kleinian-Bionian Model: Commentary on Paper by Lawrence J. Brown. Psychoanal. Dial., 20(6):695-703.

Reis, B.E. (2010). This Curious Moment in Time. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 5(2):216-218. 

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Reis, B. (2009). Performative and Enactive Features of Psychoanalytic Witnessing: The Transference as the Scene of Address. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 90(6):1359-1372.

Reis, B. (2009). We: Commentary on Papers by Trevarthen, Ammaniti & Trentini, and Gallese. Psychoanal. Dial., 19(5):565-579.

Reis, B. (2008). Varieties of Recognition. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 3(2):158-177.

Reis, B. (2007). Fetish: A Graphic Essay. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 8(3):303-311.

Reis, B. (2007). Sensing and (Analytic) Sensibilities: Some Thoughts Following Eyal Rozmarin's “an Other in Psychoanalysis”. Contemp. Psychoanal., 43(3):374-385.

Reis, B. (2007). Witness to History: Introduction to Symposium on Transhistorical Catastrophe. Psychoanal. Dial., 17(5):621-626.

Reis, B. (2006). Even Better than the Real Thing. Contemp. Psychoanal., 42(2):177-196.

Reis, B. (2006). Time Passes: Commentary on Paper by Jody Messler Davies. Psychoanal. Dial., 16(5):599-602.

Reis, B. (2005). The Self is Alive and Well and Living in Relational Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Psychol., 22(1):86-95.

Reis, B. (2005). The Subject of History/The Object of Transference. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 6(3):217-240.

Reis, B.E. (2004). You Are Requested to Close the Eyes. Psychoanal. Dial., 14(3):349-371.

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Reis, B. (2003). Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 51(1):295-300.

Frie, R.; Reis, B. (2001). Understanding Intersubjectivity: Psychoanalytic Formulations and Their Philosophical Underpinnings. Contemp. Psychoanal., 37(2):297-327.

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Reis, B.E. (1999). Adventures of the Dialectic: Reply to Commentaries. Psychoanal. Dial., 9(3):407-414.

Reis, B.E. (1999). Thomas Ogden's Phenomenological Turn. Psychoanal. Dial., 9(3):371-393.