Leanne Domash, Ph.D.

Domash, L. (2017). The Mermaid's Tale. In Bonnie Zindel (Ed.), Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others. London: Karnac Books.

Domash, L. (2016).  Dreamwork and Transformation: Facilitating Therapeutic Change Using Embodied Imagination. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 52 (3): 1-24.

Domash, L. (2016). Book review of Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira's Myths of Mighty Women: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychoanalytic Review, 103:282-284.

Domash, L. (2016). Will We Ever Meet Again? Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 13: 118-119.

Domash, L. (2014). The Mermaid's Tale. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11:325.

Domash, L. (2014). Creating “therapeutic” space: How architecture and design can inform psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11: 94-111.

Domash, L. (2014).  Intergenerational dreaming: Response to Gerald and Sperber.  Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11: 133-137.

Domash, L. (2010). Unconscious freedom and the insight of the analyst: Exploring neuropsychological processes underlying “aha” moments. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 38, 315-340.

Domash, L. (2009). The emergence of hope: implicit spirituality in treatment and the occurrence of “psychoanalytic luck”. Psychoanalytic Review, 96, 35-54.

Domash, L. (2009). Book review of Karen Starr’s Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis in Psychoanalytic Review, 98(1), 135-141.

Domash, L. (2008). Book review of George Hagman’s Aesthetic Experience, in Psychoanalytic Review, 95(2), 341-346.

Domash, L. (1994). Book review of Nina Coltart’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem in Contemporary Psychology, 39:12, 1116.

Domash, L. with Sachs, J. (1994). “Wanna Be My Friend?” How to Strengthen Your Child’s Social Skills. New York: Hearst Books.

Domash, L.(1991). Narrative in psychoanalysis and everyday life. In H. Siegel, et. al. (Eds.), Psychoanalytic Reflections on Current Issues (pp. 166-176). New York: New York Universities Press.

Domash, L. and J. Offerman-Zuckerberg, J. (1991). Shifting images in politics. In J.Offerman-Zuckerberg (Ed.), Politics and Psychology: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives (pp. 310). New York: Plenum Press.

Domash, L. (1989). That old black magic of femininity: then and now. In J. Offerman-Zuckerberg (Ed.), Gender in Transition (pp. 9-16). New York: Plenum Press.

Domash, L. (1988). The postpartum period: analytic reflections on the potential for agony and ecstasy. In J. Offerman-Zuckerberg (Ed.), Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman (pp. 133-145). New York: Plenum Press.

Domash, L. (1988). Perversion: The terror of tenderness. In J. Lasky and H. Silverman (Eds.), Love: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 93-103). New York: New York University Press.

Domash, L. (1988). Motivations for motherhood and the nature of the self-object tie. In J. Offerman- Zuckerberg (Ed.), Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman (pp. 93-101). New York: Plenum Press.

Domash, L. (1984). The preoedipal patient and the pregnancy of the therapist. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 14(2): 109-119.

Domash, L. (1983). Self and object representations and the evil eye. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 47(3): 217-224.

Domash, L. (1982). Creativity and the psychotherapist. Voices, 17(4): 34-37.

Domash, L. (1981). Facilitating the creativity of the psychotherapist. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 8(3/4):157-163.

Levitzky, S. & Domash, L. (1978). Psychological maladjustment in a child with premature pubarche. The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 45(1): 125-127.

Domash, L. & Balter, L. (1976). Sex and psychological differentiation in preschoolers. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 128: 77-84.

Domash, L. (1975). The use of wit and the comic by a borderline psychotic child during the course of psychotherapy. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 29(2): 261-270.


Recent Presentations & Professional Workshops

Theatrical presentations with psychoanalytic themes to be used for teaching and training purposes

A Joke for Bella
Creator and writer Leanne Domash, PhD
 
March 22, 2017 Staged reading
TBG Studio Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
 

April 21, 2017 performance
New York University, 35 West 4th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 303, New York, NY
 
April 30, 2017 performance
Jewish Enrichment Center, 38 West 13th Street, New York, NY

When Alice Meets Eve in the Gardens of the Known and Unknown
Writers: Leanne Domash, Ph.D. and Evelyn Rappoport, Psy.D. 

October 8, 2016 performance
Seeing Red Conference: Exploring the archetypal roots of feminine oppression through a deep engagement of the analytic and artistic, Assisi Institute, Stonington, CT, October 8, 2016.

June 4, 2016 performance
New York Psychological Association Convention: Advancing the Practice of Psychology: Ethics, Risk Management and Innovative Methods, White Plains, NY, June 4, 2016.

Supported in part by a 2017 Scholars' Grant from the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc.

The Meeting of My Dreams

Creator and Writer: Leanne Domash, Ph.D.

July 19, 2015 performance

The Meeting of My Dreams, Society for Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology, Allentown, PA, July 19, 2015.   

April 26, 2015 performance
Leanne Domash, The Meeting of My Dreams, 35th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Life in Psychoanalysis in Life, April 26, 2015.

Supported in part by a 2015 Scholars' Grant from the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc.

Leanne Domash, Moderator, Architecture as Potential Space, Colloquium, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, April 13, 2013.

Leanne Domash, Personal Spaces and Public Memorials: How We Create Them and They Create Us, 33rd Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Global Psychoanalysis in a Social World, April 25, 2013.

Leanne Domash & Rachel Paula Shapiro, Psychoanalyst/Mother and Artist/Daughter Dialogue about Flow and Creativity in Art and Psychoanalysis, 32^nd Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, The Leading Edge of Creativity, April 19, 2012.

Rachel Shapiro & Leanne Domash, Dialoguing about Art, Quantum Theory and Psychoanalysis, 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Theme of ‘Return’, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 11, 2011.

Dream Imagery, Personal Symbology and a Note on the Tarot, 21st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education, Psychoanalysis: Not the Same Old Song and Dance? October 29, 2010.

Unconscious Freedom, Neuroscience, and the Psychoanalytic Process, Annual Conference of the Division of Psychoanalysis, New York State Psychological Association, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Brain in Therapy, September 21, 2008.

Working Towards Unconscious Freedom: An Embrace of Knowing and Not Knowing, 28th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Knowing, Not Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty, New York City, April 11, 2008.

Addiction as an Attachment Disorder, Hunter College Counselor Education Programs, February 28, 2008.

Psychotherapy, the Nature of Change and the Spontaneous Self, Grand Rounds Presentation, Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, April 26, 2007. 

The Emergence of Hope: Implicit Spirituality in Treatment and the Occurrence of “Psychoanalytic Luck”. Panel, The Emergence of Hope Through Metaphor, Artistic Expression, Faith and Luck. H. Seiden, Chairperson. Annual Division 39 Meetings, Minneapolis, April 3, 2003.

Playing with Anger: an Experiential Workshop with Leanne Domash and Sara Weber. (Introduction of neuroscience concepts to psychologists), 33rd Annual New York University Postdoctoral Weekend, November 8, 2003.

Panelist, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis, 32nd Annual New York University Postdoctoral Weekend, November 17, 2002.

Theatrical presentations with psychological themes; can be used for teaching and training purposes

A Joke for Bella
Creator and writer Leanne Domash, PhD
 
Staged reading March 22, 2017
TBG Studio Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
 
Full performance April 21, 2017
New York University, 35 West 4th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 303, New York, NY
 
Full performance April 30, 2017
Jewish Enrichment Center, 38 West 13th Street, New York, NY

A Joke For Bella is the story of resilience in the face of horror, of laughter to avoid despair, and of illusion to find hope. A dark tragic/comedy set in a forced labor camp during World War II, this play is for all who have suffered and for those still suffering.

When Alice Meets Eve in the Gardens of the Known and Unknown
Writers: Leanne Domash, Ph.D. and Evelyn Rappoport, Psy.D.

October 8, 2016 performance
Seeing Red Conference: Exploring the archetypal roots of feminine oppression through a deep engagement of the analytic and artistic, Assisi Institute, Stonington, CT, October 8, 2016.

June 4, 2016 performance
New York Psychological Association Convention: Advancing the Practice of Psychology: Ethics, Risk Management and Innovative Methods, White Plains, NY, June 4, 2016. 

From

This two person dark comedy features the biblical Eve of the Garden of Eden and the actual Alice Liddell who, at age ten, was the muse for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Utilizing a novel form of therapeutic dissociation, we explore themes of attachment, the fragile nature of faith, ethical behavior, and the ties that bind us.

Supported in part by a 2017 Scholars' Grant from the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc.

The Meeting of My Dreams

Creator and Writer: Leanne Domash, Ph.D.

July 19, 2015 performance

The Meeting of My Dreams, Society for Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology, Allentown, PA, July 19, 2015.   

April 26, 2015 performance
Leanne Domash, The Meeting of My Dreams, 35th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Life in Psychoanalysis in Life, April 26, 2015.

The Meeting of My Dreams portrays the intergenerational transmission of conflict. Five generations of matriarchs from the same family meet.  At first they inflict their conflicts on each other but then through the telling of dreams, begin to understand each other, and in some cases, forgive.

Supported in part by a 2015 Scholars' Grant from the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc.

Dr. Domash is a clinical consultant in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Voluntary Psychologist, Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan and treats children, adolescents, and adults. She does group and couples therapy with adults as well.

One of Dr. Domash’s main interests is exploring the unconscious in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, including helping clinicians use their empathy, explore dreamwork and increase understanding of non verbal communication to develop as deep an understanding of the patient (and themselves) as possible. Creating an accepting atmosphere, she helps both patients and supervisees develop their intuition, take risks and, to use Stern’s words, formulate the unformulated. Most importantly, she wants to help each patient and each supervisee develop his/her own voice.

She has recently completed an intensive course in Embodied Imagination, a post Jungian form of dreamwork that helps patients change dysfunctional patterns as well as expand their imagination and creativity.

Dr. Domash is particularly interested in the creative process as expressed by interdisciplinary exploration. She has recently published articles integrating neuroscience and psychoanalysis; spirituality and psychoanalysis; and architecture and psychoanalysis. Among many topics, she has lectured and written on the creative process, dreamwork, moments of emotional insight in psychoanalysis, the relationship between art and psychoanalysis, and psychology of women and parenthood. She has also become interested in the use of theater as a clinical teaching and training tool, and possibly even as a therapeutic vehicle.  To this end, she has written and produced several plays, two written by herself and one co-authored with Evelyn Rappoport, Psy.D.  Each performance has a Talk Back led by a drama therapist so the audience can process the themes presented.

As clinicians/researchers, Dr. Domash believes we need to be able to help the symbols of our field evolve so we are in synch with the needs of our patients and we benefit from new perspectives and new research findings. We have to periodically take a fresh look at how work and shake ourselves up. Otherwise we ossify and our patients suffer. She aims to provide supervisees with new and interesting perspectives but always in the context of solid clinical work.