Lisa Director, Ph.D.

B.A. 1975, Radcliffe College
M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1991, City University of New York
Certificate 2003, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Integration of object relations theories and Relational thought and practice
Perspectives on growth of mind
Innovative means of engaging hard-to-reach patients
Comparative psychoanalysis

Director, L. (2018).  Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Object.  Introduction to edited panel, Psychoanal. Dial., 28: 1-11.

Director, L. (2016). The Analyst as Catalyst: Cultivating Mind in the Shadow of Neglect. Psychoanal. Dial., 26: 685-697.

Director, L. (2016).  Forging Components Anew, Modes of Therapeutic Action:  Reply. Psychoanal. Dial., 26: 734-739.

Director, L. (2016). When Relatedness is Damaged or Undeveloped: A New Consideration of  the Link Between Relational Psychoanalysis and the Object Relations Tradition. Introduction to panel.  Co-author with R. Grossmark.  Psychoanal. Dial., 26:683-684.

Director, L. (2014). The Object Invades: Illustration and Implications. Contemp. Psychoanal., 50: 3, 437-458.

Director, L. (2009). The Enlivening Object. Contemp. Psychoanal., 45: 120-141.

Director, L. (2005). Encounters with Omnipotence in the Psychoanalysis of Substance Users. Psychoanal. Dial., 15: 567-586.

Director, L. (2005). The Nature of the Problem and the Nature of the Cure: Reply to Commentaries. Psychoanal. Dial., 15: 627-632.

Director, L. (2002). The Value of Relational Psychoanalysis in the Treatment of Chronic Drug and Alcohol Use. Psychoanal. Dial,, 12: 551-579.

Director, L. (2000). Understanding and Treating Adolescent Substance Use: Systems, Families, and Individual Meaning. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 1: 97-110.