Nina Thomas, Ph.D, ABPP

Education

B.A. 1966, Wellesley College
M.S. 1978, Columbia University
M. Phil 1979, Columbia University
Ph.D. 1980, Columbia University

Publications

Thomas, N.K. (2011). “On turning a blind eye and deaf ear: Society’s response to the use of torture.” Intern’l Jnl. Of Group Psychotherapy, January, 61 (1), pp. 6-25.

Thomas, N. (2010). “Whose truth?: Inevitable tensions in testimony and the search for repair.” In Harris, A. & Botticelli, S. (Eds.) First do no harm: The paradoxical encounters of psychoanalysis, warmaking, and resistance. New York, NY: Routledge, pp.45-63.

Thomas, N.K. (2004). “An eye for an eye: Fantasies of revenge in the aftermath of trauma.” In Knafo, D. (Ed). Living with Terror, Working with Trauma, A Clinician’s Handbook. New York, NY: Jason Aronson. Pp. 297-311.


Immigration:  The "illegal alien" problem.  (Forthcoming)  International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

 

Holding History: Undoing unconscious racism in groups. (2018) Haen, C. & Thomas, NK.

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2018.1475238

Foreword (2017) In Alpert, J. & Goren, E. Psychoanalysis, trauma and community.  New York: Routledge,

pp. xiii-xvi.

Gaslighting, betrayal and the boogeyman: Personal reflections on the American Psychological

Association, PENS and the involvement of psychologists in torture. (2017)

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 14, 125-132.

There’s always a villain to punish: Group contributions to violence and its remediation. (2015).

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 65 (1).

"I’ve got you under my skin:” Revenge as affect regulation (2013.) In .Caretti, Gl Craparo, &

A.Schimmenti (Eds.) Trauma pichicico, Teoria, Clinica, Ricerca” (Psychic Trauma,

Theory, Research and Clinical Issues.) Rome, Italy: Astrolabio.

When a tree falls: In remembrance of Harold Bernard, 1946-2012. (2012) Group, Vol. 36, No.

3,  pp. 249-250.

Working under occupation: Psychoanalytic reflections on psychosocial service in

Palestine. (2011). The Psychoanalytic Activist.

On turning a blind eye and deaf ear: Society’s response to the use of torture. (2011).

International Journalisms l. Of Group Psychotherapy, 61 (1)pp. 6-25.