Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D., ABPP

Teaching Faculty & Clinical Consultant | Interpersonal Track

Education

B.S. 1972, Brooklyn College
Ph.D. 1979, Yeshiva University

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Transference countertransference impasses
  • Enactments
  • Self-states, dissociation
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Use of the analyst’s subjectivity in therapeutic action

External Affiliations

  • Faculty & Supervisor, the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, Trauma Treatment Program
  • Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation
  • Faculty & Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute (NIP)
  • Guest Faculty, Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service (EDCAS), William Alanson White Institute
  • Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Publications & Presentations

Publications

Howell, E. F., & Itzkowitz, S. (Eds.). (2018). Psychopathy and human evil: Introduction. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 54(1), 5-16.

Itzkowitz, S. (2018). Psychopathy and human evil: An overview. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 54(1), 40-63.

Itzkowitz, S. (2017). The interpersonal-relational field, countertrauma, and counterresilience: The impact of treating trauma and dissociation. In R. Gartner (Ed.). Trauma and countertrauma, resilience and counterresilience: Insights from psychoanalysts and trauma experts, (45-63). NY: Routledge

Itzkowitz, S. (2017). A dream as an internal enactment of trauma: The impact on the analyst’s self. In J. Petrucelli & S. Schoen (Eds.). Unknowable, Unspeakable and Unsprung: Navigating the thrill and danger of living amidst truth, fantasy and privacy, (114-123). NY: Routledge.

Howell, E. F., & Itzkowitz, S. (Eds.). (2016). The dissociative mind in psychoanalysis: Understanding and working with trauma. NY: Routledge

Itzkowitz, S., Chefetz, R. A., Hainer, M., Hopenwasser, K., & Howell, E. F. (2015). Exploring dissociation and dissociative identity disorder: A roundtable discussion, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 12(1), 39-79.

Itzkowitz, S. (2015). The dissociative turn in psychoanalysis: A response to the roundtable, “What’s effective in the therapeutic process, a historical reprise. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 75(2),

Itzkowitz, S. (2010). Dissociative identity disorder: The abused child and the spurned diagnosis. In J. Petrucelli, (Ed.), Knowing, not knowing and sort of knowing: Psychoanalysis and the experience of uncertainty, (79-82). London, England: Karnac Books Ltd.

Itzkowitz, S. (2006). Discussion of Fiscalini’s “Coparticipant Inquiry”. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 42:453-462.

Grand, S., Newirth, J., Stein, A., Itzkowitz, S., Pines, D., Sirote, A., Sussillo, M. (2009). Violence and aggression in the consulting room. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 6:1-21.

Brown, E.M., Laub, D., Loew, C., Richman, S., Itzkowitz, S., Sussillo, M.V., Behm, A. (2007). Last Witnesses: Child Survivors of the Holocaust; Part I: A Roundtable Discussion. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 4(2), 1-50.

Presentations

Itzkowitz, S. (2018, March). Relational and Attachment perspectives on a case of DID and war trauma: Working with critical, aggressive and perpetrating alters. Presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation. Chicago, Illinois.

 

Itzkowitz, S., Howell, E. F. & Kuriloff, E. (2017, April). Witnesses to Genocide: The Traumatized Patient and The Wounded Healer. Presented at the 37th Annual Spring Meeting, the Division of Psychoanalysis, the American Psychological Association, New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2017, March). IARPP Webinar, “The Dissociative Mind in

Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma.”

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2017, January). Trauma Redux: The longing for love and the fear of intimacy. Paper presented at the national meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2016, October). The interpersonal-relational field, countertrauma, and counterresilience: The impact of treating trauma and dissociation. Presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Washington, D.C.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2016, April). A psychodynamic & socio-psychoanalytic overview of psychopathy & human evil. Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Society for The Study of Trauma & Dissociation. San Francisco, California.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2016, April). Speaking About Holocaust Trauma: The Impact on Children Who Survived and Lived to Tell Their Story. Special video presentation “Last Witnesses: Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Society for The Study of Trauma & Dissociation. San Francisco, California.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2016, April). Engaging the extremely dissociated patient: Anger, aggression, and self-harm. Presented at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Treatment Center. New York. N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2015, May). Anger and aggression: Negotiations Within Me and Without Me. Presented at The Trauma Studies Program of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. New York, NY. 

Itzkowitz, S. (2015, May). Engaging the Extremely Dissociated Patient: Anger, Aggression, and Self-Harm. Presented at, The EDCAS Program of the William Alanson White Institute. New York, NY.

Itzkowitz, S. (2015, March). Coming to Terms with My Selves: Encounters on the Road to Self-Acceptance. Presented At, The Sexual Abuse Service of The William Alanson White Institute. New York, NY.

Itzkowitz, S. (2014, December). Treatment of trauma, engaging the extremely dissociated patient: Anger, aggression, and self-harm. Scientific Meeting, The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2014, October). Engaging the extremely dissociated patient: Anger, aggression, and self-harm. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Long Beach, California.

 

Howell, E. F., Chefetz, R. A., Itzkowitz, S., Kluft, R. P., & Sinason, V. (2014, October). What Does Psychoanalysis Have Against Dissociation and What Does Dissociation Have Against Psychoanalysis? 31st Annual Conference International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Long Beach, California

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2014, March). A dream as an internal enactment of trauma: The Impact on the analyst’s self. Presented at European Society for Trauma & Dissociation. Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2014, March). Working with dissociation: Engaging with “me & not me” Presented at Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Trauma Cooperative, The Dissociative Aspects of Trauma. New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F.  (2013, November). A Dream as An Internal Enactment of Trauma: The Impact on the Analyst’s Self. Presented at 30th Annual Conference, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2013, October). A Dream as An Internal Enactment of Trauma: The Impact on the Analyst’s Self. Presented at Unknowable, Unspeakable, & Unsprung: Navigating the Thrill and Danger of Living Amidst Truth, Fantasy & Privacy Conference sponsored by William Alanson White Institute. New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2012, October). Hey, Whose Dream Is It Anyway? Paper Presented at ISST-D 29th Annual Conference. Long Beach, California.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2012, March). Good Girls Don’t Get Angry: Dissociated Self-States Cope with Forbidden Affect. Presented at the IARPP Annual Conference. New York, N.Y.

 

Itzkowitz, S., Bromberg, P., & Howell, E. F. (2011, December). We’re All in This Together: Working With DID. Presented at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Continuing Education Program. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S. & Howell, E. F. (2011 November). Dissociated Selves: Aspects of the Treatment of a Woman with DID Presented at the Annual Conference of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Montreal, Canada.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2011, February) Dissociated Selves in Transition: A Close Look at Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder Presented at The Clinical Services Meeting, The William Alanson White Institute. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (2010, September). Navigating Our Selves and Our Therapeutic Relationships. Annual Fall Conference Division of Psychoanalysis, NYSPA. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S., Bromberg, P. M., Stern, D., Howell, E. F. (2009, February). We’re All in This: Together Dissociated Selves in Transition. Presented at The EDCAS Conference, The William Alanson White Institute. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S., & Hegeman, E. (2010, October). We’re All in This Together: Dissociated Selves in Transition Presented at Fall Colloquia Interpersonal Track New York University Postdoctoral Program. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S., & Bromberg, P. M. (2008, June). Can We Talk? Creating A Space for the d Dissociate Self: A Close Encounter. Presented at The EDCAS Meeting, the William Alanson White Institute. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S., Howell, E. F. & Hegeman, B. (2008, April) Can We Talk? Creating A Space for the Dissociated Self: A Close Encounter. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of The American Psychological Association.

New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (1999). Fatherhood: In and Out of the Consulting Room. Presented at New York University Postdoctoral Program, Interpersonal Track Colloquia, On Developmental Phases in the Analyst’s Life. New York, NY.

 

Itzkowitz, S. (1998). Living in The Nightmare: Transference and Countertransference Issues in Working with a Case of Multiple Personality Disorder.  Presented at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Annual Weekend Conference.

 

Fiscalini, J. & Itzkowitz, S. (2005). Discussion of Fiscalini’s “Co-participant Inquiry.” Presented at New York University Postdoctoral Program, Interpersonal Colloquia. New York, NY.