Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP

Director, Postdoctoral Program

Education

B.A. 1975, Fordham University
M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1986, New York University

Selected Publications

Orfanos, S. D. (in press). Nina Coltart’s Independence. Review essay of 

    Slouching towards Bethlehem… and further psychoanalytical exploration; How to survive as a psychotherapist; and The baby and the bathwater.

    American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2023). The humanity of Medea. In R. Pine (Eds.). Greece between East and West: Culture and Geopolitics (pp. 122-131). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2023). Supreme injustice. Violence. Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna. https://www.freud-museum.at/en/

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2022). Bird on the wire: A few things I learned from Paul Lippmann. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2022.2095184

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2022). [Review of the book Cézanne and the post-Bionian field: an exploration and meditation, by Robert Snell]. The European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. 24:1, 148-150, DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2038877

 

Orfanos, S. D. & Orfanou, M. G. (2020). Where the blue really begins: On islands imagined or otherwise. In R. Pine & V. Konidi (Eds.). Islands of the mind (pp. 17-31). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2020). The trauma of the mother tongue: Commentary on Delboy’s “A country of two.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30, 110-115.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2019). Drops of light into the darkness: Immigration and human rights. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 29, 3, 269-283.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2019). Lewis Aron (1952-2019). Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 29,  103-104.

 

Orfanos, S. D. & Rofe, J. (2018, October 17). Justice Ginsburg's query and in Preap and the best interests of the child. Supreme Court of the United States Blog. Retrieved from https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/10/wednesday-round-up-444/.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2018). Relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128093245233749.

 

Orfanos, S. D, (2018). Untranslatables. In L. Hillman & T. Rosenblatt (Eds.). The voice of the analyst: Narratives on developing a psychoanalytic identity (pp. 167-184). NY: Routledge.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2017). Dignified melodrama and cheap passion. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27, 3, 358-361.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2016). A few things I learned from Esther Menaker. DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, (14), 40-42.

 

Jurist, E. & Orfanos, S. D. (Eds.). (2016). “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities.” Psychoanalytic Psychology, 33, Supplement 1, S1-S7. Retrieved from http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pap/33/S1/.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2016). Nebbiosi’s Third. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26, 1, 26-31.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2014). Music and the great wound. In S. Richman, Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma. Routledge, New York.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2014). An epiphany on the Acropolis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 50, 4, 659-680.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2013). On the return of “Guernica.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 10, 2, 398.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2011). I beg you, Gongyla by Sappho, 600 b.c.e., trans. from the Greek. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 8, 2, 283.

 

Orfanos, S.D. (2011). The price of figs: Witnessing and the polis. Traumatology, 7, 30-34.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2011). Voyaging the relational sea change. Forward. In L. Aron & A. Harris  (Eds.). Relational psychoanalysis, Vol.5. Evolution of process. Routledge, New York.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2010). The elegant adaptation: On creativity in psychoanalysis and art. An interview with Danielle Knafo, PhD. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 7, 2, 223-243.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2010). “Song of Songs”: Music and a relational aesthetic. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 7, 2, 318-339.

 

Orfanos, S. D.  (2010). The wound and the embrace: Creativity in context. In G. Goldstein & H. Golden (Eds.) Sabert Basescue: Selected papers on human nature and psychoanalysis. (pp. 99-108). New York: Routledge.

 

Orfanos, S.D. (2010). On bread and wine.  Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 7, 1, 211-219.

Orfanos, S. D. (2007). Out of the dark: The psychoanalysis of an adolescent boy. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 6, 1, 34-45.

 

Orfanos. S. D. (2006). On such a full sea: Advances in psychoanalytic psychology. NYSPA Notebook, 8, 4, 2-8.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2006). Mythos and logos.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 16, 4, 481-499.  

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2008). The wild rumpus and a relational aesthetic. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 7, 3 & 4, 205-212.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2003). Imagining Ithaca: The impact of the analyst’s worldview. In A. Roland, B. Ulanov,  & C. Barbre, C. (Eds.), Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution (pp. 112-124).Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2002). Relational psychoanalysis. In M. Hensen & W. H. Sledge  (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Vol. 2, pp. 507-513). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

 

Orfanos, S. D. (2000). Clinton and the empty self. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 1, 79 –86. 

 

Biographical Information

Spyros D. Orfanos, PhD., ABPP, Director & Clinical Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Fellow, American Psychological Association; Scientific Advisory Board, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; Past president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); Editorial Boards Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books; 2023 recipient of the Division 39 International Activism for Social Justice Award in recognition of human rights work with asylum seekers, refugees, scholars-in-exile, and clinical interventions in Kabul, Tehran, and Guantánamo Bay. Independent practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, supervision, and creativity study groups.