Steven Botticelli, Ph.D.

• Psychoanalysis and Politics
• Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies 

• Sexuality
• Psychoanalysis and politics

Botticelli, S. (2017), How Do We Talk about Justice in Psychoanalysis?  Participant in panel Talking about Palestine in Psychoanalysis at the 37th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, New York, April 28.

Botticelli, S. (2017), Has Sexuality Anything to Do with War Trauma?  Intergenerational Transmission and the Homosexual Imaginary.  In Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma ed. by J. Salberg and S. Grand.  New York: Routledge, pp. 109-124.

Botticelli, S. (in press), My Freudian Cocaine Fantasia: Altering Consciousness, Theorizing Desire.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Botticelli, S. (2016), Technology and the Problem of Desire.  Participant in panel Technology in the Consulting Room at the fall colloquium of the Interpersonal track of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Nov. 4.

Botticelli, S. (2015), Why Theory?  Response to Knoblauch and Darwin.  Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 12: 300-303.

Botticelli, S. (2015), Women, Psychoanalysis, and the Provision of Care. Participant in invited panel Women as Objects of Exchange in Life and Psychoanalysis at the 35th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, San Francisco, April 23.

Botticelli, S. (2012). Weak ties, slight claims: The psychotherapy relationship in an era of reduced expectations. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48(3): 563-576.

Botticelli, S. (2012). Reality 2.0: Interview with Stephen Hartman.Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, Spring, 4: 39-40.

Botticelli, S. (2012). Themes and Variations on Creative Relationships. Discussant for invited panel of the 32nd Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, Santa Fe, April 22.

Botticelli, S. (2012). Casual ties, acceptable losses: Warmaking as a failure of identification.  Presented at Is War Inevitable? An Interdisciplinary Conference. New York, Feb. 25.

Botticelli, S. (2011). 9/11, Islamophobia, and the politics of “healing.”  Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum. Winter, 1(1): 33.

Botticelli, S. (2010). Marriage and militancy.   Psychoanalytic Activist, newsletter of Section 9, Division 39, APA. 17: 6,9.

Botticelli, S. (2010). The politics of identification: Resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.  In First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of War, Psychoanalysis, and Resistance, ed. by A. Harris and S. Botticelli.  New York: Routledge, pp. 327-347.

Botticelli, S. (2010). Thinking the unthinkable: Anal sex in theory and practice.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 11 (3): 112-123.

Botticelli, S. (2010). Danger, pleasure, vulnerability, shame: Reply to commentaries.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 11 (3): 163-167.

Botticelli, S. (2010). Shame and migration.  Panel moderator/interlocutor, Annual conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, San Francisco, Feb. 26.

Botticelli, S. (2007). Doer-done-to relations in political processes: A relational psychoanalytic view.  Presented at Politics and Paranoia, 13th Annual Annette Overby Conference, New York City, March 31.

Botticelli, S. (2007).  Return of the repressed: class in psychoanalytic process.  In Relational Psychoanalysis Volume 3: New Voices, ed. by M. Suchet, A. Harris and L. Aron.  Mahwah, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. 121-134.

Botticelli, S. (2007). Review of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting, ed. by L. Layton, N.C. Hollander, and S. Gutwill.  Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 12: 193-195.

Botticelli, S.n (2006). Globalization, psychoanalysis and the provision of care.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 7 (1): 71-80.

Botticelli, S. (2004). Psychoanalytic journeys: The education of a psychoanalyst.  Invited panel participant at the 24th Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, Miami Beach, March 18.

Botticelli, S. (2004). The politics of relational psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14 (5): 635-651.

Botticelli, S. (2004). The perils of polemic: Reply to commentary.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14 (5):  707-710.

Botticelli, S. (2001). Does psychoanalysis have anything to offer politics?  Psychoanalytic Activist, newsletter of Section 9, Division 39, APA, 5: 1, 4-7.

Botticelli, S. (1997). Theorizing the social in psychoanalysis.  Review of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Neil Altman.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 7: 535-545.

Harris, A., & Botticelli, S., eds. (2010), First, Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance.  New York: Routledge.

Steven Botticelli is an assistant adjunct professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program. He teaches the class "Psychoanalysis and Politics" through the Independent track, for which he currently serves as track co-chair. He is a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and The Division/Review, and a supervisor for the City College program in clinical psychology.  Steve writes in the areas of politics and sexuality, and practices in Greenwich Village.