Steven H. Knoblauch, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) Clinical Consultant, Executive Committee Member

Education

B.A. 1970, University of Pennsylvania
M.A. 1974; Ph.D. 1983 New York University

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Comparative Intersubjectivity
  • Embodied Experience in the Psychoanalytic Interaction
  • Psychoanalytic writing and publication
  • The Contributions of Frantz Fanon to a Psychoanalytic Understanding  of Racial Experience

Publications

1. “A Brief Note on a New Beginning” published in Psychoanalytic Psychology. 12:2, 297-303. 1995.

 

2. “The Selfobject Function of Religious Experience: The Treatment of A Dying Patient” in Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 11, pp 207-217, 1995.

 

3. “To Speak or Not To Speak? How and When Is That the Question? Commentary on Papers by Davies and Gabbard” published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 5(1):151-155, 1995.

 

4. “The Play and Interplay of Passionate Experience: Multiple Organizations of Desire” Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1(3):323-344.  1996

 

5. “From the Word To The Scene: An Expanded Conceptualization For Therapeutic Action” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 56(3): 319-329. 1996.

 

6. “Clinical Controversies: The Role of the Analyst’s Questions”, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, Fall, 1996, Vo. XVI, No. 3, p. 14.

 

7. “The Patient Who Was Touched By and Knew Nothing About God” in Soul on the Couch: Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Charles Spezzano and Gerald J. Gargiulo eds. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. 1997.

 

8. “Beyond The Word in Psychoanalysis: The Unspoken Dialogue”, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 7(4):491-516. 1997.

 

9. “Absorbing Maternal Erotics: A Slippery Affair: Commentary on Papers by Harriet K. Wrye and David Wayne”, Gender and Psychoanlaysis, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1999, pp. 35-45.

 

10. “The Third, Minding and Affecting:  Commentary on Paper by Lewis Aron”, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999, pp.  41-51.

 

11. The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue, The Analytic Press, Hillsdale New Jersey, 2000.

 

12.  “Nonverbal Implicit Dimensions of Interaction:  A Discussion of Hazel Ipp’s Clinical Case,” in Progress in Self Psychology, The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 79-86, 2001.

 

13. “High Risk High Gain Choices: Commentary on Paper by Philip Ringstrom,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues,  Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 785-795, 2001.

 

14. “Fearing Otherness” in Spring Newsletter of Women, Gender & Psychoanalysis. Vol. 10, No. 1, 2002.

 

15. “September 11, 2001 – Reflections on Fear and Rage in the Countertransference,” Selbstpsychologie, 9.3.JG – 3/2002.

 

16. "Symposium on Intersubjectivity In Infant Research and Its Implications for Adult Treatment, Part I, Introduction, A Systems View. with Beatrice Beebe Ph.D., Judith Rustin M.S.W., Dorienne Sorter, Ph.D.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 13(6): 743-775. 2003.

 

17.  "A Comparison  of Meltzoff, Trevarthen, and Stern," with Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., Dorienne  Sorter, Ph.D.,  Judith Rustin, M.S.W.,  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 13(6): 777-804. 2003.

 

18. "An Expanded View of Intersubjectivity In Infancy and It’s Application to Psychoanalysis," with Beatrice Beebe Ph.D., Judith Rustin, M.S.W., Dorienne Sorter, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Dialogues,  13(6): 805-841.  2003.

 

19. “The Music of ‘Masculinity’ Clinical Attention to Tone and Rhythm in Gender Construction in Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into The Void. Eds. E. L. K. Toronto, G. Ainslie, M. Donovan, M. Kelley, C. C. Kieffer, N. McWilliams.  London, Routledge, 2005.

 

20. Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment,, with Beatrice Beebe, Judith Rustin and Dorienne Sorter. New York: Other Press. 2005.

 

21.  “Mannie and Music” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(2): 203-209. 2005. 

 

22. “Body Rhythms and the Unconscious: Toward an Expanding of Clinical Attention.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 15(6) 2005.

 

23. “What Are We Trying to Do When We Write about the Psychoanalytic Interaction? The Relevance of Theory and Research to Clinical Responsiveness: Reply to Commentaries.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 15(6):  883-896. 2005.

 

24. “The Apollonian Eye and the Dionysian Ear,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26, (3) 326-343. 2006.

 

25. “The Perversion of Language in the Analyst’s Activity: Navigating the Rhythms of Embodiment and Symbolization. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 16: (1), 38-42.  2007.

 

26. “Tipping Points Between Body, Culture and Subjectivity: The Tension Between Passion and Custom,” in Bodies In Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension. Ed.  F. S. Anderson, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2007.

 

27. “Attention to The Analyst’s Subjectivity:  From Kohut to Now…How Are We Doing?”  International Jounal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  3: 237-239. 2008

 

28. “A Lingering Whiff of Descartes in the Air”: From Theoretical Ideas to the Messiness of Clinical Participation, Commentary on Paper by the Boston Change Process Study Group. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18:149-161. 2008.

 

29. “From The Mirror to Movement:  A Picture or a Rhythm?”  Selbstpsychologie,  2008. 

 

30. “From Self Psychology to Selves in Relationship: A Radical Process of Micro- and Macro-Expansion in Conceptual Experience.”  In Self and Systems. Eds. W. Coburn and N. Vanderhide: New York Academy of Sciences, 262-278. 2009. 

 

31. “Body Rhythms and the Unconscious: Toward an Expanding of Clinical Attention with the Polyrhythmic Weave,” in Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. 5, Evolution of Process. 2011. 

 

32. “Embodying Intersubjective Intimacy: A Discussion of ‘Katherine: A Long, Hard Case’ by Joye Weisel-Barth – Observations and Reflections,” International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 6: 481-488. 2011. 

 

33.  “Conceptualizing Attunement Within the Polyrhythmic Weave: The Psychoanalytic Samba” Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 21: 414-427. 2011. 

 

34. “Found in Translation…..Perhaps: Reply to Commentaries,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 21:446-452. 2011. 

 

35. "Dysregulated Rhythm and the "Grip" of the Context: A Discussion of the Paper "Poison Cookies" by Katherine Oram PhD, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, in press.

 

36. Relationality: From interpretation to affective regulation, in Suret, special issue: Relationality, no. 3, p. 197-215. 2013.

 

37. El inconsciente teorico: Pulsion, Campo y mas alla, Clinica e Ivestigacion Relacional. Vol. 8 (1) pp. 11-20.  2014.

 

38. The centrality of the analyst’s vulnerability to interactive regulation and therapeutic movement: Discussion of paper by Paolo Stramba-Badiale, Titled, “Affective attunement, vulnerability, empathy: The analytic experience with Veronica.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 34:288-294, 2014.

 

39.  Beyond Most Concepts: A Brief Discussion of Frank Summers’ “The Bonds of Empathy: Beyond the Selfobject Concept”. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 9:237-241, 2014.

 

40. “I’ll Let You Be in My Dream if I can Be in Yours.” Bob Dylan Talkin’ World War III Blues: ‘Dreaming Basilio Bonxfiglio’s Paper, Psychoanal. Dial., 24:706/712. 2015.

 

41.  A culturally constituted subjectivity: Musically and beyond: A discussion of three offerings from Aron, Ralph, and White, Psychoanal. Dial. 25:201-207, 2015.

 

42. Contextualizando el estar en sintonia dentro del trejido polirritmico: la samba psicoanalitica, Clínica e Investigación Relacional, Vol. 9 No. 3, 545-570. 2015.

 

43. Tirantez y cofusión: desafíos para la actividad creativa, Clínica e Investigación Relacional, Vol. 9 No. 3, 571-594. 2015.

 

44. Entrevista con Steven H. Knoblauch por Carlos Rodriguez Sutil, Alejandro Ávila Espada, Ariel Liberman Islod y Sandra Toribio, Vol 9, No. 3, 709-722. 2015.

 

45. War Sex: Discussion of Steven Botticelli’s “Has Sexuality Anything to Do With War Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission and the Homosexual Imaginary: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 12:289-294.  2015.

 

46. Book Review: Freud’s Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche by Daniel Sapen, Int. J. Psych.,  1698-1702. 2015.

 

47. El espacio transicional como puerta de entrada a la Intersubjetividad, Mª Cristina Gómez Álvarez, E. Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, Steven H. Knoblauch, Clínica e Investigación Relacional. Vol. 10 No. 2  [pp. 417-438],  2016.

 

48.  “Polyrhythmics of micro-moment interaction” in Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogue, Ed: Rolef Ben-Shahar, A.,  Lipkies, L. & Oster, N. London:  Karnac, 2016.

 

49. “Dialogue: the song that’s in our head,”  with John Scofield, Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, Liron Lipkies and Noa Oster.  in Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogue,”  Ed: Rolef Ben-Shahar, A.,  Lipkies, L. & Oster, N. London:  Karnac, 2016.

   

50. "What we missed: Stern über Regression und Affekt," in Sternstunden: Daniel Sterns Lebenswerk in seiner Bedeutung für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Psychosozial-Verlag, Berlin. (pp. 189-203), 2016.

Biographical Information

Steven H. Knoblauch Ph.D. is faculty and clinical consultant at The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. He also serves as faculty and supervisor with a number of other training institutes both in the United States and abroad. He is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Dr. Knoblauch is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue, published in 2000 by The Analytic Press and co-author with Beatrice Beebe, Judith Rustin and Dorienne Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment published by Other Press in 2005. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanlysis and Psychotherapy. Pursuing a dual career including performing as a jazz saxophonist, he worked in community mental health for 17 years before entering psychoanalytic training. He coordinated the psychological services at The Door a multi-service treatment model from 1975 through 1981 and then through 1988 headed up a unit that provided training and consultative services to organizations throughout the 5 continents interested in replicating the program and service delivery strategies for adolescents that The Door represented as a project of the United Nations NGO, The International Center for Integrative Studies. Following the attack of 9/11 in New York City, he was recruited to serve as clinical liaison and consultant from the NYU Postdoctoral Program with Feel The Music, a program of music and arts workshops offered for surviving family members to facilitate recovery and resilience. He continues to play jazz saxophone and study Brasilian percussive traditions integrating these experiences into his teaching and practice.