Writing and Presentation
“Medicaid and the Making of a More Accessible Psychoanalysis, The American Psychoanalyst (May 2022)
“Becoming a Therapist After 50: A New Look at Career Change,” Pollen (May 2022)
“The Doctor Debate: Still Talking About Titles,” The American Psychoanalyst (Spring/Summer 2021)
“Learning from Brisbane: The Politics on Identity and the Promise of Empathy,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context (2020)
“The Chicago Experiment: Social Science, Philanthropy, and the Founding of the Chicago Institute,” Paper Presentation for the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (2019)
“Propaganda, Prostitution, and Penal Reform: How Psychoanalysis Lost its Public Voice,” The American Psychoanalyst (2019)
“Redefining Safety: Trauma on Campus and in the Consulting Room,” Paper presentation for the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2018)
“School Refusal: How to Recognize and What to Do about It,” Presentation to Transitions Action Network for Mental Health, Niles, IL (2018)
“A Self Psychology Canon for Early Career Professionals,” EForum Early Career Essentials, International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (2017)
“Literary Criticism, Psychoanalysis, and the New Politics of Otherness,” Division Review, American Psychological Association Division 39 (2017)
“Diagnosing Trump: How Psychoanalysis Lost its Voice,” HuffPost (2017)
“How Selfobject Experiences Promote Mastery: What Psychoanalysis Can Learn From Pastry Chefs and their Mentors,” (Pre-conference presentation at 2017 annual meeting of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology)
“A Plea from the Public Square,” EForum Op Ed, International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (2016)
“The Early Empirical Tradition in Psychoanalysis: The Chicago Institute and the University of Chicago,” A presentation to the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (2016)
“Kings of Pastry,” A documentary film about the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus; Flora Lazar, Originator and Producer (2011)
“Adolescents and the Transition to Adulthood: Rethinking the Safety Net for Vulnerable Young Adults” Chapin Hall/University of Chicago (Program chair and conference organizer) (2006)
“Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood: A Centennial Reassessment of G. Stanley Hall” Chapin Hall/University of Chicago (Program chair and conference organizer) (2004)
“Charting a Course: A Child and Family Policy Web Conference” (Co-program organizer and producer with the National Conference of State Legislators) (2003)
“Thursdays Child: A Monthly Research and Public Policy Forum” (Co-program chair and producer with Urban Institute) (2002)
“From Crippled Children to Children at Risk: Redefining the Vulnerable Child” (unpublished manuscript) (1997)
“From Social Science to Psycho-somatic Research: The Failure of an Alliance, 1908-1935,” (Ph.D. dissertation, a history of the founding of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, currently being revised as "The Rise of the Empirical Tradition in American Psychoanalysis") (1994)
“Parental Psychopathology as a Risk Factor,” “Abuse and Neglect as Risk Factors,” “Sickness and Hospitalization as Risk Factors,” and “Handicapping Conditions as Risk Factors,” in Paul V. Trad, Infant and Childhood Depression: Developmental Factors, John Wiley and Sons (writer/editor) (1987)
“Developmental Psychopathology,” in Paul V. Trad, Infant Depression: Paradigms and Paradoxes, Springer Verlag (writer/editor) (1986)