PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND ART
This is a partial list of my publications. I am an editor for the Psychoanalytic Review and available for private consultations.
Somerstein, L. "The Great Mistake," Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Fall 2010 pp. 259-278. Nominated for Gradiva Award.
Somerstein, L. (Fall 2010) "The Sacred Bridge, " Integral Yoga Magazine.
Somerstein, L. (Spring 2010) Bij- mixed media image, Reflexions, Literary and Visual
Art Magazine of Columbia University Medical School.
Gradiva Award Committee Judge, 2009, 2010.
Somerstein, L. “Two in a Room, Psychotherapy and Yoga Breathing” paper presented in the University of Beijing, China, Antalya, Turkey; Nashville, Tennesee; and New York City, 2010-2011.
Somerstein, L. (October 27, 2009) New York Times, Cutting Ties with Parents, letter to editor.
Somerstein, L. (2009). “Daddy Boy Creech.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives. 2009, Volume 6, Number 1. pp. 86-80.
Somerstein, L. (2009). BIJ- mixed media image, Other/Wise, IFPE journal, www.IFPE.org. Fall, 2009.
Somerstein, L. (2009) docent, Rubin Museum of Art, for Jung’s Red Book.
Somerstein, L. (2009). Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine, by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon, New York: State University of New York Press. Book Review, Division 39 Newsletter, Volume XXIX, No. 2 Spring 2009.
NY Times Magazine, May 10, 2009, p. 11. letter to editor about Enlightenment Therapy.
Case Presentation, The Isaac Complex, Sunday, April 26th, 2009, 12:00-2:30 P.M. Pure Vision Arts 114 West 17th Street, NYC.
Somerstein, L. (2009) The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development. By Lucy Holmes. New York: Jason Aronson. Book Review. NAAPNews, Spring 2009 Volume 32, Number 2, p. 4.
Somerstein, L. (2008). The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis. By Katya Bloom. London: Karnac, 2006. 85 pages. $47.00. Book review, Division 39, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, pp. 56-57.
Somerstein, L. (2008). “Psychoanalytic Benefits of Hatha Yoga,” Integral Yoga Magazine, Fall, 30-31.
Somerstein, L. (2008). Licensing is no Merry Go Round. International Journal of Yoga Therapy.
Somerstein, L. (2008). “The Metallic Womb.” Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 47, Number 2.
Somerstein, L. (2008). True to our Feelings. By Robert Solomon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 286 pages. $28.88. ISBN 0-19-530672-4. Book review, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.
Somerstein, L. (January 3, 2008). “Original Aloneness: finding the deep self.” World
Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, New Delhi, India.
Somerstein, L. (2007). "I Came with a Sword on Judgment Day": A Psychoanalytic Look at Terrorist Enactments. The Psychoanalytic Review, 94, 5.
Somerstein, L. (2007, February 8). Skinny. [Letter to editor] The New York Sun. p. 8.
Somerstein, L. (2007) Test Anxiety in the Middle School. Presentation at the Salk School. January 31, 2007.
Somerstein, L. (2006). Baby Talk, book review, Talking to Babies: Psychoanalysis in a Maternity Ward. Myriam Szejer, MD., Psychoanalytic Review, 93, 1, 133-136.
Somerstein, L. (2005). Bad Enough Women and Success, NAAP News, 28, 3, 7.
Somerstein, L. (2005). Bound Love: The Sins of the Father. NAAP conference, October 15, New York, New York.
Somerstein, L. (2005). Blow the House Down: Domestic Terrorism. International Association of Psychohistory Conference, June 9, 2005, New York, New York.
Somerstein, L. (2004). September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds. Edited by Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal, and Daniel S. Schechter. New Jersey: The Analytic Press, 2003. 293 pp. Volume 23 in the Relational Perspectives Book Series book review. The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 91, 5,
Somerstein, L. (2004). Hope within the tornado: A psychoanalytic look at terrorist Enactments. International Psychohistory Association. June 2-4, 2004.
Somerstein, L. (2004). Contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on transference, NAAP New, 27, 1, 3.
Somerstein, L. (2004). Emotional development in psychoanalysis, attachment theory and neuroscience, book review to be published in the Psychoanalytic Review.
Somerstein, L. (2004). Finding Hope within the Tornado: A Psychodynamic Look at Terrorist Enactments. Presented at the Symposium on the Psychological Interpretation of War, January 11, and at the International Psychohistorical Association, June 6.
Somerstein, L. (2004, September 8). Hazing and Heroism [Letter to the Editor], The New York Times, p. A18.
Somerstein, L. (2004). Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity. American Philosophical Association Newsletters, Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 03, Number 2, Spring 2004.
Somerstein, L. (2004, May 7) My Life as a Guard [Letter to the Editor], The New York Times, p. A16.
Somerstein, L. (2003) The Unconscious in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: The Fourth International Neuropsychoanalytic Conference on the Unconscious. NAAP News, volume 26, Number 3 &4, 10-11.
Somerstein, L. (2003). Sacrificial daughters: aspects of the father-daughter relationship. NAAP News, 26, 2, 9.
Somerstein, L. (2002) “Concrete Tornadoes” Journal of Religion and Health volume 41,
Summer 2002
Creative work
2010 Bij, mixed media image, Reflexions, Literary and Visual Art Magazine of Columbia University Medical School.
2009 BIJ Other/Wise, IFPE journal, www.IFPE.org. Fall, 2009.
2007 “My Father’s Words” one of four best submissions at New Direction’s Seminar,
February 2007.
2006 Best in Show in the category of mixed media/collage, March 2006, 14th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, 92nd Street Y Art Center
2005 Honorable mention Writer’s Digest short story award, Mensa short story award.
Participation in many group shows featuring works on paper and on canvas.