The ‘Too Muchness’ of Excitement: Sexuality in Light of Excess, Attachment and Affect Regulation. Dr Galit Atlas and Dr Jessica Benjamin interviewed by Dr Steven Kuchuck

Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination

The ‘Too Muchness’ of Excitement: Sexuality in Light of Excess, Attachment and Affect Regulation. Dr Galit Atlas and Dr Jessica Benjamin interviewed by Dr Steven Kuchuck

Dr Stephen Kuchuck explores with the authors the ideas contained in their ground breaking joint paper on the role of infant attachment in the development of sexuality and the adult’s ability to tolerate sexual pleasure. We recommend you read the paper before watching via this link: http://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Benjamin-J.-Atlas-G.-TooMuchness.pdf

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THE SPEAKER

Dr Galit Atlas

Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyzt and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & psychoanalyzis. She is a faculty member of the National Training Programs (NTP) and the Four Year Adult training program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in NYC. As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality.

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Dr Jessica Benjamin

Jessica Benjamin is a psychoanalyzt known for her contributions to psychoanalyzis and social thought. She is currently a practicing psychoanalyzt in New York City where she on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in psychoanalyzis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Jessica Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalyzis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminizm as it relates to psychoanalyzis and society.

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