Sue Grand
Sue Grand, Ph.D., is faculty and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she holds a specialization in trauma as well as family and couples. In addition, she is faculty at the Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis, the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and author of The Reproduction of Evil (Analytic Press, 2000), and has a private practive in New York City and Teaneck, NJ.
The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective
Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic... (more)
The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude
In times of stress, trauma and crisis - whether on a personal or global scale - it can be all too easy for us to externalize a larger-than-life figure who can assuage our suffering, a Hero who comes... (more)
Trans-Generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference
Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be... (more)
Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond... (more)
Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique
Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique invites relational theorists to contemplate the influence, overlaps, and relationship between relational theory and other perspectives. The... (more)
De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within
Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven’t sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected... (more)
Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory, and the social-ethical turn of... (more)