Suzi Naiburg PhD, LICSW
Education
B.A. University of Michigan (English), 1967
M.A. University of Sussex (American Studies), 1968
Ph.D. University of Chicago (History of Culture), 1989
M.S.W. Smith College School of Social Work, 2000
Awards and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1967
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, University of Sussex, England, 1967-1968
University of Chicago Humanities Fellowship, 1968-1970
“Best long essay of the year on Henry James,” American Literary Scholarship, 1993
Post-Graduate Clinical Education
Graduate, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, 2014
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, 2019
EMDR Supervision Groups with Patti Levin (2005), Janina Fisher (2006-2007), Deborah Korn (2007-2008;2019)
EMDR Trainings, Parts I and II, 2005
AEDP Immersion Course with Diana Fosha, May, 2015
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training, Part I, Completed March 2009
Attachment Externship with Dan Brown, 2007-2008
Hypnosis Intensive with Dan Brown, 2007-2008
Advanced Seminar in Trauma and Dissociation with Janina Fisher, 2005-2006
Publications
Write On! A clinical writing workshop for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context 16 (2):190-201. 2021
Introduction: How clinical and personal writing catalyze the implicit, unspoken, and unspeakable in the analyst and the field. Coauthored with Marcia D-S. Dobson. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context 16 (2): 119-122. 2021
Prologue: "Slouching towards Bethlehem": Our analytic self emerges. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40 (2):87-89. 2020
Epilogue: "Slouching towards Bethlehem": Our analytic self emerges. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40 (2):155-158. 2020
Brian, psychosis, and the language of love. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context 13 (1): 58-64. 2018
Structure and spontaneity in clinical prose: A writer’s guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. London and New York: Routledge. 2015
Review of Margaret Wilkinson, Coming to Mind: The Mind-Brain Relationship. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 52 (1): 109-111.
Between fate and destiny: Oedipus and reactive certainty in the consulting room. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 16 (4), 443-461. 2006
Write On! Notes for Clinical Writers. Essays published in the MAPP News, Vol. 19 (1) (Winter 2004); NSGP Newsletter, Vol. XXV (2) (Fall 2004); MAPP News, Vol. 20 (1) (Fall 2004); Free Associations, the Newsletter of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis 5 (1) (Winter 2005)
Mentors at the gate: Editors talk about clinical writing for journal publication.”(2003). Clinical Social Work Journal, 31 (3). 2003
Negro wench and platonic sweetheart: Images of splitting and integration in Samuel Clemens' dreams. Essays in Arts and Sciences. XXIII: 67-88. 1994
Brother longing and love: The example of Henry James." In C. Carrington, R. Hopcke, & S. Wirth (Eds.). Same-Sex Love and the Path to Wholeness. Boston: Shambhala. 1993
Archaic depths in Henry James's ‘The last of the Valerii.’ The Henry James Review 14: 151-165. 1993
A challenge to Apollonian mastery: A new reading of Henry James's 'most appalling yet most admirable' nightmare. In C. S. Rupprecht (Ed.) Dreams and the text: Essays on literature and language. 1993
'The true self in cold storage': Henry James and What Maisie Knew. Literature and Psychoanalysis. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis. London, July 1991. 115-120. 1991
Writing Workshops, Seminars, Webinars
North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Association 2018-2019
"'Putting Skin in the Game': Risking Deeper Empathic Immersion and Engagement with Our Patients and Writing More Openly about These Moments and Ourselves," International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Conference, Chicago, October, 2017
"The Narrative and Conceptual Axes of a Clinical Paper," MIP Psychoanalytic Dimensions, January, 2017
"The Evocative, Enactive, and Lyric Narrative Modes of Clinical Prose," MITO and NAAP, New York, April 23, 2017
"Writing for Publication in the Journal of Analytical Psychology," JAP Conference, New York, April 20, 2017
Writing Workshops for 1st-year Fellows, PINE, Boston Area, December, 2016
Writing Workshops for 2nd-year candidates, ICP +P, Washington, DC, Winter, 2016- 2017
"Deepening Your Practice on the Back of a Napkin: Writing Your Way to New Depths." MAPP, September, 2016, and for NScience, London,
via video conferencing, June, 2016
"Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical and Other Literary Prose,"
An Interactive Discussion, Eitz Chayim, Cambridge, MA, November, 2015
"Showing Up on the Page: Writing with Daring and Vulnerability," a Clinical Writing Workshop, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Philadelphia, November, 2015
"Intersubjective Experience Up Close, Alive, and Contextualized: A Clinical Writing Preconference Workshop," International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2015
Full-Day Clinical Writing Workshop for the Program in Depth Psychotherapy, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, August 5, 2015
"Writing the Ineffable, Finding Words for the Numinous," A Preconference Clinical Writing Workshop, 4th Joint Conference of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the International Association for Jungian Studies, Yale University, July 9, 2015
"Writing 'the Taste of Chocolate': An Interactive Preconference Clinical Writing Workshop," International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Toronto, CA, June 25, 2015
Graduate Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Cambridge, MA, May 2015
Meet the Author, Division 39, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April, 2015
Colloquium, Massacusettes Institute for Psychoanalysis, Cambridge, MA, April, 2015
Book Talk, Lasell Village (A Learning Community), Auburndale, MA, May, 2015
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Clinical Writing Workshop, National Conference, Durham, NC, March, 2015
New York Jung Institute, 3-Day Clinical Writing Workshop for Candidates, 2014
Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, LA, May, 2013
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, April, 2013
“Variety and Voice in Clinical Prose: Reading, Writing, and Listening Differently,” Interactive Seminar, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, April, 2013
The Journal of Analytical Psychology’s International Conference, 2013, 2003
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, International Webinar on Clinical Writing, 2012
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2012, 2007, 2006
National Association of Social Work, Massachusetts, State Symposia, 2008, 2006, 2004
Division 39 Spring Meeting, Toronto, 2007
Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Chapter of Division 39, 2005
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, 2005, 2001, 2000
National Membership Committee for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, 2002
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, 2001
Other Teaching
“Nichole Krauss’ A History of Love.” Six-class seminar for seniors at Lasell Village, Auburndale, MA, Spring 2014.
“A Writer’s Craft and A Psychotherapist’s Courageous Journey: Reading Annie Rogers’ A Shining Affliction.” Six-class seminar for seniors at Lasell Village, Auburndale, MA, Fall 2013
Faculty, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Clinical Writing Workshops, 2013, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001
Issues in Research Seminar for Dissertation Students, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, 2007-2008
Faculty, New Directions Program, Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Clinical Writing workshops, three 3-day weekends per year, 1999-2002
Harvard Extension, Expository Writing Course, one semester, 1996-97
Tutor in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard College, one-on-one junior tutorial, Alchemy, Spring 1997
Tutor in History of Science, Harvard College, one-on-one junior tutorial, Jung and Alchemy, Fall 1996
Harvard College, Expository Writing Courses, 1993-1997
Tufts University Experimental College. "Dreams and Fictions." An undergraduate course, 1992
Past Presentations
(Other than writing workshops)
Clinical Presentation, International Conference of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, New York, April, 2017
Clinical Presentations, Brookline Community Mental Health Center, Brookline, MA, 2015, 2016, 2017
Clinical Presentation, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education Conference, 2015
Clinical Presentation, Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2007
Clinical Presentation, Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2007
Clinical Presentation, National Membership Committee for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, 2004
Clinical Presentation, International Psychoanalytic Conference, Sicily, 2004
Clinical Presentation, Cambridge Health Alliance, Outpatient Department of Psychiatry, November 1999
Division 39, APA,1998
Henry James Sesquicentennial, 1993 (three papers)
Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, Elmira, New York, 1993
American Literature Association, 1992
International Conference, Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts, 1990, 1991
Modern Language Association, 1991
Association for the Study of Dreams, 1990, 1991
C.G. Jung Foundation of New York; New England Society of Jungian Analysts; C. G, Jung Society of New Mexico; C.G. Jung Society of Seattle (1989 -1992)
Administrative Experience
Allston Burr Senior Tutor (Academic Dean in Residence), Dunster House, Harvard College, 1994-1997
Executive Director, C.G. Jung Society of New Mexico, 1989-1991
Cofounder and President of the Board of Trustees, Rio Grande School (K-6), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1978-1981, 1985-1987
Professional Organizations and Positions
Guest Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem": Our Analytic Self Emerges. vol. 40 (2). February-March 2020
Editor, IARPP eNEWS, 2006-2008
Cochair, Crunch and Brunch Series, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis 2005-2007
Member of the Executive Committee, Massachusetts Association for
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2004-2006
Editor, MAPP News, 2004-2006
Cochair, Works-in-Progress Seminar, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1996-1997
Consulting Editor for Dreaming, Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, Ernest Hartmann, Editor, 1990, 1991
Member
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Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (since 1992)
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International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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National Association of Social Workers
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Division 39 (Psychoanalysis)
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EMDR International Association
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International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology