Curriculum Vitae

Date Prepared: August 2023
Name: Andrea Celenza, Ph.D.
Office Address: 11 Field Road, Lexington, MA  02421
Home Address: 11 Field Road, Lexington, MA  02421
Work Phone: 781-652-8944
Work E-Mail: ACelenza@andreacelenza.com
Place of Birth: New York, NY

Education:

1976	B.A. Psychology (Major) and Philosophy (Minor) Cornell University
1979	M.Ed. Counseling Psychology Harvard University
1984	M.A. Clinical Psychology Boston University
1985	Ph.D. Honors ‑ Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Child‑Clinical Murray Cohen, Ph.D. (Thesis Advisor) Boston University

Postdoctoral Training:

1982-1983	Psychology Intern, The Cambridge Hospital
1983-1984	Psychology Fellow, Newton-Wellesley Hospital
1995	Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2014-	Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Faculty Academic Appointments:

1985-2002	Clinical Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
1997-	Faculty, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
1999-	Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2002-	Assistant Professor, Part-time in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
2013-	Co-Director, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, William James College
2014-	Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions:

1984-1988	Psychologist, Charles River Hospital
1994-2013	Psychologist, Allied Health Professional Staff, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance
2013-	Psychologist, Allied Health Professional Staff, Department of Psychology, McLean Hospital

Major Administrative Leadership Positions:

Local – Cambridge Health Alliance

1988-2000	Associate Director of Psychology
1996-1998	Acting Director of Training, Division of Psychology
1999-2000	Acting Director of Training, Division of Psychology

Local – William James College

2013-

Co-Director, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies

Committee Service:

Local – Cambridge Health Alliance

1985-2000	Education Committee, Department of Psychiatry
1985-2000	Supervision Subcommittee, Department of Psychiatry
1985-2000	Multidisciplinary Curriculum Committee, Department of Psychiatry
1985-2000	Search Committee, Core Psychology Faculty
1985-2000	Chair, Preceptors Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1985-2000	Internship Recruitment Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1985-2000	Curriculum Development Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1985-2000	Chair, Half-Time Training Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1985-1987	Search Committee, Neuropsychology Faculty, Department of Psychiatry
1985-2000	Supervision Subcommittee, Department of Psychiatry
1989-2000	Chair, Testing Apprentices Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1990-1995	Fellowship Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology
1990-2000	Psychology Council Committee, Departments of Psychiatry, Divisions of Psychology
1996-2000	Training and Service Directors Committee, Department of Psychiatry
2006-2012	Ethics Committee, Division 39 American Psychological Association
2009-2010	Task Force on Boundaries, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2014-	Student’s Progression Committee, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Professional Societies:

1984-2022	American Psychological Association, Division 39 2009- :  Member, Ethics Committee
1989-2010	Massachusetts Psychological Association 1989-1991: Member, Professional Relations Committee
1996-2022	American Psychoanalytic Association 1998-2009:  Member, Committee on Psychoanalytic Education – Boundaries
1988-2010	Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
1991-	Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2000-2022	Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

Editorial Activities:

1995-1997	Associate Editor, Psychotherapy Forum
1997-2003	Chief Editor, Psychotherapy Forum
2003-	Ad hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
2003-	Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
2005-	Ad hoc Reviewer, Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Honors and Prizes:

1995	Nominated, Mentor of the Year, Harvard Medical School
1997	Nominated, Mentor of the Year, Harvard Medical School
2007	Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Best paper on topic in psychoanalysis
2007	Karl A. Menninger Memorial Award, American Psychoanalytic Association Best paper on topic in psychoanalysis
2007	Honorable Mention:  Phyllis Meadow Award, The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies Excellence in Psychoanalytic Writing
2009	Symonds Prize, Studies in Gender and Sexuality Best essay on a topic related to issues of gender
2013	Psychology Division Teaching Award, Cambridge Health Alliance Excellence in Teaching

Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects

Funding Information:

Past

1997

Principal Investigator, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, $3,000 Precursors to Therapist/Patient Sexual Misconduct: A Retrospective Study of Mental Health Professionals The major goals of this study were to identify precursors of therapist-patient sexual boundary transgressions for application to the design of prevention programs for mental health professionals.

Current Unfunded Projects:

2009-

Principle Investigator, Erotic Transferences and Erotic Perversions The goals of this study will describe the role of erotic transferences and erotic perversions in the treatment process.

Report of Local Teaching and Training

Formal Teaching of Residents, Clinical Fellows, and Research Fellows (post-docs):

Cambridge Health Alliance

1984-1995	Psychodiagnostic Assessment Seminar, Instructor Predoctoral psychology trainees, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Testing Apprentices 2 hour sessions per week, full-year
1995-2013	Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Seminar, Co-Instructor Post-Doctoral Fellows in psychiatry, psychology and social work 2 hour sessions, weekly for full year

Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

1996	Erotic Love and Power, Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 6 weeks
1998	Sadomasochism, Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 6 weeks
2002-2004	Comparative Theories, Co-Instructor Advanced Candidates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 2 hour sessions, weekly for 10 weeks
2004	Contemporary Relational Theory, Co-Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 10 weeks
2009-	Erotic Transferences and Erotic Perversions, Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 2 weeks

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1998-2002	Neurosis, Co-Instructor Advanced Candidates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 2 hour sessions, weekly for 12 weeks
1999-2003	Basic Concepts in Theory and Technique, Instructor Advanced Candidates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 2 hour sessions, weekly for 10 weeks
2000-2007	Advanced Psychotherapy and Psychopathology, Instructor APA Psychology Interns Two hour sessions per week, full-year
2002-2004	Therapeutic Action, Co-Instructor Advanced Candidates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 2 hour sessions, weekly for 10 weeks
2002-2006	Technique II, Co-Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 10 weeks
2006-2008	Theory V,  Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 12 weeks
2009-	Erotic Transferences and Erotic Perversions, Instructor Candidates for full-training in psychoanalysis, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers 3 hour sessions, weekly for 7 weeks

Clinical Supervisory and Training Responsibilities:

1988-2000	Supervisor in the Psychology Training Program Cambridge Health Alliance 4-5 hours/week; 10 trainees per week per year
2000-2012	Clinical Supervisor Cambridge Health Alliance Individual clinical supervision of psychology interns and fellows and social work interns and fellows. Up to 3 trainees per year as assigned
2004-2006	Supervisor of Psychoanalytic Candidates Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis 1-2 Candidates, 1-2 hours/week
2014-	Psychoanalytic Candidate Advisor and Supervisor Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 1-3 Candidates, weekly per year

Formal Teaching of Peers (e.g., CME and other continuing education courses):

1981	Women in Health Related Professions Radcliffe Health Professions Colloquium Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1989	On Being Supervised:  Helps and Hindrances Cambridge Series – Supervision Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1990	Love and Hate in the Countertransference Psychotherapy Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1991	Toward an Integration of the Mind and Brain Mind‑Brain Connection in Treatment Conference Harvard Medical School
1991	Alcoholism and the Associated Dementia Identifying Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in a Psychotherapy Practice Conference Harvard Medical School
1992	Love and Hate in the Countertransference Emotion in Psychotherapy Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1994	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies The Cambridge Series – Countertransference and Boundaries Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1994	Implications of the ADHD Diagnosis: Fads and Fallacies The Cambridge Series, “Living with ADHD” Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1997	Supervision and Recognition The Cambridge Series, Supervision Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
1999	Supervision and Recognition Supervision Conference Beth Israel-Deaconess-Harvard Medical School
2005	Keynote Speaker: Here and Now, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Conference Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
2009	Hope is the thing with feathers: Holding the other in mind MGH Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Case Conference Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School

Local Invited Presentations – No Sponsorship Involvement:

1989	Psychoanalytically‑oriented Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy with Incest Survivors, Grand Rounds, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA
1992	Toward an Integration of the Mind and Brain, Grand Rounds, The Cambridge Hospital
1993	Lecture: Love and Hate in the Countertransference, Grand Rounds, Harvard University Health Service
1993	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Massachusetts General Hospital – Intern Proseminar
1997	Lecture: Sadomasochistic Relations, Harvard Medical School
2000	Lecture: Vis a Vis the Couch, Massachusetts General Hospital
2003	Lecture: Sadomasochistic Relations, Massachusetts General Hospital
2009	Hope is the thing with feathers: Holding the other in mind, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General Hospital
2010	Teaching Boundaries, Experiencing Boundaries, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
2011	Erotic Transferences, Grand Rounds, Beth-Israel Deaconness Hospitals, Harvard Medical School
2013	Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

Report of Regional, National, and International Invited Teaching and Presentations

Regional, National, and International Invited Presentations and Courses – No Sponsorship Involvement:

Regional

1989-1991	Helping the Helpers: Supervision, Training and Sexual Misconduct, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Continuing Education Program, Dedham, MA
1992	Psychoanalytically‑oriented Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy with Incest Survivors, Tufts Counseling Center, Medford, MA
1993	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Cambridge, MA
1993	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Cambridge
1994	Psychoanalytically‑oriented Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy with Incest Survivors, Boston College, Boston, MA
1995	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
1995	Post-Doctoral Training at the Turn of the Century, American Psychological Association, Boston, MA
1996	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Grand Rounds, HRI Hospital
1997	Lecture: Sadomasochistic Relations, Seminar Series, Two Brattle Center, Cambridge
1998	Safe Analysis: Safe From What? Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
1998	Toward an Integration of the Mind and Brain, New Hampshire Psychological Association, Franconia, NH
1999	Sadomasochistic Relating: What’s Sex Got to do With It?, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Boston, MA
1999	Lecture: Sadomasochistic Relations, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Boston, MA
1999	Lecture: The Usefulness (for the Patient) of the Analyst’s Regression, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
1999	The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Experience of the Patient: Discussant of Panel on Mutual Regression, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
2000	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
2001	Sadomasochism and Boundary Crossings in Psychotherapy, New Hampshire Psychological Association, Franconia, NH
2002	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, The Danielson Center, Seminar Series, Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA
2002	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Wellesley Human Relations Service, Wellesley, MA
2003	Lecture: Vis a Vis the Couch, Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Cambridge, MA
2003	Lecture: Clergy Sexual Misconduct, The Danielson Center, Seminar Series, Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA
2004	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, MA
2004	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, The Danielson Center, Seminar Series, Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA
2005	Lecture: Clergy Sexual Misconduct, Wellesley Human Relations Service, Wellesley, MA
2005	Lecture: Why Can’t We Be Lovers?  Sexual Intimacies in Imbalanced Relationships. Two Brattle, Cambridge, MA
2005	A Love Addiction: Sexual Misconduct in the Clergy, Human Relations Service, Wellesley, MA
2005	Lecture: Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA
2009	Lecture: Dr. Westen’s Depletion, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Boston, MA
2009	Sexual Boundary Violations: How They Happen, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
2010	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Transference: When Murder is a Possibility, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Boston, MA
2010	The Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransference: Searching for Radial True, The Therapeutic Action of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Current Concepts of Cure, Boston, MA
2010	Master Series: Passion and Perversion in the Therapeutic Setting, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Dedham, MA
2012	Discussion of S. Coen’s paper on Narcissistic Temptations, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, Cambridge, MA

National

1989	Sexual Intimacies Between Therapists and Patients: Treating the Offending Therapist, National Convention, American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA
1989	The Misuse of Countertransference Love, American Psychological Association, National Convention, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, Boston, MA
1993	Toward an Integration of the Mind and Brain, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York City, NY
1998	Sadomasochistic Relating: What’s Sex Got to do With It? Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, Boston, MA
1998	Lecture: Sadomasochistic Relations, Spring Conference, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York, NY
1999	Vis a Vis the Couch, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York City, NY
1999	Larger Than One Life-Size: Discussant of Panel on Grandiosity, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York City, NY
2001	Sadomasochistic Fantasies in Analysis, Bi-annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New Orleans, LA
2002	The Ethics of Self-Disclosure, Bi-annual Meeting,  American Psychoanalytic Association, Philadelphia, PA
2002	Managing the Erotic Transference, Bi-annual Meeting,  American Psychoanalytic Association, Philadelphia, PA
2003	Perverse Dreams and Dreams of Perversion – Discussion, Bi-annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, Boston, MA
2003	Sexual Misconduct: Could This Happen to You and Me? Bi-annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2004	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Misconduct, Columbia Institute of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2004	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Misconduct, Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, New York
2005	A Love Addiction: Sexual Misconduct in the Clergy, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York, NY
2005	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Misconduct, Columbia Institute of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2005	Sexual Boundary Violations: When is a Couch just a Couch?, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York, NY
2005	Male to Female Erotic Transference, Annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2005	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Misconduct, San Francisco Institute of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, CA
2006	Teaching Sensitivity to Boundaries, Annual Meeting, American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada
2006	Hyperconfidentiality and the Illusion of the Dyad, Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Philadelphia, PA
2007	The Analyst’s Need and Desire, Annual Meeting, American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA
2008	Disavowed Aggression: The Hated Aspect of Sexual Boundary Transgressions. Symposium on Erotic Transference, Center for Psychoanalytic Organizations New York, NY
2008	CE Workshop on Sexual Boundary Transgressions, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2008	The Analyst’s Need and Desire, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, New York, NY
2009	The Passions of the Analyst, American Psychoanalytic Association, Winter Meeting, New York, NY
2009	CE Workshop on Sexual Boundary Transgressions, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX
2009	The Passions of the Analyst, Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX
2009	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Transference: When Murder is a Possibility, The American Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, NY
2010	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Transference: When Murder is a Possibility, Miami Institute for Psychoanalysis, Miami, FLA
2010	The Analyst’s Needs and Desires, Society for Modern Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2010	CE Workshop on Sexual Boundary Transgressions, Oregon Psychiatric Association, Ashland, Oregon
2010	The Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransference: Searching for Radial True, New York University Postdoctoral Center for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2010	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Countertransference, Oklahoma Center for Psychoanalysis, Oklahoma City, OK
2010	CE Workshop on Sexual Boundary Transgressions, Oklahoma Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK
2010	Senior Analyst Presentation: Passion and Perversion in the Therapeutic Setting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2010	Passion and Perversion in the Therapeutic Setting, New York University Postdoctoral Center for Psychoanalysis, October, 2010
2011	Keynote Speaker: The Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransference:  Searching for Radial True, Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Atlanta, GA
2011	CE Workshop on Sexual Boundary Transgressions, Georgia Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, GA
2011	Discussant for Panel on Sexual Boundary Violations, Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, NY
2011	Unrealizable Treatment Goals, American Psychoanalytic Association, San Francisco, CA
2011	Helping the Helpers, Discussion Group Co-Leader, American Psychoanalytic Association, San Francisco, CA
2011	Sexual Boundary Transgressions: How Do They Happen?, Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education, Philadelphia, PA
2011	Sexual Boundary Transgressions: How Do They Happen? American Psychological Association Committee on Ethics, Washington, DC
2011	Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences: Searching for Radial True, New York Freudian Society, Washington, DC
2012	Helping the Helpers, Discussion Group Co-Leader, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2012	Sexual Boundary Transgressions: How They Happen?, University of California at Berkeley Mental Health Clinic, Berkeley, CA
2012	Erotic Transferences, Erotic Countertransferences, Western Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Berkshires, MA
2012	Erotic Transferences, Erotic Countertransferences, Mt. Sanai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY
2012	Erotic Transferences, Erotic Countertransferences, New Haven Psychoanalytic Institute, New Haven, CT
2012	Sexual Boundary Transgressions: How They Happen?, New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA
2013	Embodiment and Subjectivity, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2013	Female Perverse Relating: The Creation of an Objectified Self, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2013	Erotic Transferences, Erotic Countertransferences, Cleveland Center for Psychoanalysis, Cleveland, OH
2013	Erotic Transferences, Erotic Countertransferences, Wisconsin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Milwaukee, WI
2013	The Positions of Subjectivity: What and Where is Home, Division 39 Spring Meeting, Boston, MA
2013	Erotic Transferences, Countertransferences, and Perversions. Vermont Center for Psychoanalysis, Burlington, VT
2013	Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences, The New York Freudian Society in Washington, DC
2013	The Scandalous Everyday Patient, Speaking the Unsprung and the Unspeakable, William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY
2013	Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? New Jersey Psychological Association, Iselin, NJ
2014	The Many Faces of Eros, Countertransference Revelations, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
2014	Discussion: Ann Sexton’s Intimate Relationship with her Analyst, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY

International

1994	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Third International Conference on Sexual Misconduct, Toronto, Canada
1996	A Rorschach Investigation of Various Subtypes within the Spectrum of Borderline Psychopathology:  Discussant. International Congress Rorschach and Projective Methods, Boston, MA
1996	A Rorschach Investigation of Sexualized Dual Relationships, International Congress Rorschach and Projective Methods, Boston, MA
1998	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacies, Fourth International Conference on Sexual Misconduct, Boston, MA
2005	Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sexual Misconduct, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Paris, France
2009	Erotic Transferences, Canadian Society for Psychoanalysis, Montreal, Canada
2009	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Transference: When Murder is a Possibility, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis, Baltimore, MD.
2009	Erotic Transferences, International Psychoanalytic Association Convention, Chicago, IL
2012	Panelist, Erotic Acting Out, International Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Online Colloquium
2012	From Binarial Constraints to Gender Multiplicity: Steve Mitchell’s Contributions to Gender and Beyond, International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York, NY
2013	The Threat of Male to Female Erotic Transferences, International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2014	Discussion: Ann Sexton’s Relationship with her Analyst, International Psychoanalytic Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015	Discussion: Sexual Boundary Violations, International Association for Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Toronto, Canada
2015	Opening Plenary: Transference Before, After and Way Before: Discussion of Vincenzo Bonaminio’s Paper, International Psychoanalytic Association, Boston, MA
2015	Erotic Transferences and Sexual Boundary Violations, Finnish Psychoanalytic Center, Helsinki, Finland
2016	Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences, Universitate di Chieti, Chieti, Italy
2017	Sexual Boundary Violations, Discussant, International Psychoanalytic Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017	Erotic Transferences: What Countertransferences Can Illuminate, Montreal Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute, Montreal, Canada
2017	Sexual Boundary Violations: When Murder is a Possibility, Ontario Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada
2018	From Relation to the Field, The Ferenczi Society, Florence, Italy
2018	Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? Moscow Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Moscow, Russia
2018	Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? Sydney Psychoanalytic Institute, Sydney, Australia
2018	Embodiment and the Perversion of Subjective Desire, Ontario Psychoanalytic Association, Toronto, Ontario
2019	Embodied Countertransference, International Psychoanalytic Association, London, England
2019	Erotics in Our Being and Work, International Psychoanalytic Association, London, England
2021	Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Work of the Abject. International Psychoanalytic Association, Vancouver, British Columbia
2021	Maternal Erotic Transference and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers, Confer, London, England
2021	Maternal Erotic Transference and the Work of the Abject, Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Genoa, Italy
2022	Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? Psychoanalytic Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Report of Clinical Activities and Innovations

Current Licensure and Certification:

1986-	Massachusetts License Registration
1986	Qualified Psychologist, Department of Mental Health, MA
1999	Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Practice Activities:

1984-1986	Staff Psychologist, Charles River Hospital 32 hours/week
1986-1987	Clinical Psychologist, Dan Brown, Ph.D. & Associates 15 hours/week
1986-	Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Lexington, MA Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and evaluation and consultation of sexual misconduct Currently full time
1988-1992	Team Psychologist, The Cambridge Hospital, 6 hours/week
2000-	Expert Witness Consultation, Private Practice, Lexington, MA

Report of Education of Patients and Service to the Community

Activities:

Presentations

1996	Precursors to Professional Misconduct, National Episcopal Diocese, Washington, DC
2009	Guest Lecturer: Sexual Misconduct-How does it Happen? Five Fields Forum, Lexington, MA

Media Interviews

1991	The Maury Povich Show, Doctors Exploiting Patients
1992	All Things Considered (National Public Radio), Training Psychologists in the Era of Managed Care
1995	Greater Boston (Ellen Rooney, host), Parental Estrangement
1992	quoted several times in The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Herald on the psychological aspects of various current events

 

Report of Scholarship

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications in print or other media:

Research investigations

1. Celenza A, Hilsenroth M. A Rorschach investigation of sexualized dual relationships.  Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1997;61(1):1-20.

Other peer-reviewed publications

1. Celenza A. The misuse of countertransference love in cases of sexual intimacies between therapists and patients.  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1991; 8:501‑509.
2. Celenza A. Love and hate in the countertransference.  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 1995;32(2):301-307.
3. Celenza, A. Precursors to therapist sexual misconduct.  Psychoanalytic Psychology 1998; 15:3, 378-395.
4. Celenza, A.  Sadomasochistic relating: What’s sex got to do with it?  Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2000; 69:3, 527-543.
5. Celenza, A.  Postmodern solutions and the limit-opportunity dialectic:  The challenge of female penetration and male receptivity.  Gender and Psychoanalysis 2000; 5(4), 347-359.
6. Gabbard, G., Peltz, M., Brockman, D.D., Brunkow, K., Celenza, A., et al.  (2001).  Speaking the unspeakable:  Institutional reactions to boundary violations by Training Analysts.  Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2001; 49(2), 659-673.
7. Celenza, A. and Gabbard, G.O.  Analysts who commit sexual boundary violations: A lost cause? Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2003; 51(2):617-636.
8. Celenza, A.  Sexual misconduct in the Clergy:  The search for the father.  Gender and Sexuality 2004; 5(2):213-232.
9. Levine, H.B., Yanof, J.A., Brockman, D.D., Brunkow, K., Celenza, A., et al. Boundaries and postanalytic contacts in institutes.  Journal American Psychoanalytic Association 2004; 52(3), 873-901.
10. Celenza, A., Gans, S., and Woolley, S.T.  Love, psychosis and boundaries:  A resident’s first psychotherapy case.  Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2004; 12:1-12.
11. Celenza, A.  Sexual boundary violations:  How do they happen?  Directions in Psychiatry 2005; 25(14): 141-149.
12. Celenza, A.  Sexual boundary violations:  How do they happen?  Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling 2005; 15(1):1-8.
13. Celenza, A.  Sexual boundary violations:  How do they happen?  Directions in Psychiatric Nursing 2005; 11(10);113-121.
14. Celenza, A.  Vis a vis the couch:  Where is psychoanalysis?  International. Journal of Psychoanalysis 2005; 86:1-14.
15. Celenza, A.  Sexual boundary violations:  When is a couch just a couch?  Psychoanalytic. Dialogues 2005; 16:113-128.
16. Celenza, A.  The threat of male-female erotic transference.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2006; 54(4):1207-1232.
17. Celenza, A. Analytic love and power:  Responsiveness and responsibility.  Psychoanalytic Inquiry 2007; 27(3); 287-301.
18. Celenza, A.  Rehabilitation of Sexual Boundary Transgressors: A Humane and Knowledge-Based Approach.  Psychiatric Times 2008; 25:36-43.
19. Celenza, A.  Mutual influence in contemporary film.  Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2010; 46(2); 215-223.
20. Celenza, A.  The guilty pleasure of erotic countertransference: Searching for radial true.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2010; 11(4): 175-183.
21. Celenza, A. Similarities with a (crucial) difference: Reply to commentaries by Shapiro and Marshall. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2010; 11(4): 200-204.
22. Celenza, A.  The analyst’s needs and desires.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2010; 20:60-69.
23. Celenza, A.  Reading Jessica.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2012, 13: 1–6.
24. Celenza, A.  Perverse female relating: The objectified self.  Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2013, 49: 586-605.
25. Celenza, A. Maternal erotic transferences and merger wishes. Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 2013, LIX, 4, 1-18.
26. Celenza, A. Different strokes in boundary artistry. Commentary on Cooper’s Blurring boundaries or Why do we refer to sexual misconduct with patients as “Boundary Violation.”  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2016, 26:215-222.
27. Celenza, A. Lessons learned on or about the couch. Psychoanalaytic Psychology, 2017, 34(2):157-162.
28. Celenza, A. (2018). From Relation to the Field: Unconscious Fantasy Elaborations. Il Poppante Saggio.  In press.
29. Celenza, A. (2019). From Relation to the Field: Unconscious Fantasy Elaborations. International Forum for Psychoanalysis, 28(4):203-221.
30. Celenza, A. (2020). Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89(3):369-398.
31. Celenza, A. (2020). Righting a wrong: A commentary on “The poetics of boundary violations: Anne Sexton and her psychiatrist” by Charles Levin and Dawn Skorczewski. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:222-229.
32. Celenza, A. (in press). Psychoanalysis and #MeToo. Online Psychoanalytic Publishing.
33. Celenza, A. (2021). Lecciones aprendidas en o sobre el sofá: Lo que las violaciones de los límites sexuales pueden enseñarnos sobre la práctica cotidiana. org, Una publicación del Sociedad Española de Psicoanálisis (SEP- IPA).
34. Celenza, A. (2022). Maternal erotic transferences and the work of the abject. Journal American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(1): 9-38.
35. Celenza, A. (2022). Stance, set, transferences: Differentiating two modes of clinical technique. Journal American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2): 283-305.
36. Celenza, A. (2022). Necessary suffering, bravery of prey: Commentary on Dominant perversions; perverse dominance: Eroticized schemata and dissociative phenomena in the case of Daniel. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 19:96-107.
37. Foehl, J., Lovett, C., and Celenza, A. (2022). Concepts of The Field. Inter-regional Encyclopedia Psychoanalysis.(IRED).
38. Celenza, A. (2022). Psychoanalysis and #MeToo: Where Are We In This Movement? International Journal of Controversial Discussions, 2(1):48-71.
39. Celenza, A. (in press). Hope: That thing with feathers. American Imago.
40. Celenza, A. and Schwartz, M. (Eds.) (in press). Contemporary Papers on Perversion: Introduction. American Imago.

Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media:

Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials

1. Celenza A. Toward an integration of the mind and brain. In Ellison J,Weinstein C and Hodel‑Malonofsky, T, eds. Psychotherapist’s Guide to Neuropsychiatric Patients. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press; 1993. 617-632.
2. Garrido P, Celenza A, Levy M. Chronic alcoholism and associated dementia. In: Ellison J, Weinstein C, Hodel‑Malonofsky, T, eds. Psychotherapist’s Guide to Neuropsychiatric Patients. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press; 1993. 255-277.
3. Celenza, A. Boundaries in therapy.  Psychotherapy Forum; 1995. 1(2):2-3.
4. Celenza, A. To be ‘in it with’ or not to be ‘in it with’:  A rhetorical question.  Psychotherapy Forum; 2000. 7(1): 2-4.
5. Embry, B. and Celenza, A.  The entrepreneur’s relation to power:  Embrace it or let it go?  In: R.D. Norton, ed. Creativity and Leadership in the 21^st Century Firm. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd, 2002, 47-56.
6. Celenza, A. Book Review:  Clinical Values: Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, by Sandra Buechler, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 2005, 86:1755-1757.
7. Celenza, A.  Forward.  In: Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness, by Ilany Kogan. London, England: International Psychoanalytic Association; 2007.
8. Celenza, A.  A ‘Love Addiction’:  Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with an offending priest.  In: Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church.  M.G.Frawley-O’Dea and V. Goldner, editors. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press; 2007, 59-72.
9. Celenza, A. Book Review: False Self: The Life of Masud Khan. Linda Hopkins, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009. 69:87-91.
10. Celenza, A. Ethics Forum: Romantic relationships and boundaries.  Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, Division 39, American Psychological Association, Fall; 2009.
11. Celenza, A. Book Review: Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship. Karen Maroda, Division/Review, Winter; 2011.
12. Celenza, A. Touching the patient. In Unusual Interventions: Alterations of the Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  Salman Akhtar (Ed.), pp. 165-176, London, Karnac; 2011.
13. Celenza, A. Shadows that corrupt: Present absences in psychoanalytic process.  In Boundary Trouble: Psychosexual Violations and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis. Charles Levin (Ed.), in press.
14. Celenza, A. Desiring the known, unknown, and unknowable. Book Review: The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis by Galit Atlas (2016), New York: Routledge. In Journal of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2017, 14(2):249-251.
15. Celenza, A. The art of night country. Book Review: Entering Night Country: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience, by Stephanie Brody (2016), New York: Routledge.  In Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 62(3):799-802.
16. Celenza, A. (2018). Enactments: The good fight. In Conundrums and Predicaments in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: The Clinical Moments Project. Tuch, R. and Kuttnauer, L.S. (Eds.) (2018). NY: Routledge.
17. Celenza, A. (2019). The present absence of desire in a dead body. In S. Brody and F. Arnold (Eds.), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership, pp. 40-47, London and New York: Routledge.
18. Celenza, A. (in press). Erotic transferences and countertransferences in sexual boundary violations: An interview with Andrea Celenza. In A. Steinberg, J. L. Alpert and C.A. Courtois (Eds.), Sexual Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy: Therapist Indiscretions, Transgressions and Misconduct. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
19. Celenza, A. (2020). Erotic countertransference revelations.  In S. Akhtar (Ed.) Eroticism: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms. New York: Routledge.
20. Celenza, A. (in press). Forward: Eroticism in psychoanalytic theorizing and process. In Braving the Erotic Field in Children and Adolescents. Mary Brady (Ed.), New York: Routledge.
21. Celenza, A. (2021). Нарушения сексуальных границ: Терапевтический, супервизорский и академический контексты. Sexual Boundary Violations: How Do They Happen? Moscow, Russia: K. Nemirovsky (transl.)
22. Celenza, A. (2021). Shadows that corrupt: Present absences in psychoanalytic process. In Charles Levin (Ed.), Boundary Trouble: Psychosexual Violations and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis, [pp. 77-93]. New York: Routledge.
23. Celenza, A. (2022). Forward: Eroticism in psychoanalytic theorizing and process. In Braving the Erotic Field in Children and Adolescents. Mary Brady (Ed.), New York: Routledge.
24. Celenza, A., Foehl, J., and Lovett, C. (2022). Concepts of The Field. Inter-Regional Encyclopedia (IRED).
25. Celenza, A. and Skorczewski, D. (in press). Hope is that thing with feathers. American Imago. New York: Routledge.
26. Celenza, A. (in press). Transgressions are us. In Elephants Under the Couch and the Unspoken, Introduction to Part II: Pushing the envelope: How far is too far? London: Routledge

Books/Textbooks for the medical or scientific community

1. Celenza, A. [author] Sexual Boundary Violations:  Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts.  New York: Jason Aronson; 2007.
2. Celenza, A. [author] Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts. [2^nd edition].  New York: Jason Aronson; 2011.
3. Celenza, A. [author] Erotic Revelations: Transferences, Countertransferences and Perversions.  New York: Routledge; 2014.
4. Celenza, A. [author] Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field. London: Routledge, 2022.
5. Celenza, A. [author] 성적 경계 위반 : 치료, 감독 및 학업 적 맥락  Sexual Boundary Violations:  Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts. [2^nd edition].  South Korea: Somnium Publishing.
6. Celenza, A. [author]. Erotic Transference: A Contemporary Introduction. In Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis Series. London: Routledge, in press.

Narrative Report

I am a clinical psychologist with major interests in teaching, clinical activity, and research foci on psychoanalytic approaches to theory, technique, and psychopathology.  My teaching and clinical activity have focused on clinical applications with a wide spectrum of psychopathology, with a major emphasis on applying psychoanalytic principles to severely disturbed and disenfranchised populations.  The primary focus for my research, clinical activity and teaching involves delineating the vulnerabilities associated with therapist-patient sexual misconduct.

I have a full-time private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families, in Lexington, Massachusetts.  I also provide evaluation and consultation to the Episcopal Diocese of the Northeast, a variety of clergy organizations, National Licensing Boards in all mental health disciplines, as well as National and International Professional Organizations on therapist/patient sexual misconduct and other ethical concerns.  I perform comprehensive evaluations, conduct ongoing supervision, intensive psychotherapy, expert witness testimony and consultation to overseeing professional organizations regarding sexual misconduct and other ethical concerns.  I have collaborated with experts across the country in programs, written reports and conducting empirical research on these topics as well.

I have conducted projects comprising a comprehensive empirical investigation of the psychological characteristics of mental health professionals who have engaged in sexualized dual relationships with patients.  These studies aim to delineate the personality dimensions underlying the character structure of professionals who transgress boundaries; identify historical factors that may predispose individuals to boundary transgressions; and highlight characteristics that may be useful to supervisors and educators as a focus of concern in selection processes and to aid in prevention.

My second book, Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios was published by Routledge in 2014. It is an exploration of clinically-based studies on eroticism, erotic transference, the ways in which countertransference illuminates unconscious dynamics and erotic perversions.  I have reconceptualized perversion in contemporary terms.  The book also includes positions of subjectivity.

My third book, Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field, is published in 2022 by Routledge. It is a collection of theoretical essays and clinical studies that revolve around essential concepts and phenomena in our field of psychoanalysis. These phenomena include transference, love, embodiment, and being – regular features of analytic process and, indeed, it can be said these are existential conditions of our humanness. Starting with the immersion of the analyst, this book reimagines several aspects of the psychoanalytic process, including transference, countertransference, boundaries, embodiment, subjectivity and eroticism. To love is to cultivate to be. Psychoanalysis, as essentially vitalizing, is a playspace for taboo subjects within clear and safe parameters. Interweaving loving, being and perceiving, this book provides challenging new perspectives on the analyst’s subjectivity, receptivity and its immersive influence on analytic process. These essays refine theoretical understandings of the irreducible and omnipresent nature of love in psychoanalysis, thereby offering clarity to psychoanalysts, psychodynamic therapists and scholars through the often-prohibited love and eroticism, here viewed as indispensable to psychoanalytic theory and practice.

My fourth book (in press) is part of a series published by Routledge on contemporary concepts and issues in psychoanalysis. All of the books in this series will serve as concise introductions dedicated to the most useful and influential concepts, theories, leading figures and techniques in psychoanalysis. My book is entitled, Erotic Transference – A Contemporary Introduction. This book provides informative discussions in the area of erotic transferences and countertransferences making this intricate topic comprehensive and accessible to instructors, practitioners, supervisors academics and the general public.

I have two online courses and I have been the recipient of several awards. My writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian and Farsi.