Galit Atlas

Galit Atlas (born September 12, 1971) is an Israeli-American psychoanalyst known for her rethinking of the place of sexuality and desire in contemporary theory and practice.

Career

Atlas practices psychoanalysis and is a clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, faculty member of the Institute for Expressive Analysis and faculty of the National Training Programs (NTP) and the Four Year Adult training program

In 2009, she became a recipient of the NADT Research award, in the category 'Theoretical Research Award for Thesis/Dissertation'. From 2011-2013, she co-chaired and moderated the on-line Colloquium Series for the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and currently serves on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association.

She is contributor to the New York Times, Atlas lectures throughout the United States and internationally

Atlas is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, October 2015). The leading psychoanalyst and feminist Jessica Benjamin declared that the book is "clinically astute and theoretically provocative", and that Atlas "recaptures the realm of sexuality for relational psychoanalysis".

Selected publications

• Atlas. G. (2015). The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis. London & New York: Routledge.
• Atlas. G. (2015). Confusion of Tongues: Trauma and Playfulness. In: "The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi:From Ghost to Ancestor” Ed. Kuchuck, S. & Harris, A. London & New York: Routledge.
• Atlas, G & Benjamin, J. (2015). The “Too Muchness” of Excitement: Sexuality in Light of Excess, Attachment and Affect Regulation. International Journal for Psychoanalysis. Feb;96 (1):39-63.
• Aron. L. & Atlas. G. (2015) Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 25: 309-324.
• Atlas. G. (2014). What’s Love Got to Do With It. In: The Bonds of Love, Revisited. ED. E Rozmarin. London, New York: Routledge.
• Atlas, G. (2015). Touch me, Know Me: The Enigma of Erotic Longing. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 32:1. P 123-139.
• Atlas, G. (2014). Fireworks. Psychoanalytic Perspective., 10:390-391.
• Atlas, G. (2014). Sex Lies and psychoanalysis- In: When the Personal Becomes Professional: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience. New York: Routladge. Edited by Steven Kuchuck.