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Biography
Danielle Knafo is an American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author. Born in French Morocco and raised in Pennsylvania she is now a professor of psychology and psychoanalysis.
Early life
Knafo was born in French Morocco and moved to the United States as a child where she spent her formative years. She moved to Israel and attended Tel Aviv University where she took a BA in Literature and Psychology and a MA in Clinical Psychology. Returning to the United States, she obtained a Ph. D at City University of New York and training in psychoanalysis at New York University.
Academic career
She has also taught at a variety of academic institutions including New School for Social Research, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and City College of New York, Adelphi University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University
She is currently a professor at Long Island University's Post campus Clinical Psychology doctoral program, where she chairs the Serious Mental Illness Specialty Concentration. She is also faculty and supervisor at the New York University postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, as well as Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
Publications
Knafo has an interest in the interrelationship between mental health and the psychology of creativity and has written several books on the subject including Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art, Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Artist's Self-Portraits and 'In Her Own Image: Women's Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art. She has also written about unconscious fantasies and the effects of trauma, in Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World and Living with Terror, Working with Trauma: A Clinician's Handbook.
She has also written numerous papers in academic journals such as Psychoanalytic Psychology, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Review and Studies in Gender and Sexuality