Wendy Jacobson, M.D.
Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist

It is not implausible to say that much of the failure in the world is a failure of psychology, a failure to make psychological principles relevant and achievable as tools of enlightened self-interest. Along with my practice, writing about this realm matters deeply to me.

Selected Publications

"In this last drama, the hidden one, Cameron starred in the leading role as brilliant megalomaniac/erratic ex-spouse/erratic father... By contrast, Bigelow co-starred as the gracious and principled heroine. Fostering her win was the perception of her as a class-act—a finer person..."	Hollywood's Hidden Morality Tale in The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar The Huffington Post April 11, 2010 Entertainment
"Would The Hurt Locker have won top Oscars over Avatar if it had been directed by a man?...Despite all of James Cameron's riches and despite his gender, should his genius again have been rewarded?"	The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar: Were the Academy Awards Small-Minded? The Huffington Post March 15, 2010 Entertainment
"...it is the troubled character patterns of humanity that are the daily bread and butter of psychoanalysts...This is what psychoanalysts make conscious—the patterns that disable and limit people..."	What Good Psychodynamic Therapy Is All About The Huffington Post February 13, 2010 Living News
"In essence, women feel they've hit a 'glass ceiling' in the home, pulling for an adversarial instead of a collaborative relationship over collective aspirations, goals and principles."	The Battle of the Sexes Isn't Over The Huffington Post January 13, 2010 Living News
"...the prize honors a small but growing cadre of psychoanalytic researchers whose work is crucial to the vibrancy of psychoanalysis..."	Honoring Our Researchers—The APsaA Scientific Paper Prize, with Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D. The American Psychoanalyst Volume 43, No. 4 Fall/Winter 2009
"Let us think for a moment about... the patterns we study and elucidate. Ours is an exceedingly broad synthetic and integrative discipline...We are doctors of the complexity of the mind."	Why Bother? A Psychoanalytic Graduation Speech The American Psychoanalyst Volume 43, No. 1 Winter/Spring 2009
"The creators of the new DSM have seriously handicapped psychiatric diagnosis by omitting some of the most useful and widely affirmed concepts in modern psychiatry—unconscious mental processes, intrapsychic conflict, and defenses. Constructing a diagnostic system without the use of these inferred, theoretical concepts limits the nosology...It is as if physicists were to decide that they could not discuss black holes or even electrons because these are inferences derived from theory..."	Psychodynamic Diagnosis in the Era of the Current DSMs, with Arnold M. Cooper, M.D. In Psychodynamic Treatment Research: A Handbook for Clinical Practice. Eds. Nancy Miller, Lester Luborsky, Jaques Barber and John Docherty. New York: Basic Books (1993).