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Biography for Johanna Krout Tabin, Ph.D., ABPP
Regional Representative, Mid-Western Region
After taking my degree in 1948 at the University of Chicago in Human Development, I trained in psychoanalysis at what is now known as the Anna Freud Centre. My personal analysis took place at the same time. Upon returning from England, as I developed a psychoanalytic practice, I continued training in a problem seminar with Bruno Bettelheim for twelve more years.
My publications range from study of universal symbolism, treatment outcome, and the relationship between mechanisms of defense and mental retardation—to theoretical and clinical subjects in psychoanalysis. A book, On the Way to Self: Ego and Early Oedipal Development (Columbia University Press, 1985), integrates a coherent view of ego formation with fresh understanding of the early difficulties that lead to gender
specific pathologies, such as anorexia.
Most recently, in 2002 and 2003, I contributed chapters to books on failure in psychoanalysis and on play therapy with adolescents, and editorial review of a chapter on psychological factors in architectural and urban spatial planning. I enjoy the interactive use of Section V's web site.
From the standpoint of growth and development in our profession, I was a member of PISP (Psychologists Interested in the Study of Psychoanalysis), the forerunner of Division 39. Now that the Division is well established, the cutting edge of psychoanalysis is represented in it by Section V. Furthermore, psychoanalytic psychotherapy is the mode of clinical application of psychoanalytic understanding that is most general in the field today. I find it exciting to be part of the energy and dedication to new ideas which are what make Section V special.
jktabin@juno.com
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