Publications and Presentations

My writing focuses on motherhood, trauma healing, gender and sexuality, spirituality, and culture.

• Incorporating Maternal Subjectivity into Psychoanalytic Practice. Panel Discussion at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (Virtual). Saturday, November 16, 12-1:30pm ET. 

•  Women’s Roles as Caregivers Through Their Lifespan. Panel Discussion at Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis (Virtual). Saturday, January 11, 11-12:30 ET. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2024). Introduction to the special issue on maternal subjectivity: An essential link in relational-social psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 21(3), 281-305. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2024). Grandmaternal subjectivity: A conversation with Jessica Benjamin. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 21(3), 394-404. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2024, August). Revisiting the seduction theory: Recovered memory in the era of trauma. The American Psychoanalyst. 

• Exploring Matrescence as Opportunity. The Re-Imagining Motherhood Podcast with Chelsea Robinson, Ep #7. July 21, 2024. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kpk6qfMjtJ3rvasfO3oLY?si=FsjLBAXORdWLPoDHKK5akw

• Sidesinger, T. (2024). Maternal Excess: Pathways Through Overwhelm to Transformation in the Perinatal Period. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25(2), 93–103.

• Sidesinger, T. (2023). Reproductive Agency and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 59(1–2), 64–85. 

• October 28, 2023. Is Maternal Subjectivity Psychoanalytic? International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Pasadena, CA.

• February 23, 2023. The Personal is Political: Four Conversations About Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Panel Discussion at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Zoom.

• February 19, 2023. Nurturing Maternal Subjectivity through Feminism and In-Depth Psychology. Stillpoint. Zoom. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2022). Psychoanalysis, Class Divisions, and the Gift Economy. Division Review, 28: 45-49. Read online here: 

• June 16-19, 2022. You Want to Eat Me: Too Muchness in Parallel Process. IARPP 18th International Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

• April 29, 2022. Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field. Virtual Grand Rounds. Austen Riggs Center. Zoom.

• March 31, 2022. Community Psychoanalysis: Thoughts and Experiences Beyond the Private Office. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Div 39 of the American Psychoanalytic Association Spring 2022 Meeting. Zoom.  

• March 25-26, 2022. The New Community Psychoanalysis Paradigm: Utilizing Relational Theory and Matriarchal Governance Structures as Foundations for Social Change. Annual Academic MOM Conference 2022, St. Petersburg, FL and Zoom. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2021). The Feminine Yes : Return Me To Excess. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 22(1): 4-15.

• Community Psychoanalysis, Depth Psychology, and Feminism. Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Ep #146. July 13, 2021. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru146-tracy-sidesinger-on-community-psychoanalysis-depth-psychology/

• Unconventional Dyad Podcast, Ep #36. March 22, 2021. https://unconventionaldyad.wixsite.com/welcome/podcast/episode/295f731c/36-dr-tracy-sidesinger-psychoanalytic-psychologist

• Action Steps for Surviving Hardship in an Uncertain World. Talkback for Dog Act at The Seeing Place Theater. February 4, 2021. https://youtu.be/BzERvYl66dY

• Podcast interview with Arielle Childs. A Woman's Experience, Ep. #17. January 9, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYY0QULBv_c&t=1371s

• Dance /+ Psychology. Workshop with Alexandra Beller. Summer Intensive at Gallim Studio. Brooklyn, NY. June 10, 2019.

• Sidesinger, T. (2019). The Nasty Woman: Destruction and the Path to Mutual Recognition. In D. M. Goodman, E. R. Severson, & H. Macdonald (Eds.), Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism (pp. 132–150). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

• The Maternal No: Personal and Clinical Reflections on Necessary Maternal Limitation. Paper presentation at The Annual Academic MOM Conference. Bronx, NY. April 6, 2019. http://journalofmotherhoodstudies.org/

• Constructing a Life of Jouissance from Feminine Desire: Voices from Psychotherapy and Painting. Presentation with Marie Peter-Toltz. Art and Psyche: The Illuminated Imagination. Santa Barbara, CA. April 5, 2019. 

• Sidesinger, T. (2018, May). The Tale: An Interview with Filmmaker Jennifer Fox About Narrative and Re-Membering. Public  Seminar. Retrieved  from http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/05/the-tale/.

• Sidesinger, T. (2018). Book Review Essay: Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics: Thinking Toward the Post-Relational. By Robin S. Brown. New York: Routledge 2017, 132 pp. Psychoanal. Rev. 105(4): 439-450.

• Sidesinger, T. (2016, April). The Reflective Consciousness of the Great Mother. Colloquium presentation given at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association Spring Colloquium in Rhinebeck, NY.

• Sidesinger, T. (2016). Reflections on Mediating the Analytic Process as Imaged in the Mermaid. ARAS Connections: Image and Archetype 1(special issue). Retrieved from https://aras.org/newsletters/aras-connections-image-and-archetype-2016-special-issue.

• Sidesinger, T. (2011, March). Understanding Attachments to Human and Divine Others in a Clinical Setting. Ohio Psychological Association presentation given at the Ohio Psychological Association Union of Psychology and Spirituality Retreat in Newark, OH.

• Reimer, K., Dueck, A., Neufeld, G., Steenwyk, S., & Sidesinger, T. (2010). Varieties of religious cognition: a computational approach to self-understanding in three monotheistic contexts. Zygon, 45, 75-90.

• Strong, R., Brown, S., & Taylor, T.* (2004, Nov.). Development of the Just Peacemaking Inventory. Presented at the Association of Moral Education Annual Conference, Dana Point, CA. *Note: Taylor is a previous name.