writing and Presentations
I write literary non-fiction as well as academic psychological essays.
All of my writing is done from a position of embodied subjectivity and feminist psychoanalysis. I tend to focus on memory, trauma healing, gender and sexuality including gender-based violence and sexual assault, women's issues across the lifespan, psychedelics, spirituality, and culture.
Revisiting the Seduction Theory:
Recovered Memory
in the Era of Trauma
The Tale:
An interview with filmmaker Jennifer Fox about narrative and re-membering
Hot Springs
Hot Springs
A literary essay about trauma healing, pleasure, and psychedelics
“While I sometimes resist the work of writing, I resist my own psychic suffering more, and writing has become for me a primary means of digesting and integrating my experiences and thereby reducing the pains of living, or if not, at least making them useful to myself and to others.”
Melissa Febos, Body Work
selected bibliography
Podcast Episodes:
- Maternal Ambivalence. Psychoanalysis and You, the official podcast of The American Psychoanalytic Association, Ep. #15. May 21, 2025.
- Exploring Matrescence as Opportunity. The Re-Imagining Motherhood Podcast with Chelsea Robinson, Ep #7. July 21, 2024.
- Nurturing Maternal Subjectivity through Feminism and In-Depth Psychology. Webinar offered at Stillpoint Spaces, Zoom. February 19, 2023.
- Community Psychoanalysis, Depth Psychology, and Feminism. Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Ep #146. July 13, 2021.
- Interview on Unconventional Dyad Podcast, Ep #36. March 22, 2021.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Presentations:
- Sidesinger, T. (2026). Writing matrescence: Therapeutic writing retreats as collective containers for transgenerational healing. In J. Dobrich (Ed.), Moving from grievance to hope in psychoanalysis: Applied case studies (pp. 96-112). Routledge.
- November 8, 2025. Bystanders to Dissociation: Psychotherapy, Complex Trauma, and the Truth of Recovered Memory. Conference presentation at the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
- September 20, 2025. Sociopolitical Breakdown as Longing Toward Maternal Excess. Panel presentation at the Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston, MA.
- Sidesinger, T. (2025, June). Psychoanalysis and psychedelics: A conversation with John Burton. The American Psychoanalyst.
- January 11, 2025. Women’s Roles as Caregivers Through Their Lifespan. Panel Discussion at Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis (Virtual).
- November 16, 2024. Incorporating Maternal Subjectivity into Psychoanalytic Practice. Panel Discussion at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Zoom.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sidesinger, T. (2022). Psychoanalysis, Class Divisions, and the Gift Economy. Division Review, 28: 45-49.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.