Lee Jaffe, Ph.D. is an adult Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst, and a child/adolescent psychoanalyst in private practice in San Diego, California since 1983. He is on the faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, was a Director of their Education Committee, as well as being their Past-President. He is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California. Nationally, he has been on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association, where he served on many committees since 1994. Internationally, he is a past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization, and has served as a North American representative on the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Board of Directors. He has published numerous journal articles and a book on assessment for psychoanalytic treatment, as well as serving on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 2014 he published a book titled: How Talking Cures – Revealing Freud’s Contributions to All Psychotherapies. Currently, he is President of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
SAMPLE OF PUBLICATIONS:
Jaffe, L. (2014) How Talking Cures: Revealing Freud’s Contributions to All Psychotherapies. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.
Jaffe, L. (2004/2015) The Greenson Seminars on Assessment (second edition, first edition 2004, edited and annotated). San Diego, CA: San Diego State University Press.
Jaffe, L. (2002) Inpatient Treatment of Substance Abuse. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 83, 253-256.
Jaffe, L. (2001) Countertransference, Supervised Analysis, and Psychoanalytic Training Requirements. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49, 831-853.
Jaffe, L. (1990). The Empirical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychological Testing. Journal of Personality Assessment, 55(3&4), 746-755