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Dr. Frances La Barre is a psychologist and psychoanalyst working with children and adults, families and couples in private practice in New York City.  She teaches and supervises at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and The Center for Somatic Studies, and has frequently presented her work in the United States and Italy.  She is a member of the International Association of Relation Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.  Her clinical work integrates psychoanalysis with her studies of nonverbal research.  Her approach is multi-disciplinary, drawn from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and neuroscience.  Dr. La Barre’s clinical and theoretical perspective is presented in her book, On Moving and Being Moved, Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Practice, (Analytic Press, 2001), and in articles including “The Kinetic Transference and Counter-transference” (Contemporary Psychoanalysis, April, 2005), “Stuck in Vertical” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, May-June, 2008), and “Movement Theory and Psychoanalysis,” forthcoming.

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