Bibliography
Peer Reviewed Articles
Balas, Anna and Guttman, Alicia (2003) The Impact of 9/11 through the lens of the Child Psychoanalyst: A Study with Psychoanalytic Reflections. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 #2, 175-198, IUP
Donovan L.M., Balas, A. & Shapiro, T. (1995). A Three-Year-Old's Mother Dies: Facilitating a Complicated Bereavement with Psychotherapy. J. Psychotherapy Practice & Research 4: 68-82.
Books, Book Chapters, and Reviews
Book Review (2015): Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest school and Solidarity of the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years by Judit Meszaros. JAPA Vol 63, (in print )
Book Review (2014): Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Reality, Personal History and Trauma by Marion M. Oliner, JAPA Vol. 62, #5, 924-931
Book Review (2013): Immigration and Acculturation: Mourning, Adaption, and the Next Generation by Salman Akhtar, JAPA Vol. 61, #1, 186-191
Co-Editor with Ruth Karush and Patricia Nachman of the Treatment of the Under Five Child, Psychoanalytic Inquiry Vol 33, Number 4 , July-Aug 2013 Routledge
Addressing the Emotional Aspects of Learning Differences. The Parents League Review, 132-137. 2013
Book Review (2000): Children Surviving Persecution: An International Study of Healing and Trauma, edited by Judith Kestenberg and Charlotte Kahn, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 81, 1235-1238.
Book Review (1999): The Nurture Assumption, Psychoanalytic Books, Vol #10, 1999, 563-566
Book Review (1999): Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond, Edited by Moses Laufer, 1997, Psychoanalytic Books, Vol #10.
Book Review (1996): The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension. Psychoanalytic Books, Vol. #7, 1996: 555-560.
Contributor, Female Psychology: An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography by Eleanor Schuker & Nadine A. Levinson. 1991, Hillsdale, NJ, The Analytic Press.
Presentations
"Yes, I Am Really Your Mother"-Dialogue with Parents about Adoption at NYPSI, May 13, 2015
Discussant of paper by Dr. Christine Anzieu, The role of maternal containment in the therapy of a young child who suffered from night terrors: "on not being able to dream", June 4, 2014 at NYPSI. "Works in Progress"
Maintaining a Positive Image of Both Parents-Dialogue with Parents about Divorce at NYPSI, Sept 2013
Modifying the Impact of Loss for Children in Divorce-Dialogue with Parents at NYPSI, Feb 6, 2013
Presenter at the Romanian Psychoanalytic Society, Aug 2014. The Menaced Assassin: Reflections on Magritte, Trauma and Surrealism
Discussant " Six Million and One: A Documentary" by David Fisher at the American Psychiatric Association, New York City, April 28, 2014
Discussion of Dream Imagery in Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander (1843) Jan 16, 2014. APSA Workshop on Psychoanalysis and Opera
Presenter of Case Report for the CAPS Paris meeting, May 2013.
Presenter on Psychological Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies to parents at the West End Day School 2012
Organizer and Moderator of the Faculty Council Grand Rounds at Payne Whitney Clinic-Mitigating the Impact of Divorce on Children: Dilemmas and Strategies, Nov 2011
Presenter at the Fifth International Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Art, The Past Transformed in Art and Psychoanalysis Florence, May 26-29, 2011. The Menaced Assassin: Reflections on Magritte, Trauma and Surrealism
Discussant of Sally Moskowitz's case presentation of Representation of the Mother in the Daughter of a Single Gay Father One day Symposium, On the Psychological aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in January, 2011 at the Uris Auditorium of Payne Whitney Clinic.
Participant and case presenter CAPS Aspen 2010.
Discussant of John Munder Ross's paper: Brothers, Sisters and the Return to Reality, Scientific Meeting of NYPSI,
Oct 13, 2009
Participant and case presenter, CAPS meeting, Aspen, 2008. Also presented: Comments on the Double or Doppelganger Aspects of the Self: with Illustrations from the Life and Work of Henry Koerner
Presenter at the Fourth International Symposium on Art and Psychoanalysis, May 16-18, 2008 on Light and Shadow in Psychoanalysis and Art in Florence, Italy: Comments on the Double or the Doppelganger Aspects of the Self: with Illustrations from the Life and Work of Henry Koerner
Discussion Leader at workshop meeting on Depression at the International Psychoanalytic Association, Berlin, July 2007
Participant and case presenter, CAPS meeting in Aspen, Aug 2006
Grand Rounds Presenter at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Resilience (Tuesday Meeting) April 2006
Group Discussion Leader at the Symposium on Art and Psychoanalysis on
The Body: Object of Love and Hate, May 2005
Workshop Leader and Presenter at the 50th ATIS Conference Emotional Impact of Divorce on Children. March 2005
Grand Rounds Discussant, Mt. Sinai Hospital. A sexually traumatized young woman. Dec 14, 2004
Grand Rounds at North Shore University Hospital on Traumatizing Societies and Resilient Children: Personal Reflections and Illustrations of the work of Valentin Lustig, Child of Holocaust Survivors. Oct 17, 2003
Workshop Leader and Presenter at the 48th and 49th ATIS Conferences-Emotional Aspects of Adoption and Emotional Aspects of Adoption in 5 to 10 year olds, March 2003 and 2004
Presenter: September 11: Psychoanalytic Reflections in the Second Year: Third Annual Conference of the 5 New York Societies of the International Psychoanalytic Association at NYU on Nov 9-10, 2002. Title of the paper: The Impact of September 11 on Children: the Child Analyst's View by Anna Balas and Alicia Guttman.
Grand Rounds Presenter for Baltimore-Washington Association for Child Psychiatry: The Impact of September 11 with Special Focus on Children: Crisis Intervention and Ongoing Work in the Consulting Room, April 25, 2002
Workshop Leader and Presenter at the 47th ATIS Conference: Emotional Aspects of Learning Disabilities. March 2002
Workshop on Learning Disabilities at the Ethical Culture School, April, 2001
Presenter, Symposium in Honor of Dr. John Kafka Psychoanalysis Times of Political and Social Upheaval by the Washington Psychoanalytic Society at the Sibley Hospital: Traumatized Societies and Resilient Children: Personal Reflections. Sept 23, 2000.
Workshop Leader and Presenter at the 4th Annual ATIS Conference-The Teacher's Role in the Parent-Child Care Provider Relationship. March 2000
Participant and presenter: Joint Conference of the European Federation for Psychoanalysis and the American Psychoanalytic Association, Copenhagen, July 1992, Santa Margherita Ligure, July 1998, Camogli, July 2000
Workshop Leader and Presenter at the 44th Annual ATIS Conference-Review and response to Judith Rich Harris's book on parenting titled The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Parents Matter Less Than They Think, Peers Matter More. March 1999
Presenter: Affiliated Staff, New York Psychoanalytic Society, Spring 1991, Spring 1992, Spring 1993, Spring 1996. Discussant, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, 2000
Presenter, Symposium on Impasses in Psychoanalysis, at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Nov 23, 1996
Presenter, American Psychoanalytic Association, Fall Meetings, Psychoanalysis of a Learning Disabled Child with Phobic Symptoms, Dec. 1995
Discussant, Grand Rounds, New York Hospital: “Maternal Bereavement in a Five Year Old Child.” Dec 1993
Participant rater, Study of Panic Disorders, under the direction of Frederic Busch, M.D., Arnold Cooper, M.D. and
Theodore Shapiro, M.D., 1990-1991
Presenter: A Team Approach in Planning Bone-Marrow Transplant in a Borderline Child. Grand Rounds, Memorial Hospital, Spring 1981
Presenter: A Team Approach to treatment of a psychotic leukemic child with a psychotic mother. Grand Rounds, Memorial Hospital, Spring 1980