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Journal Articles, Reviews, Interviews, and Book Chapters
The “Four Quartets” of my life as a psychoanalytic psychologist. Voices. In press.
Sexuality, power, and love in Cavani’s The Night Porter: Psychological trauma and beyond. Psychoanalytic Review. In press.
Commentary on Livingston and Livingston: “Sustained empathic focus and the clinical application of self-psychological theory in group psychotherapy.” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. In press.
Commentary on Harwood: “Head Start is too late: Integrating infant research, neurobiology, attachment, and trauma theories to groups with pregnant and new mothers -- PIDA Project.”
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. In press.
Conceptualizing spirituality in groups: Bridging spirituality, science, and psychology. Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. In press.
Invited Guest Editor and Introductions. The Group-as-a-Whole: An Update. 2 vols. Special Editions of Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. In press.
Book Review of Billow, R.M. Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion. In Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, in press.
Book Review of Stacey, R. Complexity Theory and Group Process: A Radical Social Understanding of the Individual. In International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, in press.
Invited Guest Editor and Introduction. Countertransference to Trauma and Traumatogenic Situations. Special Edition of International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 55, 1: January, 2005.
Cohen, B.D. and Schermer, V.L. Self transformation and the unconscious in contemporary psychoanalytic therapy: The problem of “depth” within a relational and intersubjective perspective. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 21, 4: Fall, 2004, pp 580-600.
Boundary issues: All for one and one for some? In Motherwell, L. and Shay, J. Complex Dilemmas in Group Psychotherapy. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004, pp. 33-37.
Terror and groups: Updating psychoanalytic group psychology for a new era. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. (The journal of the Post-Graduate Center for Mental Health, New York City). 20: 2, September, 2003, pp.199-201.
Book review of Wilson, J.P., Freeman, M.J., and Lindy, J.D., eds.: Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 53, 2: April 2003, pp. 252-255.
Building on “O”: Bion and epistemology. In Lipgar, R. And Pines, M. (eds.) Building on Bion. V1: Roots London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003, pp. 226-253.
Invited Guest Editor and Introduction. The Implications of Multicultrual Diversity and Ethnopolitical Conflict for Working with Groups. Special Edition of Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, 26, 3: September, 2002. Introduction: pp. 175-188.
Cohen, B. D. and Schermer, V. L., (2002). On Scapegoating in therapy groups: A social constructivist and intersubjective outlook. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 52, 1: April 2002, pp. 89 109.
The group psychotherapist as contemporary mystic: A Bionic object relations perspective. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 51 (4), October, 2001, pp. 505-523.
From I: A/M to “Who am I?”- Aggregation/massification and trauma-based affects and object relations in groups: A response to Earl Hopper. Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. 25 (3), September, 2001, pp. 215-223. Republished in edited form in Hopper, E. (2003) The Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-Like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I/AM: A Theoretical and Clinical Study of Traumatic Experience and False Reparation. International Library of Group Analysis 23. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 170-177.
Cohen, B. D. and Schermer, V. L. Therapist self disclosure in group psychotherapy from an intersubjective and self psychological standpoint. Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, 25 (1/2), June, 2001 pp.41 57.
Book review of Michael Eigen’s The Psychoanalytic Mystic. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 10:2, Spring, 2001.
An interview with Bob Klein and Vic Schermer, co-editors: Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Trauma.
MAGPS News (The Newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society.) Bob Schulte, interviewer. Spring, 2001.
Contributions of object relations theory and self psychology to relational psychology and group psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 50, 2, April, 2000, pp. 199-218.
On the future of group therapy theory. Group: the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. 24, 1, March 2000, pp. 13-22.
To know a mind: Freud, Oedipus, and epistemology. Psychoanalytic Studies, 1, 2, 1999, pp.191-210.
Graves, M. and Schermer, V. The wounded male persona and the mysterious feminine in the poetry of James Wright: A study in the transformation of the self. The Psychoanalytic Review, 85, 6, December, 1999, pp. 849-870
Book Review of Gerard Bleandonu's W. R. Bion: His Life and Work. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 5, 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 85-87.
Schermer, V. and Klein, R. Termination in group psychotherapy from the perspectives of contemporary object relations theory and self psychology. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 46, 1, January, 1996, pp. 99-116.
Exploring the tent: Ethnic identity, the sense of self, and internalized object relations. Paper presented at the conference on Ethnic Identity, Pluralism, and Ethnic Conflict in the United States, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 5-6, 1994. Published in Mind and Human Interaction, 6, 1, February, 1995, pp. 34-43.
Intimations of mortality from recollections of early childhood: psychoanalysis and death awareness. In Kauffman, J., ed. Mortality. Baywood Press, 1995.
Mulvihill, R., Ross, M., and Schermer, V. Psychocultural interpretations of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland: family and group systems models. In Cohen, B., Ettin, M., and Fidler, J., eds. Group Process and Political Dynamics. Madison: International Universities Press, 1995.
Review of A. Druck, Four Therapeutic Approaches to the Borderline Patient. Reviewed in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1993.
Ashbach, C. and Schermer, V. The role of the therapist from a self psychology perspective. In Bernard, H., et al, eds. Handbook of Contemporary Group Psychotherapy. NY: International Universities Press, 1992.
Interactive and group dimensions of Kleinian theory. In Journal of the Melanie Klein Society, 5, 1, 1987.
Beyond Bion: the basic assumption states revisited. In Pines M., ed., Bion and Group Psychotherapy, London, Routledge, 1985.
Ashbach, C. and Schermer, V. An object relations theory of group development. In Journal of the Melanie Klein Society, 1, 2, 1983.
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