Anna Fishzon

Anna Fishzon, PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice and an interdisciplinary scholar in New York City. She has taught courses on Russian history, psychoanalysis, literature, and gender and sexuality at Williams College, Columbia University, and Duke University, USA. She is the author of The Impossible Return ~ Psychoanalytic Reflectons on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (2025) and Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (2013). She is co-editor (with Emma Lieber) of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass. (2022), as well as many scholarly articles and book chapters. She is member, supervisor and faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association.