Mark Gerald

Mark Gerald, Ph.D. is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is on the

faculty of New York University Postdoctoral Program in

Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The Stephen A. Mitchell Center for

Relational Psychoanalysis, The Institute for Contemporary

Psychoanalysis – Los Angeles, the Institute for Contemporary

Psychotherapy – New York, and the National Institute for the

Psychotherapies.

Mark is also a trained photographer, who has photographed portraits

of psychoanalysts in their offices in the United States, Europe, Mexico,

Canada and South America. He has written and taught about the

importance of actual space in creating new relational images, and

about the visual dimension in psychoanalytic practice. His most recent

article, “Melanie Klein and Diane Arbus Through the Lens of the

Relational Image” is published in the Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association (70.2). His book, In the Shadow of Freud’s

Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices (Routledge, 2020),

part-memoir, part history, and part case study, is a portrait of

psychoanalysis. He current writing focuses on mystery. His practice of

psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic consultation is on the Upper West

Side in New York City.