Dr Frances LaBarre

Dr Frances LaBarre is a psychologist psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City where she works with individual adults, couples, parents and children. She is Co-director of the Parent-Infant/Toddler Research Nursery, and a supervising analyst at both the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She lectures and teaches both in the United States and in Europe. Her writings are known for her unique application of movement studies to understanding interactive dynamics in many settings, and particularly in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her books are On Moving and Being Moved: Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Practice (The Analytic Press, 2001), and The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development, and Therapeutic Change, (Co-author R. Frank, The Analytic Press, 2011).