Frank Lachmann

Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D. is a teacher, supervisor and member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 150 journal publications.

He is co-author with Joe Lichtenberg and Jim Fosshage of four books including: A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002), and Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look (Routledge, 2010}. With Beatrice Beebe he wrote Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002) and The Origins of Attachment (Routledge, 2014). He is sole author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient (Aronson, 2000) and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008).