Danielle Knafo

Danielle Knafo (Hebrew: דניאל כנפו) is an American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author. Born in French Morocco and raised in Pennsylvania she is now a professor of psychology and psychoanalysis.^[1][2] She is a prolific author, and a popular speaker. She is also a professor at Long Island University-Post in its clinical psychology doctoral program. She writes and lectures on many subjects, including creativity, trauma, psychosis, sexuality and gender, and technology.

Knafo was born in French Morocco and moved to the United States as a child where she spent her formative years. She moved to Israel and attended Tel Aviv University where she took a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. Returning to the United States, she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at Graduate Center of the City University of New York and training in psychoanalysis at New York University.^[3]

She has also taught at a variety of academic institutions including New School for Social Research, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and City College of New York, Adelphi University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University

She is currently a professor at Long Island University's Post campus Clinical Psychology doctoral program, where she chairs the Serious Mental Illness Specialty Concentration.^[4] She is also faculty and supervisor at the New York University postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, as well as Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies^[1]

Knafo tiene interés en la interrelación entre la salud mental y la psicología de la creatividad y ha escrito varios libros sobre el tema, incluyendo Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art , Egon Schiele : A Self in Creation: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Artist's Self-Portraits y 'In Her Own Image: Women's Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art . ^{[ 3 ]} También ha escrito sobre fantasías inconscientes y los efectos del trauma, en Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World y Living with Terror, Working with Trauma: A Clinician's Handbook . Otras obras incluyen: Sex, Drugs and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World y Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral Training Su libro más reciente es From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis .

En 2016, Danielle Knafo publicó La era de la perversión: deseo y tecnología en el psicoanálisis y la cultura ^{[ 5 ]} . En él explora los profundos cambios que se están produciendo en la vida sexual y social, posibilitados por la revolución tecnológica en curso, y demuestra cómo los psicoanalistas pueden comprender y abordar las manifestaciones de la perversión en entornos clínicos. En 2020, Knafo publicó El nuevo panorama sexual y el psicoanálisis contemporáneo . Este libro examina la cultura sexual moderna y sugiere maneras en que el psicoanálisis puede actualizar sus teorías y prácticas para satisfacer las nuevas necesidades de las generaciones actuales.

También ha escrito numerosos artículos en revistas académicas como Psychoanalytic Psychology , International Journal of Psychoanalysis , The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association , Psychoanalytic Review , Studies in Gender and Sexuality, American Imago y Psychoanalytic Dialogues. ^{[ 6 ]}