Rosine Jozef Perelberg

ROSINE JOZEF PERELBERG [ [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/courses/theory-msc/rosine.htm Rosine Perelberg’s Homepage] ] , PhD, is a psychoanalyst whose clinical and theoretical work ranges across borderline psychopathology, hysteria, gender issues and violence. She has written and taught on these and other themes including dreaming, time, space, phantasy and sexuality in clinical practice. She is a Training Analyst and Supervisor and a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society [ [http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/ British Psycho-Analytical Society] ] , where she is also a member of the Training Staff Committee. She is Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit, at University College, London. [ [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ University College, London] ] She is on the Research Advisory Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Work

Rosine Jozef Perelberg’s work is rooted in a broad anthropological and cultural background. Her recent book Time, Space and Phantasy [ [http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg2008.htm Perelberg R J (2008) Time, Space and Phantasy. London: Routledge. New Library of Psychoanalysis. Preface by André Green.] ] (which contains a preface by Andre Green) examines Sigmund Freud’s multi-dimensional model of temporality, arguing for connections between this and Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. In Freud’s formulations, the individual is decentred and ruled by different temporalities, most of which escape their consciousness. Perelberg identifies the points of contact with Einstein’s formulation where rather than being absolute, time depends on the relative position and speed of the observing individual suggesting that rather than being a reality, time is an abstraction, connecting objects and events. This work expands on the themes of Time and Memory [ [http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg%20timeand%20memory.htm Perelberg, R J (Ed) (2007) Time and Memory, Psychoanalytic Ideas Series. London: Karnac.] ] , which uses the examination of clinical material to understand how psychoanalytic notions of time emerge in clinical practice, enquiring into how patients create an idiosyncratic sense of time and space within the analytic process.

Perelberg has edited several books dealing with central psychoanalytic debates including a textbook on Freud’s work (Freud: A Modern Reader [ [http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg2005.htm Perelberg, R J (Ed) (2005) Freud: A Modern Reader. London: Whurr (Currently distributed by Wileys and Sons Ltd).] ] ), with contributions from leading British and French psychoanalysts. Dreaming and Thinking [ [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/unit-staff/dreamingandthinking.htm Perelberg, R J (2000) (Ed) Dreaming and Thinking. Psychoanalytic Ideas no 4. London: The Institute of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted 2003, 2004, 2006 & 2008.] ] , meanwhile, explores the way in which dreams expresses the mental state of the patient. Elaborating the perception that the interpretation of dreams allows access to a theory of mind, Perelberg draws out links between dreams and the transference, commenting on the analytic process itself. Female Experience: Four Generations of British Analysts on Working with Women [ [http://www.annafreudcentre.org/books_leff_femaleexperience.htm Joan Raphael-Leff and Perelberg, R J (Eds) (1998) - New Edition in 2008 - Female Experience: Four generations of British analysts on work with women. New Prefaces and chapters. London: Routledge.] ] draws together reflections on the psychoanalytic understanding of female sexuality and gender identity. The book engages with female bodily representations, phantasies, desires, sexual abuse, eating disorders, child-bearing, perinatal loss and postnatal depression, and early exchanges between mother and baby. In so doing it illustrates the substantial contribution made by British Psychoanalysts to the gender debate. Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide is a collection of clinical papers on the treatment of patients who have acted violently against others or, in attempting to end their own lives, have acted violently against themselves. Here, Perelberg puts forward the hypothesis of a core phantasy present in certain violent individuals of a primal scene where there is no father but mother and patient engaged in a violent intercourse. These phantasies are related to the individual's beliefs about his own procreation. The violent act tells a story, which is a personal myth of creation and contains both their pre-Oedipal and distorted Oedipal theories.

Life

Rosine Jozef Perelberg completed her BA and M Phil in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After gaining a PhD in Social Anthropology at The London School of Economics, University of London, she trained at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She has worked in the NHS as a senior psychotherapist and family therapist at the Maudsley Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry and the Marlborough Family Service. Between 1989 and 1999 she was an Associate Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis [ [http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/newlibr2.php New Library of Psychoanalysis] ] and was also on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. [ [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-7578&site=1 International Journal of Psychoanalysis] ]

In 2006 she was named one of the Women of the Year by the Brazilian National Council of Women.

elected writings by Rosine Jozef Perelberg

[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg2008.htm Perelberg R J (2008) Time, Space and Phantasy. London: Routledge. New Library of Psychoanalysis. Preface by André Green.]
[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg%20timeand%20memory.htm Perelberg, R J (Ed) (2007) Time and Memory, Psychoanalytic Ideas Series. London: Karnac.]
[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perelberg2005.htm Perelberg, R J (Ed) (2005) Freud: A Modern Reader. London: Whurr (Currently distributed by Wileys and Sons Ltd).]
[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/unit-staff/dreamingandthinking.htm Perelberg, R J (2000) (Ed) Dreaming and Thinking. Psychoanalytic Ideas no 4. London: The Institute of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted 2003, 2004, 2006 & 2008.]
[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/perel.htm#review Perelberg, R J (1999) (Ed) Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide. New Library of Psychoanalysis No.33. London: Routledge.]
[http://www.annafreudcentre.org/books_leff_femaleexperience.htm Joan Raphael-Leff and Perelberg, R J (Eds) (1998) - New Edition in 2008 - Female Experience: Four generations of British analysts on work with women. New Prefaces and chapters. London: Routledge.]
Perelberg, R J and Miller, A (Eds) (1990) Gender and Power in Families. London: Routledge.

External Links

[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/courses/theory-msc/rosine.htm Rosine Perelberg’s Homepage]
[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/newlibr2.php New Library of Psychoanalysis]
[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-7578&site=1 International Journal of Psychoanalysis]
[http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/ British Psycho-Analytical Society]
[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ University College, London]

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