Personal statement about you and your private practice
Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision.
I am a board certified psychoanalyst (BCD-Psychoanalyst) and clinical social worker licensed in the State of Washington (LICSW); a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA); and a training and supervising analyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, I am also a past-president of Washington chapter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. I have particular clinical interests in infancy, maternal reverie, and early life, and in psychoanalytic teaching and learning. I am also an approved supervisor under Washington state law. I welcome inquiries about treatment, supervision and consultation, or general questions about psychoanalysis or contemporary object relations.
Publications include:
Blue, D. (2016). From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming thought into the action of psychoanalysis, Eds. D. Blue and C. Harrang. London: Karnac.
Blue, D. (2022) The Environment Within: On the Fetus’s Capacity to Differentiate Self from Other --chapter in Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond Eds C. Harrang, D. Tillotson, and N. Winters London: Routledge