Jack Foehl

Harvard Medical School, Psychiatry, Faculty Member

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John C. Foehl, Ph.D. - psychoanalyst/psychologist - working both clinically and scholarly in the study of how we change through creating experience moment by moment. Dr. Foehl is President of Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where he is a Training & Supervising Analyst; Faculty at Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor (part time) at New York University Post Doctoral Program.

Jack’s interest is in work with less organized not easily expressed forms of experience, work on the borders of what lives in the body and can be barely expressed. He sees this as something we all experience, but is difficult to reach. He situates his work in international contemporary theories that bring this kind of clinical experience into description and theory, using philosophical phenomenology and psychoanalytic theories that work from and develop thinking on the work of Bion, Winnicott and Green, as well as interpersonal/ relational thinking given his work with Philip Bromberg and Edgar Levenson. His specific work is in articulating a framing of clinical experience, integrating the work of philosophical phenomenology on the formation and transformation of experience.

Jack has written over 20 articles on psychoanalytic pedagogy, subjectivity, intersubjectivity and the analytic field. His upcoming book is titled: Psychoanalytic Process and the Phenomenal Field: Merleau-Ponty and the Transformation of Experience.
Phone: 617.492.0400
Address: 458 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Jan 2, 2021

Dimensional Time: Discussion of “Psychoanalysis in Real Time: Temporal Troubles in the Clinical Dyad”

Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Nov 2, 2019

Every moment occasions a constitution of subjectivity that has at its heart a temporal structure.... more Every moment occasions a constitution of subjectivity that has at its heart a temporal structure. Far from being objective, time is dimensional. The extases (past-present-future) of time do not simply move forward but turn back upon themselves and weave forward and back at the same time. There is a reversibility to time. Past significations are transformed as expressed and lived in the present (après-coup) while future significations are transformed as anticipated in light of a present transformed by the now deepened experience past (avant-coup). This temporal reversibility happens at every moment, and is characterized by folds in time, fluid exchanges where in the lattice-work of remembering and anticipating, eclipsed forgotten moments suddenly emerge in the lightning flash context of phantasy, changing the nature of what’s anticipated which changes the past, all shot through with feeling. In dialogue with Schoen’s “Psychoanalysis in Real Time” (this issue), I suggest that this dimensionality can flatten in a way characterized by Schoen as a split between objective or real temporality and an experience of time that is subjective. I emphasize a field perspective of the intersubjective third as providing a frame for Schoen’s considerations in her compelling reflection on time.

Increasing Altruistic Behavior by Using Compliance Techniques

Journal of Social Psychology, Feb 1, 1983

Two studies were conducted to examine whether two procedures which have served to increase compli... more Two studies were conducted to examine whether two procedures which have served to increase compliance (the-door-in-the-face and the-foot-in-the-door) would also prove useful for enhancing altruism. Forty men and 40 women who were walking in shopping areas served as Ss for the first study which found that a modification of both the “face” and “foot” procedures produced significantly more altruistic behavior

The Slap: Playing with Reality in Discussing Ed Tronick’s “Trauma Never Occurs Only Once”

Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Nov 2, 2022

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Psychoanalytic Dialogues, May 4, 2022

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Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Jul 4, 2021

“Collaboration is the principle which sets the frame for the un-learning and deconstruction of an... more “Collaboration is the principle which sets the frame for the un-learning and deconstruction of analytic shibboleths,” write Rachael Peltz and Francisco González (this issue, p. 418). Their words speak to a principle that guides the work of the Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. It’s a principle that also guides us, the journal’s editors, as we seek to invite new voices and present new topics in our pages while also celebrating the innovation and controversy that built the relational tradition and set it in dialogue with psychoanalysis writ large. Collaboration requires hard work. To learn and unlearn “takes a village” as they say. To learn and build takes a community which puts us ever-always in contact with one another and with the worlds we variously inhabit, some of them as identifiable as the streets of a town or the inhabitants of a social group, others as abstract as the gatherings of likesubjects who coalesce around hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. Collaboration can be intentional or unconscious; consensual or compelled; generative or reactionary. Community Psychoanalysis is distinguished both by its effort to work together with community-based partners, to create needed social change and, also, for its keen attention to how communities constitute the location of care in inequitable hierarchies of access that spawn strategies for intervention at the level of the group. In this issue, we interrogate the notion of community and its intersection with psychoanalysis in all its diversity, exploring multiple ways in which we are connected and interconnected, our lives interwoven across time and space. We travel first to Peltz and González’s description of the Community Psychoanalysis Track and Consortium in San Francisco. Supervising psychoanalyst Lee Slome details the work of the track’s clinical Core Seminar; Lani Chow and Maria Seymour St. John immerse us in the dialogue that ensues between representatives of a Community Consortium and PINC faculty and candidates. Ortal Slobodin initially presented her research on community interventions with Bedouin girls at the 2019 IARPP conference in Tel Aviv in receipt of the Muriel Dimen Prize for interdisciplinary collaboration in psychoanalysis. In this paper, Slobodin and Sharon Ziv-Beiman consider the application of relational concepts in therapeutic work within a Bedouin community; cogently demonstrating the way core concepts can be differentially interpreted through the lens of culture. Marks-Tarlow and Shapiro return to our pages with an in-depth discussion of “fractal epistemologies” to companion their paper in 31:3 on intuition. Their work takes community to the meta level where we are all connected in relational configurations that parse meanings in contexts. You will find in the discussions by Adrienne Harris and Duncan Cartwright an exploration of the many threads in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking that explore different iterations of this new kind of interconnectedness. And we return to the front lines of community work with a diverse collection of Snapshots from colleagues around the world engaging in a wide range of Community Psychoanalysis projects. Their inspiring work takes psychoanalysis out of the consulting room, and into the public sector, grounded in an ethical PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2021, VOL. 31, NO. 4, 407–408 https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2021.1926800