Lee Crespi, LCSW
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Countertransference love.” in Contemporary Psychotherapy Review Vol. 3, 1986 pp.86-95.
“Feelings of failure in the countertransference.” Case presentation with Lawrence Epstein, PhD. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, February 1989.
“Countertransference issues in the treatment of patients who were sexually abused.” Presented at National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Annual Conference, March 1993.
“Some thoughts on the role of mourning in the development of a positive lesbian identity.” in Dominici, T. and Lesser, R., Disorienting Sexualities, Routledge Press, New York , 1995.
“Reconnecting closeness and passion: understanding and treating sexual impasses.” Presented at Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center Annual Series on Gender and Sexuality, December, 1998.
“Erotic countertransference: it’s uses and abuses.” Presented at New York State Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists Conference on “The Power of Love and Hate” May 15, 1999 .
“The baby boom meets the gayby boom: twenty-five years of pyschoanalysis in the lesbian community.” in Gould, E. and Kiersky, S. (EDs) Sexualities Lost and Found: International Universities Press 2001
“The bomb in the chrysalis: analytic neutrality, negative transference, and coming out: a discussion of Madeline Price’s “Early trauma, societal oppression and coming out” in Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2001 pp.77-83.
“And baby makes three: a dynamic look at development and conflict in lesbian families” in Glazer, D. and Drescher, J. (Eds), Gay and Lesbian Parenting, Haworth Press, New York 2001.
The experience of New York City psychotherapists after September 11th. on Frontiers: The Brooklyn Cable TV Psychotherapy Journal. Panelist, 9/2002
"What is a mother? Gay and lesbian perspectives on parenting" with Drescher, J., Glazer, D.F., and Schwartz, D., in Brown, S. (Ed.) What Do Mothers Want?, The Analytic Press, New Jersey 2005
"The impact of the legalization of same-sex marriage on the intrapsychic experience of lesbians" 2013 Annual Conference of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
Recent Interviews On-line and in Print
"Do You Need a Love Contract?"
"Before You Call the Lawyer: Alternatives to Divorce"