Sheila Levi

Publications and Presentations

SHEILA LEVI’S PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

Levi, S. (May 2025). “Transgender identification and psychological distress: A psychoanalytic case study”.    Accepted for publication at British Journal of Psychotherapy.

Levi, S. (2025). “The cut: Psychoanalysis with a third-generation Holocaust survivor”. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 00(0), 1-17.

Levi, S. (June 2024). “Antisemitism in Islamist Culture: Prejudices and My Identity”. Presented

paper in Psychohistory Panel USA, online.

 

Levi, S. (Jan 2024). “Antisemitism in the clinical setting”. Accepted for publication at American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

 

Levi, S. (2023). “Silent Scream”. Presented paper in Going on Being in Challenging Times

conference, Naxos, Greece, May 26-28, 2023. 10th Joint International Conference sponsored by

Adelphi Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Psychoanalytic Society of the NYU

Postdoctoral Program, Toronto Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, University of Aegean,

William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society.

 

Levi, S. (21 Feb 2023). “Psychology after the Earthquake”. Zoom Conference organized by

ODTU Graduates, Ankara/Turkey.

 

Levi, S. (4 March 2023). Presenting class activation program to teachers from earthquake region

in Turkey. Zoom conference, organized by ODTU Graduates, Ankara/Turkey.

 

Levi, S. (Summer 2022). “Castration anxiety and circumcision”. International Journal of

Psychohistory. Vol 50(1).

Levi, S. (April 2022). ““I caught you!” Part 2: Enriching the external reality”. Journal of Child

PsychotherapyVol 48(1).

 

Levi, S. (April 2022). ““I caught you!” Part 1: Maturing separateness within the area of

mutuality”. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Vol 48(1).

 

Levi, S. (2021). “Childism: A review of Falih Koksal’s article on “needs, habits and children’s

well being” alongside an exploration of the film “system crasher””. Romanian Journal of

Psychoanalysis, 14(1): 175-179.

 

Levi, S. (2021). “Antisemitism in the clinical setting”. Paper presented at the BPA Scientific

Meeting. 6 Feb 2021. A longer paper is accepted for publication in the American Journal of

Psychoanalysis.

 

Levi, S. (Jan 2021). Book review for the JCP: Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on

Politics, History and Mourning, by Dr. Jonathan Sklar, Oxfordshire, Phoenix Publishing

House, 2019, 96pp., ISBN 978-1-912691-00-5.

 

Levi, S. (2020). “Perversion as an attack on creative living: A case study”. Submitted paper for

Rozsika Parker Prize.

 

Levi, S. (2020). “The Cut: Psychoanalysis with second and third generation Holocaust survivors”.

Submitted paper for IPA Award on Holocaust and under review by Journal of American

Psychoanalytic Association.

 

Levi, S. (2020). “Antisemitism in the clinical setting”. Submitted paper for IPA Award on

Racism.

 

Levi, S. (Oct 2020). Book review for the BPA Bulletin: Dark Times: Psychoanalytic

Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning, by Dr. Jonathan Sklar, Oxfordshire,

Phoenix Publishing House, 2019, 96pp., ISBN 978-1-912691-00-5.

 

Levi, S. (Oct 2020). Book review for the BPA Bulletin: Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-

Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis, by Stephen Frosh, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 228 pp., £59.99 (paperback), ISBN 1-4039-2170-9.

 

Levi, S. Foreword: ‘Crisis in Authority’. BPA Bulletin, Oct 2020 (16).

 

Levi, S. Foreword: ‘Covid-19’. BPA Bulletin, June 2020 (15).

 

Levi, S. “Hayatta kalma mücadelesinde insan olmak” (Being human in the struggle for survival).

Zoom Conference in Turkish on Covid-19 organized by Hemenis - Alptekin, M., 17 May 2020.

 

Levi, S. “Freud’s controversial contribution in his psycho-sexual theory: Oedipus Complex”. Paper

presented at Thinking About Psychoanalysis Today – BPA Intro Course, Feb 2020, London/UK.

 

Levi, S. “I feel like a wrong production; I shouldn’t have been born: A Girl from a Patriarchal Culture

who Feels Ashamed of her Femininity”. Paper presented at the IPA conference in London on

Feminine, July 2019, London/UK.

 

Levi, S. “Working Psychoanalytically with Female to Male Transsexual Adult:

Dramatic Repudiation of Being a Woman”. Paper presented at an EPF Panel on Transsexualism,

April 2019, Madrid/Spain.

 

Levi, S. “Finding reason to stay in this world when one can leave it: Psychoanalytic

psychotherapy with self-harming and severely suicidal teenager”. Presented paper in

Psychoanalytic Forum BPF Nov 2018, London/UK.

 

Levi, S. (2017). “Measuring change in psychotherapeutic work with a traumatised child on the

autistic spectrum”. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 43(3): 330-353.

 

Levi, S. “Finding reason to stay in this world when one can leave it: Psychoanalytic

psychotherapy with Miss C”. Presented paper in Association of Child Psychotherapists Annual

Conference June 2015, Bath/UK.

 

Levi, S. “The use of the diagnostic profile with an emotionally neglected and trauma induced shut

down case”. Presented paper in Anna Freud Centre’s Colloquium 2013 on Diagnostic Profile in a

parallel workshop.

 

Levi, S. “Psychosocial enrichment project for Turkish speaking disadvantaged parents and their

children living in Enfield / London”. Presented paper in Society for Psychotherapy Research

(SPR) UK Chapter, Oxford, 12-14 September 2013.

 

Levi, S. “‘Silent Scream’: work with a traumatised immigrant mother

and her infant with a severe neurological disorder”. In N.J. Malberg & J. Raphael-Leff (ed.). The

Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development – Evolution of Theory and Practice Over the

Decades. Karnac, London, 2011.

 

Levi, S. "Projective Methods and Psychoanalytic View of Personality". Presented paper in Freud

Forum – British Association of Psychotherapists, London, June 2011.

 

Levi, S. “The psychological effects of circumcision on Muslim boys”. Presented paper in ACP

Annual Conference, London, June 2010.

 

Levi, S. “The role of psychological testing in demonstrating the value of

psychotherapy with traumatised children on the autistic spectrum”. Presented

paper in ACP Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, June 2009.

 

Levi, S. “Intensive psychotherapy with an adolescent boy who had a disorganized attachment

pattern”. Presented as a clinical case at 18th World Congress of the International Association for

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ICAPAP), 2008, Istanbul.

 

Levi, S. “Silent Scream” Psychological intervention with a traumatised, migrant mother and an

infant with severe neurological disorder”. Presented paper in a symposium titled: “Families in

crisis in a word of migration: Aspects of inner-familiar attachment and approaches to intercultural families in diagnosis and therapy” at 18th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ICAPAP), 2008, Istanbul.

 

Levi, S. “Silent Scream” Psychological intervention with a traumatised, migrant mother and an

infant with severe neurological disorder”. Presented paper in a Migration and Identities Conference, German – Turkish cooperation, Istanbul, Bogazici University, 2007.

 

Levi, S. “Psychoanalytic understandings in learning disabilities”. Presented paper in an Enfield

Primary Care Trust, Mental Health Unit, September 2006.

 

Laor, N., Levi, S. & Wolmer, L. “Relief programs in communities affected by disaster: Theory,

implementation principles and a case study”. In E. Caffo (ed.), Emergenza nell’infenzia e

nell’adolescenza – Interventi psicoterapeitici e di communita, Mc Graw-Hill, Italy, 2004.