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
Psychotherapy. Vol 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.
