Publications and Presentations

Publications:

• Journals: Beginning in 1988, Dr. Wright has published psychoanalytic papers and reports in several journals including the International Review of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association , the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. Her papers have dealt with clinical topics including depression, the impact of death of a parent, adoption, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and learning issues as well as psychological development, research methodology for studying the impact of psycho-pharmacological medications on self states and self- reflectiveness, and discussions of psycho-analytic theories of the mind.
• 1997, book: “Do We Really Need Ritalin: a Family Guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”, Avon Books, NY.
• 2010, co-author of book chapter in “The Wound of Mortality“, ed. Akhtar S., Aronson.

Professional Presentations: Dr. Wright has made presentations in workshops of the American Psychoanalytic Association on various topics including adoption, ADHD. In addition she has given the following paper presentations:

• 1999, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, discussant of Brenner: “Reflections on Psychoanalysis”.
• 1999, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, panel presentation, “ADHD as a Paradigm for the Interface Between Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology”
• 2000, Florentine Psychoanalytic Society, Italy, “A case study of the analysis of a woman with severe ADHD and Learning Disability: the application of complexity theory to psychoanalysis”.
• 2003, Capital District American Psychiatric Association, Woodstock, Vermont, “Changing the story: The role of psychotherapy in helping patients gain authorship of their lives.”
• 2007, Berlin, International Psychoanalytic Congress panel presentation, “Psychoanalysis in conjunction with medication: A clinical research opportunity”.
• 2009, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, “The princess has to die: Representing rupture and grief in the narrative of adoption.”
• 2010, Baltimore, Association for Child Psychoanalysis “The potential for trauma in the loss of a parent early in life: The psychoanalytic study of a five year old child who lost her mother at age three.”
• 2010, Albany, Western Australia, The Great Southern Psychological Association, “When is the loss of a parent in early childhood traumatic?”
• 2010, London, The International Colloquium of the Anna Freud Centre, “Finding her own voice: the late adolescent crisis of Mei Li”.

Community Presentations:

• 1998, New Haven Radio, “Learning disabilities and ADHD”.
• 1998, WKZE, Sharon, CT, Taking Care of the child with special needs.”
• 1998, Litchfield Radio, CT, “ADHD and its management”.
• 1998, Women’s Emergency Services, Litchfield County, CT, “Vicarious traumatization: taking care of the caretakers”
• 2012, West End Day School, NY, “Beyond Behavior – understanding our children”.