Other Writing
Book Chapters, Book Reviews & Essays
“Love and Milk Duds”. November 2025. Hippocampus Magazine: memorable creative nonfiction.
“The Lost Father”. Fall, 2024. Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine.
“Essence of Mom”. 2024. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Assoc. 72(5).
“Beside Myself”. 2024. Best of Delmarva Review Anthology 2008-2023
“A Passage Through the Faraway, Nearby of Mourning.” 2024. Psychoanalysis,
Self and Context 18 (2).
Review of Giving Hope: Conversations with Children About Illness, Death, and Loss by Elena Lister, MD and Michael Schwartzman, PhD, with Lindsey Tate. 2023 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic, 71.2.
"Democracy Anxiety Disorder: A New Diagnosis?” July 17, 2022. The Baltimore Sun
“Inoculation: The Answer to Helping Teens Through COVID and Emotional Turmoil” September 19, 2021. The Baltimore Sun, Sunday paper
“Want Creative, Happy Kids? Put them on Kairos Time” August 1, 2021. The Baltimore Sun, Sunday paper
“A Passageway Out of Pandemic Loss: How to put grief and trauma into The faraway nearby.” May 30, 2021. Boston Globe, Sunday paper
“A Category 5 Mental Health Crisis is Coming.” January 1, 2021. The Baltimore Sun.
“Are You There?” Fall 2020. TAP—The Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
“Learning Along the Way: Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Patrick Casement.” 2020. Book Review. Journal of American Psychoanalytic. 67(6), pp. 1102-1107.
“Beside Myself.” 2019 Delmarva Literary Review. Vol. 12. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
“The Dad of Intentions”. June/July 2019. Arlington Magazine.
“Personal Effects”. May 24, 2019 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
“Imagining the Other”. 2019. Room 2.19.
“Dementia and the Truth” October 29, 2018. Letter to the Editor The New Yorker.
“Shining Through”. 2018. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults. New York: Routledge Press.
“A Psychoanalyst Walked into a Comedy Club”. 2017 Better over 50.
“When I Realized My College Girl Was A Young Woman”. 2017. Grown and Flown Magazine.
“BINGO—How to Make a Really Bad Impression as the New Wife”. 2017 Better over 50.
“Finding the Words”. Fall 2016. Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine.
“Death of Mother”. 2016 Akhtar, S. & Kanwal, G.S. (eds) Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflection. London: Karnac Press.
“Toe Separators”. Spring 2015. The Account. Nominated for Best of the Net 2015.
“Enlisting Dad to Buy a First Bra”. The New York Times.
October 4, 2014.“Ducking Grief”. October 22, 2013. The New York Times.
“Puttanesca”. 2012 Zone 3 Literary Magazine. Vol. 27 (1)
“How Many Children?” November 2010. Washingtonian Magazine. p. 224.
“Silencio”. 2009. Living with Loss Magazine. 38-39
“Touched by the Hearts that Touched Sarah’s”. October 27, 2008. The Washington Post, p. C8.
“Memory. Voices”. The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, 43(1), 70-72.
“Rescue Fantasies in Child Therapy”. 2004. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(4), 373-386.
“Conversion Symptoms and Psychoanalysis in a Second Language”. 2002. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 9(1).
Books
The Things They Wrote, 2023, Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Meet the Moon, 2022, Regal House Press
When the Garden Isn’t Eden: Learning Psychotherapy From Life. 2022. New York: Columbia University Press.
Who’s Behind the Couch? The Heart and the Mind of the Psychoanalyst. 2017. London: Karnac Press.
The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby. 2013. New York: Columbia University Press.
My Tutu to Analysis and other Stories: Learning Psychotherapy From Life. 2011. New York: Columbia University Press.
Huffington Post Blogs
“Jody Moran is an endearing guide—funny, smart, word-wise—through this sad and triumphant coming-of-age tale. There is such clarifying honesty here, about grief, friendship, resilience and faith. There is as well a keen and vivid sense of an era that seems more innocent than our own and yet remarkably timeless, perhaps because Kerry Malawista understands so well the enduring grace of family love.”