Member Bio
Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D.
OFFICE 1626 Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 446-9720
Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., lives in two psychotherapy worlds. She is co-founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute and also a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has written numerous articles for gestalt therapists and psychoanalytic therapists. She has a private practice in Los Angeles. She is also involved with the Soldiers Project in Los Angeles.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY - Individual therapy and psychoanalysis with adults
- Supervision
EDUCATION
California Psychology license # PSY 6448
- PhD, California School of Professional Psychology, 1978
- PsyD, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Psychoanalytic Publications
- Jacobs, L. (1996). Shame in the therapeutic dialogue. The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy, 297.
- Jacobs, L. (1998). Optimal responsiveness and intersubjective relating. Optimal Responsiveness: How Therapists Heal Their Patients, ed. HA Bacal. Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 191-212.
- Jacobs, L. Pathways to a relational worldview. In Goldfried, M. (2001). How therapists change: Personal and professional reflections: American Psychological Association Washington, DC., pp. 271-288
- Jacobs, L. (2007). From the Couch: Trauma and Recovery after Analytic Impingement. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 2(4), 405-422.
- Jacobs, L. (2008). Dialogue, Confirmation, and the Good. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 3(4), 409-431.
- Jacobs, L. (2009). From selfojects to dialogue: A Journey through the Intersubjective Field. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1159(1 Self and Systems Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology), 106-121.
Gestalt Publications
- Alexander, R., Brickman, B., Jacobs, L., Trop, J., & Yontef, G. (1992). Transference Meets Dialogue. The Gestalt Journal, 15(2), 61-108.
- Hycner, R., & Jacobs, L. (1995). The healing relationship in gestalt therapy: A dialogic/self psychology approach: Gestalt Journal Press Highland, NY.
- Jacobs, L. (2000). Respectful Dialogues. interview in British Gestalt Journal, 9(2), 105-116.
- Jacobs, L. (1996). Shame in the therapeutic dialogue. The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy, 297.
- Jacobs, L. (2001). Pathways to a relational worldview. In M. Goldfried (Ed.), How therapists change: Personal and professional reflections (pp. 271-288). Washington, DC: APA.
- Jacobs, L. (2003). Ethics of Context and Field: The Practices of Care, Inclusion and Openness to Dialogue. British Gestalt Journal, 12(2).
- Jacobs, L. (2005). For whites only. In T. Levine Bar-Yoseph (Ed.), The bridge: Dialogues across cultures (pp. 225-244). New Orleans: Gestalt Institute Press.
- Jacobs, L. Musings of a Master: Erv Polster (2006) in interview with Lynne Jacobs Recorded at the GANZ Conference, Melbourne, September 8th. Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, 3(2), 8.
- Jacobs, L. (2006). That Which Enables-Support as Complex and Contextually Emergent. BRITISH GESTALT JOURNAL, 15(2), 10.
- Jacobs, L. (2009). Relationality: Foundational assumptions. In D. a. W. Ullman, G. (Ed.), Cocreating the field: Intention and practice in the age of complexity. New York: Gestalt Press/Routledge.
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