Member Bio
Robin Cohen, Ph.D.
I am a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalyst and a hypnotherapist. I am devoted to growing, learning and developing throughout life. I work collaboratively and synthesize the ideas of contemporary relational psychoanalysis, attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and mindfulness in order to process experience and develop new and more joyful patterns of life and relationships.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Loss
- Relationship difficulties
- Physical illness (such as cancer) and health habits (such as sleep disorder, smoking cessation)
- Couples work, adolescent treatment, as well as working with adults
EDUCATION
California Psychology license #PSY8761
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, UCLA Department of Psychology, 1984
- Internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute with a specialty in health psychology
PUBLICATIONS
- Cohen, R. S. Discussions. Countertransference. Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis conference, October, 2003
- Cohen, R. S. Dyadic process states: the analyst’s use of emotion and body in the psychoanalytic process. ICP Graduation Paper, 1998.
- Cohen, R. S. Discussion of “Clinical applications of Daniel Stern’s work in the development of subjective experiencing”, by S. Berger. National Council of Self-Psychology, 21st Annual Conference. San Francisco, October, 1998.
- Cohen, R. S. To tell or not to tell... Presented at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Boundary Dilemmas Conference, Fall, 1994.
- Cohen, R. S. Case presentation. Presented at the National Council of Self-Psychology, 18th Annual Conference. San Francisco, October, 1995
- Cohen, R. S. Using Hypnosis and Guided Imagery with Cancer Patients. Presented at the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. October 24, 1992.
- Cohen, R. S. Walking a Thin Line: Controversies in Using Hypnosis and Guided Imagery with Cancer Patients. Presented at the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis, March, 1989.
top