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Sharon K. Farber
Sharon K. Farber, Ph.D. is a clinical social worker, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. A frequent presenter in the United States and abroad, she has addressed many groups of mental health professionals as well as non-professional audiences. She has taught at SUNY- Downstate Medical School, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University, Fordham University, and Hunter College schools of social work, as well as at several psychotherapy training institutes and the Cape Cod Institute. She received a National Institute of Mental Health fellowship, and was elected to the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Practioner , Women’s News, Parent’s Magazine, and First Magazine. She has appeared several times on network television, most recently on The Travel Channel’s Miracle Quest Series, speaking about the Appalachian snake-handling cults and the stigmata of Padre Pio, a Roman Catholic priest who was canonized as a saint in 2002.

Sharon K. Farber is also the author of several articles in professional peer-reviewed journals, on bodily self-harm, adoption, free association amd writing. She has served on the editorial board of the Clinical Social Work Journal and is a faculty consultant to the New Directions writing program at the Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Farber's book, When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments, explores and explains a syndrome of physical self-harm, consisting of eating disorders, self-injury, and body modifications such as tattooing, body piercing, branding, and scarification [] [ ].

Publications

Farber, S. (2008).Autistic and dissociative features in eating disorders and self-mutilation. Modern Psychoanalysis. 33, 1: 23-49. http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=mpsa.033.0023a

Farber, S.(2008).Traumatic attachment and dissociation in self-harm (eating disorders and self-mutilation). Clinical Social Work Journal. 36, 1: 63-72. http://www.springerlink.com/content/t6007474572l2532/

Farber, S., Jackson, C., Tabin, J., & Bachar, E. (2007). Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation. Psychoanalytic Psychology 24, 2: 289-305.

Farber, S.(2007). Book Review. The writing cure: How expressive writing promotes health and emotional well-being, S. Lepore and S.Smyth eds]Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry.35,1: 162-165. http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:18409/spb/ovidweb.cgi?&S=BPKDFPAIBMDDOCKKNCHLABJJHPALAA00&Compl Use non-NYU link

Farber, S.(2007). Book Review The End of Gender: A Psychological Autopsy by Shari Thurer,  Routledge 2005. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. 27,1: 67-69. http://www.division39.org/pub_reviews_detail.php?book_id=257http://www.division39.org/pub_reviews_detail.php?book_id=257

Farber, S. (2006). "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, a long way from home": Complex adolescent identity formation in a transcultural adoption. (2006). Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 5,1: 24-45. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tap/jicap/2006/00000005/00000001/art00002

Farber, S.(2007). Free Association Reconsidered: The Talking Cure, The Writing Cure. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 33,2: 247-273. http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/jaap.2005.33.2.249

Farber, S.(2005). Write,write, write! or feel the fear and do it anyway.

Farber, S. (2003). Weight Loss Surgery: A Magic Bullet? A Realistic Look at the Medical and Psychological Risks. http://gastricbypass.netfirms.com/wlspysche.htm

Farber, S.(2003), Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics, Medieval and Contemporary. Journal of Psychohistory, 31, 2, 182-204. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14606475?dopt=Abstract

Farber, S.,(2000, 2002). When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments. Jason Aronson/Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD. http://www.amazon.com/When-Body-Target-Self-Harm-Attachments/dp/0765702568/ref=sr_oe_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221104409&sr=1-1

Farber, S.(1997). Self-Medication, Traumatic Reenactment, and Somatic Expression in Bulimic and Self-Mutilating Behavior. Clinical Social Work Journal, 25,1, 87-106, 1997 http://www.springerlink.com/content/j7t710n6837185w7/?p=94e2c9357c1d499d9a78f32bbe3ee5d0&pi=1

Farber, S. (1997). Letter to the Editor  Dispelling the Myth That Thinness Is All http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E3D61431F93AA15755C0A961958260

Farber, S. (1991). A Response to “The Psychological Effect on the Child of Physical and Sexual Abuse” by Annaclare Van Dalen. Clinical Social Work Journal, 19,1: 95-98. http://www.springerlink.com/content/j4lv078414620200/?p=866171b4870947eea691738458358a4a&pi=0

Interactive case study on self-harm, Taming the Inner Predator: Trauma and Dissociation in Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, and other Self-Harm, http://www.psybc.com/casestudies-info.php?ics_id=14&modality=1