About.

Alex is a licensed psychoanalyst and an internationally certified Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He completed his analytic training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York and is an analyst member of the International Association of Analytic Psychology and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Prior to his psychoanalytic training, Alex was a civil rights lawyer and public defender for over two decades, representing low-income and systemically-disenfranchised people in the criminal justice system, including those on death-row, in both state and federal court.

Alex is a member of the Steering Committee of Analysis and Activism, an international group of psychoanalysts committed to exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis and political activism. He also serves on the IAAP Working Party for Outreach. The mission of this newly-created IAAP committee is to encourage and support Jungian analysts who are engaging with the collective to bring consciousness to the many challenges facing the world. The Outreach Working party serves as a think-tank within the IAAP to further broaden the understanding of what it means to practice Jungian psychoanalysis and provides grant funding to socially engaged, psychoanalytically informed projects.

A long-time student of Zen Buddhism, Alex is the former chair of the Board of Directors of The Brooklyn Zen Center and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Hawthorne Valley Association in New York’s Hudson Valley.   

Alex writes and publishes on the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics, with particular emphasis on the role of transcendence in healing, the relationship between desire, democracy and psychoanalysis, and on the oftentimes complicated nature of freedom and subjectivity. 

Psychoanalysis brings to light everything we don’t want to think about. If you acknowledge the complexity of your own heart, then you’re not going to look for scapegoats.

-Jacqueline Rose