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Farber, S., (2008).Autistic and dissociative features in eating disorders and self-mutilation.. Modern Psychoanalysis. 33,1: 23-49.

Farber, S. (2008).Traumatic attachment and dissociation in self-harm (eating disorders and self-mutilation) Clinical Social Work Journal. 36, 1: 63-72.

Farber, S (2007 ).Book review The Writing Cure: How Expressive Writing Promotes Health and Emotional Well-Being. Ed. Stephen L.Lepore and Joshua M. Smyth. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 35, 1: 162-165.

Farber, S (2007). Book Review The End of Gender: A Psychological Autopsy by Shari Thurer, Routledge 2005. In Psychologist-Psychoanalyst (official publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association), 27, 1, 67-69.

Farber, S., Jackson, C., Tabin, J., & Bachar, E. (2007). Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation. Psychoanalytic Psychology 24, 2:. 284-305.

Farber, S. (2006). "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, a long way from home": Complex adolescent identity formation in a transcultural adoption. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 5,1: 24- 45.

Farber, S. (2005). Free Association Reconsidered: The Talking Cure, The Writing Cure. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 33, 2: 247-273.

Farber, S. (2003). Weight Loss Surgery: A Magic Bullet? A Realistic Look at the Medical and Psychological Risks.

Farber, S. (2003). Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics, Medieval and Contemporary. Journal of Psychohistory, 31, 2, 182-204.

Farber, S. (2000, 3002). When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments (Aronson 2000, 2002).
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Farber, S. 1998. The Body Speaks, The Body Weeps: Eating Disorders, Self-Mutilation, and Body Modifications. The Renfrew Perspective, Reprinted in The Phoenix, The Clinician(NYSSCSW newsletter).

Farber, S. (1997). Self-Medication, Traumatic Reenactment, and Somatic Expression in Bulimic and Self-Mutilating Behavior.Clinical Social Work Journal, 25, 1, 87-106,

Farber, S (1997). Dispelling the Myth That Thinness Is All. June 29, 1997

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.

Writing Consultations for Mental Health Professionals

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If you have thought of writing for publication, but don't know how or where to start, or started but gave up, or have had other difficulties continuing, and you'd like some help with this, just give me a call.

Although I had published two papers before my book, publishing my first book gave me the confidence to send out more clinical papers for publication in journals, and to write a second book. I was invited to be on and then served on the editorial board of the Clinical Social Work Journal, and am a writing consultant to the New Directions writing program of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.

When I discovered how much I enjoyed reviewing papers and giving editorial advice, I began offering writing consultations to colleagues.

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