Professional Consultation
In addition to my clinical practice, I offer professional consultation to therapists, analysts, clinicians in training, and other professionals whose work involves complex emotional, relational, or ethical terrain.
Consultation is often sought around cases that feel stalled, unusually charged, ethically complex, or difficult to think about within familiar frameworks. Many consultees seek consultation not because they lack knowledge or skill, but because something essential in the work resists formulation, clarity, or resolution.
My approach to consultation is relational and depth-oriented. Rather than offering technique or directive solutions, I work collaboratively to think about what is unfolding in the clinical field—particularly where unformulated experience, dissociation, shame, erotic or aggressive currents, and symbolic impasses emerge. Consultation becomes a space where the clinician’s own experience can be taken seriously as a source of information rather than an obstacle to treatment.
I provide consultation for:
• Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
• Clinicians in analytic or relational training
• Professionals working with sexuality, trauma, dissociation, or chronic illness
• Writers and scholars engaging psychoanalytic material
Consultation is available by telehealth.
Teaching, Dialogue, and Scholarly Engagement
I am available for:
• Invited talks and lectures
• Clinical seminars and discussion groups
• Scholarly dialogue related to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and clinical ethics
Engagements are approached collaboratively, with attention to context, audience, and the emotional as well as intellectual dimensions of the material.
Selected Publications
My writing explores the symbolic, ethical, and experiential dimensions of psychoanalytic work—particularly where language falters, meaning destabilizes, or experience exceeds established theory. These publications emerge from sustained clinical engagement and are intended as contributions to contemporary psychoanalytic discourse rather than applications of theory to practice.
Books:
• The Fragmented Self, Recognition, and the Edge of Desire: Foundations of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects (Routledge, 2026)
Includes a foreword by Nancy McWilliams, PhD
• Gravitational Psyche: Further Developments of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects (Routledge, 2026)
• Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche (Routledge, 2026)
Articles:
• Secret Riverbeds: Secrecy and the Architecture of Subjectivity (The Psychoanalytic Review, 2026)
• Post-Mutuality Ethic: Presence, Witnessing, and the Ethics of Non-Relation in Relational Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 2025)
Selected Endorsements:
“Brilliant, compelling, and thought-provoking.”
— Christopher Bollas, PhD
“[...] a book that manages to describe the phenomena constituting the analytic experience in an unusually delicate and intelligent way. This is a rare event in the analytic world.”
— Thomas Ogden, MD
“When you begin to read Todd Anderson’s [work]… you will immediately feel that you are in the hands of a master, someone who thinks with rare depth and grace.”
— Donnel B. Stern, PhD
“In this intelligent and erudite book, Todd Anderson proposes a novel approach to psychoanalytic treatment… privileging empathy, affect, and the psychic margins rather than symbolic interpretation. A major achievement.”
— Élisabeth Roudinesco, PhD
Additional endorsements can be found on the Routledge website for each book.