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Jamey Hecht [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York US
Email: 
jameyhecht@gmail.com
Bio: 

Jamey Hecht, PhD, PsyD, LMFT is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, NY, and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles. Hecht has a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (1995), and a Psy.D. in Psychoanalysis from NCP (2019). He has published over a dozen scholarly articles in academic journals of psychology, literary criticism, and the history of ideas, and is the author of five books to date: Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne,1999); a translation with commentary, Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Editions, 2005); Bloom’s How To Write About Homer (Chelsea, 2010); and two books of poetry. Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009) is fifty elegies for President Kennedy. In 2019, International Psychoanalytic Books published Jamey Hecht's second poetry collection, Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989 - 2019.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Contemporaries: Iain McGilchrist, Robert Karen, Tony Hoagland, Carl Phillips, Louise Gluck, Dara Horn, Deborah Blum, Owen Renik, Peter Rudnytsky, James W. Douglass, Oliver Taplin, Ha Jin, Mark Solms, Clive Finlayson, Peter Dale Scott, Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Heffernan, Mark Halliday, Allen Grossman, Colin Falck.
Twitter/X: 
Avian801
Born in: 
Glen Cove, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Baldwin, NY
New York
RSS feed: 
https://www.poetrypoliticscollapse.com [2]
Website: 
https://www.drjameyhecht.com [3]
Prizes won: 

New Authors Prize (2022), Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

What I'm reading now: 
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
William James Remembered by Linda Simon
Flourishing: Letters 1928 - 1946 by Isaiah Berlin
Persons, Souls, and Death by David Lund
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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