Dr. Les Fleischer

Publications:

Papers in Refereed Journals:

• Fleischer, L. (2024). Overwhelmed students/Overwhelmed staff and faculty: Personality disorders in university students. Journal of Applied Self-Regulation Knowledge, 1(1), 4-13.
• Fleischer, L.M. (2020). Corruptibility of the superego revisited. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 86-106.
• Fleischer, L.M. (2019).Putting the social work academy on the couch: Exploring emotional resistance to psychoanalytic education. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 89, 132-156.
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2018).Introduction to Death, Immortality, and Unconscious Fantasy: A symposium. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 26(1), p.120.
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2018). Concluding Comments on Death, Immortality, and Unconscious Fantasy: A symposium.Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 26(1), p. 165.
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2017).“Her anger frightens me!” Using group work practice principles and feature films in teaching clinical practice in mental health. Social Work with Groups, 41(3), 244-258.
•  Fleischer, L.M.  (2016). Body image and transience: Frozen in time. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. 24(2), 189-211.
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2017).Ego psychological contributions to understanding micro-aggressions in clinical social work practice. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 24, 1-17. DOI:10.1080/15228878.2016.1226905. (published online Sept. 27, 2016).
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2017). Countertransference challenges in working with diversity: A group worker reflects. Social Work with Groups, 40,137-141. DOI: 10.1080/01609513.2015.1070637 (published online May 6, 2016).
• Fleischer, L.M., & Lee, E. (2016). The analytic principle and attitudes: mobilizing psychoanalytic knowledge to maximize social work students’ practice competence. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 23, 99-118. DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2016.1149776 (published online: April 13, 2016).
•  Fleischer, L.M. (2015). Castration depression: Affect, signal affect, and/or depressive illness? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63, 271–297.
• Lee, E., & Fleischer, L.M. (2014). Contextualizing psychopharmacological issues in social work education. Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 24, 1–12.

• Fleischer, L.M., & Lee, E. (2013). Ego psychological contributions to understanding psychopharmacology and clinical practice in social work education. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 83(4) 446–465.

Book Chapters:

• Fleischer, L.M. (2023). American ego psychology. In B. Huppertz (Ed.), Underlying assumptions in psychoanalytic schools: A comparative perspective (pp.1-22). Routledge.

• Fleischer, L.M. (2020). Psychoanalytic theory. In J. Brandell (Ed.), Essentials of clinical social work (3^rd. ed.) (pp. 39-65). San Diego, CA: Cognella
• Auchincloss, E.L., & Sandberg, E. (Eds.). (2012). Psychoanalytic terms and concepts. New Haven: Yale University Press. Fleischer, L.M. (Contributing author to sections on sexuality, especially libido, perversion, and infantile sexuality).
•  Rossi, M.F., Fleischer, L.M., Feldman, J., & Barwick, C.L. (2000). The too-quiet adolescent: An interprofessional diversity informed approach to healthcare. In E. Geva, A. Barsky, & F. Westernoff (Eds.) Interprofessional practice with diverse populations: Cases in point (pp. 47–66). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

 Non-refereed Publications:

• Fleischer, L.M., & Marcus, E. (2015). Psychoanalytic candidate dreams and daydreams about psychoanalytic training: The unconscious developmental process of becoming a psychoanalyst. The Candidate Connection Newsletter of the American Psychoanalytic Association Candidate’s Council, 17(8).
•  Fleischer, L.M., & Sacks, D. (1999). Assessing and managing the difficult adolescent. Pro-teen (Canadian Association for Adolescent Health), 8(3), 19–20.