In recent years, my research has been focused on two broad themes. Reality 2.0 explores how experience in cyberspace alters how we encounter reality and jump psychological hurdles. My other project investigates how culture and politics are vested in bodies and minds. At the moment, I’m curious about the intersection of age and desire.

Whether my writing is academic, polemical, or clinical storytelling it usually includes an autobiographical element. What to disclose becomes clear as I immerse myself in the topic and map my involvement in what I presume to know. It’s part and parcel of learning about oneself while reaching out to others. When I insert a personal footprint in a text – not unlike when I disclose something about myself in a treatment, three important needs are placed in tension: to be private, to be recognized by others, and to offer others space to form their own ideas. In my writing, as in my clinical work, I traverse this paradox. Here is a list of my publications, presentations, and current projects.

Current Projects

 Hartman, S. (2023). Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field. New York: Routledge, in press.

Selected Publications

Hartman, S. (2022). On Truthlessness—Or, All in The Game. In J. Salberg, ed., Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts. New York: Routledge.

Hartman, S. (2021). On The internalized primal scene. In G. Atlas,ed.,When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. New York: Routledge.

Hartman, S. (2020). When the Body Knows the Mind’s Rest. In C. Levin, ed., Boundary Trouble: Relational Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy in Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.

Hartman, S. (2020). Binded by the White: On Steven Knoblauch’s Fanon’s vision of embodiedracism for psychoanalytic theory and practice. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30: 317-324. 

Hartman, S. (2020). Carter is So Handsome. Psychoanalysis Today: the e-journal of the International Psychoanalytic Association. http://www.psychoanalysis.today/en-GB/PT- Articles/Hartman164721/Carter-is-so-Handsome.aspx

Hartman, S. (2019). Hashtag mania, Or misdventures in the #ultrapsychic. Studies in Gender andSexuality, 20: 84-100.

Hartman, S. (2018). When We Frame. In I. Tylim & A. Harris, eds, Reconsidering the Movable Frame in Psychoanalysis. New York, Routledge, 141-163.

 Hartman, S. (2018). The Shadow of Non-Citizens in an Immoral Economy of Risk. CORD Network Blog. 

 Hartman, S. (2017). The Poetic Timestamp of Digital Erotic Objects. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 14: 159-174.

 Hartman, S. (2017). Muriel Dimen, Field Theorist. Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 18:132-135.

 Baraitser, L. & Hartman, S. (2016) Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue – Bion: Here, There, and In Between. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17: 139-140.

 Hartman, S. (2015). The Internet and its Discontents—Or, Diamonds are a Girl’s BFF: Commentary on Paper by Danielle Knafo. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25: 515-523.

Hartman, S. (2015). Drowning in a Sea of Love. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25:237-247.

 Hartman, S. (2015). Loving to Look: Editor’s Introduction. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16: in press. 

 Hartman, S. & Romesburg, D. (2015). Looking Lab: SF. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16, in press. 

 Hartman, S. (2015). Fantasy, Sexual. In P. Whelehan & A. Bolin, eds, The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. London: John Wiley and Sons. 

 Hartman, S. (2013). On Viability and Indebtedness—or “Get Away From Her, You Bitch!”: Commentary on Simon's “Spoken Through Desire”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14: 309-317.

Hartman, S. (2013). Bondless Love. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14:35-50.

 Hartman, S. (2013). Editor’s introduction. The Glass Coffin: what age is desire? Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14: 1-3.

 Hartman, S. (2013). Gener (ation) alissimo Flash Freeze. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 14: 127-132.

 Hartman, S. (2013). On making reparation to the analyst’s idolized countertransference: commentary on paper by Dana Amir. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23: 408-417.

Hartman, S. (2012). Cybermourning: Grief in Flux From Object Loss to Collective Immortality. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 32:454-467.

 Hartman, S. (2012). Jewish or Gendered? (A 'drashin Two Parts): Editor's Note. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 13:163-166.

 Hartman, S. (2012). Of Mothers and Other Collective Lovers: Inspired by Kyoko Taniguchi's “The Eroticism of the Maternal: So What If Everything Is About the Mother?” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 13:139-144.

 Hartman, S. & Botticelli, S. (2012). Reality 2.0. Steven Botticelli interviews Stephen Hartman. http://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/review/2012/04/stephen-hartman-interview.aspx?__utma=12968039.948422620.1355519871.1355519871.1363309711.2&__utmb=12968039.1.10.1363309711&__utmc=12968039&__utmx=-&__utmz=12968039.1363309711.2.2.utmcsr=apadivisions.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/division39/publications/insight/2011/04/review.aspx&__utmv=-&__utmk=165156671

Hartman, S. (2011). Reality 2.0: When Loss Is Lost. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21:468-482.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Reality Bytes: Reply to Commentaries. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21:508-514.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Darren: Erotic Interludes in Political Transference. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 12:8-10.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Darren and Stephen: Erotic interludes in political transference. In M. Dimen, ed., With Culture In Mind, Psychoanalytic Stories. New York: Routledge, pp. 19-24.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Darren with Dominic: From the social to the psychic. In M. Dimen, ed., With Culture In Mind, Psychoanalytic Stories. New York: Routledge, pp.  75-80.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Darren then Harvey: The incest taboo reconsidered, the collective unconscious reprised. In M. Dimen, ed., With Culture In Mind, Psychoanalytic Stories. New York: Routledge, pp. 129-136.

 Hartman, S. (2011). Writing home:  onFirst Do No Harm. Psychoanalytic Activist, 18: pp. 3, 8-9.

Hartman, S. (2010). L'état c'est moi — Except When I Am Not: Commentary on Paper by Orna Guranlik and Daphne Simeon. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20:428-436.

 Hartman, S. (2010). Ruined by Pleasure: Commentary on Steven Botticelli and Jeffrey R. Guss. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 11:141-145.

 Hartman, S. (2009). Opaque meetings; melting encounters. In, H. Urbach & C.I. Steingreber, eds., J Mayer H.Frankfurt:  Hatje Cantz. 

 Hartman, S. (2008). We Did It for Romance. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 9:206-207.

 Hartman, S. (2007). Class unconscious: from dialectical materialism to relational material. In M. Suchet, A. Harris, & L. Aron, eds., Relational Psychoanalysis Volume 3, New Voices. Mahwah, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 209-226.

 Hartman, S. (2006). Disclosure, Dis-closure, Diss/clothes/sure: Commentary on Paper by Helen K. Gediman. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 16:273-292.

 Hartman, S. (2006). Our awkward ism: introduction to roundtable on Bringing the Plague. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 7:309-319.

 Hartman, S. (2005). Class unconscious: from dialectical materialism to relational material. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 10: 121-137.

 Hartman, S. (2005). Minding the Gap: a review of Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism, edited by Roger Frie. New York: Routledge, 2004. 234 pp. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41:535-545.

 Hartman, S. (2003). Reification and the ecstasy of the Chelsea Boy. In J. Drescher and J.R. Guss, eds., Addictions in the Gay and Lesbian Community. New York: Psychology Press, pp. 169-185. Also published in: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 3: 169-185.

Stevan Weine, Delores Vojvoda, Stephen Hartman & Leslie Hyman (1997). A Bosnian family’s experience after genocide. Psychiatry60:1.

Stevan Weine, Daniel Becker, Thomas McGlashan, Delores Vojvoda, Stephen Hartman& Judy Robbins (1995). Adolescent survivors of “ethnic cleansing” – observations on the first year in America. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34:9 September 1995.

 Hartman, S. (1995). Narrative style, narrated identity: resistances to categories of gay identity in the coming out story. Dissertation, The New School for Social Research.

Selected Conferences and Panel Presentations

 2018

 Dialogues on Pornography: discussion facilitator. Santa Fe, New Mexico 

 Silent Citizenship and the Burden of Risk / CORD Network meeting, Cape Town, South Africa

Occupying the Session / Standing Between Fixed and Fluid Political Identities – panel presentation with Orna Guralnik and Avgi Saketopoulou. IARPP Spring Meeting / New York City

Discussant: Affective Participation and Racial Identity in Psychic and Political Space. 2018 Muriel Dimen Fellowship Lectures. IARPP Spring Meeting / New York City

 Hashtag Mania. NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality / New York

 The Fate of Racial Objects in a Bi-racial Treatment. Discussion of paper by Carole Christensen. PINC 

 2017

 Carter is So Handsome. Meeting of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, Buenos Aires. 

 A Murder Over A Girl. Panel discussion of book by Ken Corbet. Division 39 Spring Meeting, New York City 

 Cruising the Digital Outside of Memory and Desire. Panel Discussion: The Body in the Technological World: Disembodiment, Omnipotence, and New Possibilities. Division 39 Spring Meeting, New York City

Dis-Integrating is Us. Psychology and the Other. Cambridge, Mass. 

 2016

 The Poetic Timestamp of Digital Erotic Objects. Division 39 Spring Meeting, Atlanta

 Fiction is Us: Eight Notes. Discussion of Paper by Jane Christmas. PINC 

 2015

 Panti Bliss: Gender Discombobulator / Accidental Psychoanalyst. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / San Francisco

 2014

 In the Thick of Time: Lurking the Cyberobject. January Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association / New York

Good Enough Fun. Discussion presented at the American Studies Association panel: Fun Was Not Had by All: How Classed Subjectivities Are Often Left Out of the Party / Los Angeles

 Intergenerational Conflict in Analytic Identity and Practice. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / New York 

A Man Need a Code: On Bricolage, Folk Tales, and Dream: Discussion of Howard Sugarman’s paper, Once Upon a Time…And Invitation to Dream / PINC, September 2014

 Hi Hazel / Hi Steve: Discussion of Paper by Shubha Herlikar by Stephen Hartman and Hazel Ipp / PINC, May 2014

2013

Darren and I did sit-ups. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting panel: What Age is Desire / Boston

Panelist: Social Justice and Psychoanalytic Ethics (Roundtable Discussion). APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / Boston

 Just and Unjust Analyses: Political Commentary and Psychoanalytic Intervention. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting panel: Immunity, Impunity, Amnesty or Trial: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on “Justice” Following Political Violence / Boston

 On viability and indebtedness – or “Get away from her you bitch!” (Discussion of paper by Tracy Simon, PsyD). This Moment of Practice: Embodying Psychoanalysis. NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality / New York 

Joan Rivière: lawless insider. On Masquerade, Joan Rivière, Psychoanalysis, the Gaze, Feminism, Queer Theory, and Film. Second Fridays series, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California / San Francisco

 2012

 Roundtable: The Glass Coffin: What Age is Desire? Access Institute for Psychological Services / San Francisco

Enactment as a Vocation: Commentary on Paper by Donna Orange. IARPP Spring Meeting / New York

 Moderator/discussant. Invited Panel on Bullying and Group Phenomena. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / Santa Fe

 Entropy as potential space: D.W. Winnicott and the problem of historical preservation. The Glass House Panel on Preservation in Architecture, Design, and Culture. Venice Biennale of Architecture / Venice, Italy

 201Interlocutor: Sexuality and Gender Now! With Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner. Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Annual Lecture / San Francisco

 Invited panelist, IARPP on-line colloquium on Muriel Dimen's paper, Lapsus linguae,or A Slip of the Tongue? A Sexual Violation in an Analytic Treatment and Its Personal and Theoretical Aftermath

 2010

Co-Chair with Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, PhD. Expanding the Relational Context: Desire, Sexuality, Politics, Economics Aesthetics, Technologies. IARPP Spring Meeting / San Francisco

 Cyber Controversies – Or, Attacks on Linking-In. The Next 100 Years: Celebrating The International Psychoanalytic Association Centennial. San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis / San Francisco

 2009

 Swimming in the chlorinated collective: Commentary on paper by Francisco Gonzalez. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California / San Francisco

 2008

When loss is lost: perversion in a reality of infinite access. Paper presented at the APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / New York

 Darren with Dominic. Paper presented at the APA Division 39 Spring Meeting  / New York

 2007

 Darren: erotic interludes in the political transference. Paper presented at APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / Toronto, Ontario

 2006

 Panelist: Ideology and the Clinic II. PsyBC online symposium series

 2005

 The case of Nate. Case presented to Ken Corbett and Judith Butler at the relational colloquium, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis / New York

 My savage mind: sex in the relational unconscious. Invited panel: Sexuality—The New Frontier. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting / New York

 Panelist: Ideology and the Clinic. PsyBC online symposium series

 2004

 Psychoanalysis and the relational unconscious. Invited panel Different Takes on Relationality: a conversation among clinicians from different schools of psychology. American Psychological Association Annual Convention / Honolulu, Hawaii

 1999

Gay affirmative and HIV aware treatment planning and concultation. Yale University Medical Sehool, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology Colloquium Series / New Haven

 1997

 Gay and lesbian identity in gay and lesbian treatment. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Division 44 sponsored workshop / Chicago

 Expanding treatment for dually diagnosed gays and lesbians.  First Annual Mental Health and Psychiatric Care Directors Counterpart Meeting, 10th Annual National Lesbian and gay Health Association Conference / Atlanta

 1994

 Reconstructing family trauma: two Bosnian brothers narrate a shared past. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference / Chicago