Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD, studied at Yale University, the Sorbonne, Harvard, and worked in Tunisia, North Africa. He was a founder of MIP, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he teaches, supervises and served several terms as President.
Dr. Slavin also serves on the teaching and supervising faculty of several other psychoanalytic institutes worldwide. He is a director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, IARPP, as well as a member of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology IAPSP. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The International Journal of the Psychology of the Self.
Dr. Slavin’s first book (with Daniel Kriegman) was The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process. His current book, “Original Loss,” is about how inner conflict, existential anxiety and the innate capacity for creative imagination evolved as central features of the human condition. And how, in both analyst and patient, these aspects of our being animate a broadly relational psychoanalytic practice.