Jamey Hecht, PhD, PsyD, LMFT

Psychoanalysis & Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Jamey Hecht, PhD, PsyD, LMFT is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. He has taught at ten universities on both coasts, and published over a dozen scholarly papers in literature, psychoanalysis, and the history of ideas, in periodicals including American Imago; Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context; and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, whose New Authors Prize he won in 2022. His poetry, fiction, and criticism appear in some fifty literary magazines. His books are: Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne,1999); Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, a translation with commentary (Wordsworth Editions, 2005); Bloom’s How To Write About Homer (Chelsea, 2010); and two books of poetry: Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989-2019 (IPB, 2019). His forthcoming book is Into Theism: Overcoming Obstacles to Belief in God (Essentia Books, 2027).

Professional Website:  Jamey Hecht Website