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Dr. Lachker is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in Sherman Oaks, California, an affiliate member for the New Center for Psychoanalysis, provides film analysis, is the author of The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: Psychoanalytic Perspective on Marital Treatment, The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women, The V-Spot, How to Talk to a Narcissist, How to Talk to a Borderline, he Disappearing Male, New Approach to Marital Therapy and the forthcoming book, Courts Beware of the Borderline Personality: Implications for Mediation and numerous articles and publication on marital and political conflict (See tabs below.)
Dr. Lachkar is also a psychohistorian, speaks locally and nationally, and has presented such articles as "The Psychopathology of Terrorism," "The Psychology Makeup of the Suicide Bomber," and many other article using a psychoanalytic approach to understanding marital and political events. In addition, she is also a trained classical ballet dancer and uses her experience of dance to understand the "dance of the couple." She is an affiliate member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis and provides movie film analysis (http://n-c-p.org/edu-filmbook.asp), is a psychohistorian, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Emotional Abuse, and is currently writing a new book Courts Beware of the Borderline Personality: Implication for Mediation.
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