Publications

2022Psychoanalysis and Opera: A Felicitous Match (co-authored with Steven H. Goldberg). In Goldberg, S. H. & Rather, L. (Eds.) Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind, pp. 1-10. New York: Routledge.View PDF
2022Across the great divide: Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. In Goldberg, S. H. & Rather, L. (Eds.) Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind, pp. 25-37. New York: Routledge.View PDF
2022Acknowledgements (Lee Rather) In Goldberg, S. H. & Rather, L. (Eds.) Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind, pp. x-xii. New York: Routledge.View PDF
2020A life on the ramparts: Transience and the apprehension of beauty in Puccini’s Tosca. fort da, Vol XXVI, Number 1, pp. 44-58.View PDF
2018Transformations in the field of dreams: A discussion of Civitarese’s ‘Hallucinosis, Dreaming. and Play: The analytic field and its transformations’. fort da, Vol. XXIV, Number 2. pp. 22-39.View PDF
2017Missing the analytic connection: Some perils of therapeutic ambition. fort da, Vol. XXIII, Number 2, pp. 66-82.View PDF
2015Reflections on James S. Grotstein: An intense beam of light. Fort Da, Vol XXI, Number 2, pp. 14-16.View PDF
2015Building a Bion Container. In Teaching Bion: Modes and Approaches, pp. 49-56. (Meg Harris Williams, Ed). London: Karnac.View PDF
2015Salvation through love: Reflections on Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Vol. 28, No. 105, pp. 6-9, 22-23. Leitmotive: The Wagner Quarterly.View PDF
2014Civilization and its discontents in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Verdi’s Rigoletto. Fort Da, Vol XX, Number 2, pp. 50-64.View PDF
2012Love and its subversions in Verdi’s Otello and Aida. Fort Da, Vol. XVIII, Number 1, pp. 25-36.View PDF
2008Reuniting the psychic couple in analytic training and practice: Theoretical reflections. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Vol. 25, Number I, pp. 99-109.View PDF
2002The evolution of the capacity for observation: The role of primal scene phantasy. Fort Da. Vol. VIII, Number 1, pp. 18-28.View PDF
2001Collaborating with the unconscious other: The analysand’s capacity for creative thinking. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 82, III, pp. 517-532.View PDF
2001The therapeutic and working alliances revisited. Fort Da. Vol. VII, Number 1, pp. 27-40.View PDF
1991Addiction, disease, and the self-help movement: Book review and commentary. San Francisco Psychologist.View PDF
1991The self-defeating personality disorder. San Francisco Psychologist. 
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