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Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP, FIPA
Psychoanalyst






Anna Fishzon is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Her analytic orientation is informed mainly by the work of Sigmund Freud and the teachings of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Fishzon is Member, Supervisor, and Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and a training analyst and faculty member at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics. She is also an active Participant in the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York). She completed her psychoanalytic training at IPTAR and currently is Co-Associate Director of its Respecialization Program and Co-Chair of IPTAR-Q. 

Dr. Fishzon is an interdisciplinary scholar. She received a PhD from Columbia University in History (with a minor field in Gender Studies) and a BA from Duke University in History and Slavic Languages. She is author of The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Routledge, 2025) and Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); she is also co-editor with Emma Lieber of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave, 2023). For a decade she taught interdisciplinary courses at Williams College, and then at Columbia University and Duke University, and authored scholarly articles on Russian history, consumer culture, temporality, late socialism, animation, and opera.


Anna Fishzon