Dr. Alan Nathan is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in the Washington DC area since 2006. He was associate professor with the American School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University clinical psychology doctoral program, for eleven years. Dr. Nathan specializes in trauma recovery with survivors of childhood sexual and other forms of abuse, and in clinical work with the cultural and political dimensions of the psyche. His professional publications include “Introduction to an Integrative Attachment-Based Model of Sexual and Loving Feelings in Psychotherapy” and “Reflections on the Trauma of Racism”. His unpublished paper presentations include “The Loving-Generative Parental Couple: Its Role in Development of Psychic Reality and the Core Sense of Self” and “Discovering Conceptual Bridges between Psychoanalysis and the Black Liberation Movement”. He is a member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Member and volunteer with Braver Angels, a national organization whose mission is to bridge America's political divide in an effort to strengthen our democratic republic.