Rina Lazar, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. She is a senior teacher and supervisor in the Core Program, the Relational Track and the Ph.D. Studies in Psychoanalysis and its Interfaces, the Program of Psychotherapy, School of Continuing Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. She was one of the chairpersons of this program, a board member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the first chairperson of the Israeli chapter of the IARPP (Israeli Forum of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). She works in a private practice in Tel-Aviv. Rina is the co-editor (with prof. Shlomo Biderman) in "Hakibutz Hameuchad" Publishing House of two books "Desire" and "The Blind spot". She edited a book called "Talking about Evil" (Lazar, 2017). The book was published by Routledge in the RBP series. Rina Lazar published papers in various psychoanalytic journals on topics such as: psychoanalysis versus psychotherapy, the dynamics of change, repetition compulsion, the work of the unconscious, subject, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, knowing hatred, the mother's sacrificing her off-springs, the dead mother, intimacy, mourning and melancholy revisited from multiple perspectives, meeting otherness, the therapeutic tale and its political context .