Mitchell Wilson, M.D.

Mitchell Wilson, MD is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Wilson has published widely on a variety of topics that cohere around a theory of ethics, desire, and the psychoanalytic process. His paper, "The Analyst's Desire and the Problem of Narcissistic Resistances" won the JAPA Prize in 2003, and "'Nothing can be further from the truth': Lack and the Analytic Process" won the Heinz Hartman Prize in 2005. His book, The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice, was published in 2020 by Bloomsbury Press. Most recently he has turned his attention to questions of property (bodies, land, buildings, licenses, words) and psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is in private practice and leads study groups in Berkeley, CA.