Psychiatric Residency (1976-79): Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California Los Angeles.
Psychoanalytic Training: Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Presently, The New Center for Psychoanalysis).
Licensure
California, (Medical Degree) G 32569
Board Certification
Diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1981
Certified in Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Assn, 1992
Certified in Psychoanalysis, American Board of Psychoanalysis
Professional Experience
Full-time Private Practice, West Los Angeles
Voluntary Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Training and Supervising Analyst: New Center for Psychoanalysis
Teaching Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis
Training and Supervising Analyst: The Psychoanalytic Center of California
Teaching Faculty, The Psychoanalytic Center of California
Life Fellow, The American Psychoanalytic Association
Former Section Head, Scholarship Division, The Department of Psychoanalytic Education (a committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association).
Former Dean of Training, The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
Originator and Moderator of the Idea Incubation Workshop, held at the Annual meeting of The American Psychoanalytic Association
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Assn and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Professional Activities
Professional Associations:
Member, American Psychoanalytic Association
Former Fellow, Board of Professional Standards 2012-2017
Former Councilor (Board Member)
Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Fellow, International Psychoanalytical Association
Fellow, College of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Member, Southern California Psychiatric Society
Former Treasurer of the SCPS
Former Co-Chair of the Program Committee (for five years)
Member, California Psychiatric Association
Honors and Special Awards
Recipient of the Karl A. Menninger Memorial Award for Psychoanalytic Writing. Presented by the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1994.
Recipient of the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award, Presented by the American Psychoanalytic Association
Recipient, Leo Rangell Essay Contest in 2015.
Teaching
Clinical Supervisor, (Psychiatric Residency Program) Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffon School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (conducting one-on-one supervision since 1980)
Senior Faculty, The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles (teaching both in the core psychoanalytic program as well as in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program)—since 1994
Senior Faculty, The Psychoanalytic Center of California, Los Angeles, since 2005
Former Seminar Leader, The Wright Institute, Los Angeles, 2015-2020.
Bibliography
Research Papers–Peer Reviewed:
Tuch, R. (1975). Relationships of a Woman’s Menstrual Status and Her Response to Illness in Her Children. Psychosomatic Medicine, Sept.-Oct. 1975, Vol. 37, Number 5.
Tuch, R. (1995) On the Capacity to be Creative: A Psychological Exploration of Writer’s Block Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. XI, ed. A. Goldberg.
Tuch, R. (1997) Beyond Empathy: Confronting Certain Complexities in Self Psychological Theory. Psychiatric Quarterly, LXVI pp. 259-282.
Tuch, R. (1999) The Construction, Reconstruction and Deconstruction of Childhood Memories In Light of Developing Social Cognition. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 47:11, pp.155-186.
Tuch, R. (2001) Questioning the Psychoanalyst’s Authority. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 49:2, pp. 491-513. Gamer, S., Tuch, R., & Garcia, L (2003). M.M. House Mental Classification Revisited: Intersection of Particular Patient Types and Particular Dentist’s Needs. Prosthetic Dentistry 297-302.
Tuch. R. (2007) Thinking With, and About, Patients Too Scared to Think.International Journal of Psychoanalysis 88:91-111.
Tuch, R. (2008). Unraveling the Riddle of Exhibitionism: A Lession in the Power Tactics of Perverse Interpersonal Relationships.International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2008. 89:143-160
Tuch, R. (2009). On: Dr Weisberg’s Reactions to ‘Unraveling the Riddle of Exhibitionism’. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 90:379-381
Tuch. R. (2010). Murder on the Mind: And Other Points Along the Perverse Spectrum (2010). International Journal of Psychoanalysis 91 (1): 141-162
Tuch, R. (2011). Mörderische Gedanken: Tyrannische Macht und andere Phänomene innerhalb des perversen Spektrums. Int. Psychoanalyse, 6:107-137
Tuch, R. (2011) Thinking Outside the Box: A Metacognitive/Theory of Mind Perspective on Concrete Thinking. (2011) J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 59:4, pp. 765-789.
Tuch, R. (2013). Φόνος στον ψυχισμό: τυραννικήεξουσία και άλλα σημεία κατά μήκος του διαστροφικού φάσματος. Ετήσια ελληνική έκδοση, 1:124-148.
Tuch, R. (2015). Brief Communicaction: Problems Applying Neuroscientific Research to the Clinical Setting. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 63:311-316
Tuch, R. (2015). Response to Alberini. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 63:331-333.
Tuch, R. (2015). The Analyst’s Way of Being: Recognizing Separable Subjectivities and the Pendulum’s Swing. Psychoanal Q., 84:363-388.
Thompson, J.M., Tuch, R. (2016). The Storytelling Aspect of Interpersonal Relations: 1 Understanding “Relating” from a Mentalization Point of View. Psychodyn. Psych., 44:423-448.
Tuch, R. (2016). Between Knowing and Believing: Salvaging Illusion’s Rightful Place in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal Q., 85:35-57.
Tuch, R. (2020). Doubters and Believers in the Time of the Pandemic, J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 68:463-466.
Tuch, R. (2025) Hearing Oneself Speak the Never-Before Spoken: Therapeutic Action from a Lacanian Perspective. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 106:509-527.
Tuch. R. (2025) Defining Analytic Process: An Overdue Update of an Essential Analytic Concept. Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Tuch, R. (in press) Controversial assertions made by gender theorists: Can gender be a known-in-one’s-bones type experience? Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Book Reviews
Tuch, R. (2016). Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations (Selected Papers by Arnold D. Richards, Volume 1). Edited by Arthur A. Lynch. New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2015, xxxiv + 411 pp., $35.00 paperback. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 64:1075-1081.
Tuch, R. (2018). On Freud’s “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning.” Edited by Gabriela Legorreta and Lawrence J. Brown. London: Karnac Books, 2016, xvi + 270 pp., $47.95 paperback. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 66(1):139-149.
Tuch, R. (2018) Psychoanalytic Process and Theory: At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis. By Donald Moss (2018). New York: Routledge, 2018, 172 pp. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 66(4): 805-813.
Tuch, R. (2018.) Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: The Iridescent Thing by Alan Bass (2018). Abingdon, U.K., Routledge, 2018, 162 pp. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 35:473-476.
Tuch, R. (2019). Silent Virtues: patience, curiosity, privacy, intimacy, humility, and dignity, by Salman Akhtar, Int. J. Psychoanal., 100:411-415.
Tuch, R. (2022) A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis. By Fred Busch. New York: Routledge, 2020. 244 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 91:614-623
Books (and Chapters in books):
Tuch, R. (2000). The Single Woman – Married Man Syndrome. New York, Jason Aronson, Inc. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. (2006, R.M. Skelton, Ed.) 1 Executive Editor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Tuch (2011) Bogus Aims, Unpossessable Objects, Elusive Goals: A Further Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Greedin Greed: Sex, Money, & Politics (ed. E. Ronis and L. Shaw) New York: International Psychoanalytic Press.
Thompson, J.M. & Tuch, R (2014) The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage (2014). London: Routledge
Tuch, R. (2017) Longing for a Second Chance, in (ed, Akhtar & Siassi) in Regret: Developmental, Cultural and Clinical Realms. Routledge
Tuch, R. & Thompson, M. (2017). “Storytelling Suffering of Every Conceivable Sort” in Narrative and Meaning: The Foundation of Mind, Creativity, and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) 1st Edition
Tuch, R. & Thompson, M. (2017) Il trattamento di coppia basato sulla mentalizzazion in in Una Poltrona Per Tre (ed., Franco Algeli).
Tuch, R. (2018) Psychoanalytic Method in Motion: Controversies and Evolution of Clinical Theory and Practice. London: Routledge
Tuch, R. & Kuttnauer, L. (2018) Conundrums and Predicaments in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, London: Routledge
Tuch, R. (2025). Perversity, Pornography, and The Psychology of the Male Species. London, UK: Routledge
