Nirav Soni, Ph.D.
Candidate, Adult Psychoanalysis
Private Office
6 East 39th Street
Suite 800
NY, NY 10016
Areas of Interest
Nirav Soni, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. He works with children, adolescents and adults.
Dr. Soni earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Study at Adelphi University, where he trained in therapy and assessment in primary schools, college counseling settings and community mental health centers. He wrote his dissertation on D.W. Winnicott’s theories of therapeutic process. He continued on at the Derner Institute for a postdoctoral fellowship and taught courses on lifespan development, personality assessment in children, and the disorders of the self. Along with his practice, Dr. Soni is a consultant psychologist to the SUNY College of Optometry and co-runs the Benjamin Rush Fellowship in the History of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College.
Selected Presentations and Publications
Soni, N (2018), Why the Wolf Man: On the Continued Relevance of From The History of an Infantile Neurosis To Psychoanalytic Education. Paper presented at the winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Soni, N. (2017) What is Living and What is Dead in the Work of D.W. Winnicott? A review of three recent books. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 53(1): p. 140-158
Soni, N (2016). Imagining Children in American Comics 1906-1914. Paper presented to the Richardson Seminar for the History of Psychiatry at the Dewitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College.
Soni, N (2015), Illnesses, Metaphors, Facts: The Spoken for Body. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
Soni, N. (2015). A review of Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine: by Jamieson Webster and Simon Critchley, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2013. 269 pp.. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 51(3): p. 557-561.
Soni, N (2014), On the Antisocial Tendency. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
Soni, N. (2013) Pull Down Thy Vanity: A Discussion of ‘The Analyst’s Hatred of Analysis’. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(1): p. 133–140