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Lee Whitman-Raymond is a writer and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist in Pawtucket RI and Blackstone MA. I have won prizes and published poems in numerous literary and psychoanalytic magazines. My MFA from Brown University also earned the University First Prize for my thesis manuscript, and my book of poems, The light on our faces and other poems was published in 2009 by Pleasure Boat Studio. I have also published articles on the issue of recognition in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and in the International Journal of Self Psychology, as well as an article on issues of class in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. I just published a family memoir (2023, Newman Springs Publishing) with my daughters and husband on raising a child with a rare genetic disorder. When I’m not working, I am either playing guitar and singing or admiring my new grandson.