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Galatzer-Levy, R., Kraus, L., & Galatzer-Levy, J. (eds.) (2009) The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons (Translation into Arabic to be published Arab Network for Research & Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2013).
Cohler, B. & Galatzer-Levy, R. (2000) The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives. University of Chicago Press
Galatzer-Levy, R., Bachrach, H., Skolnikoff, A. & Waldron, S., (2000) New Haven: Yale University Press
Galatzer-Levy, R. and Kraus, L. (eds.) (1999) The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. John Wiley & Sons 1999.
Galatzer-Levy, R. and Cohler, B. (1993) The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self. New York: Basic Books
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2000) Does Psychoanalysis Work? Yale University Press
Book Chapters
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2008) A Primer of Psychoanalysis for Alan Turing. in D. Dietrich et al. (eds) Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytic Approach. Vienna, Springer. Pp. 367-380.
Galatzer-Levy, I. & Galatzer-Levy, R. (2007) August Aichhorn: A Different Vision of Psychoanalysis, Children and Society. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
Cohler, B. & Galatzer-Levy, R. (2006) Love in the Classroom. In G. Bolt & P. Salvio (eds) Love’s Return: Psychoanalytic Essays on Childhood, Teaching and Learning. New York: Routledge.
______ (2003) Psychoanalytic Research and Confidentiality: Dilemmas in Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas, Levin, C., Furlong, A. and O’Neil, M.K. (eds.). The Analytic Press, Inc. Hillsdale, N.J. pp 85-106
Galatzer-Levy, R. and Cohler, B. (2002) Making a Gay Identity: Coming Out, Social Context, and Psychodynamics, in Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities, Winer, J. and Anderson, W., (eds.), The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXX, pp. 255-286. The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, N.J.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2002) Stepfathers, Clinical Explorations in Cath, S.H. and Shopper, M., (eds.) Stepparenting: Creating and Recreating Families in America Today. The Analytic Press, Inc., Hillsdale.N. J. pp 127-142
______ (2002) A Self Psychology Approach for Depression, in Comparative Treatments of Depression, Reinecke, M.A. and Davison, M.R., (eds.) Springer Publishing Company. New York
______ (2001) The Analysis of a Frightened Little Boy, in Analysis of the Under-Five Child, Tyson, R. L.(ed.) Yale University Press, New Haven and London. pp 99-126
Kelman J., Leventhal, B., Galatzer-Levy, R. & Kraus, L. (1999) Divorce, Custody, and Visitation in Mid-Childhood in Galatzer-Levy, R. and Kraus, L. (eds.), The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. John Wiley & Sons. 205-225.
Galatzer-Levy, R. & E. Ostrov From Empirical Findings to Custody Decisions in Galatzer-Levy, R. and Kraus, L. (eds.), The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. John Wiley & Sons. 32-57
Galatzer-Levy, R., (1999) Reanalysis and the Effectiveness of Child Analysis in Cohen, J. and Cohler, B (eds.) The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time. Clinical and Research Perspectives on Children Who Return to Treatment in Adulthood. Cohen, J. and Cohler, B (eds.) Academic Press
Galatzer-Levy, R. (1998) Self Psychology. In A. Tasman, J. Kay, & J. Lieberman (eds.) Psychiatry. New York: Saunders
Galatzer-Levy, R. (1997), Psychoanalysis, Memory, and Trauma in Appelbaum, P., Uyehara, L. & Elin, M. (eds.) Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press
Cohler, B. and Galatzer-Levy, R. (1996) Self Psychology and Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation and Maintenance of Personal Integrity in R.P. Cabaj and T.S. Stein (eds.) 3Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health, pp. 207-223. Washington: American Psychiatric Press
_____ (1993) When You’re Stupid and Things Don’t Work Right: Notes from the Analysis of an Adolescent Boy with a Learning Disability. in K. Field, E. Kaufman, & C. Saltzman (eds.) Emotions and Learning Reconsidered: International Perspectives. New York: Gardner pp. 171-183
_____ (1993) The Psychological Significance of Others in Adolescence: Issues for Study and Intervention. in P. Tolan & B. Cohler (eds.) Handbook of Clinical Research and Practice with Adolescents. New York: John Wiley. pp. 63-94
Cohler, B. and Galatzer-Levy, R. (1992) Psychoanalysis and the classroom: intent and meaning in learning and teaching. in N. Szajnberg, (ed.) Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development. New York. Plenum.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (1992) Psychoanalysis, Psychology and the Self. in Barron, J. Eagle, M. & Wolitzky (eds.) Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology. Washington: American Psychological Association Press. 429-451
Cohler, B. and Galatzer-Levy, R. (1990) Self, Meaning and Coherence in the Second Half of Life. in Nemiroff, R. & Calarusso, C. (eds.) New Dimensions in Adult Development. New York: Basic Books
Cohler, B. and Galatzer-Levy, R. (1988) Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in J. M. Ross and W. Myers (eds.) New Concepts in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy pp. 204 – 225. Washington: American Psychiatric Press
_____ (1984) Adolescent Crisis and Mid-Life Crisis. In: D. Brockman (ed.), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Older Adolescent. New York: International Universities Press pp: 29-51