Authored Scientific Books (Refereed)

Amir, D. (2014). Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures. New-York and London: Karnac Books.^[1]

Amir, D. (2016). On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature‏. New-York: Routledge.

Amir, D. (2019). Bearing Witness to the Witness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Four Modes of Traumatic Testimony. London & New-York: Routledge.

Amir, D. (2021). Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge. London & New-York: Routledge.

5. Amir, D. (2024). Psychoanalysis as Radical hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away. New-York: Routledge.

Articles in Refereed Journals (a selection) Published

Amir, D. (2008). Naming the non-existent: melancholia as mourning over a possible object. Psychoanalytic Review, 95 (1), 1-15.

Amir, D. (2010). The split between voice and meaning: The dual function of psychotic syntax. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 19 (1), 34- 42.

Amir, D. (2010). From mother tongue to language. Psychoanalytic Review, 97(4), 651-672.

Amir, D. (2012). The Inner Witness. The International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 93:879–896.

Amir, D. (2013). The Psychic Organ Point of Autistic Syntax. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 39(1): 3-21.

Amir, D. (2013). The Chameleon Language of Perversion. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23: 393-407.

Amir, D. (2013). The word that expropriates the flower: a response to Francisco Gonzalez and Stephen Hartman. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23: 423-425.

Amir, D. (2015). From the Position of the Victim to the Position of the Witness: Traumatic Testimony. Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Vol 3 (1) 43-62.

Amir, D. (2015). La mente poetica: il Sé emergente versus il Sé continuo nella prospettiva di Bion. Rivista Psicoanal., 61:173-182 (Italian).

Amir, D. (2016). The Metaphoric, the Metonymic and the Psychotic aspects of Obsessive-Sympomatology. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97, 259–280.

Amir, D. (2016). Aspectos metafóricos, metonímicos y psicóticos de la sintomatología obsesiva. International Journal of Psycho-analysis 97:259–280 (Spanish).

Amir, D. & Shoshana, A. (2016). “Brown Morning” – Classed Interpretations of Anti-Racist Text. Critical Studies in Education. 4-19. Equal contribution.

Amir, D. (2016). Hermetic Narratives and False Analysis: A Unique Variant of the Mechanism of Identification with the Aggressor. Psychoanalytic Review 103(4):539-549.

Amir, D. (2016). When Language meets the Traumatic Lacuna: The Metaphoric, the Metonymic and the Psychotic modes of testimony. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 36:8, 620-632.

Amir, D.  (2017). Tonality and Atonality in the Psychic Space.  Journal of Poetry Therapy, 30 (3) pp. 166-174.

Amir, D. (2017). 'Screen confessions': A fresh analysis of Nazi perpetrators' 'newspeak'. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Vol. 23, 1, 97–114.

Amir, D. (2017). Traumatic Miss and the Work of Mourning. fort da, 23 (2), 7-16.

Amir, D. (2018). "Punktum" and "Studium" in Psychoanalytic Writing: Reading Case Studies through Roland Barthe. Psychoanalytic Review 105(1):51-65.

Amir, D. (2018) The Other as an Object of Conquest Versus the Other as Horizon: A Reading in Stephen Mitchell and Clarice Lispector. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 15:2, 199-208.

Amir, D. (2018). Awakening to and from the Traumatic Lacuna. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 87(2): 303-321.

Amir, D. & Shoshana, A. (2018). 'My Body Spoke to Me': Marginal Organs, Metonymic Somatization, and the Pain of Social Selection. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 48(4) Pp. 475-491.

Amir, D. (2018). From the Collapse of Signifiers to the Reconstruction of Language: Robert Antelme’s The Human Race. American Imago, 75(4) pp. 685-707.

Amir, D. (2019). A Collage of Dead Mothers: On Stephen Daldry's The Hours. Psychoanalytic Review, 106(1) pp. 85-95.

Amir, D. (2019). The Bilingualism of the Language of the Victim and the Language of the Victimizer. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 29(3):367-381.

Amir, D. (2019) The Malignant Ambiguity of Incestuous Language. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 55:3, 252-274.

Amir, D. (2019): The Last of the Unjust: Test case of a screen confession.

            The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 101(3), pp: 597-610.

Amir, D. (2019). Über die ›Transgender Edge‹ und das Versagen der Psychoanalyse, ›Trans‹ zu denken. Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse (German), 28: 57-62.

Amir, D. (2019). Le langage du témoignage traumatique. Revue française de psychanalyse,LXXXIII (4): pp. 1141-1150.

Amir, D. (2020). The Bereaved Survivor: Trauma Survivors and Blank Mourning, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17(1), pp. 74-83.

Amir, D. Parasitic Language. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXXIX (3) pp: 527-547.

Amir, D. & # Hacohen, N. (2020). "Screen Confessions: The Test Case of 'Breaking the Silence'. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 17 (4) 296-312.

Amir, D. & # Hacohen, N. (2021). "The Function of the Inner Witness in Interrupting Screening Mechanisms of Perpetrators’ Language". International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, vol 18(4). 363-371.

Amir, D. (2021) Gender in Movement: The Emergent Versus the Continuous, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 22:3, 157-164.

 Amir D. (2021) “And in that Dream, I Have Another Dream”, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31:6, 718-723.

Amir, D. (2022). "Boys Don't Cry: On the Radical Unsaturation of Gender Dichotomy". Psychoanalytic Review 109(3), pp. 333-343.

Amir, D. (2022). "The Experience of Voice in Analytic Listening ". American Imago,

Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 79, Number 3 pp. 517-539.

Amir, D. (2022) "On Revenge, Pardon and Forgiveness". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 70, Issue 6, December 2022, Pages 1111-1135.

Amir, D. (2023). A Chronicle of Mother-Daughter Envy: Elena Ferrante’s Lost Daughter. Fort-Da, XXIX (2), PP. 43-47.

Amir, D. (2023)."Perverse Characteristics of Governmental oppression". American Imago 80(4) pp. 777-789.

Amir, D. (2023). "From Turning Away to Turning Toward: Adoption as Radical Hospitality". Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 21: 1–18.

 HaCohen N and Amir D (2024) “Caught in the crossfire” – women veterans’ testimonies regarding excessively violent acts committed in combat zones. Front. Psychol. 15:1286813. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.128681363.

Amir, D. (2023). Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 37(4), 429-442.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2251552

Amir, D. (2024). From mind-deadness to mindedness, from collaboration to cooperation. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 21(4), e1888. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1888

Amir, D. (19 Dec 2024): When truth is not shared, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,

DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2024.2412024

Accepted for Publication

 

Amir, D. The Other Room of The Poem and the Dream. Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Amir, D. Shelf Zones, Deep-Sea Zones and Abyssal Zones in Psychoanalytic Writing. American Imago.

 

Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed) – a selection Published

 

Amir, D. (2018). "The Two Sleeps of Orlando: Transsexuality as Caesura or Cut". In Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies – In Translation (Ed: Oren Gozlan). New York and London: Routledge, pp. 36-47.

Amir, D. (2019). "Virtual Objects, Virtual Grief". In  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film (Eds: Ilany Kogan, Andrea Sabbadini and Paola Golinelli). New York & London: Routledge, IPA Publications Series, pp. 69-76.

Amir, D. (2019). "Autobiographical fiction or fictive autobiography? Georges Perec's Unique Mode of Traumatic Testimony". In Literature and Psychology: Writing, Trauma and the Self (Ed: Onder Cakirtas). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing House, pp. 338-350.

Amir D. (2019) Language in Exile, Exile in Language. In: Ataria Y., Kravitz A., Pitcovski E. (eds) Jean Améry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, PP. 159-169.

Amir, D. (2022).  Trauma and language. The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy.Taylor and Francis, pp. 126-140.

Amir, D. (2023). "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Screen Confessions in the Line of Fire". In: Mind in the Line of Fire. IPA in the Community & the World Committees Series, pp. 618-627.

Accepted for Publication

 

Amir, D. "On Government Silencing", In (Aleksandar Dimitrijev, Ed.)

Hearing Silencing (Three Volume Series). Phoenix.

Amir, D. "A Chronicle of Mother-Daughter Envy: Elena Ferrante’s Lost Daughter". In: The Feminine Within: Revisiting Bisexuality. London & New-York: Routledge.

Amir, D. Gender Binary versus Gender Multiplicity. The Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Psychoanalysis.

Amir, D. Two configurations of Sexual Trauma and their Implications on Sexual and Psychic Life. Figures of the Unconscious, series (ed. Nicolas Evzonas), Leuvan University Press.

Amir, D. Gender in Movement: The Emergent Versus the Continuous. In: Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges (eds: Frances Thomson-Salo, Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt. London: Routledge.

Hebrew Publications

Books:

Amir, D. (2008). On the Lyricism of the Mind, Haifa University and Magness Press, Jerusalem, Winner of the Bahat Prize, 2006.

Amir, D. (2013). Cleft Tongue, A Psychoanalytic Study of Psychopathology and Language. Magness Press, Jerusalem.

Amir, D. (2018). Bearing Witness to the Witness: Four Modes of Traumatic Testimony. Jerusalem: Magness Press.

Amir, D. (2020). Screen Confessions: Collected Papers. Narcissus Series: Bar-Ilan University& Resling.

Amir, D. (2023). The Exile from Speech: Collected Papers. Narcissus Series: Resling Publishing House.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals (a selection)

 

Amir, D. (2008). The Expulsion from Paradise: Reflections on Shame. Theory and Critique, 32, 185-188.

Amir, D. (2010). Guests with no Host, Present with no Name: the psychic function of the witness. Sihot, 1, 48-59.

Amir, D. (2010). The influence of mother-baby bond on the development of concrete language versus pseudo language. Sihot, 2, 147-157.

Amir, D. (2011). The double function of psychotic syntax, Ma'arag: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, 2, 37-55, The Hebrew University – Magness press.

Amir, D. (2012). Autistic syntax. Sihot (2) 117-124.

Amir, D. (2013). Perversion: from empty event to event without a witness, Ma'arag: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, 3, 33-52.

Amir, D. (2014). An Unsatisfied Yearning: A Psychoanalytic Discussion of Three Poets. Studies in Education, special edition.

Amir, D. (2015). Modes of Witnessing, Modes of Healing. Ma'arag: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, 6, 21-43.

Amir, D. (2016). Psychoanalytic Discussion of the poetry of Hedva Harechavi. Mikan: Journal of the Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 16, 531-541.

Amir, D. (2018). The Tree Dimensions of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Sihot 32 (2) pp. 144-154.

Amir, D. (2016). The Blocked Narrative and False Therapy. Sihot 30 (3) pp. 205-209.

Amir, D. (2017). Tonal versus Atonal Psychic Spaces. Sihot 31 (3), PP: 1-6.

Amir, D. (2020). "Punktum" and "Studium" in Psychoanalytic Writing: Reading Case Studies through Roland Barthe. Maarag (8): 25-40.

Amir, D.  (2018). The Language of the Perpetrator, "Kind of". ’HaMishpat’ Online: Human Rights, 5, PP. 41-47.

Amir, D.  (2019). The Malignant Ambiguity of Incestuous Language. Sihot 33(2) pp. 17-25.

Amir, D. (2020) Parasitic Language. Sihot 34(3) pp. 182-187.

Amir, D.  (2020). The Unique Poetics of Witnessing in Dementia. Dapim Lesifrut (22) 97-104.

Amir, D. (2022). The language of revenge, the language of pardon, the language of forgiveness. Sihot, The Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 36(3), 268–278.

Amir, D. (2021). Four parameters of voice and their embodiment in the analytic listening. Sihot, The Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 36(1), 24–33.

Amir, D. (2025). “All languages overlap or spill into each other”: On revenge, pardon and forgiveness. Ma’arag, 12, 3–17.

Amir, D. (2025). The “other room” of the dream and the poem. Sihot: The Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(2), 119–126.

Amir, D. (2025). The somatoform dissociation: Metaphoric, metonymic, and psychotic. Sihot: The Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(3), 206–213.

Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)

Published

Amir, D. (2019). "The Uncanny as the Return of the Possible". In Aner Govrin (Ed.) Psychoanalysis, Literature, Society and Philosophy. Tel-Aviv: Resling Publishing House, pp. 93-109.

Amir, D. (2020). "On the Inherent Idiosyncrasy of Psychoanalysis". In Hilit Brodsky (Ed.) Psychoanalysis, Culture and Art. Tel-Aviv: Resling Publishing House, pp. 313-319.

Amir, D. (2021). "Hanoch Levin's Unique Poetics of Testimony". In Psychologists Write about Hanoch Levin (Ed: Haim Kaplan). Haifa: Pardes Publishing House, pp. 189-198.

Amir, D. (2023). "Ka-Tsetnick's Unique Poetics of Witnessing". In: (Ataria & Porat, eds.) Ka-Tsetnick's Life and Work. Haifa: Pardes, 89-104.

Amir, D. (2025). " Inspiration is the Thing with Feathers". In: What is Inspiration? (ed: Ahuva Barken), Resling Publishing House, pp. 205-2014.

[1] Published with the support of The Israel Science Foundation (ISF).