Writing

 Coauthored with Grandmaster Boris Gulko, this volume focuses on strategic chess, using annotated games and a question-and-answer format to explore grandmaster-level thinking and decision-making. 

 The second volume focuses on tactical and attacking chess, exploring calculation, combinations, and the thought processes behind dynamic play. 

 The final volume explores a wide range of chess themes, offering further insight into how a grandmaster evaluates positions, solves problems, and makes decisions at the board. 

 Coauthored with Grandmaster Boris Gulko, this book explores the thought processes behind chess decision-making. Through deeply analyzed games and a question-and-answer format, it examines how players evaluate positions, generate ideas, and make decisions at the board. 

 Writing and reading memoir feel like a natural extension of a career devoted to understanding the stories we tell about ourselves and how those narratives shape who we are—and who we can become. I am currently working on my own memoir, exploring how the particular experiences of an individual life can illuminate universal psychological truths about identity, belonging, adversity, and change. 

 Freud remains one of the most influential thinkers in psychology, but his writing can be extraordinarily difficult for contemporary readers. I am interested in making his most important ideas accessible and relevant to readers in the 21st century without losing their complexity. 

 A longer-term project exploring three perspectives that deeply influence how I think about human behavior: evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Can these different traditions be brought together to help us understand why we are the way we are—and how we can change, pursue our goals, and build the lives we want?