Body Art

Caption reads, "If I had to choose I'd donate my body to art instead of science." Next to the caption is a female figure standing in line at the DMV. She is drawn in the style of Picasso.

Jamey Hecht, PhD, PsyD, LMFT is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. He has a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (1995), and a Psy.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in L.A. (2019). He has published over a dozen scholarly articles in academic journals of psychology, literary criticism, and the history of ideas, and is the author of five books to date: Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation with commentary, Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Editions, 2005); Bloom’s How To Write About Homer (Chelsea, 2010); and two books of poetry. Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009) comprises fifty elegies for President Kennedy. Hecht's second poetry collection is Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989 - 2019 (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2019). See www.jameyhechtauthor.com.