Career
Atlas practices psychoanalysis and is a clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. In 2009, she became a recipient of the NADT Research award, in the category "Theoretical Research Award for Thesis/Dissertation".
From 2011-2013, she co-chaired and moderated the on-line Colloquium Series for the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).
She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and currently serves on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. She is contributor to the New York Times, Atlas lectures throughout the United States and internationally Atlas is author of book, The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, October 2015).
The leading psychoanalyst and feminist Jessica Benjamin declared that the book is "clinically astute and theoretically provocative", and that Atlas "recaptures the realm of sexuality for relational psychoanalysis". G. G. L. & G. G. Education.
