Ben Kafka

Ben Kafka, Ph.D., L.P., is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Greenwich Village. He serves on the faculties of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell. He is also the co-founder of Princeton’s new Seminar on Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Studies. Originally trained as a historian, Kafka taught at NYU for nearly twenty years before leaving to focus on clinical work. His first book, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012) was a historical and psychological investigation into our encounters with bureaucracy, especially when things go wrong. He’s currently working on a book for Random House about how people drive each other crazy.