Lindsay L. Clarkson, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. Engaged in private practice of analysis and supervision in Chevy Chase, MD, she is a graduate of Harvard University and Duke University Medical School. Her primary interests lie in understanding primitive mental experience to enable better contact with patients, and in a psychoanalytic exploration of our relationship to the natural world and the non-human environment.