Contributors

Richard Brockman, M.D. is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of A Map of the Mind: Toward a Science of Psychotherapy (International Universities Press, ) and over thirty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals. He has received numerous awards, including the Teichner Scholar award for 2011-2012 from the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He lectures regularly on the topic of the interface of psychotherapy and neurobiology. His work as a playwright includes “Good Behavior,” “Angels Don't Dance,” “The Black Devil,” “5 O'clock,” “The Interrogation of a Well Dressed Lady,” “The Recruit,” “Informed Consent,” “Whatever She Loves,” “Lake Effect,” and “Air Rites.” His plays have been produced off-Broadway in New York and at the London Fringe, as well as in regional theaters in the US and abroad. Honors include the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Samuel French Best Play Festivals of 2001 and 2005, and the 7 Devils Playwrights Conference. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He belongs to The Workshop Theater Company as a founding member, to The Dramatists Guild, New York, and to The Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, New York.

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, ), Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, ), After Words (Palgrave, ), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ). His most recent books are Feelings (Routledge, ) and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (Palgrave, ).