Contributors

Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sciences and Technologies of Cognition of the Italian Council for Scientific Research (ISTC-CNR) in Rome and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, which he founded in 1995. He teaches psychoanalytic clinical practice in several institutes in Naples, Kiev, Moscow, and Mexico City and is the author of many books and papers in different languages, most recently: Mechta Lacana [Dream Lacan] in Russian ; “Perversion and Charity: An Ethical Approach,” in D. Nobus & L. Downing (eds.), Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Perspectives on Psychoanalysis ; with A. Molino, In Freud's Tracks ; Accidia: La passione dell'indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] (il ); Perversionen: Sexualität, Ethik und Psychoanalyse [Perversions: Sexuality, Ethics and Psychoanalysis] ; and La gelosia [Jealousy] (il ).

Erika Bourguignon is Professor of Anthropology emerita at the Ohio State University, where she taught for more than forty years. Her doctoral fieldwork in Haiti raised questions some of which she was able to address in the five-year Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociational States that she directed under a grant from NIMH. Her book Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change (Ohio State, ) and a series of other publications by her and her collaborators and students report some of the results of this study. She saw this work as relating to the larger field of psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religion, and the then new field of the anthropology of women. Her publications include a widely used textbook Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Diversity and A World of Women: Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World . In later years she published Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Ohio State, ) by her aunt Bronka Schneider, who,