Contributors

Xavier Gassmann is a practicing psychoanalyst and psychologist at the René Dubos Hospital in Pontoise, France. He is a lecturer at Paris Diderot University at Sorbonne Paris Cité and an associated researcher at the Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society.

Steffen Krüger is a Lecturer and Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo and serves as a social therapist with a psychiatric emergency team. He is the author of Das Unbehagen in der Karikatur: Kunst, Propaganda und Persuasive Kommunikation im Theoriewerk Ernst Kris' [Caricature and its Discontents: Art, Propaganda, and Persuasive Communication in the Theoretical Work of Ernst Kris] . With Thomas Röml;ske, he co-edited the essay collection on Kris, Im Dienste des Ich: Ernst Kris heute [In the Service of the Ego: Ernst Kris Today] . His research centers on psychosocial approaches to media communication. He received his doctorate in mass media and communication from the Freie Universität, Berlin, where he was Researcher in the Institute of Communication History and Applied Cultural Studies.

Céline Masson is Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, HDR), Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society, Paris Diderot University at Sorbonne Paris Cité, and the Co-director of the Pandora Research Group for creative processes, psychoanalysis, the body, and society. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist at the Medico-Social Therapy Center of the Organization to Save the Children (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants—OSE) in Paris.