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Rebecca Chaplan is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Ute Eickelkamp is an ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research examines the links between images of nature and the nature of selves in the context of profoundly changing life-worlds. Her fieldwork with Anangu Pitjantjatjara speakers in the Central Australian community Ernabella, begun in 1995, has focused on the social and aesthetic history of local art, images of destruction (mamu), and representations of kinship. She has studied children's social imagination and emotional dynamics through a traditional form of sand storytelling in the desert, after therapeutic Sandplay work with Tiwi children in Australia's north. Her publications include Don't Ask for Stories: The Women of Ernabella and Their Art (Aborginal Studies Press, ), the co-edited Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention (CDU Press, ), and Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence .
Ilana Larkin received an M.A. in English literature from New York University and a B.A. in English and Theater from Bryn Mawr College. She completed an academic fellowship at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and will pursue her Ph.D. in English literature at Northwestern University. Her research interests include the literary uses of psychoanalytic theory, nineteenth-century American literature, and childhood studies.
Susan Scheftel is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. She is on the faculties of the Columbia Parent Infant Program and the Columbia Child and Adolescent