Contributors

Alice A. Jones, M.D. is a personal and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is the author of several collections of poems, most recently Gorgeous Mourning and Plunge, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Her awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She practices psychoanalysis in Berkeley and is co-editor of Apogee Press.

Jane McAdam Freud is represented in major public collections at home and abroad and was the recipient of a 2014 European Trebbia Award in Artistic Achievement. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London, under the supervision of conceptual artist John Stetzeker and sculptor Edwardo Paolozzi and received a scholarship to study sculpture in Rome, winning the annual student prize in 1989. Her works have been acquired by numerous international public collections and can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum or by appointment at the British Museum. She has taught courses at major London art schools, including the Royal College of Art and the University of the Arts, as well as internationally, including the Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp. She has published several papers on her sculpture and drawings, which focus on family history and are informed by psychoanalytic theory.

J. David Miller, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical School and a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. For several years he has explored in talks and publications the common ground of psychoanalysis and art, most recently in a study of Matisse in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.