Contributors

Dr. Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, a faculty member at Haifa University (head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis), poetess and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books and three psychoanalytic non-fiction books: Cleft Tongue (Karnac, ), On the Lyricism of the Mind (Routledge, ), and Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, in print). Her papers were published in psychoanalytic journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is the winner of many national and international prizes, including the Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize , the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) Sacerdoti Prize , the IPA Hayman Prize , and the IFPE Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award .

Deborah Browning earned an M.A. in Historical Musicology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from New York University. Following three years of Fellowships at Yale Medical School in Inpatient Mental Health and Psychiatric Epidemiology, she returned to NYU where, for 20 years she was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and also earned a certificate in Psychoanalysis from NYU's Post-doctoral Program. She has published on topics in ego psychology, adolescence, Erikson, and more recently, Laplanche, and has edited an anthology of papers on adolescence as well as the collected papers of Jean-Georges Schimek. With the inheritance of the substantial archive of the German-born School of Paris painter Hans Reichel, she now concentrates on preserving this painter's legacy. This work involves the preparation of his Catalogue Raisonne as well as writing both a full scale biography and a shorter monograph devoted solely to the water-colors Reichel created and the letters he wrote during his multiple internments in WWII France.