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Suzaan Boettger is an art historian, critic, and lecturer based in New York City and Professor Emerita at Bergen Community College, New Jersey. Dr. Boettger is the author of Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties and has contributed to more than two dozen exhibition catalogues and anthologies and published over 350 articles, essays, and reviews of exhibitions and books in periodicals spanning arts journalism and scholarly journals. This article, and the book that will follow, developed from the decades ago realization that her undergraduate majors in studio art and psychology can merge in writing art history, allowing her to fuse artmaking's visual and sensory sensitivities with psychology's attention to latent evocation.
Christopher Bullock (1947-2018) was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Boston with a long history of teaching and practice. He was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and had taught countless medical students, residents and fellows about psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis. He first received an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and later graduated from U. Mass Medical School in 1984. After completing a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (originally the Boston Psychopathic Hospital), Dr. Bullock trained as a psychoanalyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). He loved the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, and continually used poetry and prose in his work with both students and patients.
Steven Cooper is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He also teaches at Harvard Medical School, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and the Stephen Mitchell Center. He served as Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues