Contributors

John Boyle has a Ph.D. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He also has an M.A. in Western Esotericism (University of Exeter). He has completed clinical M.Sc. degrees in integrative psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy as an integrative psychotherapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor. He has previously published papers in journals such as the British Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and History. He is employed as a forensic practitioner in a statutory community forensic team in Northern Ireland.

Nancy Chodorow is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Sociology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, where she was a founding member of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium and of the UC Berkeley Gender and Women's Studies Department. She is Faculty at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Chodorow's books include The Reproduction of Mothering (Jessie Bernard Award); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory; Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond; The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture (Bryce Boyer Award); Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice; and The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition. She is honored in P. Bueskens, ed., Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: 40 Years On. Chodorow's writings helped to create feminist theory and psychoanalytic feminism and to bring together psychoanalysis and the social sciences. They have also contributed to contemporary attention to Hans Loewald and the establishment of a Loewald Center.