Contributors

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany, where he has been teaching for 50 years. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective (SUNY Press, ). He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Franco De Masi is an analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, a former president of the Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi, and Secretary of the Training Institute of Milan. He is a medical doctor and psychiatrist who has worked for many years in psychiatric hospitals. In the last 40 years he has been working as a full-time psychoanalyst in Milan. He has published several papers in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi, and in other psychoanalytical journals. His main interests have been focused on the theoretical and technical psychoanalytical issues related to severely ill or psychotic patients.

Peter Dews first read English Literature at Queens' College Cambridge from 1970 to 1973. This was followed by an MA in the Sociology of Literature at the University of Essex , and PhD in Philosophy at the University of Southampton . After working at various institutions of higher education in London and Cambridge, he taught philosophy at the University of Essex for three decades, becoming Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in 2018. He has also held visiting positions in the United States, Germany, and Brazil. Peter Dews has published widely on modern French philosophy, the Frankfurt School, post-Kantian German philosophy, and interconnections between philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. His books are: Logics of Disintegration (Verso, ), The Limits of Disenchantment (Verso, ), The Idea of Evil (Blackwell, ), and—most

recently—Schelling's Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel (Oxford University Press, ).

Jane Hanenberg is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She h