Contributors

Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor, Vice Dean for Research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, Editor-in-Chief of Ma'arag - The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, poetess, and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books, two memoirs in prose, and four psychoanalytic nonfiction books (and more than 50 articles), including Cleft Tongue (Karnac, ), On the Lyricism of the Mind (Routledge, ), Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, ), Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge (Routledge, ), and Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality (Routledge, ). She is the winner of many literary and academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards.

Sara Boffito, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and IPA expert in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, works in Milan with children, adolescents, and adults. She is a member of the editorial boards of the COWAP IPA Book Series and the Rivista di Psicoanalisi (the Journal of the Italian Society), and she is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published several works in Italian and international journals and collective volumes. Among the most recent is “The Mule and the Dancer: Freud, Moses, and the Dilemma of the Hybrid” , which appears in the volume On Freud's “Moses and Monotheism,” edited by Lawrence Brown for the IPA Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Book Series. She has translated some fundamental English-language psychoanalytic authors into Italian, such as Thomas Ogden, Nina Coltart, Dana Birksted-Breen, and Melanie Klein.

Rachel Boué-Widawsky, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is the Chair of Admissions at the Institute

for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Associate C