Contributors

Francis Baudry was born in France and came to the US in 1941. He trained at NYPSI where he currently is a Training and Supervising Analyst. He organized a seminar called “Works in Progress,” where analysts and literary scholars could present and discuss unfinished works. He has written 40 papers on a variety of topics, including clinical topics such as character, supervision, and applied psychoanalytic topics about writers, painters, and film. He currently runs supervision seminars and teaches Freud’s papers to Chinese students.

Andrea Celenza, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She has written numerous papers on love, sexuality, and psychoanalysis and is on the Editorial Board of JAPA. She has two online courses and is the recipient of several awards. Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Chinese and Farsi. Her third book titled Transference, Love, and Being: Essential Essays from the Field, was published in 2022 by Routledge and she has two forthcoming works, Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, July ) and a co-edited volume (with Murray Schwartz) of American Imago on Perverse Scenarios. Dr. Celenza is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Dr. Igor Kolmakov was born in Russia and raised in Ukraine (then part of the USSR). He currently lives in Tel Aviv, where he holds a private practice in psychotherapy. He received his PhD in psychology from Tel Aviv University. His doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of the late Professor Carlo Strenger, is entitled “Truth, Illusion, and Helpful Fiction: Some Epistemological and Existential Aspects of the Ethos of Modern Psychotherapy.” He is currently working on turning his

Ph.D. thesis into a book. His re