Contributors

Fátima Caropreso, PhD, is a psychologist with a doctorate in philosophy. She is Full Professor in the Graduate Programme in Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Her main area of expertise is the history and epistemology of psychoanalysis. Some of her main publications are “Life and Death in Freudian Metapsychology” (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, ), “The death instinct and the mental dimension beyond the pleasure principle in the works of Spielrein and Freud” (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, ), “Sabina Spielrein's Theory of the Origin and Development of Language” (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, ), “Barbara Low and Sabina Spielrein: Misrepresentations of Their Work in the History of Psychoanalysis” (American Imago, ), “The Research Trajectory of Judith Kestenberg: From the Study of Movements to Research with Child Victims of the Holocaust” (S:I.M.O.N., ).

Katalin Faluvégi, PhD, holds an M.A. degree in German (Linguistics and Literature) Studies and Hungarian (Linguistic and Literature) Studies from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University of Humanities in Budapest, and a PhD in psychology specializing in theoretical psychoanalysis from Pecs University of Humanities in Pecs, Hungary. Her Ph.D. dissertation reflects her commitment towards linguistics and psychoanalysis by examining classic psychoanalytic concepts (Freud, Ferenczi, Hollos, Spielrein) concerning the birth and development of language. The impulse to connect linguistics and PA was inspired by Spielrein's oeuvre, especially her papers from the Geneva period. She is also interested in observations of verbal and non-verbal expressions in therapeutic processes in the works of Ferenczi, Balint, Iván Fónagy, Peter Fonagy, J. E. Gedo, and others. Her papers have been published in Hungarian

and English (Imágó Budapest, Lélekelemzés, European Yearbook of the History of Psy