Contributors

Nanette C. Auerhahn, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches on the faculty of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and chairs the Education Committee. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. At the winter meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, she co-chairs the annual discussion group on Effects of the Holocaust and Genocide on Survivors and their Families. She was the recipient of the 2021 International Deanna Holtzman, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary/Applied Psychoanalysis Award Prize given by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute for her paper on work with asylum seekers. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Elise M. Hayman Award granted biennially by the International Psychoanalytic Association for the most cogent, relevant, and commendable work on the Holocaust and genocide. Her featured paper won the 2024 Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture and was presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in San Francisco on February 6, 2025.

Tihamér Bakó, Hab., Ph.D. is a psychologist, training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society (IPA member), and training therapist for the Hungarian Psychodrama Association. He is one of the founding members of Playback Theater in Hungary. He works in private practice in Budapest and is the author of many textbooks and articles dealing with trauma, collective trauma, transgenerational trauma, crisis, and suicide. He is co-author of the book Transgenerational Trauma and Therapy, The Transgenerational Atmosphere (Routledge, 2019, Medicina, 2020) and Psychoanalysis, Covid and Mass Trauma, The Trauma of Reality (Routledge, Medicina, ).

Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C. Psych (London), M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) is originally from Belfast and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School; Training

and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute f