Contributors

James William Anderson, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. A specialist in psychobiography, he has published essays on William and Henry James, Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wharton, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Sigmund Freud.

George E. Atwood, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University and a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. He is the author of The Abyss of Madness (2011) and co-author of many other books, including Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (1997), and Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (2002).

Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Clinical Professor of Psychology at New York University. He is the author of Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV (1997), The Dream Frontier (2001), and Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis (2009).

Jorge Canestri, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Association, of which he was President, and the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association. He was Professor at Rome 3 University and has taught at the Université Paris X, Nanterre. Winner of the Mary S. Sigourney Award (2004), Dr. Canestri was the European Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the co-author, with J. Amati-Mehler and S. Argentieri, of The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension (1993) and the editor of Putting Theory to Work: How are Theories Actually Used in Practice? (2012).

Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., a psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA, and Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. She i