Notes on Contributors

Steven Botticelli, PhD, is on the faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Vera Camden is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and Professor of English at Kent State University. She is co-editor of American Imago, and a member of the Committee on Research and Special Training of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Marcelle Clements is a novelist, essayist, and journalist. Her fourth and most recent book is a novel, Midsummer. She has written prize-winning essays and articles for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Esquire, Elle, and Rolling Stone. Many of her pieces have been anthologized. Since 1999, she has taught a seminar on Proust's In Search of Lost Time at NYU's College of Arts and Science, where she is a Collegiate Professor.

Philip Cushman, PhD, is core faculty in the PsyD program at Antioch University, Seattle, and is in practice on Vashon Island, Washington. He is author of Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy.

J. Todd Dean is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in St. Louis, MO, and a founding member of the St. Louis Lacan Study Group.

Stephen Hartman, PhD, practices in New York and San Francisco, commuting via iChat. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, the Steven A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis in New York, and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Among other writing, he is the author of “Reality 2.0: When Loss is Lost” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21, 468-482).

Mavis Himes, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a consultant at Well-spring, a psychosocial cancer centre in Toronto, Canada. She is director of the Speaking of Lacan Psychoanalytic Group (Toronto) and a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanaly