Notes on Contributors

Wilma Bucci, PhD is Professor Emerita, Derner Institute, Adelphi University; Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI), and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); Visiting Professor in Psychoanalytic Research, University College, London; Faculty of the International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme; Co-Director of Research at the Pacella Research Center; author of Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory ; Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy through Multiple Code Theory , and many clinical, theoretical and research papers.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD is a recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: ) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: ), and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: ). She edited with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't (Routledge: ) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: ). Most recently, she co-edited with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Winner of the Gradiva Award and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize; Routledge: 2019.)

Leon Hoffman, MD, Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Training and Supervising Analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis, co-Director, Pacella Research Center at NYPSI (New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute); faculty Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst, West End Day School in NYC. He is author of Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Childre