Notes on Contributors

Andrew Blackley, lives and works, variously, in New York City

Dorothy Evans Holmes, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at The George Washington University where she was Program Director and Director of Clinical Training from 2005 to 2011. She is also a Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes has served on the Ethics Committees of APsaA and the American Psychological Association (APA), and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Emma Lieber, is a psychoanalyst in private practice In New York and part-time faculty in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College. She is the author of The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury ) and co-editor of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave ). Her writing has appeared in various popular, psychoanalytic and academic publications.

Evan Malater, is a psychoanalyst in New York City

Christie Offenbacher, is a psychoanalyst in public and private practice in New York City, a founding member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and an editor of Damage Magazine.

Matthew Oyer, is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a training co-director at the Greene Clinic in Brooklyn NY, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College. He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. With a small group of others, Dr. Oyer created and implemented a program of independent psychoanalytic training through which he continues to pursue lifelong formation.

Maria Gabriella Pediconi, MA is a Psychoanalyst at the Società Amici del Pensiero ‘Sigmund Freud’, (SAP), Milan, Italy and a Researcher Professor