Notes on Contributors

Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome, Italy. He is the president of Institute for Advanced Studies in psychoanalysis (ISAP) in Italy. He teaches Psychoanalysis in the Intern. Institute of Psychology of Depth in Kijv. Since 1995 until 2020 he was the founder and the editor of EJP. European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is member of the Editorial Board of American Imago and Psychoanalytic Discourse.

Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) has developed pioneering scholarship and practice -an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis-exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”.

Marisa Berwald, LCSW, is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist, pursuing a doctorate in cultural and psychoanalytic anthropology. She conducts ethnographic research on the discipline of psychoanalysis, tracking how it shifts in response to changing aspects of human subjectivity in the Anthropocene.

Martha Bragin, LCSW, Ph.D. is jointly appointed Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the PhD Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr Bragin is a Fellow of the Research Training Program of the IPA, and the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. She serves as a member of Inter Agency Standing Committee (UN-IFRC-NGO) Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, a globally representative body that sets and monitors standards for psychosocial interventions in emergencies. Representing the International Association of Schools of Social Work at the United Nations. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed publications and is in private prac