Notes on Contributors

Ofra Bloch, LCSW is a New York City based psychoanalyst and clinical social worker who has been making documentary shorts since 2008 and directed her first feature in 2018. Her specialty is trauma and how victims deal with those who have committed crimes against them. As a member of the group Doctors of the World she traveled to interview torture victims and write affidavits for them. She received her degree from Columbia University in New York in 2001.

Steven Botticelli, Ph.D. is an assistant adjunct professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program. He teaches the class “Psychoanalysis and Politics” through the Independent track, for which he currently serves as track co-chair. He is a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and The Division/Review, and a supervisor for the City College program in clinical psychology. Steve writes in the areas of politics and sexuality, and practices in Greenwich Village.

Patricia Ticineto Clough, Ph.D. is professor emerita of sociology and women studies, CUNY. Among her publications are Autoaffection , The Affective Turn and most recently The User Unconscious . She is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and faculty and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapies, where she is a member of the Training Committee and the Curriculum Committee.

Nancy Caro Hollander, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita at California State University, faculty and member of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, and is in clinical practice in Los Angeles, California. She is the co-author of Psychoanalysis, Class, and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, ).

Molly Merson, MFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in the Bay Area, CA, (Ohlone, Coast Miwok, Patwin). They hold an MA in Social Clinical Psychology from New College of California, a degree that placed an emphasis on the ways in which constructs of race, power, gender, socio-economics, and sociopolitical environme