Notes on Contributors

William Fried, Ph.D., FIPA is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who practices in New York City. He was formerly the associate director of psychiatry residency training and the director of training and education at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Fried has published papers on clinical psychoanalysis, group therapy, applied psychoanalysis, mental health education and training, and has written essays for the exhibits of prominent artists. His book, Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the movies was published by Karnac in 2016.

William Gottdiener, Ph.D., ABPP, FIPA is a licensed and board certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and tenured full professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Gottdiener received his PhD in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research. He is the Director of Clinical Training of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program of the Graduate Center—CUNY that is housed at John Jay College. He is the chair of the Division 39 Fellows committee and he was also previously President of the Division 39 Psychoanalytic Research Society. He has published over 50 articles, book chapters, commentaries, and reviews and is on the editorial boards of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychological Bulletin. He is an APA Fellow in the divisions of Addictions, Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, and he is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He was honored by Division 39 with its prestigious Research and Scholarship Award in 2015.

Bettina Mathes, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychodynamic therapist in private practice in Vienna and Granada. She is also a translator, published writer and cultural historian. She has published widely on psychoanalysis and the visual arts, and was faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin, Penn State University and th