Notes on Contributors

Jay Crosby, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. He is on the faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he trained as a psychoanalyst, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. He has written, published, and presented papers on a range of topics including early psychosis, the psychodynamics of overstimulation, and messianism and object use. He has a Ph.D. from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, received additional clinical training from the Melanie Klein Trust and has an A.M. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago.

Andrew B. Druck, PhD., ABPP, is a Fellow (Training and Supervising Analyst), past President, former Dean of Training, and Faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology, Faculty member and Supervising Analyst at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Four Therapeutic Approaches to the Borderline Patient.

Benjamin Morsa, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic practitioner in Oakland, CA. He founded the group practice Tide Pools, a psychological corporation, a generalist practice that specializes in psychoanalytic work with gender diverse and neurodivergent patients. He offers psychotherapy, psychological assessment, consultation, and training. His clinical and scholarly interests include interdisciplinary approaches to psychoanalysis, the Rorschach, forensic educational assessment, autism, neurodevelopmental differences, gender, sex and sexuality, mycology, and the philosophy of science. He has taught graduate and postgraduate students at psychodynamic and psychoanalytic programs in the Bay. He is also a musician and all-around polymath.

Dr Valerie Sinason, is a poet, writer, child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist (retired), Bowlby