Contributors

Barbara F. Artson, Ph.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst, faculty, and committee member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She served on the founding board of fort da as Film and Book Review editor. Dr. Artson has a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and supervision in San Francisco.

Leora Benioff, Ph.D., is a fifth-year candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She has taught and supervised at numerous Bay Area educational and training institutions and currently teaches in the Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy training program sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, of which she is a long-term member. Dr. Benioff practices in Berkeley and San Francisco, where she sees individuals and couples, as well as offers consultation.

Adam Beyda, Psy.D., is the Director of Counseling Psychological Services at Holy Names University, and he is on the clinical faculty at the Wright Institute. Dr. Beyda is in private practice in Oakland, working with adult individuals and couples.

Diane M. Borden, Ph.D., is Professor of Film and Literature, Director of Film Studies, and Chair of English at the University of the Pacific. She has published books, chapters, and journal articles on cinema and psychoanalysis and given papers and workshops at professional conferences in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She conducts study groups on film and psychoanalysis in San Francisco and the South Bay and has been guest faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Beverly Burch, Ph.D., has written two non-fiction books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexuality: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press, 1992) and Other Women (Columbia University Press, 1997). Her first poetry book, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004), won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Dr. Burch has a psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in Berkeley.