Contributors

Gene Alexander, MFT, is a poet and a playwright. His works have been performed in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and other cities. He has several books of poetry and two books of plays available at Lulu.com. He has been a therapist in San Francisco since 1974.

Diane 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 a guest faculty at SFCP.

Shawnee Cuzzillo, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytically oriented psychologist, seeing individuals and couples in private practice in Albany. Dr. Cuzzillo has extensive background in the biological sciences as well as the arts. She has taught at the graduate level on subjects ranging from biological bases of behavior to psychodynamic psychotherapy. She supervises students in her private practice and for a variety of community agencies.

Eric Essman, M.A., serves on the NCSPP Intensive Study Group Committee, is a Board Member of PINC, and has frequently contributed film reviews to fort da.

Francisco J. González, M.D., is a graduate of and faculty at PINC and also teaches at NCSPP and Access Institute. Dr. Gonzales has published and presented on film, socio-cultural processes, and sexualities and sits on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has a private practice in San Francisco.

Jeanne C. Harasemovitch, LCSW, is member and faculty of SFCP, lecturer at PINC and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, and editorial board member of fort da. She publishes essays, reviews, and interviews on psychoanalysis and the arts. Her 2011 essay, “(A)Temporal Dialectic: Creative Conversations between Timelessness/Time and Transference,” received th