Contributors

Adam Blum, Psy.D., is a post-doctoral fellow at California Pacific Medical Center Department of Psychiatry in San Francisco. He sees patients in private practice in Berkeley. He has been a staff member of the music analysis team at Pandora Radio since 2005.

Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D., Ph.D., is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Currently, he is the Editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi. In addition to publishing several papers, he has published several books, which include: The Intimate Room, 2011; The Violence of Emotions, 2012; Perdere la testa: Abiezione, conflitto estetico e critica psicoanalitica [Losing One's Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict and Psychoanalytic Criticism], 2012; The Necessary Dream, 2014, in press; The Analytic Field and Its Transformations (with A. Ferro), 2014, in press. He has also co-edited L'ipocondria e il dubbio: L'approccio psicoanalitico, 2011 [Hypochondria and Doubt: The Psychoanalytic Approach]. He is in private practice in Pavia, Italy.

Eric Essman, M.A., is the co-Chair of the NCSPP Intensive Study Group Committee, a board member of PINC, and has frequently contributed film and book reviews to fort da.

Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst, faculty and Chair of the Outreach and Public Information Committee at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has private practices in Oakland and San Francisco, and teaches and consults widely in the community.

Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst at PINC and Co-Chair of Faculty at SFCP. His recent publications include “Process, Resistance, Interpretation” (Textbook of Psychoanalysis, ); “Active Perception and the Search for Sensory Symbiosis” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, ); and “The Not So Small Differences of Narcissism” (fort da, ).