Contributors

Beth Barmack, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where she teaches and supervises in the training program and Extended Education. She teaches infant observation and has published in the Journal of Analytic Psychology and the Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. She practices in San Francisco, working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Adam Blum, Psy.D., is a supervising psychologist at California Pacific Medical Center Department of Psychiatry in San Francisco. His recent publications include “This Must Be the Place: Thinking Psychical Life with Music” (2014 Stephen Mitchell Award) in Psychoanalytic Psychology (in press) and “Each Night in Rapture: The Silent Sound of Shame” in Studies and Gender & Sexuality . He has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley.

James S. Grotstein, M.D., was a clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, and a training and supervising analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and at The Psychoanalytic Centre of California. He was a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and was past North American Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He published over 250 papers and was the author or editor of 12 books. Dr. Grotstein died in May 2015.

Claire Kahane, Ph.D., is professor emerita of English at SUNY-Buffalo, a graduate of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and a past visiting professor in the English department at UC Berkeley.

Thomas Ogden, M.D., is the author of 11 books on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, most recently Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works; The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature; Rediscovering Psychoanalysis; and This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries. His first novel, The Parts Left Out, was published in 2014 in English and Italian. Dr. Ogden was the recipient of th