Contributors

Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., is a supervising faculty member of NYU's Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She has been part of the relational psychoanalytic movement from its inception, especially influential in revising the paradigm of gender and sexuality and developing intersubjective theory. In the 1980s she helped to found the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of The Bonds of Love ; Like Subjects, Love Objects ; and Shadow of the Other . Her most recent book, Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third, will be published in April 2017.

Diane Borden, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature, former Director of Film Studies, and former 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. Dr. Borden conducts study groups on film and psychoanalysis in San Francisco and the South Bay and has been a guest faculty at SFCP.

John Di Martini, Ph.D., is an analyst member and faculty at SFCP, where he has taught in the yearlong programs and both the psychoanalytic psychotherapy and candidate training programs. He has also taught at PINC. Dr. Di Martini has a private analytic practice with adolescents and adults in Oakland.

Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT, practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland with individuals and couples. Dr. Farber, a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC, teaches at NCSPP and widely in the community.