Contributors

Diane Borden, Ph.D., is faculty at NCSPP and SFCP, where she is also Chair, Board of Trustees. Dr. Borden, Professor Emerita of Literature and Film Studies at University of the Pacific, has written numerous articles on film and psychoanalysis and co-edited or contributed to books on Bergman, Bertolucci, Hitchcock, and Mamet. She has lectured in Asia, Europe, and across the U.S. and consults in mediation and conflict resolution.

Tara Bredesen, ASW, obtained her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2018. She completed her internship at UCSF's Infant-Parent Program and currently works as a Birth-to-Five Mental Health Clinician with A Better Way, Inc., in San Francisco. She was a Scholar of the Multicultural Concerns Committee and a presenter at Division 39's Annual Spring Meeting in 2019.

Anna Ferruta is full member and training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and member of the Monitoring and Advisory Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also a Consultant Supervisor for psychiatric and neurological institutions. She has published in several Italian and international publications. Most recently, she contributed the Introduction, “My Latest Brain-Child,” to Volume 7 of The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott (, Caldwell & Taylor Robinson, Eds.). Dr. Ferruta works in private practice as a psychoanalyst in Milan.

Francisco J. González, M.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. He has published articles on film, sexualities, and sociocultural process, and sits on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has private practices in San Francisco and Oakland.

Ortal Kirson-Trilling, Psy.D, is a psychoanalyst. She is on the board of Section VIII, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Division 39, of the APA. A graduate of the intensive training program through the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, Dr. Kirson-Trilling teaches analytic couple theory and practice at Ca