Contributors

Kalpana Asok, M.A., LMFT, is the author of Whose Baby Is It, Anyway? Inside the Indian Heart (2017, International Psychoanalytic Books) on the inner lives of immigrant South Asian families; and a volume of poetry, Everyday Flowers (, International Psychoanalytic Books). She maintains a private practice in Silicon Valley, where she sees couples, families, and individuals.

Laurie Case, Ph.D., is an analyst member and faculty at SFCP where she has taught in both the psychotherapy training program and the candidate training program. She also serves on the editorial board of fort da. Dr. Case has a private practice in psychotherapy and analysis with adults and adolescents.

Andrea Cousins, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1977, she was a graduate student in anthropology. As a refugee from the Civil Rights movement in the '60s, she studied language and the brain rather than the unconscious. She woke up to this at 40.

Vivian Dent, Ph.D., after many years of psychoanalytic practice, began studying and integrating trauma-focused modalities, including EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and, more recently, MDMA- and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. She has taught at PINC, SFCP, Access Institute, and Sage Integrative Health, among other institutions. She practices in Oakland.

Eric Essman, M.A., is a Board Member at PINC, where he serves as co-Chair of the Visiting Scholars Committee. He has frequently contributed book and film reviews to fort da.

Henry Markman, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst at SFCP. His forthcoming book, Creative Engagement in Clinical Psychoanalytic Practice, will be published by Routledge this year. Recent publications include “Accompaniment in Jazz and Psychoanalysis” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, ) and “Embodied Attunement and Participation” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, ). Dr. Markman is in clinical practice in Berkeley, where he also