Contributors

Adam Blum, Psy.D., has written about psychoanalysis and the music of Kendrick Lamar, Stephen Sondheim, Frank Ocean, Michael Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. He is co-author of Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, ) with Peter Goldberg and Michael Levin. He is in private practice in San Francisco.

Diane Borden, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Literature and Film Studies at the University of the Pacific, and faculty at NCSPP and SFCP. Dr. Borden 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 US.

Forrest Hamer, Ph.D., is an Oakland psychologist and psychoanalyst who teaches at SFCP and the NCSPP. The author of three poetry collections — Call and Response (Beatrice Hawley Award); Middle Ear (Northern California Book Award); and Rift — he has also authored articles on race and psychoanalysis, one of which, “Guards at the Gate: Race, Resistance, and Psychic Reality,” won the 2000 Affiliate Council Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Stephanie Pass, Ph.D., is in private practice in San Francisco, treating children and their families, and teaches and consults to preschools and professionals locally and nationally. Her work has been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, fort da, and JICAP: The Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Violet Pietrantonio, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst and a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is particularly interested in expanding the research of the oneiric functioning of the mind. She has written papers about the development of dream work in the session, as proposed by Bionian Field Theory. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy.