Contributors

Heli Morales Ascencio, Ph.D., was awarded the 2020 Sigourney Award. His significant contributions to psychoanalysis are well known not only in México, but also in other Latin American countries and in Spain and France. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, as well as a Master's Degree in Psychoanalytic Theory from the Center for Research and Psychoanalytic Studies of México and a postdoctoral degree from the Colegio de México. He is particularly interested in the clinical application of psychoanalysis to low-income and other vulnerable populations.

Fernando Castrillón, Psy.D., is a practicing personal and supervising psychoanalyst, faculty of PINC, a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at CIIS, and the founder of Foundation of California Psychoanalysis (FCP). He is also the founding director of CIIS's “The Clinic without Walls,” an innovative psychotherapy clinic serving mostly poor and immigrant communities. Dr. Castrillón is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Istituto Elvio Fachinelli ISAP (Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis) based in Rome, Italy. He is the co-editor of two books and author of numerous articles in Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and English. www.drcastrillon.com.

Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D., Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and past Editor of Rivista di Psicoanalisi. He is a recipient of the 2022 Sigourney Award. Dr. Civitarese has published several books, including The Necessary Dream: New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis; The Analytic Field and Its Transformations (with A. Ferro); Truth and the Unconscious; Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Field Theory: A Contemporary Introduction; and The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art (in pr