Contributors

Dana Amir, Ph.D., is a Full Professor, Head of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at the University of Haifa, and Editor in Chief of the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis. Supervising and Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. Author of four psychoanalytic books and the winner of literary as well as academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards.

Eric Essman, M.A., co-chairs the Visiting Scholar Committee PINC Institute of Northern California. He is a frequent contributor of book and film reviews to fort da.

Alice Feller, M.D., is a Board-certified psychiatrist and analyst member of SFCP, where she has taught psychoanalytic listening and psychoanalytic writing. Her own writing has appeared in JAPA, fort da, Interconnecting Circles, and in the opinion pages of the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of several books, including: Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?; Freud's Footnotes; Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing; Why Do People Get Ill (with David Corfield); The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression; What Is Madness?; Strictly Bipolar; Hands; Why Can't We Sleep?; Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering, and Satisfaction; and Is It Ever Just Sex? He writes frequently about contemporary art.

Patricia Marra, MFT, is Member and Faculty, SFCP. She is co-chair of SFCP's San Francisco Yearlong program, as well as past Book & Film Review Editor and current member of the fort da Editorial Board. She has published several reviews and interviews in that journal. She also teaches a variety of courses for candidates and students in several venues throughout the Bay Area. Patricia Marra maintains a private practice in San Francisco.