Charles Fisher, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is Deputy Director of the Science Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Chair of the Research Grants Subcommittee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Along with his colleague, Beth Kalish, he has studied dreams and dream interpreting practices among the Achuar people, an indigenous group in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador and Peru. Amazon Dreaming is the title of a forthcoming book by Fisher and Kalish.
William Fried, PhD, is neither a scientist nor a conquistador although he was elected to the society of Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society, on the presumed scientific merits of his doctoral dissertation, and he once aspired to become a bullfighter. Both occurred early in his career, the bullfighting enthusiasm late in his teens, and the Sigma Xi honor on attaining his PhD. In his time, he has been a very good teacher, and he has more recently overcome some of the most stubborn impediments to becoming a good psychoanalyst. He has written about these and other matters, but his only book is a psychoanalytic examination of movies. It is titled Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies. It is a good book and deserves more readers than it has had.
Fried is a photographer. He had three solo shows, the last several years ago. He still takes pictures, but they are in his computer, not displayed publicly. He had 12 years of experience as an officer of psychoanalytic organizations and left without looking back.
William Fried reads and writes poetry as well as memoirs. He wonders whether the time will come when the memoirs, poetry, and other candid writings by psychoanalysts will appear regularly in Pep Web listings.
Apropos that thought, he recalled that one of his poems that appeared in a psychoanalytic journal is already cited and recoverable in Pep Web.
Eugene Mahon, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published many articles on a great diversity of psychoanalytic issues. His most recent book Such Stuff As Dreams (IPBooks ) was also published in Italian as La Sostanza dei Sogn.
Edward Nersessian, MD, is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and training and supervising psychoanalyst. He has written on Curiosity and its role in psychoanalytic technique; on “re-evaluating Freud's basic tenets; On conflict theory and on dreams amongst other subjects. He is currently the director of the Helix Center for Multidisciplinary Studies.
Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD, is a psychoanalyst and a poet. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and Fellow of IPTAR. She is currently faculty at the CFS and Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. Her education at the University of Chicago introduced her to the dialogues of Plato. That gave her a sense of what she now think of as her calling. Talking with people who are willing to learn her truth and teach her theirs has been the theme of her professional life. Psychoanalysis gave her her voice and focused her listening. It made excellent use of her curiosity and her love for teaching others. She especially enjoy conversations with ancient authors, feeling like a time traveler in conversation with the past.
Arnold Richards, MD, was Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and, prior to that, Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and an honorary member of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. He published a series of five volumes of his selected papers Volume I: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Volume 3: The Psychoanalyst at Work, Volume 4: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst, and Volume 5: The World of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts. He also wrote a memoir, Unorthodox: My Life in Psychoanalysis, and he has co-edited four books. With Arlene Kramer Richards, he has founded and taught a psychoanalytic teaching program at the Mental Health Hospital in Wuhan, China and is receiving an award from the hospital and municipality in Wuhan this spring. Dr. Richards is the publisher of internationalpsychoanalysis.net
Arnold Rothstein, MD , taught psychoanalytic theory and technique for more than forty-five years. In addition he published four books: The Narcissistic Pursuit of Perfection, The Structural Hypothesis: An Educational Perspective, Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients and Making Freud More Freudian; edited seven more; and published numerous scientific papers. He was past Chair of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association, past Program Chair for North America of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and past Director of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with the New York University Medical School.
Brent Willock, PhD, studied psychology at McGill University, then earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. After several years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center, he relocated to Toronto, becoming Chief Psychologist at a clinical facility associated with the University of Toronto. He was Adjunct Faculty, York University, and Associate Faculty
Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto. He is Past President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and serves on the Board of the Canadian Institute for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is a faculty member in the Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University's Derner School of Psychology, Writing Mentor for the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation's New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking Program, Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and has contributed many book chapters and articles. He is the author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis, and The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius, and edited several books that received Gradiva and Goethe Awards. His many contributions have been honored by the Ontario Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.