Contributors to This Issue

Kesstan Blandin (USA) received her doctorate in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, in March 2011. Her dissertation critiqued Jung's concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, and typology in light of current knowledge and theories of structures of the self in cognitive neuroscience. She works as a research psychologist at the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging, Lebanon, NH, in psychosocial interventions with dementia families and provides education and consultation services on all aspects of dementia to families, professionals and the public. Email: kesstan@gmail.com

Angela M. Connolly (Italy) is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in practice in Rome. She is a member of CIPA with training and supervisory functions, a member of the training commission and a faculty member. She lived and worked in Russia for five years. Previously deputy editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, she is currently on its advisory board. She is the Honorary Secretary of the IAAP. Angela has published widely in both English and Italian and her most recent works are: ‘Analyzing projections, fantasies and defenses’, published in Jungian Psychoanalysis edited by Murray Stein and ‘Healing the wounds of our fathers: intergenerational trauma, memory, symbolization and narrative’ (JAP, 57, 5). Email:

Elena Pourtova (Russia) is a member of IAAP and the Russian Society of Analytical Psychology in private practice in Moscow. Assistant professor, head of Consulting Psychology at High Psychology School (Moscow), she is a lecturer at Moscow Association of Analytical Psychology and also a supervisor of the IAAP supervision programme in Moscow and Krasnodar and chief-editor of the journal Jungian Analysis. Her publications include ‘Moscow is like a sweet berry’ in the book Psyche and the City: A Soul's Guide to the Modern Metropolis edited by Thomas Singer (Spring Journal Books, ) and ‘The hope of finding home: explorin