Contributors to the Issue

Verena Kast, PhD, was professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich and is currently a training analyst and lecturer at the C.G. Jung-Institute Zurich. She is president of the Curatorium and the author of numerous books including The Dynamics of Symbols: Fundamentals of Jungian Psychotherapy (Fromm Psychology, ) and Father-Daughter, Mother-Son. Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes that Bind Us (Element Books, ). Email: kast@swissonline.ch

Christian Maier, MD, is a neurologist and psychiatrist. A psychoanalyst (DGAP, DGPT, DPG) in private practice in Bonn, he is a training analyst at the Institut for Psychoanalysis in Rhineland in Cologne and at the C.G. Jung-Institut in Munich. His publications include titles in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnopsychoanalysis and anthropology. Email: christian-maier@onlinehome.de

Andrew Samuels is a training analyst of the SAP and professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex. Former chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, he is co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility and founder board member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His many books have been translated into 19 languages. In 2014 he will publish Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals and Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics. Email:

Martin Schmidt is a training analyst of the SAP and teaches widely both in the UK and abroad. His JAP paper ‘Psychic skin: psychotic defences, borderline process and delusions’ won the Fordham prize for best clinical paper in 2012 and was nominated for the Gradiva award by the NAAP in 2013. His latest publication is a chapter entitled ‘Freud's cancer’ in The Topic of Cancer (Ed. J Burke, Karnac ). He has worked for over 20 years as a psychologist in psychiatric rehabilitation with psychotic and borderline patients. He is the IAAP liaison for Serbia and provides support,