Contributors

BIRNKRANT, MICHAEL S., MA, is a graduate of the master of arts in psychoanalytic counseling program at Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis (BGSP), and a current student in the doctor of psychoanalysis program there. He also graduated from the school-based fellowship program at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, where he worked with inner-city youth as a clinical fellow.

D'AMATO, BARBARA, PsyaD, LP, is on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she is director of distance learning. She has written extensively about unconscious motivations of fictional characters as they resonate with the authors who create them. She also writes about dreaming and emotional communication, as each topic relates to human behaviors and clinical treatment. Recent papers include: “Aggression in dreams—Intersecting theories”; “Freud, modern psychoanalysis, and threat simulation theory”; and “Teaching modern psychoanalysis: Technique in the classroom.” She is in practice in Manhattan and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

LAQUERCIA, THEODORE, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst at both CMPS and BGSP, and maintains a private practice in New York and Boston. He was honored in 2010 by BGSP for outstanding service, and has been awarded the status of professor emeritus there. He is president of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts (SMP). He has coordinated conferences in the United States and abroad that established dialogue