Contributors

GALIT ATLAS, PhD, is on the faculty at the postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at New York University, and faculty in the four-year adult and national training programs at National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and, with Lewis Aron, of Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice. Atlas serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and writes on gender and sexuality. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City.

M. GERARD FROMM, PhD, is distinguished faculty, Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and assistant clinical professor, Yale Child Study Center. He was the first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute and directed the therapeutic community program at Riggs for many years. Dr. Fromm has taught at, and consulted to, a number of psychoanalytic institutes across the country. He is president of the International Dialogue Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that studies the psychodynamics of societal conflict, and past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Dr. Fromm has presented and published widely, including Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma across Generations; A Spirit That Impels: Play, Creativity and Psychoanalysis; and a book of clinical papers, Taking the Transference, Reaching toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area.