Contributors

BARBARA D'AMATO, Psya.D, LP is on the faculties of Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (NYGSP). She is director of the CMPS distance learning program. She has written and presented numerous papers on adolescent treatment, emotional communication, dreams, education, and psychoanalytic perspectives of literary characters and their authors. She is in private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

VIRGINIA S. ELLIOTT, LMHC, is on the faculty of BGSP where she serves on advisement and school-internship committees. She has presented on clinical work with children in the schools. She is in private practice in Brookline, MA and works with children in the Boston public schools.

WILLIAM J. HURST, PhD, LP, a graduate of CMPS, is a member of the faculty and a training analyst and supervisor at CMPS. He is also the director of the extension division at CMPS. He has been affiliated with three other psychoanalytic institutes, has published papers in philosophy and psychoanalysis, and translated Francoise Davoine's La Folie Wittgenstein, published as Wittgenstein's Folly by YBK Publishers. A teacher of philosophy, his interest in psychoanalysis is intertwined with his philosophical research. He has been studying Lacan's work for almost 50 years, and is a long-time member of the Lacanian