Contributors

Michal Adiv-Ginach, LCSW, PsyaD, studied at Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) and Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. She received her bachelor's degree in philosophy and literature from Tel Aviv University. She has published in Modern Psychoanalysis, The Discourse of Sociological Practice and The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her private practice is in New York City.

Phyllis W. Meadow, the founding editor of Modern Psychoanalysis, was the founder and director of CMPS and of BGSP. She was the author of many papers in Modern Psychoanalysis, and the books The New Psychoanalysis and (with Hyman Spotnitz) Treatment of the Narcissistic Neuroses. She practiced in New York City and in Boston.

Hyman Spotnitz was honorary president of CMPS, and a central figure in the study and understanding of the borderline patient and preoedipal disorders, beginning with his work at the Jewish Board of Guardians in the 1940s. He was the author of The Couch and the Circle: A Story of Group Psychotherapy; Modern Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient: Theory of the Technique; Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Severe Character Disorders; and co-author of Treatment of the Narcissistic Neuroses. His practice was in New York City.

Oscar Sternbach was born in Vienna; he was related to Sigmund Freud, and knew Freud and other figures central to the earliest