Contributors

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. He lectures internationally and publishes widely on various subjects, including the theory of the analytic field, Bion, and post-Bionian psychoanalysis. His books include The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field, The Necessary Dream: New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis, Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism, The Analytic Field and its Transformations (with A. Ferro), Truth and the Unconscious, An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis (with A. Ferro), and Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis. He edited Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reading A Memoir of the Future and co-edited The W. R. Bion Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades. He is the past editor in chief of Rivista di Psicoanalisi, the journal of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.

Lawrence J. Brown, PhD, is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI) in both child and adult psychoanalysis, and a supervising analyst and co-chair of the child analysis program at BPSI. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and is president of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of Intersubjective Processes and the

Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives, and Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment. He co-edited, with Howard Levine, Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy, and with Gabriela Lego