Contributors

Sara Boffito, is an IPA Psychoanalyst and member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. She is an IPA expert in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. Along with being Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, she is also a member of the editorial board for Rivista di Psicoanalisi (Journal of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society) and for the COWAP IPA Book Series (Routledge). Besides publishing and presenting several works in international journals, congresses and collective books, she also translates foundational English language authors of psychoanalysis into Italian.

Barbara D'Amato, PsyaD, LP, is on the faculties of the 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 had an interest in dreams and dreaming for many years, presenting internationally and writing extensively on literary authors and their dreams, the function of aggression in dreams, and the modern psychoanalytic approach to working with dreams. She is in private practice in New York City; Bay Ridge and Union Square.

Trevor Pederson, PsyaD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Laramie, Wyoming. Dr. Pederson is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Controversial Discussions and is author of The Economics of Libido: Psychic Bi-sexuality, the Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex (Routledge, ) and Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, ). The Economics of

Libido won the Gradiva award for best book and his 2020 article ‘Narcissism, Echoism, Perfection, and Death: Towards a Structural Psychoanalysis’ was nominated for best article.

Michael Sendrow is a recent graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS), with an M.A. from the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (NYGSP). Since earning his B.A. in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Pennsylva