Contributors

Frances Bigda-Peyton, EdD, Cert Psya, is a faculty member the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) and serves as a member of the research committee. Her current interests are in couples’ treatment, integrative medicine that incorporates conventional and Eastern therapies, and eco-psychology—in particular, resistance to making needed structural, cognitive, and affective changes to address climate change.

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. His most recent books include Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis, London 2018; Vitality and Play in Psychoanalysis (with A. Ferro), Milan 2022; Psychoanalytic Field Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, London 2022; The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art, London 2023, in press; On Arrogance: A Psychoanalytic Essay, London 2023. In 2022, he received the Sigourney Award.

Barbara D'Amato, Psya D, LP, is on the faculties of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis at New York (BGSP-NY), where she serves as a clinical supervisor and training analyst. She is director of the CMPS Distance Learning Program. She has been interested in group work since her days as a special education

teacher and has written about the group process in psychoanalytic training. She leads ongoing psychoanalytic groups from her private practice in New York City.

Dan Gilhooley, PsyaD, LP, is a visual artist and psychoanalyst on the faculties of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS). Elected to the National Academy of Design, he has held 18 one-person exhibitions, and in 1995 received NAAP's Gradiva Awa