Contributors

Avner Bergstein, MA, FIPA, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and a faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He maintains a private practice working with adults, adolescents, and children and has worked for several years in a kindergarten for children with autism. He has authored numerous papers exploring the clinical implications of Bion's and Meltzer's writings and is the author of Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into unmapped mental life: Beyond the spectrum in psychoanalysis (Routledge, ). As a visiting lecturer at various psychoanalytic institutes, he also conducts reading seminars on the works of W. R. Bion. He has received the IPA 2021 Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award and the Holtzman Interdisciplinary Prize for 2024.

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center. As Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), she is committed to mentoring future generations of psychoanalytic scholars, clinicians, and researchers. Her own research focuses on creativity, psychosis, metacognition, and the inter-generational transmission of trauma. She has published and presented widely. Books include Working with trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan and Echoes of trauma: Meaning and identity in psychoanalysis .

Tim Foljahn, MA, LP, is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. A graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) as well as the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis,

Foljahn is also a musician and visual artist. He was previously an associate editor for Modern Psychoanalysis and is now the newest editor in chief of this publication.

Danielle Knafo, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with expertise in the treatment of psychosis. At Long Island University's clinical psychology doctoral program, she chaired a concentration on serious mental illness. She is on the faculty and a supervisor at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in P