Contributors

Hagit Aharoni, MA, is a clinical psychologist and training psychoanalyst in private practice in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she mainly treats adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and serves as a supervising analyst. She is a senior member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and teaches and supervises at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute and the Israel Winnicott Center. Her clinical and theoretical interests include trauma, family secrets, birth and growth processes, and Winnicottian perspectives at the interface of literature and psychoanalysis. She has been involved in translating and editing psychoanalytic books into Hebrew and frequently lectures and publishes on contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Michaela Chamberlain trained at the Bowlby Centre and studied in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College Lodon (UCL). Shortly after qualifying at the Bowlby Centre in 2016, she started teaching Freud and Attachment Theory and became Chair of the Bowlby Centre. She worked as an honorary psychotherapist in two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts for several years. She has presented clinical papers at public forums, lectures internationally and has been published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy, Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, New Associations and The New Psychotherapist Magazine. Her book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, was released in June 2022, her latest book, On Resisting Women will be released in February 2026. She is in private practice in London as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and is a supervisor and training therapist.