Contributors

Jorge Canestri is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Italian Psycho-analytical Association and the Argentinean Psychoanalytic Association. He is a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and is trained in Linguistics and Epistemology. Consultant to several research programs in Italy and other countries on the analysis of discourse and on multilingualism, he has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in Italy and elsewhere. He is presently Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association, Member of several Committees of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Director of a home page on ‘Psychoanalysis and logical mathematical thought’. He has written (with Jacqueline Amati-Mehler and Simona Argentieri) The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension.

Yolanda Gampel is Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytical Society. Yoland Gampel is Past President of the Israel Psychoanalytical Society and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and in the School of Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University

Max Hernández is a Member and former President of the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society and is a Member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He is currently Training and Supervising Analyst at the Peruvian Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has been Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and has been a recipient of the Sigourney Award.

Michael Hölzer has been Deputy Chief at the Psychotherapeutic Hospital, Stuttgart since 1997. He was Postgraduate Research Fellow at Downstate Medical Center, New York between 1984 and 1986. He has trained in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Department of Psychotherapy at Ulm University, the Ulm Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA), and the German Psychoanalytic Association in Ulm.

Horst Kächele trained in psychotherapy at the Department of Psychotherapy, Ulm University and