Editors and Contributors

Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski, MD, is a Child and Adult Psychoanalyst trained at the British Psychoanalytical Institute. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and a member of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Washington Psychoanalytic Center for Psychoanalysis, the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Association of Child Psychotherapists, London, UK. She is the founding Chair of the two-year Infant and Young Child Observation Program (Esther Bick model) at the Washington School of Psychiatry. She has written on eating disorders in childhood and adolescence, on unilateral termination in psychoanalysis, on projective mechanisms used as a defense against depressive anxieties, on interpretation and difficulties in psychoanalytic technique and on psychoanalysis with women that were sexually abused in early childhood. She has been a psychoanalytic peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the New Library of Psychoanalysis, London, UK.

Alberto Pieczanski, MD, is an Adult and Child Analyst trained at the British Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Training Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. Since his graduation, Dr. Pieczanski has written and presented papers on a number of subjects; his main interest is psychoanalytic technique. Amongst others, he has presented papers on projective identification, analytic treatment of perverse and delinquent patients, and psychoanalytic perspective on films. He was a staff member of the Portman Clinic, which treats perverse and delinquent patients, and the Adolescent

Department of the Tavistock Centre, both in the UK, and did institutional consultations. He has given workshops in the USA, and run study groups on technique from a Kleinian and post-Klenian perspective. He is a member and faculty of the Washington Center for Psyc