Contributors

Marilia Aisenstein is a Training Analyst of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and Past president of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute. She is a member of the editorial board of the Revue Française de Psychanalyse, co-founder and editor of the Revue Française de Psychosomatique. She has been chair of the IPA’s International New Groups, and the European representative to the IPA’s Executive Committee. She presently works in private practice, gives seminars in both the Hellenic and the Paris Societies, and is the President of the Executive Board of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society’s Clinic. She has written 130 chapters and papers on psychosomatics and hypochondria. She received the Maurice Bouvet Prize in 1992.

Donald Campbell is a Training and Supervising Analyst for children, adolescents and adults at the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a past President of the Society. He is also a former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association. For thirty years he worked at the Portman Clinic, a National Health Service outpatient facility in London, assessing and treating in psychoanalytic psychotherapy children, adolescents and adults who were violent or delinquent or suffered from a perversion. His published work includes the subjects of child sexual abuse, perversion, suicide, violence, self-analysis, adolescence and horror film monsters. His most recent publication is Working in the Dark: Understanding the Presuicide State of Mind , which he co-authored with Rob Hale.