Notes on Contributors

Maurice Apprey, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia, where he is also Associate Dean of Minority Affairs in the Medical School. He is a faculty member of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction and co-editor of the journal Mind and Human Interaction. He was trained in child psychoanalysis at Anna Freud's Centre for the Psychoanalytic Study and Treatment for Children in London. A prolific writer, he is author of numerous books and articles.

Nestor Braunstein is a psychoanalyst and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico, where he teaches epistemology of psychoanalysis and conducts a seminar on Freud and Lacan. He is also Professor and Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Psicoanaliticas and author of many books, including Goce, translated into French as La jouissance: un concept lacanien.

Nancy J. Chodorow is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, a faculty member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of The Reproduction of Mothering; Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory; and Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond. She is currently completing a book titled The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture.

Carl Good is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Emory University. He received his doctoral degree in Spanish in 1998 from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation, “Testimonies of Poetry in Hispanic Literature,” treats the problem of testimony as a motivated generic disjuncture between poetry and narrative. He has published articles on Mexican literature, Latin American poetry, and Cervantes.

Margie S. Howell, MSN, RN, CS, has certification as Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing and is on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University