Notes on Contributors

Ricardo Ainslie is Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas, Austin. His books include No Dancin' In Anson: An American Story of Race and SocialChange and The Psychology of Twinship . His credits also include the documentary film, Crossover: A Story of Desegregation , and (as researcher and originator) a photographic exhibit entitled “Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community.”

John Bird is Reader in Psycho-Social Studies in the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. As well as teaching undergraduate courses in race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of the body, he has a range of research interests, including ethnic and other forms of hatred, psycho-social approaches to virtual reality, and processes of exclusion in educational setting. He is associate editor of the on-line Journal of Psycho-Social Studies.

Mark B. Borg, Jr. is a practicing psychoanalyst and community/organizational consultant working in New York City. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute's psychoanalytic certification program and continues his candidacy in their organizational dynamics program. He is co-founder and executive director of the Community Consulting Group. His primary area of interest and research is the exploration of psychoanalytic/community psychology intersections.

Kalina Brabeck is a third-year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Doris Brothers, Ph.D. is a co-founder of and training and supervising analyst at The Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York City, and she serves on the advisory board of The Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology (IASP) in Toronto. She is the author of Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self Experience, and co-author with Richard Ulman of The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma. She has written seven chapters i