The complex subject of psychosis

About the Authors Marilyn Charles is a psychologist on staff at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the co-chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and is affiliated with Michigan State University, the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, and Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. She has published and presented extensively and is the author of four books: Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience (Analytic Press, 2002), Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor (Rodopi, 2004), Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians (Analytic Press, 2004), and Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan (Jason Aronson, 2012). Michael O’Loughlin, professor at Adelphi University, New York, is on the faculty of Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and in the School of Education. He is a clinical and research supervisor in the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology and on the faculty of the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi. His interests include psychosis, intergenerational trauma, and issues in child therapy. He is co-chair of APCS.