Introduction to special issue on psychoanalysis, trauma and community: Expanding our analytic identity: The inclusion of a larger social perspective

About the AuthorsJudie Alpert is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Professor of Applied Psychology and Co-Director of the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program at NYU. She is the author of many works and recipient of numerous awards; she practices psychoanalysis in New York City.Elizabeth Goren is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Pace University. She has published and presented on expanding psychoanalytic theory and technique for greater public accessibility. Her most recent work is Beyond the Reach of Ladders (Open Gate Press, 2011).Andrea Rihm holds a Master’s in Art Therapy from New York University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her interests revolve around art therapy and psychoanalysis, trauma and immigration.