The Reality of Doing: Discussion of Arthur A. Gray’s Paper

Gilbert W. Cole, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., has taught at the Union Theological Seminary, the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York City. He is a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Articles of his have been published in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV Positive Analyst (The Analytic Press, 2002) and a novel, Fortune’s Bastard: Love’s Pains Recounted (Chelsea Station Editions, 2013). Before becoming a psychoanalyst, he trained at The Juilliard School and worked as an actor. Dr. Cole is in private practice in New York City.
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