Walking the Tightrope of Emotional Dwelling

George E. Atwood, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology (Emeritus) at Rutgers University and founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York. He maintains a private practice in Clinton, New Jersey, and is the author and coauthor of many books, including The Abyss of Madness and, with Robert Stolorow, Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism.
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Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., is a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City. He is the author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2011) and Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (Routledge, 2007) and coauthor of eight other books. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Riverside in 2007.