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Title: From Gradiva to the Death Instinct
Author: Lawrence J. Friedman, M.D.
Training Analyst in the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis. He was Dean of the Institute's Training School, President of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Friedman has written psychoanalytic papers and a book, Light Up the World … Letters from a Psychoanalyst. Two of his major fields of interest are concerned with Shakespeare and with psychiatry and the law.
Mortimer Ostow, M.D.
Associate Attending Psychiatrist at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has followed the controversy on the death instinct for a number of years and has made some contributions to this and other aspects of instinct theory, relating them to concepts which have been developed in ethologic theory.
Max Schur, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Training and Supervising Analyst, Division of Psychoanalytic Education, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York. Author of the following books which pertain to Dr. Friedman's paper: The Problem of Death in Freud's Writing and Life, and A Reconsideration of the Concepts Id and the Regulatory Principles of Mental Functioning.
Hanna Segal, M.B.CH.B.
Training Analyst in the London Institute of Psychoanalysis, and is a well known exponent of Melanie Klein's work. She has published many papers, two most relevant to this subject are “The Fear of Death” and “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetics.” She wrote Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein.
Martin Grotjahn, M.D.