About the Contributors

Title: Manic Depressive Cycles of the Poet Shelley

Author: Milton L. Miller, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chairman of the University of North Carolina-Duke Psychoanalytic Institute. He is engaged in the teaching and training of psychiatrists in psychoanalytic training and is the author of numerous articles on psychoanalytic topics, psychosomatic disorders, and a book, A Psychoanalytic Study of Marcel Proust.

George Frumkes, M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Southern California and a Training Analyst of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been interested in the application of psychoanalysis to literature and, conversely, the influence of philosophic attitudes on the theory and techniques of psychoanalysis, as illustrated in two of his papers, “The Oedipus Theme in the Stories of the Opera” and “The Impairment of the Sense of Reality in Psychoneurosis and Everyday Life.”

Louis Fraiberg, PH.D.

Professor of English and Chairman of the Department at the University of Toledo. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan with a dissertation which became his book, Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism. He has also contributed to scholarly and scientific journals on the relation between literature and psychoanalysis, his special field being the modern age which, defined flexibly, includes the time of Shelley. He has taught courses in the Romantic Period and is an admirer of the poetry of that age. He has also been a special lecturer in the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute.

Maurice N. Walsh, M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles and on the Faculty of the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has published papers on psychiatric aspects of the lives and works of Leonardo da Vinci and Pietro Aretino, on ego psychology, on the psychopathology of Nazi leaders, and on unconscious motivatio