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Title: Omnipotence and the Avoidance of Pleasure: A Contribution to the Problem of Separation Anxiety
Author: Richard P. Alexander, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California and Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is on the Faculty of the Extension Division of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has a particular interest in problems relating to separation anxiety and its psychosomatic correlates and has written a number of papers on these subjects.
Arthur Malin, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California and on the Faculty of the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis. For some years he has been part of a study group of psychoanalysts meeting to discuss object relations theory, identification, and related topics. He is co-author of an article entitled “Projective Identification in the Therapeutic Process” which just appeared in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Elizabeth R. Zetzel, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Training Analyst of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Her analytic training was received in London, where Melanie Klein was one of her teachers. She has published several authoritative critiques of the Kleinian approach and many other papers on psychoanalytic problems.
Norman A. Levy, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California. He is President and Training Analyst of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and has written on various aspects of psychoanalysis.
Edwin F. Alston, M.D.