About the Contributors

Title: On Regression: A Workshop

Edited By: John A. Lindon, M.D.

Workshop Leaders L. Bryce Boyer, M.D.

Peter L. Giovacchini, M.D.

Co-Chairman of the Research Committee of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois. For almost two decades he has been using psychoanalysis in the treatment of severe characterological and schizophrenic disorders. He has published 12 papers and a book concerning this work.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois and on the Clinical Staff of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively on creativity, psychosomatic problems and the treatment of characterological problems, using an ego psychological perspective focusing primarily on object relationships. He and Dr. Boyer coauthored Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenic and Characterological Disorders.

Edwin F. Alston, M.D.

President of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California. He is on the Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches at the Letterman General and Mount Zion Hospitals. Especially interested in the problem of anxiety and in superego function, Dr. Alston has given papers and seminars on these subjects.

Norman B. Atkins, M.D.

President-Elect and Senior Faculty Member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California. He participated on the 1965 American Psychoanalytic Association panel, “Severe Regressive States During Analysis,” has written papers on “Severe and Psychotic Regressions in Analysis” and “Acting Out and Psychosomatic Illness as Related Regressive Trends” and has been engaged in the psychoanalytic investigation of psychotics, borderline states and severe psychosomatic disorders.