Psychoanalyzing the Apocalypse: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Melvin Bornstein, M.D., is a training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Email: melvinbornstein@gmail.com
CONTACT Daniel Goldin, Psy.D. daniel@danielgoldinpractice.com 1515 Hope Street, Suite 202, South Pasadena, CA 91030.

Cynthia Chalker, MSS, LCSW, is a licensed social worker in private practice in New York City and a graduate of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is on faculty at the Harlem Family Institute and has presented papers in the United States and internationally on the intersection of Race, Cultural Identity, and Psychoanalysis. In 2020, Cynthia was a keynote speaker at the 31st Annual NIP Conference and a Panel discussant at the IAPSP International Conference Series. Email: cyndecent@gmail.com

Mauricio Cortina, M.D., is the Director, Center for the Study of Attachment and Human Evolution, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C. He is on the faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., and the Instituto Mexicano de Socio-psicoanálisis A.C Cuidad de México. Email: mcortina1945@gmail.com

Daniel Goldin, Psy.D., is a training and supervising psychoanalyst practicing in South Pasadena, California. He serves as an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Psychoanalysis: Self and Context and is on the faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He has written articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis: Self and Context, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Email: daniel@danielgoldinpractice.com

George Hagman, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He is on the faculty of the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, and the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of published papers and several books. Aesthetic Experience: Beauty, Creativity and the Search for the Ideal, Rodopi (2006); The Artist’s Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art. Modern Artists and Modern Art, Routledge (2010); Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process, Routledge (2015); New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning, Routledge (2016); and Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists, Routledge (2016). In 2019, George co-edited Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer. He is also the General Editor of the Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis book series and New Directions in Self Psychology book series published by Routledge. Email:

Gianni Nebbiosi, Ph.D., is president, founding member and supervising and training analyst, of Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Sé e Psicoanalisi Relazionale, Italy. He is a founding and board member of International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, a member of the international council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a corresponding member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is also on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Eurpopean journal “Selbspsychologie.” Email:

Educated in philosophy, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D., teaches at NYU Postdoc (New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and at IPSS (Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York), and in private study groups. She held the Freud Fulbright in Vienna in 2018. Recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), and The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis (2016), and Climate Justice, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2017), and Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear (2020). Email:

Judith Rustin, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City. She has lectured and authored numerous papers on Intersubjectivity Theory and integrating Intersubjectivity Theory with Infant Research and Neuroscience. In 2013, W.W. Norton published her book, Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire. She is a coauthor with B. Beebe, S. Knoblauch, and D. Sorter (2005) of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Her current interest includes finding ways to integrate psychoanalysis and social action. She is in Private Practice in New York City. Email:

Andrew Samuels, D.H.L., is former Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex, UK; Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology; Founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility 1995; Elected Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy 2009-2012; and Founder Board Member, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 2002-2015. He works as a political consultant internationally. Selected publications: The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father (1989); The Political Psyche (1993); Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life (2001); Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy Politics; Selected Works of Andrew Samuels (2015); and A New Therapy for Politics? (2017). A selection of video lectures is on www.andrewsamuels.com. Email:

Joye Weisel-Barth, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a senior instructor, training analyst, supervisor, and Board Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Her psychological and analytic practice is in Encino, California. Joye is a frequent contributor to major psychoanalytic journals and serves on several editorial boards. She is author of the forthcoming book, Narrative Perspectives in Psychoanalysis: Creating Intimate Fictions. Email: