Notes on Contributors

Paula L. Ellman, PhD, ABPP, is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington, DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is overall chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, as well as on the board of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). She is a visiting professor at the Sino-American Continuing Training Project for Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan, China. She has written and presented in the areas of women and psychoanalysis, unconscious fantasy, sadomasochism, and trauma. She has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Alf Gerlach, MD, is a sociologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Saarbruecken, Germany. He is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV); past-president of the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology; and former chair of the IPA's China Committee; as well as Director for the German-Chinese training programme in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Shanghai Mental Health Center; and past-president of the German-Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy. He has many publications about ethno-psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis.

William Jankowiak, PhD, is Barrick distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was twice a visiting distinguished professor at Fudan University (2008 and 2011) He is an internationally recognised authority on urban Chinese society, urban Mongols, Mormon fundamentalist polygyny, and love around the world. He is the co-author with Robert L. Moore of Family Life in China.

Jia Xiaoming is professor of psychology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Institute of Technology. Professor Jia conducts research into the theory and practice of psychological counselling, including grief