Notes on Contributors

Helen M. Crohn, LCSW, DSW, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, is a retired Associate Clinical Professor. She has a private practice of couple therapy and sex therapy in Beacon, New York.

Robert M. Gordon, PhD, ABPP, is a diplomate of clinical psychology and a diplomate of psychoanalysis. He was elected honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association based on his psychodynamic research. He has authored many scholarly articles in the areas of personality assessment, ethics, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensic psychology, diagnoses, the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2 where he served as editor and researcher, and co-authored the Psychodiagnostic Chart for the PDM-2.

Seth Harkins, EdD, is principal of Harkins Educational Consulting and Advocacy, researcher, and adjunct professor with National Louis University, Chicago, IL. Retired from a thirty-seven-year career in school administration and leadership, Seth is a researcher whose primary area of research interest is group relations conferences, recovery from addiction, and persons with alternative abilities. Seth has been a group relations practitioner for thirty-five years. Additionally, Seth serves on five boards of directors, including the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, the Midwest Group Relations Center, the Illinois Community and Residential Services Authority, and Serenity Academy Chicago, as well as the China-America Society for the Study of Groups and Organizations.

Xiaochang (Jasmine) Huang, MS, MEd, is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Palo Alto University. Before pursuing psychologist-level training in the US, she earned a master's degree in educational and developmental psychology from South China Normal University. She is a Chinese certified psychological counsellor with five years of psychodynamic psychotherapy training from the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). She is the recipient of the 2018 IRC Scholar Award of Division 39 of th