Notes on Contributors

Myron L. Belfer, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Associate in Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital. He trained in general psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Boston Children's Hospital and Judge Baker Guidance Center, and is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is on the affiliated faculty of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, and former senior advisor for child and adolescent mental health at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of History of Art, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on Chinese art and on Western engagement with Chinese culture. He is curator of the exhibition “Sigmund Freud and China”, on at the Freud Museum, London, from January 2022.

Pan Dandan is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities at Tongji University. Her major research interests include: psychoanalysis and phenomenological psychopathology; focus-oriented psychotherapy; and philosophy and Chinese culture.

Vivienne Elton is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; past president and training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society (APAS) and the IPA. She is chair of the IPA and Humanitarian Organisations Committee, and visiting professor to the Psychotherapy Training Programme in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, China. She teaches and supervises in the APAS training programme, teaches infant observation in China, and works in private practice in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alf Gerlach is a medical doctor, sociologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Saarbruecken, Germany; as well as a training analyst for the German Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has publications about ethno-psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He is co-chair for the China Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association,