Notes on Contributors

Fang Fang, MD, is a chief psychiatrist and now works in private practice in Shanghai. She is an IPSO representative of the IPA Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis (COFAP); a committee member of the Chinese Medical Association's psychiatric branch on anxiety disorders; a committee member of the Shanghai Mental Health Association; and vice chairman of the youth committee of Shanghai Medical Association's behavioural medicine branch.

Robi Friedman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and group analyst, past president of the Group Analytic Society (International) of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and the Israeli Association for Group Psychotherapy, and is a board member and co-founder of the International Dialogue Initiative. He writes on innovative collective approaches to working with dreams and relational psychopathology, is a teaching group analyst in the Zurich Institute for Group Analysis, and works regularly with institutes in Ukraine, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Russia, and China. He applies a combined small/large group model in conflict dialogues like “Voices after Auschwitz” () and works with VamIk Volkan in the IDI ().

Hou Puqing works full-time as a psychotherapist at the psychosomatic department of Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital. She graduated with a master of education degree and an honours bachelor of science degree from the University of Toronto. She received years of psychodynamic psychotherapy training during and after graduation and now practises as a psychodynamic-oriented therapist.

William R. Jankowiak is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account , Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Mormon Fundamentalist Community , as well as the editor of Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? and Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures , all from Columbia Universit