A Note From the Guest Editors

Todd Essig, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He has served on the Editorial Boards for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. For 16 years, until 2009, he was Director of The Psychoanalytic Connection (psychoanalysis.net), becoming widely known among colleagues as a pioneer in the innovative uses of information technologies for mental health professionals. He currently writes “Managing Mental Wealth” for Forbes, where he covers the intersection of technology, public life, and private experience. His clinical practice is in New York City, where he treats individuals and couples, almost all of whom come to his office.
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Gillian Isaacs Russell, PhD, is a UK-trained psychoanalyst who is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She has served on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychotherapy, as Book Reviews Editor, and is now a member of the Reviewing Panel. Her book Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy was published by Karnac Books in 2015. Dr. Russell is internationally known as a lecturer, author, consultant, and researcher. She speaks and teaches on technology and its impact on intimate human relationships, particularly in psychotherapeutic treatment. She currently lives with her family in Boulder, Colorado.