Notes on Contributors

Frederick Feirstein's poem “Fairytales” is from his ninth book of poems, Dark Energy. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, a training analyst at the NPAP, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry.

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris, and is also an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

He is the author of four books on Lacan, a translator of Lacan's work into English (including Seminar XX: Encore, and Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English), and has written a novel whose main character is loosely based on Lacan: The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal (London: Karnac, 2010).

Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD, is former Dean of Faculty as well as President of the NPAP Training Institute, a member of the faculty and on the Editorial Boards of this journal as well as Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has published numerous professional articles and is the author of Psyche, Self and Soul as well as Broken Fathers/Broken Sons . He has served for art critic for The East Hampton Independent. He maintains a private practice in Stamford, Connecticut.

Linda Jacobs, PhD, is a practicing psychoanalyst and an associate professor of School Psychology at Long Island University. She has published professional articles in psychoanalytic journals and has coauthored two books, which are based on relational and attachment theories: Parent therapy: A relational alternative to working with children and Parent-focused child therapy: Attachment, identification and reflective functions.

Charlotte Kahn, EdD, Senior Member of NPAP, is a psychoanalyst and family therapist in private practice. She has held te