Notes on Contributors

Mikita Brottman, DPhil, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She is the author of a number of books and articles, most recently Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-Transference to Projective Identification (London: Karnac Books, ). She is a psychoanalyst in private practice. For more information, go to mikitabrottman.com

Daniel Burston, PhD, chairs the Psychology Department of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Legacy of Erich Fromm , The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing , and Ego, Ethics and Evolution: Erik Erikson and the American Psyche . He is currently writing a biography of Montreal-based psychiatrist Karl Stern.

Paul Cooper is the former Dean of Training, a senior member, training analyst, clinical supervisor, and on the faculty at NPAP. He is a faculty member at the Institute for Expressive Analysis, where he also serves as a training analyst and as a clinical supervisor. He is the director and principal teacher at the Zen Center of Wayne County located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous award-winning poems and articles. His recent book, The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter, was published by Routledge . Paul Cooper maintains a private psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in New York City.

Sylvia Flescher, MD, is a Clinical Instructor, Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member and past President of the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society. She has been a member of the New Directions program of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis since its inception in 1998 and credits her development as a writer to the support of the colleagues and writers that make up its unique community.

Ahron Friedberg, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a former National President of the American Soc