Notes on Contributors

George E. Atwood, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, Founding Faculty Member at Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (New York), and coauthor (with R. Stolorow) of Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory and (with R. Stolorow and D. Orange) Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis.

Judith Brisman, PhD, is the founding Director of the Eating Disorder Resource Center in Manhattan. She is co-author of Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends (3rd edition, 2009) and she is on the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. Dr. Brisman is an associate editor for the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she is a supervisor of psychotherapy and on the teaching faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. She has published and lectured extensively regarding the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders and is in private practice in Manhattan.

Ofra Eshel, PsyD, is faculty, and training and supervising analyst, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the International Psychoanalytical Association; co-founder, former coordinator, and on the faculty of the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Advanced Psychotherapists, the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute; co-founder, coordinator, and on the faculty of the Israel Winnicott Center; lecturer at the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University; and Book Review Editor of Sihot-Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy.

William H. Gottdiener, PhD, is professor of psychology and director of the addiction studies program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, where he is also a member of the doctoral faculties in the programs in forensic and clinical psychology. In addition, he is a voluntary attending psychologist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center and a research affiliate of the