Notes on Contributors

Salman Akhtar, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is currently the Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. His 56 books include Broken Structures , Quest for Answers , Inner Torment , Immigration and Identity , New Clinical Realms , Objects of Our Desire , Regarding Others , The Damaged Core , Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy , The Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis , Immigration and Acculturation , and Matters of Life and Death , and an additional 37 edited books in the realm of culture and psychoanalysis, including Freud along the Ganges , The Crescent and the Couch , Freud and the Far East , and The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives , which deal with India, the Islamic world, Far Eastern culture, and the African American population of the United States, respectively.

Harold P. Blum, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Training Analyst, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Executive Director, Sigmund Freud Archives; President, Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund; Past Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and Past Vice President, International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the author of more than 150 psychoanalytic papers and several books, and the recipient of numerous awards and lectureships, including the inaugural Sigourney Award, Mahler, Hartmann, and Lorand Prizes; S. Freud lectures in New York, London, Vienna, and Frankfurt; A. Freud, Hartmann, Brill, Friend, and Sperling Lectures, and two plenary addresses to the American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition, he is Chair of four symp