Notes on Contributors

Michael Eigen, PhD, is the author of 22 books, including The Psychotic Core, The Sensitive Self, Contact With the Depths, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, and Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis. He is a senior member and on the faculty of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, where he was editor of The Psychoanalytic Review. He is a faculty member and supervisor at the New York University Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He gives a private seminar on Bion, Lacan, Winnicott, and his own work that has been ongoing for forty years.

Edwin Fancher, PhD, is a psychologist licensed in New York State. He is the founding president and a faculty member of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a member, faculty member, and training and supervising analyst of the Contemporary Freudian Society; a member of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association; and a member of The International Psychoanalytical Association.

William Freedman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in English literature at the University of Haifa in Israel. Since retiring in 2003, he has taught part time and serves on the board of governors at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He took a PhD in English literature at the University of Chicago a very long time ago, an MA in Clinical Psychology a decade or so later, and worked as a clinician in Israel after moving there in 1969. He has published books of literary criticism on Lawrence Sterne and Edgar Allan Poe, an oral history of baseball fans, and about 50 essays on literary criticism and theory, as well as three books of poetry and poems in many journals and magazines. His book on Joseph Conrad will be published by the University of South Carolina Press in April 2014.

Paul Gedo, PhD, obtained his degree from the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He was on the sta