Notes on Contributors

Anna Aragno, PhD, Italian born, was educated in England and came to New York on a Fulbright in the 1960s. With a background in the arts and humanities and fluent in five languages, she resumed academic studies in the 1980s after an international career as a freelance prima ballerina. She is the author of Symbolization: Proposing a Developmental Paradigm for a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Mind , and Forms of Knowledge: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Communication , as well as many scholarly papers. Nominated for the Goethe Award in 2009, her paper, “Silent Cries, Dancing Tears: The Metapsychology of Art Revisited/Revised,” 2011, was selected as a Centennial Paper by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Since 2009 her metatheoretical interests have led to an affiliation with a new academic interdiscipline, “Biosemiotics,” a field that is forging bridges between biology and the humanities. She divides her time between a private practice in New York City, and scholarly writings and presentations, with a strong focus on metapsychological revisions.

Judy Ann Kaplan, LCSW, BCD-P, FIPA, is Education Editor and Editorial Board member of The Psychoanalytic Review; Former Dean of the Faculty and Curriculum Committee, Senior Member, Faculty member, Training and Supervising Analyst, NPAP; Faculty member and Supervisor, IPTAR; Past-President, American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work; Distinguished Practitioner, National Academy of Practice; Board of Trustees, Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education; and member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the author of numerous journal articles, contributor to the Psychoanalytic Diagnostic Manual, and co-editor and contributor to Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius. She is in private practice in New York City.

Otto F. Kernberg, MD, is Director, Personality Disorders Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division; Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medi