Notes on Contributors

SHELDON BACH, PHD, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Contemporary Freudian Society. He has authored four books, three edited books, and written many articles. In 2007 he received the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

DAVID CELANI, PHD, worked for 26 years in private practice in Burlington, Vermont, specializing in the treatment of borderline patients. His clinical focus has been on the application of Fairbairn's structural theory to major character disorders. In 1993 he published The Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting (International Universities Press) followed by The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser (Columbia University Press, ). This text applied Fairbairn's structural model to the dynamics of the battering couple and won honorable mention in 1994 from the Association of American University Presses. This was followed by a text designed for patients tided Leaving Home, How to Separate from Your Difficult Family (Columbia University Press, ) and most recently Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting (Columbia University Press, ). He has also published papers on Fairbairn's metapsychology in The American Journal of Psychotherapy, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is currently a workshop presenter for Premier Educational Solutions Incorporated.

LEE GROSSMAN, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, a faculty member of the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Therapy Training Program, and a clinical supervisor at the San Mateo County residency training program in psychiatry.