Notes on Contributors

Emmanuelle Borgnis Desbordes, PhD, is a professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology at the University of Rennes 2 (France). She works in the Laboratory for Research in Psychopathology, New Symptoms, and Social Ties, engaged in research on psychopathology in contemporary social ties, and new symptoms in their relation to modernity, the body, and sexuality. She is the author of L'Etourdie. Féminin et modernité. De Freud à Lacan [The bewildered. Feminine and modernity. Freud to Lacan] (Presses Universitaires Rennes, 2011), and prepared an international symposium held in March 2014 entitled “Femmes de Lettres—L'expérience de L'ětre, l'écriture d'un corps” [Women of letters—The experience of being, writing a body] at the University of Rennes 2. Dr. Borgnis Desbordes is also a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP).

Lorrie Chopra, MS, is an advanced adult, adolescent and child candidate at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She also serves as a Family Consultant at Walnut Lake Preschool and Developmental Kindergarten, a psychoanalytic school. Ms. Chopra is the Associate Director of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Treatment Clinic, and teaches in the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. She has a private practice in Livonia, Michigan where she works with children, adolescents, and adults.

Gerald J. Gargiulo, PHD, is a former president of the Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis as well as of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review as well as Psychoanalytic Psychology, and is an associate editor of the book series Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a member of the faculty of NPAP, has lectured extensively both here and abroad, and has hosted his own radio show, “The Psychotherapist's Corner.” He has authored two books and published over a hundred articles. His current inter