Defenses and Morality: Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Did his doctoral work in psychology at the University of Southern California, where he went on to teach in the Graduate Program for nine years. He is currently teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpentaria, California. While at USC, Dr. Gabrinetti was introduced to Jungian analytic psychology and followed up his research interests in analytic psychology in San Francisco, Zurich, Switzerland, and in Los Angeles at the C.G. Jung Institute, where he was certified as a Jungian Analyst. He has served on their Board of Directors, is on the teaching faculty in their Analytic Training Program, and has also been certified as a Jungian Child Analyst. Dr. Gabrinetti has been in private practice for over 30 years in Woodland Hills and Santa Monica, California. He is currently working on a book that examines the work of Adam Smith from a psychoanalytic perspective with Professor Şule Özler.

Received her economics PhD from Stanford University and her PsyD from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Professor Özler, who currently works at the Economics Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, also taught at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and Stanford University and has won national awards such as the Hoover Institution national fellowship and a fellowship at the National Bureau of Economics. Prior to obtaining her doctorate in psychoanalysis, Professor Özler published a wide range of articles in major journals on international trade, finance, and women in economics. She has written a psychoanalytically oriented paper on John Stuart Mill's life and his essay “The Subjection of Women.” In addition, she is currently working on a book that psychoanalytically analyzes the works of Adam Smith and on a psychoanalytic analysis of alienation in Marx. Dr. Özler has a psychoanalytic/psychotherapy practice in Santa Monica, California.