Notes on Contributors

Salman Akhtar, Md, is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His 71 books include 16 solo-authored, as well as 47 edited books in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has received numerous awards, the most recent being the prestigious Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar has also published eight volumes of poetry and is Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

Rosemary H. Balsam, Md, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, and Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School; Staff Psychiatrist, Yale University Student Mental Health and Counseling; and Training and Supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has published on female development, the history of psychoanalysis, and the work of Hans Loewald; edited two issues of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on Mothers and Daughters; and published prizewinning papers on the pregnant Mother and the body image of her daughter and the integration of male identity into a female gender portrait. Her latest book is Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis . On the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago, she is also co-editor of the Book Review section of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Nick Davies, MSc, MA (Clin. Psych.), is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has a particular interest in the importance of the paternal function in psychic development and its concomitant application in psychotherapeutic practice. This area is the focus o