Notes on Contributors

Gary Ahlskog, PhD, is a certified New York State psychologist, psychoanalyst, and master hypnotist. He was the co-designer and co-director of the Doctor of Ministry Program in Pastoral Counseling at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is a former president of the NPAP Training Institute.

Dolorès Albarracin, PhD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at University of Poitiers, France. Her research and publications focus on a psychoanalytic approach of cancer, psychosomatics, and narcissistic disorders. Dr. Albarracin has worked in hospital and medical institutions, and currently has a private clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Patricia Cotti, PhD in psychopathology and psychoanalysis, MA in history, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in a psychiatric hospital in Paris and a senior lecturer in clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Strasbourg (France). Her research and writings in the field of history and epistemology of psychoanalysis and psychiatry have been published English and in French. She now works on terrorism and psychological aspects of political and religious extremism.

Laura D'Angelo, MDiv, LP, is a member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology. She is an award-winning author with credits in national magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Ms. D'Angelo has a private practice in downtown Manhattan; her website is

Nathalie de Kernier, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychoanalytical Psychopathology (CLIPSYD EA4430) at the University of Paris Ouest, France. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for children and adolescents, a training psychoanalyst in the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (IPA), and a member of the Collège International de l'Adolescence (CILA).

Zoltan Kovary, PhD, clinical psychologist and litterateur, is Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical P