Notes on Contributors

Sheldon Bach, PhD, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the author of several books, including The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love and Getting from Here to There, as well as, most recently, A Handbook for Students of Psychoanalysis. He is a recipient of the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for “outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of Psychoanalysis.”

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She serves as Contributing Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society and has presented her work nationally and internationally, publishing over ninety articles and book chapters and six books: Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience ; Constructing Realities: Transformations through Myth and Metaphor ; Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians ; Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan ; The Stories We Live: Life, Literature, and Psychoanalysis ; and an edited volume with co-editor Michael O'Loughlin, Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering .

Frederick Feirstein, LP, NCPsyA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City as well as a training analyst and supervisor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He has published many papers, particularly on the key metaphor in the psychoanalytic dialogue and dreams, in such journals as Partisan Review and The Psychoanalytic Review. He also is a poet and playwright. His ninth book of poems, Dark Energy, was published two years ago in the Grolier Established Poets Series. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a McArthur Award nominee, and twice a Pulitzer Prize nominee. His fo