Notes on Contributors

George E. Atwood, PhD, is Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) at Rutgers University and a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York. He maintains a private practice of psychotherapy in Clinton, New Jersey, and is the author of The Abyss of Madness and many coauthored papers and books with Robert Stolorow, Donna Orange, and Bernard Brandchaft.

David P. Celani, PhD, is retired from private practice. His publications focus on the application of Fairbairn's model to the treatment process and include: The Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting , The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser (, Korean edition, , Russian edition, ), Leaving Home: How to Separate From Your Difficult Family (, Korean edition , Romanian edition, ), and Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting . He has presented workshops on Fairbairn throughout the country since 2001.

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 (Rodopi). 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 interest is in relating psychoanalytic experience with quantum mechanics. He is also a published poet; many of his poems appear in the recently published Between Hours, edited by S. Akhtar (Karnac Books). He is a member of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the American Psychoanalyti