Notes on Contributors

Dana Amir, PhD, is a senior lecturer at Haifa University, a clinical psychologist, and a supervising and training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a poet, and a literary researcher. She is the author of six poetry books and two psychoanalytic nonfiction books (Cleft Tongue, ; On the Lyricism of the Mind, Routledge, ), and the winner of many national and international prizes, among which are the Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize , the International Psychoanalytic Association Sacerdoti Prize , and the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalytic Education (which will be granted by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in Florida, ).

Paul Cooper, L.P., PhD, a former Dean of Training, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), is a faculty member, clinical supervisor, and training analyst for NPAP, the Institute for Expressive Analysis, and the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is also an ordained Soto Zen priest, transmitted teacher, and retreat leader, and Director and Guiding Teacher at the Two Rivers Zen Community, Honesdale, Pennsylvania; the Zen & Psychoanalysis: Realizational Practice Study Group, New York City; and the Lotus Zen Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. Cooper is the author of award-winning poems, journal articles, and books, including The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter, Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and Buddhist Experience, Still Standing: Three Stones Haiku, and Solitary Moon: Contemporary Waka. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan and in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

Jason Dean, MD, is a second-year resident at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, which is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduat