Notes on Contributors

Anaëlle Bazire is a clinical psychologist and PhD student at the Université Caen Normandie. Her research focuses on specific mental processes of becoming a mother for drug addicts. She is a clinical psychologist in a drug addiction treatment center (Les Centre de Soins, d'Accompagnement et de Prévention en Addictologie [CSAPA]) and in a maternity ward.

Ofra Eshel, PsyD, is a faculty member, training and supervising analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She is a co-founder, former coordinator, and faculty member of the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Advanced Psychotherapists at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute, and of the Israel Winnicott Center; on the Advisory Board of the International Winnicott Association (IWA); and founder and head of the post-graduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. She is also the book review editor of Sihot-Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy. Dr. Eshel was the recipient of the Leonard J. Comess Fund grant at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP), Los Angeles, 2011; a visiting scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of North California (PINC), San Francisco, 2013; and awarded the Frances Tustin Memorial Prize for 2013. She was featured in 2012 in Globes (Israel's financial newspaper and magazine) as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel. She is in private practice in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Vicki E. Hutton, PhD, (Applied Psychology), is a Lecturer and Course Convenor, Graduate Diploma of Counselling, School of Counselling, Australian College of Applied Psychology. She began her career as a therapist in the 1990s, and now divides her time between counseling, academia, and research. She has always had a strong interest in the human-animal relationship, especially in the context of therapy, and thi