Notes on Contributors

Ayelet R. Barkai, MD, is a Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and a member of the teaching faculty of the Cambridge Health Alliance Division of Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, she is a member and on the teaching faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she serves on the Committee on Gender and Sexualities, and corresponding member of the PINE Psychoanalytic Center, where she graduated from her adult psychoanalytic training in . She has a private practice in adult and child psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vera Békés, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, and the Jewish General Hospital, and is in practice in Montreal. She studied psychology and philosophy at Eötvös Lóránt University in Budapest, and received her clinical psychologist training as well as her PhD at University of Pécs, Hungary. She conducted postdoctoral research at McGill University and the Université du Québec á Montréal. Her research focuses on trauma, depression, and the psychotherapy process, and her studies have been published in various journals and a book.

Efrat Even-tzur is a child psychologist and PhD candidate at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University. She is also a fellow of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. In her research work and social activity she explores the meeting points between the psychoanalytical, the political, and the ethical. Her doctoral work explores psychoanalytic perspectives of socially accepted violence.

Uri Hadar, PhD, is professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University (TAU). He received a BA in mathematics and psychology and an MA in clinical psychology from TAU, and a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of London. His research interests include Relational and Lacanian psychoanalysis, functional neuroimaging of language, and coverbal gesture. He is the author of two Hebrew books on psychoanalytic psychothe