Notes on Contributors

Gary Ahlskog, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and master hypnotist practicing in New York City and Jamesport, N.Y. He is a former president of the NPAP Training Institute and the former director of the doctoral program in pastoral counseling at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion.

Robert Friedman, LMSW, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in psychoanalysis with adults, as well as the treatment of children of all ages. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University, taught at NPAP, is a Clinical Instructor at Mt. Sinai Hospital in the Psychiatry Department, and is on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review. He also practices clinical hypnosis and was a co-founder of CATCH (Center for the Advancement of Training in Clinical Hypnosis). He has published papers on various subjects including the psychology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the psychoanalytic theory of male homosexuality, the use of dreams for diagnostic evaluation, and the role of the testicles in male psychological development.

Leide Porcu, PhD, is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she graduated from the Adult program in 2007. She is a graduate of the Beck Institute's extramural program in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She earned a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, and was a scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. Leide was an adjunct professor at both Columbia and Fordham Universities in anthropology and worked as a therapist at Mental Health Providers of Western Queens before moving to full private practice in 2010.

Yaakov Roitman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and supervisor at the Association for Children at Risk and supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the “Barzilai” University Hospital, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel. He holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Bar