Notes on Contributors

Ricardo C. Ainslie, PhD, a native of Mexico City, is a psychoanalyst who uses books, documentary films, and photographic exhibits to capture and depict subjects of social and cultural interest. He holds the M.K. Hage Centennial Professorship in Education at the University of Texas at Austin and is the director of the university's Mexico Center. His books include No Dancin' in Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change (1995), The Psychology of Twinship (1997), Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas (2004), and The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War (2013). His films include Crossover: A Story of Desegregation (1999); Looking North: Mexican Images of Immigration (2006); and Ya Basta! Kidnapped in Mexico (2007), The Mystery of Consciousness (2010), and The Mark of War (2017). He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Philosophical Society.

Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck, PhD, practiced psychoanalysis as a clinical psychologist in Brazil for many years before moving to Germany in 2000. There, she carried out studies on cultural issues, leading to the award of her PhD in Natural Sciences (Psychology) in 2005, from the Faculty of Information and Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen. Her clinical practice is focused on work with highly at-risk populations, such as forensic patients with personality disorders and traumatized refugees. Dr. Castrechini Fernandes Franieck is a registered Counselling Psychologist with the Health & Care Professions Council in the UK; she is a Chartered Member with the British Psychological Society, a member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, and an Associate Member of the German Society for Supervision. She is the author of On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse Reminiscence, and Cultural Ideal (2010) and Communicating With an Outsider (to be published in 2018), both from Karnac Books, London.

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