Notes on Contributors

William Buse, PhD, completed his anthropological training at Columbia University and his psychoanalytic training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City. He currently serves as Director of Counseling at The Juilliard School and maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York.

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 Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.

P. Adams Sitney, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at Princeton University. He has written Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde (Oxford University Press, , , ), Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature (Columbia University Press, ), Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics (University of Texas Press, ), Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson (Oxford University Press, ), and The Cinema of Poetry (Oxford University Press, ). His edited volumes are Metaphors on Vision by Stan Brakhage , Film Culture Reader , The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives , Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism , and The Gaze of Orpheus and Other Literary Essays by Maurice Blanchot .

Fredrika Stjärne, MFA, LP, is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is a graduate of The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, where she is currently a fellow and teaching assistant. She is a contributor to Divan and Modern Psychoanalysis.

Thomas Wagner, MA, LPsyA, NCPsyA, is a graduate and senior member of The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). He is an instructor and supervisor at NPAP, Washington Square Institute, and the