Notes on Contributors

Dana Amir, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a faculty member at Haifa University (head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis), poet, and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books and two psychoanalytic nonfiction books: Cleft Tongue (Karnac, ) and On the Lyricism of the Mind (Routledge, ). Her papers have been published in psychoanalytic journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is the winner of many national and international prizes, including The Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize , the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) Sacerdoti Prize , IPA Hayman Prize , and the IFPE Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award .

Karen Lombardi, PhD, is a professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She is the author, along with Naomi G. Rucker, of Subject Relations: Unconscious Experience and Relational Psychoanalysis, and has written over thirty journal papers and book chapters on psychoanalysis and applied psychoanalysis. She is in private practice, as psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, with adults, children, and couples.

Merle Molofsky, NCPsyA, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a senior member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), and serves on the faculty of NPAP and on the Advisory Board and as faculty at Harlem Family Institute (HFI). Two volumes of her poetry have been published by Poets Union Press, and her novel, Streets 1970, by IPBooks. She received the 2012 Gradiva Award for Poetry from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Thomas Olver is an independent researcher and translator living in South Africa. He studied English, French, German, comparative literature, and psychology (University of Pretoria, University of the Witwatersrand, University of