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 National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) Training Institute and the former director of the doctoral program in pastoral counseling at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Paul C. Cooper, MS, NCPsyA, is a member, training analyst, clinical supervisor and faculty, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Board of Directors, member and faculty, Center for Spirituality and Psychotherapy; Advisory Board and Faculty, Harlem Family Institute; and Faculty, Institute for Expressive Analysis. He is on the Editorial Board of Groundwater: Journal of Buddhism and Psychotherapy; the author of numerous articles; and recipient of the 1996 NPAP Ernest Angel Award for “Affects and Self State: A Case Study on the Integration of Buddhist Analytical Meditation and Psychoanalysis.” Cooper maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Westchester.

Michael Crocker, DSW, LCSW is the founder of the Sexuality, Attachment and Trauma Project, and a private practitioner working with individuals, couples, groups and organizations. He also functions as an Adjunct Professor for the Social Work Department at Iona College, Rutgers University, and Touro college. Dr. Crocker is the chair of the New York State Society of Clinical Social Work-Met Chapter Committee on Sexuality and Gender.

Andrew Erdman, PhD, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society and currently teaches at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. In addition, he holds a doctorate in theatre studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is the author of Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay (Cornell University Press, 2012) and other works.

Uta Gosmann, PhD, is a licensed psychoanalyst, writer, and literar