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 G. Deasy, NCPsyA, LCSW-R, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the analytic training program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) and a faculty member, supervisor, and training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).

Nicolas Evzonas, PhD, is a psychodynamically oriented therapist with a private and institutional practice in Paris. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society (CRPMS) at the Paris Diderot University. He is the author of some forty articles in the fields of literature, cinema, psychopathology, and psychoanalysis written in French, English, Greek, and Portuguese. He is currently a guest co-editor for a special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on “Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Issues in France: Sexualities, Gender, Class, and Race.”

Laurie Laufer is a psychoanalyst and professor at the UFR Institute of Humanities, Sciences, and Societies (IHSS) at Paris Diderot University. She is the director of the Centre for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society (CRPMS) and was previously president of the scientific committee of the Emilie du Châtelet Institute. She is co-editor of the “Psychoanalysis in Questions” series at Hermann Editions. As the author of numerous articles on norms, psychoanalysis, and gender as well as on psychoanalysis and literature, she co-edited with Amos Squverer Foucault et la Psychanalyse and with Florence Rochefort Qu'est-ce que le genre? , translated into Spanish and Italian. She also wrote L'Enigme du déuil and Lettres à Lacan .

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