Notes on Contributors

Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, ABPP, is author of five books on psychoanalysis, all published by Routledge. These include his “Rediscovering Psychoanalysis” trilogy, the third of which is titled Beyond Psychotherapy , preceded by What Is Psychoanalysis? and Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay in Free Associative Praxis . He is Director of Studies with the Parkmore Institute, which introduced the first ever Doctor of Psychoanalytic Studies (a professional degree for qualified psychoanalysts), and also Senior Research Fellow with the University of Witwatersrand's Institute for Social and Economic Research. He is a Training Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association, as well as a Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. Formerly, he was a Training Analyst for a decade with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and served as Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a staff psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and International Coordinator of the Psychoanalytic Track at the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM); Co-chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Scoiety; and contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. She is actively engaged in mentoring, promoting community involvement, and socially relevant research. Research interests include creativity, psychosis, reflective function, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Marilyn is an artist, poet, and writer, having published over 100 articles and book chapters and five books, including Working With Trauma: Lessons From Bion and Lacan and Psychoanalysis and Literature; and five edited volumes, including: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O'Loughlin), and The Importance of