Notes on Contributors

Mariana Gaitini, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a candidate in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She is a teacher and academic coordinator at the Psychotherapy-Psychoanalytic oriented program at the University of Haifa, Israel, and also teaches in the postgraduate program, “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs,” in the Advanced Studies Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University Israel. She specializes in trauma and primitive mental states and works in a private clinic in Haifa.

Dinah M. Mendes, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who has written on a range of psychoanalytic subjects for Azure, Division/Review, Encounter, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Forward, and Tikkun. She is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and has a private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City.

Joyce M. Rosenberg, JD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, a senior member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), and a faculty member of its Training Institute. She is on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review, a contributor and research associate for Clio's Psyche, and an editor of Other/Wise. She is on the faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance and is a supervisor at the Blanton- Peale Institute. Her publications include papers about psychohistory and the impact of cultural and societal changes on psychoanalytic practice.

Merav Roth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a training psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She is a researcher of hermeneutics and culture, focusing mainly on the interdisciplinary link between psychoanalysis and literature. She is the chair of the psychotherapy program, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and the former chair of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis and the founder and former chair of postgraduate K