Notes on Contributors

Gary Ahlskog, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, certified practitioner in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and master hypnotist practicing in New York City and Jamesport, New York. He is a former president of the Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the former director of the doctoral program in pastoral counseling at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion.

Beth Gonzalez-Dolginko, EdD, LCAT, ATR-BC, has worked as art therapist for 46 years, in academia for 28 years, with children and adults in psychiatry, addictions, PTSD, chronic illness, developmental disabilities, and child development. Beth is published in the areas of art therapy in public schools, in short-term psychiatry, with adults with ASD, and with those with medical illness. She is approved by New York State as a provider of continuing education contact hours for LCATs, and is on two NYS Boards for the Professions: Mental Health Practitioners and Applied Behavior Analysis.

Leon Hoffman, MD, is a psychiatrist and child and adolescent psychiatrist; a training and supervising analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis; and co-director of the Pacella Research Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Hoffman is on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst at the West End Day School in New York City. He is author of Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children With Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach, co-written with Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout.

Ryan LaMothe, PhD, is professor of pastoral care and counseling at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana. He has written extensively in the areas of psychoanalysis, psychology of religion, and political theology.

Siamak Movahedi, PhD, FIPA, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston; training and supervising analyst, and the director of