Notes on Contributors

George Hagman, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He is on faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Institute (TRISP), and is a training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. George is co-editor with Peter Zimmermann and Harry Paul of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer . He is also the General Editor of the Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis book series and New Directions in Self Psychology book series, both published by Routledge.

Kathleen Kelley, DMin, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. Currently, she is in her second year of an Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and is a graduate of the Blanton Peale Institute in New York City, where she trained in marriage and family therapy as well as psychoanalysis. She is a faculty practice member of the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute in New York City. She is also a member of Dr. Charles Strozier's Kohut study/writing group, which has published five journal articles including “Heinz Kohut's Theory of Aggression and Rage,” Psychoanalytic Psychology; “On Dreams,” International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; “Termination in Self Psychology,” Psychoanalytic Review; and “Sexualization in the Work of Heinz Kohut,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.

Raanan Kulka, MA, is a teaching and supervising psychoanalyst for children, adolescents, and adults at the Israel Society and Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA), and is founder and head of Human Spirit: Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program, Lod, Israel. He is a faculty member at the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, and is also a faculty member in the Program for Studies of Self Psychology, Israel Association for Self Psychology