Notes on Contributors

Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, ABPP, is Senior Researcher at the WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Director, the Parkmore Institute, where he oversees the Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies. He practices psychoanalysis fulltime in Johannesburg, and, for over a decade, he was Faculty and Training Analyst with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, as well as Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Barratt currently serves as a Training Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association, as well as a Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. He is the author of numerous papers and a series of five books on the philosophy and praxis of psychoanalysis.

Mariana Gaitini, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a candidate in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She is a teacher and academic coordinator in the Psychotherapy/Psychoanalytic program at the University of Haifa Israel. She also teaches in the post-graduate 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.

Elisa Galgut, PhD, teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Her main research areas are in the philosophy of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and animal ethics. She is also a published poet.

David G. Kitron teaches and supervises at the Israel Winnicott Center and supervises students in the psychotherapy PhD program of the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine. He has published numerous articles, mainly in the domain of self psychology and Winnicott's theory and practice and is the scientific editor of psychoanalytic books translated into Hebrew by Bookworm Publishing. A collection of h