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.

Brett H. Clarke, MSW, is an adult Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, where he also teaches and serves as cochair of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program. He has master's degrees in Social Work and English and Comparative Literature. Previous publications have focused on the philosophy of psychoanalytic knowledge, neuropsychoanalysis, and the meaning of “science” in psychoanalysis. He first became aware of psychoanalysis many years ago as an English graduate student at the University of Virginia, where he was also introduced to the rigors of reading with sympathy and imagination, thinking critically, and listening for meaning—lessons carried forward in his life as a psychoanalyst. He has a private clinical practice in Cincinnati.

Leanne Domash, PhD, is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, playwright, and Embodied Imagination practitioner. She has had a life-long interest in the creative process and has written and/or presented nationally and internationally on art, architecture, writing, wit and humor, theater, and spirituality as they intersect with the psychotherapeutic process. She recently published Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality: Welcome to Wonderland (Routledge, ). Leanne is Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Voluntary Psychologist, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY; and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

Michael Eigen, PhD, is a control/tra