Notes on Contributors

Lou Agosta, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Ross Medical University at Saint Anthony Hospital, Chicago, where he teaches empathy lessons to third-year medical students. He is the author of three books on empathy, including A Rumor of Empathy: Resistance, Narrative, and Recovery in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is also author of three popular treatments of empathy, including Empathy: A Lazy Person's Guide. Agosta received a PhD in Philosophy from The University of Chicago and is committed to expanding empathy in the individual and the community. He is an empathy consultant and dynamic therapist in private practice in the Chicago area.

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.

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.

Jeffrey Berman, PhD, is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at