Notes on Contributors

Derrick Hassert, PhD, is a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago and a Professor of Psychology at Trinity College in Palos Heights, Illinois. Dr. Hassert received his BA, MA, and PhD in Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology (interpersonal psychoanalytic psychotherapy) and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (transference-focused psychotherapy). Dr. Hassert is currently a candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.

Bruce Laing, MA, has a BA in Dramatic Arts and English Literature, Honours in Psychology, and an MA in Clinical Psychology. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Johannesburg, and is currently training as a psychoanalytic candidate with the South African Psychoanalytic Association. He is also a member of the South African Psychoanalytic Institute and of the Groups for the Reading of Psychoanalysis.

Ehud Levi, MA, has a master's degree in clinical psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He works at the Hadassah medical center. Over the past decade, he has volunteered and worked at Enosh—The Israeli Mental Health Association and at the Jerusalem Mental Health Center.

Merav Roth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a training psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She is a researcher of hermeneutics and culture, focusing mainly on the interdisciplinary link between psychoanalysis and literature. She is the chair of the psychotherapy program, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and the former chair of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis and the founder and former chair of postgraduate Klein studies, both at the Sackler psychotherapy program. Roth has published chapters in books and articles (both in English and in