Notes on Contributors

Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD, is a control and training analyst and faculty member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). He is on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review and Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is the author of numerous psychoanalytic papers; his latest text is Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind, and Analysis Today (IPBooks), for which he won the 2017 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He is also the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Educator Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. He is a former president of the NPAP Training Institute as well as of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Thomas Olver is an independent researcher and freelance translator living in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied English, French, German, comparative literature, and psychology (Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Zurich) and has lectured at universities in South Africa and Switzerland. Olver favors a collaborative approach to epistemology and his research and teaching interests include psychoanalysis, aesthetic theory, gender studies, semiotics, modern literature, narratology, post-colonialism, the history of ideas, and translation. His research into Freud's radical sexual theory is ongoing and will be further covered in future essays on this material.

Inbar Sharav Ifergan, MA, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervises psychology interns and trainees. Sharav Ifergan writes and lectures about the treatment of eating disorders from the perspective of self psychology. She is a member of the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, and a founder and leader of their scientific writing group. She is the former manager of the Eating