Notes on Contributors

Gary Ahlskog, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, certified practitioner in neuro-linguistic programming, 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.

Ido Ariel is in the Vocal Department, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem, Israel. He studied at the Beer-Sheva Conservatory, the Jerusalem Academy, and the Royal College of Music, London, where he wrote a doctorate on the subject of vocal coaching and the songs of Schoenberg for voice and piano. Since 2012 he has been the director of the “Shira-Shir” concert series, presenting concerts dedicated to the classical as well as the Israeli art song with prominent Israeli singers.

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.

Ephrat Havron is with the Human Spirit-Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program, and the Bibliotherapy Department, the David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel.

Lee Jenkins, PhD, LP, is a psychoanalyst in privat