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.

Tenille Blair-Neff, LCAT, LP, ATR-BC, is a creative arts therapist, psychoanalyst, and professional counselor in private practice in Branson, Missouri. An advanced candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), she is also a working artist and serves as the Board President of the nonprofit organization the Southern Missouri Arts Connection.

Harold Blum, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is the former Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives and the author of many papers and books, including Defense and Resistance: Historical Perspectives and Current Concepts, Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views, and Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis: Childhood Revisited and Recreated. Among other honors, Dr. Blum was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award.

Donald L. Carveth, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. A training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, he helped found the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse, of which he is a past Editor-in-Chief. His most recent publication is Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, ). He is in private psychoanalytic practice in Toronto.

E. Francisco Danielsen, PhD, received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico and