Notes on Contributors

Janet Lee Bachant, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, and educator. Dr. Bachant has taught psychoanalysis at psychoanalytic institutes in the New York area and in China. She is the author of numerous journal articles and co-author (with Elliot Adler) of Working in Depth: Framework and Flexibility in the Analytic Relationship . Her book Exploring the Landscape of the Mind: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy addresses the impact of relational trauma on development. She maintains a private practice in New York City.

Christopher Chamberlin, PhD, is a Candidate Psychoanalyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in California and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the history and afterlife of racial slavery from a variety of clinical, theoretical, and historical angles, with an emphasis on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, and Willy Apollon. Chamberlin is an active member of a number of psychoanalytic organizations based in Berlin, Quebec, and California, and serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Patricia Ticineto Clough, PhD, LP, is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY. She is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she also is a member of the Training Committee and the Chair of the Curriculum Committee. Among her publications are Autoaffection , The Affective Turn , and The User Unconscious .

Nathan Gorelick, PhD, is Term Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College and author of The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature Between Ideology and the Unconscious . He has completed the six-year cycle of the Training Seminar in Lacanian Psychoana