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. Dr. Ahlskog is the Book Review Editor at The Psychoanalytic Review.

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychoanalysis at Columbia University and a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). Her primary areas of academic and clinical expertise include identity, dissociative disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Author of Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia , Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche , and Aural History , Dr. Ashtor is in private practice in New York City.

Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Dr. Busch has published over 80 articles and edited and co-edited several books, primarily on the method and theory of treatment. His work has been translated into 11 languages. In 2023 he was editor (with Natacha Delgado) of The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later. His most recent publication is How Does Analysis Cure? Essays on Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts .

Marwa Elshakry, PhD, teaches the history of science at Columbia University and is currently also a candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). She has published numerous articles, translations, edited volumes, and books, including Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950 , and is a Senior Edito