Notes on Contributors

Marisa Berwald, LSCW, is a psychoanalytic practitioner in private practice, a doctoral candidate in psychological anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Research Director and candidate at Pulsion, New York City. Her publications include: “Resurrecting the Dead Mother in Ireland: The Work of the Negative in Irish Republicanism,” in A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw, with Matthew McCoy and “Community Psychoanalysis and Its Other Ways,” in DIVISION/Review, Winter 2023.

Indy Davis is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Her research focuses on American legal history and African American history. Originally from the Netherlands, she moved to the United States for her undergraduate studies at the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender-variant communities. She is a trustee at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York City. Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism, and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference. She co-edited, with Christopher Christian, Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize) and most recently, with Manya Steinkoler, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).

Neil Herlands, LCSW, is a Senior Member, Training Analyst, Supervisor, and Faculty at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), where he serves on the Candidate Progression Committee. He received his degree from N