About the Contributors

Irene M. Bravo, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and full-time faculty member in the doctoral program at Carolos Albizu University, Miami, Florida, where she teaches courses with an emphasis on developmental issues and psychopathology. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Florida International University and maintains a private practice in Miami, Florida. Dr. Bravo has previously published on the relation among performance evaluations, context effects, and individual differences and also on anxiety sensitivity and hypochondriasis in older adults.

Morton Chethik, MSW, completed his training as a child psychoanalyst in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1966. He was on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan for 30 years and became Professor Emeritus in 1996. He has also been on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute for the past 30 years and was founder of their Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Program. He is the author of more than 30 articles, as well as the text Techniques of Child Therapy: Psychodynamic Strategies, now in its second edition. Mr. Chethik is a founding member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Social Work.

Vivian Farmery, CSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a doctoral candidate and Adjunct Professor at the Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at New York University and co-founder of the Center for Individualized Education.

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, PsyD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in East Lansing, Michigan. She is Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University in the College of Human Medicine and in the Department of Psychology.

Howard D. Lerner, PhD, ABPP, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School. He is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Instit