Contributors

Sheldon Bach, PhD, is an adjunct clinical professor of psychology at the New York University postdoctoral program for psychoanalysis, a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis and of many papers, some of which have been collected in Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach (IPBooks, 2016). He is in private practice and teaches in New York City.

Chris Bell, PhD, is a visiting assistant professor of psychology at Saint Anselm College. His research considers personal experiences of change in psychoanalysis/psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy. His most recent publication is a chapter titled “Critical Perspectives on Personality and Subjectivity” in A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova Science Publishing, 2019).

Daniel Benveniste, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the Seattle area in Washington State and a visiting professor of clinical psychology at the Wuhan Mental Health Center, in the People's Republic of China. He is the author of The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis (IPBooks, 2015) and is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Website:

Ofra Bloch, PhD, is a documentary filmmaker, psychoanalyst, and supervisor in private practice in New York City. Her interests focus on psychoanalysis and social action, transgenerational trauma, and the immigrant experience.

Kate Daniels is the Edwin Mims Professor of English and director of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including In the Months of My Son's Recovery (May 2019). A graduate of the New Directions program at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, she has been a member of the writing faculty there fo