Contributors

Umi Chong, MBE, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a third-year candidate at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Washington, DC, working with adults from various sociocultural backgrounds. Her area of interests include the Kleinian philosophy of mind, race and cultural identity issues, and bioethics.

William F. Cornell, MA, maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, PA. Bill is a founding faculty member of the Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies. He is editor of the Routledge book series Innovations in Transactional Analysis and past editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal. Bill has written and coauthored numerous books in transactional analysis and psychoanalysis. He was the recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for Transactional Analysis Gold Medal, in recognition of his writing.

Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bicultural individuals. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and culture. He focuses on the role culture plays in determining an individual's role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation..

Santiago Delboy, LCSW, MBA, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago, IL. He is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, a reflective practice supervisor at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, on faculty at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, a clinical associate faculty member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and serves on the board of Expanded Mental Health Services (The Kedzie Center) in Chicago. His most recent paper, on race and social class in the therapeutic dyad, was published in 2020 in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Website:

Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate m