Contributors

Sayed Jafar Ahmadi, PhD, is a psychologist and a faculty member at Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul, one of the thirty-nine campuses of Afghanistan's public university system and its premier education university serving a female majority. He directs the school's Model Counseling Center and works with students on projects with the Ministry of Education and UNICEF to provide psychosocial support to schools that have come under violent attack. He works on weekends with Hazara girls' schools and youth organizations and publishes extensively.

Carter J. Carter, PhD, LICSW, is an adjunct associate professor at the Smith College School for Social Work and a senior lecturer at the Lesley University Division of Expressive Therapies. He serves as member-at-large on the board of directors of APA Division 39 and as president of Division 39's Section IX: Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility.

Patricia Ticineto Clough, PhD, LP, is a professor emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at CUNY and a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City, working with individuals and couples. She teaches at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she is also a member of the Training Committee and the Diversity Task Force. She is the author of several publications, most recently The User Unconscious: Affect, Media, and Measure, and coeditor of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays in the Government of Life and Death.

Katie Gentile, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, faculty at the Critical and Social Psychology Program at the Graduate Center and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival and the Gradiva Award–winning The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture , both publ