Contributors

Ipek S. Burnett, PhD, is a Turkish-American author, cultural critic, and educator. She is the author of A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence (Routledge, ) and the editor of Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections (Routledge, ). She is a contributing writer at CounterPunch and a published novelist and essayist in Türkiye. In addition to her scholarly and literary work, she serves on the boards of organizations dedicated to social justice, human rights, and democracy, including PEN America, 826 Valencia, and the Human Rights Watch Executive Committee of San Francisco. For more information please visit ipekburnett.com.

Laura Farha, MDiv, LCSW, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a private practice stretching from Berkeley to Beirut. She works primarily with people who navigate life through multiple cultural systems. Trauma, displacement, dislocation, and the shaping effect of the social on the unconscious are important ideas that influence her thinking and work. Laura is a co-founder of the Beirut Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, a member of American Middle Eastern/North African Psychological Association, and a steering committee member of the Coalition for Clinical Social Work.

Jennifer Hall, PhD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice based in New York City.

Lori Horowitz, BFA, is an artist based in New York. Her career began as an arts professor, set designer, union scenic artist, curator, and then gallerist. She has had fourteen solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 national gallery and museum group exhibitions. In 2016, she founded the nonprofit ArtSpace, serving as director and curating twenty-seven exhibitions. She continues her independent curatorial work and is currently the President of the New York Society of Women Artists. Horowitz has participated in art residencies in Bushwick, Havana, Cuba, and MASS MoCA. Her work has been featured nationally and int