Salman Akhtar, M.D., F.A.P.A., is Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. A Training and Supervising Analyst at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, he is the author of Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment (1992) and A Quest for Answers: Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders (1995) and the author or editor of more than 100 other scientific publications. Dr. Akhtar has also published four volumes of poetry.
Marcianne Blevis, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, is Director of the Department of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies at the Hôpital Ste.-Anne and is a Member of the Cercle Freudien in Paris. The co-founder of the psychoanalytic journal Patio, she has published numerous articles in journals of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and art.
Monique David-Ménard, psychoanalyst, is a Member of the Société Freudienne de Psychanalyse and is Vice President of the College International de Philosophie, where she directs a program in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of books and articles including Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis, trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1989) and Les constructions de l’universel (Paris: P.U.F. 1996).
Joel Dor, psychoanalyst, is a Member of the Association de Formation Psychanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique. He is in charge of lectures and is Director of Research in the Department of Training and Research in Clinical Human Sciences at the Université Denis-Diderot, Paris VII, where he teaches psychopathology and psychoanalysis. Widely published on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, he is the author of The Clinical Lacan and Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language as well as the author/co-author of two books forthcoming from Other Press: Structure and Perversion and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice.
Pierre Fédida, psychoanalyst, is a Member of the Association Psychanalytique de France and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is a Professor in the Department of Training and Research in Clinical Human Sciences at the Université Denis-Diderot, Paris VII, where he directs the Laboratory for Basic Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis. The Co-Director of the Revue Internationale de Psychopathologic, he has published numerous articles and books, including Crise et contre-transfert (Paris: P.U.F. 1992) and Site de l’etranger (Paris: P.U.F. 1995).
Judith Feher Gurewich, Ph.D., practices psychoanalysis in Cambridge, MA. She is affiliated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and is a Member of the Association de Formation Psychanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique in Paris. Dr. Gurewich is the Director of the Lacan Seminar at Harvard University’s Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. She has published a number of papers on various topics in psychoanalysis and the social sciences in French and American journals and is the editor of “The Lacanian Clinical Field” series, published by Other Press.
Jacques Hassoun, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, is a founding member of the Cercle Freudien in Paris. He has directed scientific meetings throughout the world and regularly lectures and offers clinical supervision in Montreal and New York. Among his many books are Les Indes Occidentales (Paris: Eclat 1987), Fragments de langue maternelle (Paris: Point Hors Ligne 1993) and La cruauté mélancholique (Paris: Aubier 1995).
Nicholas Kouretas, M.D., is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has lectured and published on subjects related to psychoanalytic epistemology and theory.
Arnold H. Modell, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of Object Love and Reality (1968); Psychoanalysis in a New Context (1984); Other Times, Other Realities (1990); The Private Self (1994); and many articles.
Juan-David Nasio, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is Director of Studies at the Université Denis-Diderot, Paris VII and Director of the Seminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris. He is the author of many books, including Les yeux de Laure (Paris: Aubier 1987), Enseignements de sept concepts cruciaux de la psychanalyse (Paris: Rivages 1988), and Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis (Other Press 1998).
Malkah T. Notman, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. She has written extensively on the psychoanalytic psychology of women and issues related to reproductivity. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Faculty Development at The Cambridge Hospital Department of Psychiatry.
Anna Ornstein, M.D., is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry. The author of many publications on Self Psychology, she is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.
Paul H. Ornstein, M.D., is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He has written extensively on the topic of Self Psychology.
Michel Tort, psychoanalyst, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Training and Research in Clinical Human Sciences at the Université Denis-Diderot, Paris VII. He is Program Director at the College International de Philosophie and is the author of several books, including Le désir froid (Paris: La découverte 1992) and the forthcoming Le nom du père incertain, and of numerous articles.
Daniel Widlocher, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, is currently Vice President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is a Member of the Association Psychanalytique de France; Professor of Psychiatry, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI and the Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière; Director of the French National Health and Medical Research Institute division of Behavioral Psychopathology and Pharmacology; and Co-Director of the Revue Internationale de Psychopathologie. Dr. Widlöcher is the author of many books on child psychopathology, psychoanalysis, and biological psychiatry, including Traité de psychopathologie (Paris: P.U.F. 1994) and Psychanalyse et psychothérapies (Paris: Flammarion 1996).
Joan J. Zilbach, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and of the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous articles and books focusing on child and family therapy and on the psychoanalytic psychology of women.