Contributors

• 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.
• Richard Grose, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who is a member of ROOM’s editorial board and book review editor for ROOM. He is interested in how culture and psychoanalysis can illuminate each other. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.
• Tom Hennes is a global leader in experiential design. For thirty years, he has led his New York−based firm, Thinc Design, in the development and design of innovative and influential museums, national memorials, aquariums, cultural attractions, and Olympic and World Expo pavilions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has written and lectured extensively on exhibitions as zones of exploration, discourse, and growth, shaped increasingly by an interpersonal–relational frame. In addition to his ongoing leadership of Thinc, he currently serves on the board of the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology.
• Eliza Jaquez, LMFT, is a bilingual psychotherapist based in New York City. She specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults. Eliza completed postgraduate adult psychodynamic psychotherapy training at NYU’s Institute of Psychoanalytic Education. She is also a graduate of IPTAR’s Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy program and an advanced candidate in the adult psychoanalytic program. She has a private practice in NoHo. Website: elizajaquez.com
• Sue Kolod is president-elect of the North America Psychanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC), a member of the board of directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), training and supervising analyst and faculty of the William Alanson White Institute, and co-leader of the Depolarization Project.
• Arsalan Malik, MD, is a practicing psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychedelic psychotherapist, and erstwhile resident of Karachi, Pakistan, currently living in Los Angeles, CA. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he supervises and teaches psychiatry residents. Dr. Malik is a graduate of the new Center of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and completed his psychiatry residency at the Menninger Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine.
• Jyoti M. Rao is a psychoanalyst and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Her article “Social Justice Activism as Interpretation in a Loewaldian World” appears in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
• Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and writer. He was born in Israel-Palestine and now lives in New York. He writes at the intersection of the psychological and the social, about subjects, collectives, and the forces that pull them together and tear them apart. He is co-editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Eyal teaches at the White Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His upcoming book is titled Belonging and Its Discontents.
• Mark Solms is director of neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is member of the British, American, and South African Psychoanalytical Associations and is an honorary member of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has won many awards, including the Sigourney Prize. He has published more than 350 articles and 8 books, the most recent of which, The Hidden Spring, was translated into 13 languages. He is the editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols.) and of the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols.).
• Jamie Steele is a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychoanalytic candidate in private practice in Washington, DC. Jamie is deeply interested in questions of justice, and the ways in which systems of oppression are woven into the core of psychic reality and normative unconscious processes and how these deeply entrenched organizing structures play out in clinical and social processes. Despite many misfittings, Jamie is also involved in the organizational life of psychoanalysis, both serving on the Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS) at ApsA and as the Diversities Committee co-chair at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. You can find her on Instagram at @jamiesteelemft.
• Lisa Zimmerman, LICSW, LCSW-C, has been a psychotherapist in the greater Washington, DC region for over twenty years. She has received training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. She is currently a student in the New Directions in Writing program.

Poets

• Charles Byrne is an erstwhile teacher of psychology and a writer with other poems forthcoming or recently published in Birmingham Poetry Review, Meridian, and Stonecoast Review.
• Nancy Kuhl is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently On Hysteria (2022) and Granite (2021). She has studied psychoanalysis as a research fellow at the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is the curator of poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. For more information, visit: phylumpress.com/on-hysteria-notes.

Artists

• Abidemi Olowonira is a Nigerian-born assemblage artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA and MFA in Houston, Texas. His work has been shown around the world, including the Sika Art Fair in Dubai and the Guangzhou Museum of Fine Arts in China, and in 2019 was awarded the Elle Decor Designer of the Year Award for his collaboration with luxury rug maker Kyle Bunting. Largely utilizing recycled hides in his work, Abidemi Olowonira explores the nuances of oral histories and mythologies carried down through generations. In addition, he studies the dissemination of mythologies from varying cultures, finding startling similarities. Olowonira also uses his work to navigate cultural complexity such as heritage and displacement. He is currently investigating the dynamically complex Yoruba culture and its migration and influences in the diaspora.
• Ray Smith has held more than 50 exhibitions around the world during the last two decades, mainly in the United States and Mexico, but also in Japan, Europe, and South America. He participated in the 1989 edition of the Whitney Biennial in New York City. Smith exhibited at the First Triennial of Drawings at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, and took part in the group exhibition called Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, which traveled from Seville, Spain, to the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunsthalle in Cologne, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Smith’s paintings are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Wurth Museum in Kunzelman, Germany, the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, amongst others. He currently splits his time between New York and Cuernavaca in Mexico.

• Shari Appollon, LCSW-R, is a Haitian American psychoanalytic candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, a private practice clinician based in Brooklyn, New York, and the associate director of clinical services at NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy, a remote group practice that provides affordable long-term therapy for LGBTQ+ adults with an emphasis on the BIPOC community. Shari is the recipient of NIP’s 2020 Educators’ Award for her paper “The Triple Entendre,” which was later published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and she was runner-up for Division 39’s 2020 Candidate Essay Contest for her paper “The Parable of the Sower.” Shari’s favorite pastimes include playing and coaching lacrosse and engaging in herbalism.
• Ann T. Augustine, LICSW, MSW, MPP, has been a practicing psychotherapist for more than twenty-five years. She is a graduate of Smith College School for Social Work, where she has taught both policy and practice courses. Ann specializes in the treatment of trauma and loss in her private practice and clinical supervision. Additionally, she works as an organizational consultant with a focus on nonprofit DEIA work. For more information, please see annaugustinelicsw.com.
• Aaron Bourne, LPC, NCC, maintains a private practice serving the greater Washington, DC, area. He has taught psychodynamic and humanistic psychotherapy at numerous universities and institutes over his twenty-year career. He is currently a faculty member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis’s Couples Therapy Training Program. He is a Gulf War veteran and a retired Air Force officer.
• 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.
• Delia Kostner, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Amherst, New Hampshire. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the PINE Psychoanalytic Institute and is currently a faculty member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her research and writing interests currently encompass what psychoanalysis has to teach us about our current environmental crises. She is co-editor of an upcoming volume Climate and Beyond in the Consulting Room. She is an amateur naturalist and avid outdoors person who spends much of her free time hiking and exploring the hills and mountains near her home.
• Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and writer. He was born in Israel-Palestine and now lives in New York. He writes at the intersection of the psychological and the social-political about subjects, collectives, and the forces that drive them and pull them together and apart. He is co-editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Eyal teaches at the William Alanson White Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His upcoming book is titled Belonging and Its Discontents.
• Jill Salberg, PhD, ABPP, is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and a member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited with Sue Grand The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma and Trans-generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference (2017); both books won the Gradiva Award (2018). Their co-written book Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction is forthcoming in May 2024, published by Routledge. She is in private practice in Manhattan and online.
• Lava Schadde is a second-year PhD student in the philosophy department at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. They are interested in social and political philosophy and feminist and trans philosophy and will dabble in critical phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy. They especially like to mull over the interrelations between embodiment, ontology, and language. Before joining the Grad Center, Lava received their bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history from the University of Zurich and studied philosophy in the master’s program at the Free University of Berlin.
• Isaac Slone is a psychoanalytic candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City. He is also currently training in the three-year Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program. He received his BA and MA from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he studied the relationship between psychoanalysis, music, and literature. At NYU Gallatin, he was honored with Interdisciplinary Academic Excellence Awards for his undergraduate work on the relationship between narrative theory and concepts of identity formation and his graduate work on psychoanalytic technique and performance studies. He is the director of programming of ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. He writes and lectures on James Joyce, the Grateful Dead, and Phish.

Poets

• Adrienne Pilon is a writer, editor, teacher, and booster of literary magazines. Recent work appears in The Tiger Moth Review, Susurrus, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, and elsewhere.
• Sara Shaheen was born in spring and raised in the mountains of the Galilee region in Northern Occupied Palestine, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is currently doing her clinical internship in Jerusalem, where she lives today. Her passion for writing poetry started when she was ten, and she’s been writing ever since.
• Katherine J. Williams, art therapist and clinical psychologist, was the director of the Art Therapy Program at George Washington University, where she is now associate professor emerita. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as Poet Lore, Passager, the Northern Virginia Review, 3rd Wednesday, the Delmarva Review, the Broadkill Review, the Widows’ Handbook, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. Her first poetry collection, Still Life, was published in 2022. Some of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Artists

• David Bloch was born in Warsaw. His life journey took him to Siberia, Uzbekistan, back to Poland, to Israel, the Netherlands, and finally the United States. He graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague and lives and works in New York City.
• Mohamad Khayata was born in Damascus and holds a degree in fine arts obtained from Damascus University. As a result of years of displacement, Khayata’s work deals with concepts of migration, memory, and identity. Evolving from photography to encompass mixed media, painting, sculpture, and music, he often combines more than one medium with photographic work to produce a multilayered exploration of identity and nation. Many of his pieces include the ongoing metaphorical—and literal—theme of the patchwork quilt, which reflects his desire to stitch Syria back together. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, including at 392RMEIL393, Beirut; Journeys Festival International, Leicester; VC & Oxfam, London; British Council, London and Brussels; the Beirut Art Fair; and Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles.

• John Alderdice is a member of the House of Lords at Westminster and a former president of Liberal International, the world federation of liberal political parties. As leader of the Alliance Party, he was a key negotiator of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, then first speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly and, subsequently, one of four international commissioners overseeing security normalization. A psychoanalytic psychiatrist, a senior research fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and executive chairman of the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford, his special interests are religious fundamentalism, political violence, and problems of indigenous peoples.
• Abdel Aziz Al Bawab, MD, is a psychiatry resident at the University of New Mexico, where he is also the chief resident of psychotherapy. He is a psychodynamically oriented psychiatrist and recipient of the fourth annual Austen Riggs Award for excellence in psychotherapy. His interests include the social unconscious and liberatory approaches to clinical practice.
• William F. Cornell, MA, TSTA, maintains an independent practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of numerous papers and books, including Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy both published by Routledge. Bill has been the editor of a wide range of books and is currently the editor of the Routledge series Innovations in Transactional Analysis. His writing centers on bridging models of psychoanalysis, transactional analysis, and body-centered psychotherapy.
• Janet Fisher, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and on the faculty at the Insitute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).  She is an editor and founding member of ROOM and is a member of ROOM’s board of directors.
• Robert Frey, MD, MPH, has been involved in international health for many years, including in India, Taiwan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Sudan, and, most recently, in Haiti. He believes the interplay between the social-psychological and political dynamics of the country is an especially important study right now. He is a member of New Directions and plays keyboard and guitar in bluegrass groups.
• Carole Geithner is a licensed clinical social worker who also holds a CPA from Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. She is the author of the novel If Only, a story about grief and resilience. Her website is carolegeithner.com.
• Dean Hammer, PsyD, is a faculty member in the clinical psychology department at Antioch University New England and practices psychotherapy in Vermont. He is a research associate with the American Psychoanalytic Association. His current research develops the theory and practice of practitioner-scholar activism.
• Marilyn Kohn has had a long career in fundraising. Most recently she was vice president for development at Temple Emanuel-El in New York City. Her seventeen years at Columbia Business School included running the executive MBA program. She also worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering and, prior to that, as a consultant. Her clients included Cancer Care, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Jewish Home and Hospital. She is on the boards of ROOM and Equity for Children.
• Alice Lombardo Maher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York affiliated with NYU Medical Center. In recent years she has been working to bring psychoanalytic theory and practice into the sociopolitical arena. She is the founder and director of Changing Our Consciousness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery of new ways of communicating across psychological divides as a way to address toxic polarization. She designed and taught an emotional literacy curriculum in an after-school program, co-created two mental health documentaries, and is presently involved in several dialogue projects, including one at Bay Community College in Michigan. Her book Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War was published in 2018.
• Alberto Minujin is a professor at the New School University, New York. Minujin is the founding executive director of Equity for Children/Equidad para la Infancia, a nonprofit working to improve living conditions for deprived children (equityforchildren.org).  A UNICEF senior officer from 1990 to 2005, Minujin is a mathematician with training in applied statistics and demography. From 2013 to 2018 Minujin served on the Board of Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP), a scientific committee at the University of Bergen. He has authored volumes, including Leaving No Children and No Adolescents Behind, Ibidem (2021), Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America, CROP-Ibidem (2017),Global Child Poverty and Well-Being, Policy Press (2012). In 2010, Minujin was awarded the Bicentennial Medal by the government of Argentina in recognition of his decades-long work on behalf of the world’s most impoverished children and adolescents.
• Diana E. Moga, MD, PhD, received her medical and doctorate degree in neuroscience from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed psychiatric residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia’s Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is currently an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and teaches courses at the center as well as across the country on sexuality, gender, and critical theory. She is the co-chair of the writing curriculum at Columbia and the Roughton Award at APsaA and has just become a training and supervising analyst at Columbia.
• Eric Shorey is a licensed psychoanalyst working predominantly with the LGBTQ+ community in Brooklyn, New York. He is an advanced candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He received his MA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research. He has also been a DJ and event producer in New York’s underground nightlife scene for fifteen years. He is a founding member of The Nobodies, an avant-garde alt-drag and performance art collective. His writing on popular culture has been published in Vice, Nylon, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone.
• Josephine Wright, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has worked with adults, adolescents, and children for more than four decades in New York City. Besides devoting more time now to fiction and nonfiction writing and her Substack blog, migrations and meditations, Jo is also a supporter and activist in environmental groups and issues and an avid student of meditation practices. She currently divides her time between New York City and northwest Washington State, where she is part of a group developing an intentional, co-housing, eco-sustainable community village.
• Elle Wynn is a psychotherapist working for two community mental health clinics in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She focused her undergraduate studies at NYU on creative writing and hopes to be able to make use of writing more in her professional life as she moves to attend an analytic training institute this year.

Poets

• Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from J Journal, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
• Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo is a Nigerian poet and the author of the micro-chapbook Sidiratul Muntaha (Ghost City Press, 2022). His work has been published or is forthcoming at Ambit magazine, Southern Humanities Review, Obsidian: Literature and Art in the African Diaspora, Oxford Review of Books, Stand magazine, Roanoke Review, Louisiana Literature, Olongo Africa, the Citron Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthology. Fasasi explores trans-Mediterranean migration, loss, sex trafficking, and, recently, transatlantic slave trade.

Artists

• Jan Cunningham is a painter and photographer. She lives and works in New Haven. Her work is represented by the Anita Rogers Gallery in New York.
• Admire Kamudzengerere completed the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten program in Amsterdam (2012). He mounted his first solo exhibition at Catinca Tabacaru New York in 2017, and that same year represented Zimbabwe at the 57th Venice Biennial. His work has was included in four additional international Biennials: Moscow (2013), Bamako (2017), Dakar (2018), and Cairo (2019). In the past two years he has been awarded two art fair prizes, the Purchase Prize by Northern Trust at EXPO Chicago (2017), and the On Demand Prize by Snaporazverein at MiArt Milan (2018). In addition to private collections around the world, Kamudzengerere’s work has been acquired into the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Block Museum at Northwestern University, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

• Libby Bachhuber, LCSW, provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision through her independent practice in Chicago and serves as clinical associate faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Her work engages with the social, political, and spiritual concerns that run through patients’ lives, including issues involving gender, race, and climate. She has facilitated reflective processes with a range of groups, including activists, elementary school teachers, and psychotherapists.
• Catherine Baker-Pitts, PhD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City who cares a lot about body liberation, gender expansiveness, sexual freedom, and body nonconformity. She offers gender-affirmative care and practices from a harm-reduction model. She earned degrees from Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University, in addition to multiple postgraduate psychoanalytic certificates. She has published scholarly articles and chapters for books in the field of gender and sexuality. She is a graduate and guest faculty at New Directions, a writing program with a psychoanalytic edge in Washington, DC.
• Philip Brunetti writes innovative fiction and poetry, and much of his work has been published in various online or paper literary magazines, including the Boiler, the Wax Paper, and Identity Theory. His debut novel, Newer Testaments, published in 2020 by Atmosphere Press, has been described in the Independent Book Review as “an innovative existential novel told through hallucinatory poetics” and is available for purchase.
• Richard Grose, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who is a member of ROOM’s editorial board and book review editor for ROOM. He is interested in how culture and psychoanalysis can illuminate each other. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.
• Mirjam Meerschwam Hadar translates Hebrew texts on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and culture studies, and sometimes fiction, into English. She works in Tel Aviv and sometimes in Amsterdam.
• Matt A. Hanson is a writer, journalist, and editor based in Istanbul. His fiction has appeared in the Write Launch, Underwood Press, the Bosphorus Review of Books, and Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature and is forthcoming for The Skewies: An Award Anthology and the Summer 2023 issue of Washington Square Review. He is the founder of the indie digital publishing platform FictiveMag.com.
• Naftally Israeli is a clinical psychologist from Jerusalem and a candidate in the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. He earned his PhD from Bar-Ilan University after studying in the Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics program there. His book, Emotional Language (2019, in Hebrew), summarizes his research about the interconnections between language and experience. He also works with children in his clinic. He answers their questions and writes about psychological issues in Einayim, a monthly magazine for children of ages six to thirteen.  He is mainly concerned about their future in the catastrophic political situation in Israel nowadays.
• Anaís Martinez Jimenez is a PhD candidate in comparative literature working on poetics, psychoanalytic theory, and race and gender studies at Princeton University. She is an analyst in training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City. She was born and raised in the international border area between Tijuana, Baja California, and San Diego, California, and while growing up in Mexico she crossed the border daily for sixteen years to go to school in the United States.
• Murad Khan, MD, works with Yale students using pharmacotherapy, individual therapy, and group therapy modalities. They use their personal and professional experiences in teaching, research, and community organizing to acknowledge their implication in oppressive institutions. A current APA Division 39 Scholar and APsA Teacher’s Academy Fellow, they have presented on the mental health concerns of QTBIPOC for the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists. They are first author of the chapter on Gender and Sexual Identities in The Psychiatry Resident Handbook—How to Thrive in Training.
• Destiney Kirby is a senior medical student in the Bronx who is pursuing a career in family medicine and public health. She is an emerging creative nonfiction essayist who explores the parallels between her past life and the one she created in her young adult years. Her work has been published in Pulse-Voices from the Heart of Medicine and Ad Libitum Art & Literary Magazine.
• Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, is the chair and cofounder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), a nonprofit that advocates for therapies that create lasting change. She is also a consulting editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, clinical associate faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and a fellow of the Lauder Institute Global MBA program. She has a private practice in Chicago, working with adults and couples.
• Chaim Rochester is a clinical psychology PhD student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as a writer, musician, and executive recovery coach. Inspired by the work of Lacan, Fanon, and Andre Green, Chaim’s clinical and research interests center on themes of alienation and liminality and the ways in which psychoanalysis might be used to address the impossibility of cohesion under late capitalism.
• Shegofa Shahbaz is a university student. She was the director of an organization in Afghanistan with programs for women’s and girls’ empowerment, but when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, that program could not continue, and she fled Afghanistan. Besides her own organization activities, Shahbaz works as a volunteer with many other organizations. She has very big dreams and is developing her abilities and skills for the day she goes back to Afghanistan to work for women’s and girls’ empowerment. She believes that one day Afghanistan will be free and peaceful and a developed country.

Poets

• Stephanie Niu is a poet and digital storyteller from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of Survived By, winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Waxwing, Ecotone, the Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is currently completing a Fulbright scholarship on immigration and labor history on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
• Diane Raptosh’s collection American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award in poetry. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013–2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. She teaches literature and creative writing and codirects the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Her newest chapbook, Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt, was published in June 2022 (Kelsay Books). dianeraptosh.com

Artists

• Mia Muratori was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She studied painting at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Beauchamp, ceramics at the Ceramics Institute in Faenza, Italy, and received her MFA from the University of Delaware. Muratori exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work reflects thoughts on the evolution of consciousness, the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of popular myths and symbols, and the understanding of universal themes.
• Reuben Sinha is an artist and an art teacher in New York City. His awards include the MacDowell Traveling Scholarship and a Fulbright Fellowship. He used both grants to return to India to study and paint. These trips awakened and challenged his notions that art can only exist in a cultural context, i.e., his art is always trying to bridge his two cultures. He was the founder and executive director of artHARLEM, a not-for-profit community arts organization that produced the Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour. He has taught drawing and anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and Spring Studio. His work is in numerous private and public collections in India, Russia, Germany, Lebanon, Japan, and the United States, including Columbia University and the Fulbright House, New Delhi.

• Zoe Beloff’s work has been featured prodigiously in festivals and exhibitions from the Whitney in New York City to the Pompidou Center in Paris to the M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. With a bent toward social activism and public engagement, she favors working (like the great mid-twentieth-century muralists she is in conversation with) in community settings that are free and readily accessible to the public.
• 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 part culture plays in determining an individual’s role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation.
• Forrest Hamer, PhD, is an Oakland psychologist and psychoanalyst who teaches at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is also the author of three poetry collections: Call and Response (Beatrice Hawley Award), Middle Ear (Northern California Book Award), and Rift.
• Limor Kaufman is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of Adelphi University, the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and the Israeli Leadership Institute in Israel. She is the recipient of the 2009 and 2015 New York University Psychoanalytic Society Grant awards for her writing and teaching about psychoanalysis, creativity, and art. Limor is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Organizational Consulting program at IPTAR, and the Couples Therapy program at the William Alanson White Institute.
• Keiko Lane is a queer Okinawan American writer and psychotherapist currently practicing in California. Her work has appeared most recently in Between Certain Death and a Possible Future, Queering Sexual Violence, The Feminist Porn Book, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Writers on Health and Healthcare, and the Feminist Wire.
• Debra Fried Levin leads NOPE: Neighbors Defending Democracy. For most of her career, she has raised money for political candidates and nonprofit groups, including US House, Senate, and vice-presidential candidates, as well as Florida State University, the Democratic Leadership Council, and NARAL, among others. She founded and leads a fundraising coaching nonprofit, MatchDotDollars (MatchDotDollars.org). Since 2017, working as a volunteer, she has spent most of her time leading NOPE. 
• Era A. Loewenstein, PhD, is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst. She is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, where she serves on the faculty. Dr. Loewenstein presents locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics, including trauma and perversion. Since 2016, Era has been teaching and writing on fascistic states of mind. Her 2018 paper “The Agitator and His Propaganda Machine: Donald Trump and the Road to American Fascism” was published in Fort Da. Recently Era contributed to and edited a Psychoanalytic Inquiry issue dedicated to Perspectives on Populist and Fascistic States of Mind (2023, In Press).
• Mireille El Magrissy is a second-year respecialization candidate at IPTAR and a photographer. She received an MA in psychoanalytic studies from Birkbeck, University of London.
• Kerry L. Malawista, PhD, is a writer and psychoanalyst, a co-chair of New Directions in Writing, and the founder of the Things They Carry Project, offering virtual writing workshops for groups in need of healing. Her essays have appeared nationally, including in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, and Delmarva Review, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She is the coauthor of When the Garden Isn’t Eden (2022) and  Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011) and co-editor of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013) and Who’s Behind the Couch (2017). Her novel Meet the Moon was released in September 2022.
• David Morse has worked as a graphic artist, a schoolteacher, and an investigative journalist. He has hopped freights, restored old houses, raised three sons, and published a novel, The Iron Bridge (Harcourt Brace,1998). Caught up in the Darfur crisis in 2005, he journeyed to South Sudan in 2007 with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. His articles and essays on human rights and environmental issues have appeared in Counterpunch, Dissent, Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, TomDispatch, and elsewhere. He is now writing a memoir about growing up white in the segregated schools of Arlington, Virginia, in the 1950s.
• Eric Muzzy is a cinematographer, photographer, and printmaker. He has toured Europe and the US doing lighting for theater and has worked as a programmer in the libraries of the American Museum of Natural History and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
• Mia Pixley, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. Mia has a PhD from CUNY Graduate Center in NYC and a professional studies diploma in cello performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (class of ’18). She has studied with Wendy Sutter (previously of Bang on a Can), Jennifer Culp (previously of Kronos Quartet), and Mark Summer (previously of Turtle Island String Quartet). Mia has performed on Grammy award–winning albums, Pixar shorts, and award-winning off-Broadway musicals and has toured annually on Windham Hill Winter Solstice Tour, led by multi-instrumentalist Barbara Higbie. Mia collaborates with artists within the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City and lives in the California Bay Area with her husband and their young son. In July 2021, she released her first full-length album titled Margaret in the Wild, which was followed by a collaborative poem-and-music project called Passage, created with psychoanalyst and poet Forrest Hamer, PhD, in April 2022. You can find all of Mia’s music on streaming services and her Bandcamp.
• Rachael Peltz is a personal and supervising analyst, faculty member, and co-director of the Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She has a private practice in Berkeley, California, and works with adults, adolescents, couples, and families.
• Annita Sawyer, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a BA and PhD from Yale, in practice for forty years. Her essays have appeared in literary and professional journals and are included among Best American Essays Notables List. Her prize-winning memoir, Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass, was published in 2015. Working to diminish the stigma of mental illness, she speaks to clinicians around the country. Her story highlights the dangers of fads in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, the long-term effects of early trauma, shame, and secrets, and the power of human connection to heal.
• Cathy Sunshine is a freelance writer and editor in Washington, DC. She volunteers with NOPE: Neighbors Defending Democracy and edits their weekly newsletter, which goes out to activists across the country. She is the author of the blog Third Age, which considers the political and personal experiences of women in midlife and beyond.
• Sara Mansfield Taber is the author of the new memoir Black Water and Tulips: My Mother, The Spy’s Wife and the award-winning Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter. She has also published two books of literary journalism and the writing guides To Write the Past: A Memoir Writer’s Companion and Chance Particulars: A Writer’s Field Notebook. Her many essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as the American Scholar and the Washington Post. A practicing social worker and psychologist with a specialty in cross-cultural human development, she has coached writers and led writing workshops at universities and literary centers and for a wide variety of communities for the past three decades.
• Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst living in Calgary, Canada. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and teaches and supervises psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary. She is president of the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a training and supervising analyst with the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is a graduate of the New Directions program in psychoanalytic writing and enjoys writing creative nonfiction with a psychoanalytic bent.
• Micki Wierman is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Howell, Michigan. She is also a fourth-year adult candidate at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

Poets

• Kim Curts Mattheussens studied German and English literature at Ball State University, the Katholische Universität Eichstätt, and Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, and creative writing at the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. She is an alum of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. Her work is published or forthcoming in the Athena Review, Punt Volat, Southword Literary Journal, and the Common, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.
• Diane Raptosh teaches creative writing and co-directs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Her eighth book, Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt, was published by Kelsay Books in June 2022.  Her collection American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in poetry. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as Boise Poet Laureate (2013) and Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013–2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence. 

Artist

• Francesca Schwartz, PhD, is a New York based artist and practicing psychoanalyst. Her work has been shown in several solo shows including “Inscription” at Mu Gallery in Chicago (June 2022); “Inscription” at M.David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn (February 2021); and “The Space Between” at Studio 1608 in Miami (November 2018); and group shows including “Space 1,” at La Sapienza University in Rome (March 2022); “Between States” at M.David & Co. Gallery (September 2022); “Arrested Heart,” at Postcards from the Edge, New York (February 2019); “Winds over Haiti,” Hampton’s Artists for Haiti, Southampton, New York (June 2018); “Prayer,” New York School of the Arts, New York; and “Female,” the National Academy Museum & School, (October 2017). Her work appears on Artsy.com and has been included in the publications Room 2.18 (November 2020) and Women United Art Magazine (May 2022). Several of her of her residencies have culminated in group exhibitions at the M.David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn. She has shown recurrently at the Lichtundfire Gallery in New York, including “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (January 2023); “Out of Bounds” (October 2022); “Speed of Light” (June 2022); and “Featherweight” (May 2022). Schwartz has an upcoming solo exhibition at Strati D’Arte Gallery in Rome in June of 2023.

• Kevin Barrett, LCSW, is in private practice in Chicago, IL. He is an active member of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and a lecturer at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.
• Michael Eigen, PhD, is a  psychologist and psychoanalyst and the author of nearly thirty books and many papers. These include The Psychotic Core, Contact With the Depths, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, The Sensitive Self, and Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis. He is a teacher and supervisor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and New York University Postgraduate Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has given a private seminar on Winnicott, Bion, Lacan, and his own work for over fifty years.
• Roa Harb, MD, lives in Washington, D.C. and is an academic associate at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society. Her medical training and current practice are in clinical pathology.
• Adrienne Harris, PhD, is faculty and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. In 2009, together with Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, she established the Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research. She coedits the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis with Lew Aron, Eyal Rozmarin, and Steven Kuchuck.
• Svitlana Matviyenko is assistant professor of critical media analysis in the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar, the political economy of information, media and environment, infrastructure studies, and Science and Technology Studies. She writes about practices of resistance and mobilization, digital militarism, dis- and misinformation, internet history, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, the Soviet and the post-Soviet techno-politics, and nuclear cultures, including the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion. She is a coeditor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a coauthor of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), and a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.
• Sebastian Thrul is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in training in Switzerland and Germany. His main clinical interests are the political dimensions of psychoanalytic technique, the application of psychoanalysis to clinical work within the public healthcare system, and questions related to gender. He has lectured and written on these topics for scientific and lay audiences. He is one of the hosts of the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis and regularly invites interesting psychoanalytic thinkers to public online conversations as part of the Free Association Lisbon’s Forward section.
• Isaac Tylim, PsyD, is a fellow at the International Psychoanalytic Association and a faculty and training analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  He is an associate professor and consultant in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Tylim was a cultural correspondent for the Buenos Aires Herald. He was also the founder of IPTAR’s Art and Society program. He maintains a private practice in NYC.
• Jiameng Xu was born in Chengdu, China, and migrated to Canada at the age of seven. Raised in Ottawa, they studied at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, earning a Bachelor of Science. They also studied at McGill University, where they completed medical school and PhD studies in rehabilitation science. Their dissertation was an ethnographic study centered on an inpatient psychiatric unit, of the experiences of family caregivers of persons living with mental illness. At present, they are a first-year resident in psychiatry, living, training, and writing in Vancouver. They are continually seeking to participate with others in spaces at the intersection of art, healthcare, and the humanities.
• Elaine Zickler received a PhD in English literature from Bryn Mawr College, specializing in seventeenth-century English literature and critical theory. Her dissertation was on the writings of Donne and Freud, tracing the history of Freud’s thinking to the practice of moral theology. She has organized international conferences on children’s literature and psychoanalysis and has taught courses in women’s literature, gender and sexuality, French theory, and Laplanche at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where she is a member and on faculty. She has a private practice in Moorestown, NJ.

Poets

• Joanne Brooks is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and head of professional practice for the British Psychoanalytic Council. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she has an independent practice, she is a training therapist and supervisor with the Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Newcastle and has exhibited her work at the Northern Poetry Festivals in 2016 and 2017: in 2016 on the theme of Northern landscapes as part of a collaborative project between poets and artists and in 2017 for Steps in Time, a poetry app guiding users on a poem-walk across Newcastle. Her MPhil thesis draws on the work of Alice Oswald and explores the relationship between poetry, the creative process, psychoanalysis, listening, and voice. In her work as a psychoanalyst and poet, she continues to explore and develop these themes.
• Terri Greco’s poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, North Carolina Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, Jacar Press, and Main Street Rag. She was the recipient of a James Applewhite Poetry Prize (Honorable Mention, 2020) and an honorable mention in Kakalak (Main Street Rag, 2019). She was a James Applewhite semifinalist (2022). She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 
• Eugene Mahon, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. He has published four books—Such Stuff as Dreams, A Psychoanalytic Odyssey, Rensal the Redbit, and Bone Shop of the Heart—and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He practices in New York City.

Artist

• Grace Bakst Wapner’s work with urethane or satin, clay or bronze, chiffon or pipe cleaners in an interactive dialogue between material and object has been determinative in her process. In the early 1970s she erected walls and barriers constructed from satin and velvet, alluding to the dual nature of our social interactions, and now, in the 2000s, after working for years with clay and bronze, on paper and on canvas, she has returned to working with fabric, sometimes conjoining the fabric with clay. Throughout, there has been a continuing belief that the implementation of color, line, texture, and form
  can evoke abstract truth. She studied painting and sculpture at Bennington College and at Bard, where she participated in the MFA summer program. But it has been her intensive day-to-day studio practice and the looking at the work of other artists that have most significantly informed her work. She has had twenty-nine one-person shows, participated in over one hundred group shows, lectured and taught, and been the recipient of honors, grants, and awards. She believes that the singular and complex practice of making art both asserts and affirms our humanity.

• Daniela Andronache holds degrees in foreign languages, law, and psychology. She is a professional translator (Romanian, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese) with a large portfolio of psychoanalytic and psychological work. Currently, she is translating the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of the IPA. Following a twenty-year career in management, she has, since, 2009, been dedicated to the study of psychoanalysis. She is now a psychoanalyst in training, living and working in Bucharest, Romania.
• Elizabeth Cutter Evert, ACSW, is a training and supervising analyst at IPTAR, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She was the founder and director of their On-Site School Program and led the IPTAR Clinical Center for the past eight years. She is on the editorial board of ROOM, where she focuses on working with authors interested in understanding cultural and political divisiveness. She is in private practice in New York City.
• Levas Kovarskis, MD, is a psychiatrist and senior psychoanalyst in the Finnish Psychoanalytical Association. With his colleagues, he helped bring psychoanalysis to his native country, Lithuania, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. He currently trains psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in Finland and Eastern Europe and is also an honorary professor and head of the psychoanalytic department at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.
• Jeanne Parr Lemkau, PhD, MFA, is a professor emerita at the Wright State University School of Medicine. She is the author of the travel memoir Lost and Found in Cuba: A Tale of Midlife Rebellion. Jeanne practices as a clinical psychologist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• Ellen Luborsky, PhD, has been in private practice with patients of all ages for decades, but she began her career by doing play therapy in a day care center. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology from NYU and did psychoanalytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program and the Stephen Mitchell Center. She assisted in Daniel Stern’s research lab while he was investigating attunement, a process she applies to her clinical work. Her study of creative writing with Grace Paley inspired her to use stories as a way to share her therapeutic journeys. She will be sharing some of those stories at WCSPP in a presentation called My Teacher Has Your Voice. Others were awarded prizes by NSYPA. She also assisted her father, Dr. Lester Luborsky, with psychotherapy research and co-authored Research and Psychotherapy: The Vital Link with him.
• Mary Mykhaylova, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco, CA. She is an instructor and supervisor at Access Institute, a supervisor at Queer LifeSpace, and a participant in the Supervision Study Program at the Psychotherapy Institute. She has a longstanding curiosity about how the sociopolitical context shapes identities and relationships and how these themes emerge in clinical work. In her writing, she is currently exploring her experience as a Ukrainian living in the United States. More of her recent work appears at Apofenie and Medium. When she is not writing or providing therapy, Mary can be found brushing up on her Ukrainian language skills. She can also be found on Twitter @marymykhaylova and online at mary.care.
• Lavinia Munteanu was born in Romania and now lives in Germany. She is a freelance architect, visual artist, and author. Her drawing, video, and poetry contributions to various exhibitions and literary magazines demonstrate her interest in cultural and political processes as well as in psychoanalysis and depth-hermeneutics.
• Elena Ozerova, MD, a psychotherapist and psychiatrist, has a private practice in Moscow. She received a medical degree at the Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Russia. She did her psychiatric training at the Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and psychotherapy training at the Novokuznetsk State Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education. She has extensive experience in public and private psychiatric clinics for the last eleven years. She is a candidate of the Association of Child Psychoanalysis Moscow (ACAM) and Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Moscow, both accredited by the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP).
• Doug Pagitt is the cofounder and executive director of Vote Common Good, a national political nonprofit dedicated to inspiring, energizing, and mobilizing people of faith to engage in civic life. He is the founding pastor of Solomon’s Porch and a founder and active member of the Greater Things Foundation. He has authored ten books on spirituality, Christianity, and leadership and has been featured by the Washington Post, NPR, the New York Times, C-Span, USA Today, the Guardian, and more.
• Cosimo Schinaia, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI, Società Psicoanalitica Italiana) and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is the director of the Department of Mental Health in Central Genoa. His latest book, Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment, has been translated into seven languages and was published by Routledge in 2022.
• Erin Trapp, PhD, lives in Minneapolis and is currently a fellow at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is a practicing therapist and has published essays on poetry, psychoanalysis, and the environment in journals such as Social Text, Postmodern Culture, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. With Ana Baginski, Anne-Lise François, and Chris Malcolm, she has also edited a volume of Yearbook of Comparative Literature (University of Toronto, forthcoming 2022) on environment and loss.

Poets

• Linda Hillringhouse holds an MFA from Columbia University. She is a first-place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award (2014) and the second-place winner of Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (2012). Her work has appeared in Lips, New Ohio Review, Paterson Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Oberon, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020. Her book of poetry, The Things I Didn’t Know to Wish For (New York Quarterly Press, 2020), was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award grand prize.
• Nancy Kuhl’s fourth book of poetry, On Hysteria, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books in 2022. She was a research fellow at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis from 2010 to 2019. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher, and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Artists

• Deborah Dancy is a multimedia abstract artist whose paintings, drawings, digital photography, and small sculptures play with the shifting intersection between abstraction and representation. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, the American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship, and the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; 21c Museum; the Baltimore Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Hunter Museum; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Montgomery Museum of Art; the Spencer Museum of Art; the Hunter Museum of Art; Vanderbilt University; Grinnell College; Oberlin College Museum of Art; Davidson Art Center; Wesleyan University; and the United States Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe. She is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC; Robischon Gallery, Denver; and Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.
• Lia Dostlieva (Лія Достлєва) is an artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist, born in 1984, in Donetsk, Ukraine. She is the recipient of several scholarships, including the Gaude Polonia Scholarship Programme for a Foreign Cultural Professional and a Visiting Fellowship for work on Ukraine in European Dialogue from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Her exhibitions include Emplotment, featured in the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary, and Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds in the  National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her forthcoming exhibition, Black on Prussian Blue (with Andrii Dostliev), will be displayed at the Malta Festival in Poznań, Poland. She is the coauthor of Licking War Wounds, published by 89books in 2022.
• Olga Shtonda is an artist and illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She studied graphic arts at Kharkiv Design and Arts Academy (2009–2015). There she fell in love with printmaking techniques, which greatly influenced her style. She creates illustrations for children’s books, book covers, magazines, and animation projects.

• Jorgelina Corbatta was born in Argentina. She has a licenciatura in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina; a master’s and a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh; and graduated as an academic analyst from Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She is now professor emerita of Latin American Literature and Culture at Wayne State University, where she was previously the director of Women’s Studies. She is also academic associate faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She has taught courses on contemporary narrative and film, Latin American literature and culture, women’s studies, literature and psychoanalysis at universities in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the United States, Sweden, France, Belgium, Austria, and Spain. In 2004 she received a Research/Teaching Fulbright Award from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She has six books published and more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is currently writing a book on “fiction/auto-fiction and intertextuality” (in Spanish) and working on an autobiographical piece. In 2017 she received the IPA/IPSO International Psychoanalytic Award for her paper “The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s Dark Desires and the Others (IPA/Buenos Aires, July 2017). In addition, she has received several awards for teaching, directing graduate students, and conducting research.
• Fang Duan, PhD, LMSW, is a Chinese Canadian living in the United States, a psychoanalyst in training at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York. Working with a diverse population from various social-cultural backgrounds, she is interested in exploring, clinically and theoretically, the implications of psychoanalytic thinking for individual and societal development.
  
• Ryan LaMothe is a professor of pastoral care and counseling at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Southern Indiana. He has published in the areas of political philosophy/theology, psychoanalysis, and psychology of religion. His most recent work is A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era (Cascade Press, 2021), and he is currently working on a monograph for Routledge Press titled A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Era: The Fierce Urgency of Now.
• Jeanne Parr Lemkau served in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua from 1971 to 1973 and considers that experience the most formative of her adult life. She is now a practicing clinical psychologist and professor emerita of the School of Medicine of Wright State University. There she taught behavioral science and introduced global health and international service to medical students. She is a student of the health care system of Cuba, an activist against the US embargo of Cuba, and the author of a memoir called Lost and Found in Cuba: A Tale of Midlife Rebellion. Jeanne lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• Kyrie Mason is an aspiring writer based in Durham, North Carolina. He is currently a graduate student in North Carolina Central University’s history program, where much of his work, both creatively and professionally, is focused on the relationship between marginalized identities and modernity, particularly where this relationship begins to intersect temporally.
• Christina Nadler, PhD, is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She holds a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in sociology, which she earned for her dissertation that blended social theory and psychoanalysis to form a new theory of denial. She is a candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society, working toward meeting IPA standards of psychoanalysis, having already graduated from the New York State License Qualifying program. She also completed the three-year Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, where she was trained in conducting psychoanalytic work with infants and their caregiver(s).
• Shelley Rockwell is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has a long-standing interest in the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, particularly in poetry and the work of a poem both in the reading and making, which invites a truthful look at the inside and outside of experience.
• Loren Sobel, MD, earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as chief resident for psychotherapy training. He is an originating faculty member at the Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies, where he teaches psychoanalytic theory and technique, faculty-by-invitation at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, and volunteer clinical faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves on the board for the Clinic Without Walls, a low-fee clinic that provides psychodynamic psychotherapy to the community for those who are uninsured or underinsured. He provides ongoing supervision and consultation to psychiatry residents and psychotherapists in the community.   

Poets

• Abdulmueed Balogun is a Nigerian poet and an undergrad at the University of Ibadan. He is a 2021 HUES Foundation Scholar and a poetry editor at the Global Youth Review. He was long-listed for the 2021 erbache-prize, was a finalist in the 2021 Wingless Dreamer Book of Black Poetry Contest. He won an honorable mention in the 2021 Whispering Crescent Poetry Prize, was short-listed for the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest in February/March 2021. Abdulmueed won the 2021 Annual Kreative Diadem Poetry Contest. He is a fellow of the SpriNG Writing Fellowship. His forthcoming works will be published in the Avalon Literary Review, the Night Heron Barks, ROOM, Watershed Review, Bowery Gothic, Subnivean magazine, JMWW Journal, The Remnant Archive, and elsewhere. He is anthologized in Fevers of the Mind Press Presents the Poets of 2020, Words for the Earth, 2021 CathalBui Poetry Competition Selected Entries, and elsewhere. He tweets from @AbdmueedA.
• Elizabeth Kandall, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a student of Zen Buddhism at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. She is enrolled in a low-residency MFA in poetry from the Queens University program in creative writing, and she serves on the board of directors at Poets House.
• Ashley Renselaer is an author, a poet, and an artist from Culver City, California, who attends high school at Windward School. Some of her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Lily Poetry Review, Lunch Ticket, Bindweed, the LOUD Journal, and Passengers Journal, among others. She has been recognized in the Live Poets Society’s High School Poetry Contest, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the New York Times. She believes in the transformative and cathartic power of storytelling to create a vision for the future while appealing to hearts and minds.

Artists

• Kelin Perry is an artist and architect born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 1979 and has since practiced architecture in Atlanta, Georgia, where she currently lives. Perry’s art centers on found materials, which she uses to evoke a sense of the fragility of beauty and the passage of time. She has cultivated a reverence for the unseen, discarded, and forgotten. Perry uses paint, paper, and other media as well, but the use of reclaimed materials is central to her work. Perry has been in group shows at Lowe Gallery as well as group shows and a solo show at Hathaway Contemporary in Atlanta. She has also been included in several shows and residencies at M. David & Co. in Brooklyn, where she is currently represented.
• Liliana Zavaleta is a visual artist who was born in Lima, Perú. She grew up in the United States and has lived and studied in Europe, the Near East, and South America. Zavaleta obtained her university degrees in French and Latin American Literature. She also studied at Parsons School of Design and was an award-winning art director before dedicating herself to her art work. Today she works full-time on her two- and three-dimensional visual work, dividing her time between Upstate New York and South America.  

• 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 (2006) and the Gradiva Award–winning The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture (2016), both published by Routledge. She is the editor of the Routledge book series Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures and the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is an associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is on the editorial board of Women’s Studies Quarterly.

• Wendy Greenspun, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and serves on the board of directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance–North America. She is on faculty and supervisor at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, at the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Couple Therapy, and on faculty at the William Alanson White Institute’s Couples Therapy Training and Education Program. She has presented papers and workshops nationally and internationally on climate psychology and provides workshops and courses for mental health professionals on ways to work with climate distress and grief. She also provides workshops on building emotional resilience for climate activists and for university students at the Columbia University Climate School. She has facilitated group forums (climate cafés) for processing climate distress. She is in private practice in New York City.

• Lee Jenkins is a professor emeritus of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, a poet, novelist, and psychoanalyst practicing on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He received his psychoanalytic training from the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). He has served as an instructor, supervisor, and training analyst at Blanton-Peale Institute, the Harlem Family Psychoanalytic Institute, and NPAP. He is the author of Faulkner and Black-White Relations: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Columbia University Press, 1981); a first book of poems, Persistence of Memory (Aegina Press, 1996); Right of Passage (Sphinx Books, 2018), a novel; and a second book of poems, Consolation (IPBooks, 2021), all of which can be purchased on amazon.com.

• Kerry L. Malawista, PhD, is a writer and psychoanalyst in Potomac, MD. She is cochair of New Directions in Writing and founder of the recent project The Things They Carry, which offers virtual writing workshops for health care and frontline workers. Her essays have appeared nationally in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, Zone 3, Washingtonian magazine, the HuffPost, Bethesda magazine, Arlington magazine, the Account, and Delmarva Review, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She is coauthor of Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011), and coeditor of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), both published by Columbia University Press, and Who’s Behind the Couch (2017), published by Routledge. When the Garden Isn’t Eden, a second “tutu book,” will be published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2022, and her novel Meet the Moon will be released in September of 2022 with Regal House Publishing.

• Kathleen Del Mar Miller, MFA, LCSW, is a poet and a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Adam Phillips’s The Cure for Psychoanalysis, Studies in Gender & Sexuality, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues (forthcoming). She is currently a member of the Training Committee for the Analytic Training program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), where she also teaches. 

• Sandy Silverman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. She is on the faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She writes about analytic vulnerability, gender, and trauma and has been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 

• Susanna Stephens, PhD, is a candidate in IPTAR’s adult program in psychoanalysis and a clinical psychologist in private practice. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and is currently a Rita Frankiel Memorial Fellow of the Melanie Klein Trust.

Poets

• Naomi Janowitz is a graduate of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. She teaches Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her most recent book is Acts of Interpretation: Ancient Semiotic Ideologies and their Modern Echoes, forthcoming from De Gruyter. She has published poetry in Response and From the Depths.

• Ayşe Tekşen lives in Ankara, Turkey, where she works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University. Her work has been included in Brickplight, the Willow Literary Magazine, Fearsome Critters, Susan, the Broke Bohemian, the Remembered Arts Journal, Terror House Magazine, Shoe Music Press, Havik: Las Positas College Anthology, Deep Overstock, Lavender Review, Voice of Eve, the Courtship of Winds, Mojave Heart Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Rigorous, Rabid Oak, the Thieving Magpie, Headway Quarterly, the Roadrunner Review, Helen: A Literary Magazine, the Ilanot Review, and Pensive.

Artists

• Eric Chasalow, PhD, is the dean of the graduate school, Irving G. Fine Professor of Music, and director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio at Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1990. He is especially well known for works that combine instruments with electronic sound but has collaborated with other musicians and artists to create a wide range of projects. The Eric Chasalow collection in the Library of Congress was established in 2009.

• Angyvir Padilla lives and works in Brussels. In her practice, she invites us to take a closer look at the places we inhabit. By examining how we embody memory, she proposes that, in the journey between immanence and transcendence, the traces of our past seep into a persistent present. The environments Angyvir creates alter our perception of reality. As our presence enters into the dialogue, the sense of otherness we encounter reveals the essence of her work. Master with distinction, Fine Arts department, Luca School of Arts, Brussels (BE), 2018, Master with distinction, Sculpture department, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels (BE), 2015, Bachelor, Art in the public space, ARBA, Brussels (BE), 2012, among other distinctions. Read more: https://angyvir.com/.

• 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.

• Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate member at IPTAR and is secretary for the IPTAR Board of Directors. He is an associate editor for ROOM and is the moderator of the Room Roundtable. He is developing a psychoanalytic theory of culture, which would include an account of the way pleasure functions in American culture. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

• Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst and on faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published papers and book chapters on a variety of subjects, including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual, and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. He is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. He teaches at the Manhattan Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. He serves as co-chair of the APA’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equality. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis; individual, family, and couple therapy; psychotherapy supervision and consultation; and organizational consultation in New York.

• Mark Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist on the faculty at New York Medical College, where he teaches medical students and psychiatric residents. He also teaches at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, where the focus of his teaching has been on the dyadic and triadic treatment relationships between therapists, psychiatrists, and patients in the context of shared clinical work. His essays on themes of nostalgic experience, affective memory, and the passage of time have been published and presented widely. He is in practice in New York City. 

• Betty P. Teng, LMSW, MFA, is a psychoanalyst and trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of sexual assault, political torture, domestic violence, and childhood molestation, both at Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Victims Services Program and the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture in Manhattan. As one of the authors of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, she has written on the trauma of Trump. Betty is cofounder and cohost of the psycho-political podcast Mind of State, and she currently sees patients in private practice.

• Jane Lazarre’s works include the novels Inheritance, Some Place Quite Unknown, and Worlds Beyond My Control, and the memoirs The Mother Knot and The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter (Spanish language editions by Las Afueras of Barcelona) and Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons. Two recent essays on race in America are “Once White in America” (TomDispatch) and “Where Do They Keep the White People” (TruthOut, ROOM 2.17). An essay on the work of Tillie Olsen recently appeared in Lilith. Her collection of poems, Breaking Light (Hamilton Stone Editions), is forthcoming. She serves on the board of directors of the Brotherhood Sister Sol, a social justice youth development nonprofit organization in Harlem, New York.

• Susan Kassouf, PhD, is a licensed psychoanalyst and a candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). She has written and presented about climate change and psychoanalysis, founded the Steps on Sustainability Committee at NPAP, and participates in several study groups grappling with environmental degradation from an analytic perspective. She has also translated works by and about Erich Fromm.

• Brent Matheny, is an associate editor for ROOM and an editorial assistant at Oxford University Press in New York City, where he works on books in religious studies, history, and classics. His research interests include the possible social applications for analytic philosophy of language, the philosophy of communication, and revitalizing a feminist ethic of care.

• Dinah M. Mendes, PhD, has written on a range of psychoanalytic subjects for Azure, Division/Review, Encounter, Psychoanalytic Review, The Forward, and Tikkun. She is a member of IPTAR and has a private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City.

• Celeste Kelly, PsyD, is a dynamic clinical psychologist living and working in occupied Powhatan territory now known as Richmond, Virginia. They completed both their doctorate and their postdoctoral fellowship at the Professional Psychology Program of George Washington University. They now work in private practice, predominantly with those exploring gender/sexual identity development and coping with trauma. 

• Jo Wright is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and writer in New York City and Connecticut. A large part of her analytic work has been with children and adolescents struggling with learning and regulatory disorders, and with women of all ages struggling for autonomy and voice. Born in England and raised in Australia, Jo came to the United States as a young doctor to study psychiatry and psychoanalysis. With her late husband, the psychoanalyst Richard Gottlieb, she raised two sons and enjoyed gardening and sheep-farming on their Connecticut property.

• Elaine P. Zickler, received a PhD in English literature from Bryn Mawr College, specializing in seventeenth-century English literature and critical theory. Her dissertation was on the writings of Donne and Freud, tracing the history of Freud’s thinking to the practice of moral theology. She has organized international conferences on children’s literature and psychoanalysis, and has taught courses in women’s literature, gender and sexuality, French theory, and Laplanche at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where she is a member and on faculty. She has a private practice in Moorestown, NJ.

Poets

• D. Dina Friedman has published widely in literary journals and received two Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry and fiction. She is the author of one book of poetry, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press), and two young adult novels, Escaping into the Night (Simon & Schuster BYR) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR). She has an MFA from Lesley University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• Linda Hillringhouse holds an MFA from Columbia University. She was a first-place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award (2014), a second-place winner of Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (2012), and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2020). Her work has appeared in Lips, New Ohio Review, Paterson Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her recent book of poetry, The Things I Didn’t Know to Wish for (New York Quarterly Press) was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in 2021.

Artist

• Jacqueline Shatz’s work has been exhibited at the June Kelly, Monique Knowlton, and Kouros galleries in New York City, and she has curated and organized exhibitions, including CollageLogic, last presented in 2012 at Hampden Gallery at UMass in Amherst. She is a recipient of a NEA Individual Fellowship, a Craft Alliance New Techniques grant, and several NYFA SOS grants. She has been artist-in-residence at the Kohler Arts/Industry program, where she created a series of music box sculptures and collaborated on sound and sculptural installations for Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill and on Governors Island. She had a show at the Garrison Art Center in 2015, exhibited at Carter Burden Gallery in 2017, was in an exhibit at Centotto in Bushwick with Thomas Michelli and Jim Herbert, and was also included in two group shows at David & Schweitzer (Bushwick). Her work was included in the group show Beasts of Brooklyn at the Green Door Gallery, curated by Elisa Jensen, as well as Flowers and Monsters at Temporary Storage Gallery, curated by Meer Musa. Jacqueline Shatz is a 2018 recipient of a Tree of Life Foundation Individual Artist Grant and a 2020 recipient of the Gottlieb Foundation Grant. She has a BFA in painting and an MFA in sculpture from Hunter College.

• Luca Caldironi, an Italian-licensed MD and clinical psychiatrist, is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (SPI), and he also holds memberships in American Psychoanalytic Association, Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, and International Psychoanalytical Association. He is a professor at the Martha Harris School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Bologna, Italy, and he has been a lecturer at Padova University, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA). His numerous publications and presentations reflect an emphasis on Bionian thought, especially around the concept of creativity, which he incorporates as director of the Venetian art exhibition space Castello925. He has a private practice in both Modena and Venice and individual and group consultations in New York. Over time, he increasingly felt the need to use the knowledge he gained through his clinical work in other fields, especially the artistic and the creative ones. From this he established the K-Now-L-Edge Project, which is devoted to the study of creativity and its development not only in clinical work but also between art and psychoanalysis.
• Paula Coomer, spent most of her childhood in the indus- trial Ohio River town of New Albany, Indiana. The daughter of more than two hundred years of Kentucky Appalachian farmers, she moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1978. She has been a migrant farm laborer, a waitress, a bean sorter in a cannery, a cosmetics saleswoman, a federal officer, a nurse, and a university writing instructor. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Gargoyle, Ascent, and The Raven Chronicles, among others. Books include the novels Jagged Edge of the Sky, Dove Creek, Summer of Government Cheese, the Blue Moon health and wellness series, and two poetry collections: Nurses Who Love English and Devil at the Crossroads. Coomer was nominated for the Pulitzer, the Pushcart, and other awards. Her newest book, a collection of short fiction, Somebody Should Have Scolded the Girl, is a BuzzFeed-recommended title. She lives in eastern Washington State, where she teaches and promotes writing in the community.
• Adrienne Harris, PhD, is faculty and supervisor at New York University’s postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. In 2009, she, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safron established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University. Along with Lewis Aron, Eyal Rozmarin, and Steven Kuchuck, she co-edited the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. She is an editor of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s e-journal Psychoanalysis.today. 
• Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA, is training and supervising analyst and faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He has presented and consulted nationally and internationally. He supervises at several psychoanalytic institutes and at Adelphi University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published papers and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. He is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. He teaches at the Manhattan Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. He serves as co-chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual, family and couple therapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.
• Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv, is a forensic psychiatrist who has taught at Yale School of Medicine for seventeen years and Yale Law School for fifteen years. She has consulted globally and nationally on violence prevention and prison reform. She has an extensive publication record, including opinion editorials, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and seventeen edited books including the New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Macmillan, 2017; 2019). She is also author of the textbook Violence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and Profile of a Nation: Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul (World Mental Health Coalition, 2020). She does clinical work in correctional and public-sector settings.
• Brent Matheny is a recent graduate of Kenyon College with overlapping interests in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is currently an editorial assistant at Oxford University Press in New York City, where he works on books in religious studies, history, and classics. His research interests include the possible social applications for analytic philosophy of language, the philosophy of communication, and revitalizing a feminist ethic of care. He serves as associate editor for ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. 
• Kyrie Mason is an aspiring writer based in Durham, North Carolina. Currently a graduate student in North Carolina Central University’s history program, much of his work, both creatively and professionally, is focused on the relationship between marginalized identities and modernity, particularly where this relationship begins to intersect temporally.
• Pamela Nathan is a forensic and clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and sociologist. As a forensic psychologist, she worked in mainstream prisons. She is director of CASSE’s Aboriginal Australian Relations Program, working on violence and trauma with Aboriginal organizations and people in Central Australia, where she lived in the 1980s and has consulted for over thirty years. She has supervised, researched, developed programs, trained and taught, and published papers and three books as a psychologist and psychotherapist.
• Betty P. Teng, LMSW, MFA, is a psychoanalyst and trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of sexual assault, political torture, domestic violence, and childhood molestation, both at Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Victims Services Program and the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture in Manhattan. As one of the authors of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, she has written on the trauma of Trump. Betty is cofounder and cohost of the psycho-political podcast Mind of State, and she currently sees patients in private practice.
• Tuba Tokgoz, native of Istanbul, worked as a psychotherapist in Turkey before relocating to New York. Here, she simultaneously completed IPTAR’s adult psychoanalytic training and the clinical psychology doctoral training at the New School. She received a specialization in parent-infant psychotherapy from the Anni Bergman Program and remains active in its Home-Visiting Project, where she treats at-risk mothers and babies using dyadic psychotherapy. She is in private practice in Manhattan and is on faculty at IPTAR’s Child and Adult Programs.
• Christie Platt, PhD, is a practicing psychoanalyst in Wash- ington, DC, and a practitioner of Zen meditation. She is part of the pro bono network Give an Hour, which provides free counseling services to veterans and their families. In addition, she provides psychological evaluations for asylum seekers through Physicians for Human Rights. She has written numerous papers on subjects ranging from shame in the cross-cultural therapy dyad to mourning the loss of a dog and is delighted to have her first piece in ROOM.  
• Bartosz M. Puk, MD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Kraków, Poland. He is a member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and GroupOne, a group of psychoanalysts organizing clinical discussions along the axis of Oslo-Tel Aviv-Milano-Barcelona-Berlin-Kraków. He is interested in psychoanalytic field theory and art and internet communication, with their adaptation to psychoanalytic work with patients.
• Raynell Sangster, LMHC, is a Jamaican-American candi- date in the adult program in psychoanalysis at IPTAR. She is also a clinical psychology PhD student at Adelphi University, where her research focuses on identity development among Black girls. Her private practice focuses on providing culturally relevant psychotherapy to Black women.
• David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of four cartoon collections, including Baddies (Melville House, 2009) and two critical studies, Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer (U Del Press, 2018) and Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy: Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He has published a series of personal essays in Public Seminar about growing up on the ethnic and cultural margins of Los Angeles, and a long-form essay, “A Nation Wrongs Itself: On American Pain and the Puritan Ethic,” on the emotional layers of social uprisings, in the Los Angeles Review of Books. His most recent essay, “Grilled Bananafish,” which appeared in Speculative Nonfiction, deals with pain, abuse, and separating the sources of trauma from the reality we are now living. 
• Tareq Yaqub, MD, is a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a previous fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His clinical work is focused on addressing questions of what it means to be embodied and the psychological impacts of markers of physical “difference.” He spends most of his time daydreaming or dancing. 

Poets

• Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Guesthouse, North American Review, Poet Lore, Radar Poetry, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Water~Stone Review, and ZYZZYVA among others. Her debut collection, Shade of Blue Trees, is forthcoming from Two Sylvias Press. She is an associate editor at Glass Lyre Press. 

• Gail Griffin is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces, named a Michigan Notable Book for this year, and “The Events of October”: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus. Her essays, poems, and flash nonfiction have appeared widely and been honored in publications including Southern Review, Fourth Genre, Missouri Review, and New Ohio Review. A native of Detroit, she spent a long career teaching literature, writing, and women’s studies at Kalamazoo College, where she won awards for both teaching and creative/scholarly work. She is at work on a collection of personal essays on confronting whiteness; she is also digging through a stack of paper to see if a poetry collection is hiding there. From her vantage point in southwestern Michigan, she studies, and mourns, the cracking open of America and dreams of her next trip to the shore of a Great Lake.

• Bobby Martinez, half Mexican and half Portuguese, is an architect who lives in San Francisco and writes poems when he doesn’t feel any alternative. For the last fifteen years, he has enjoyed reading his poetry at Billy and Radical Faerie Gatherings, as well as at the retreats of his sangha. His poems have appeared in Christopher Street and in an anthology of contemporary Luso-American literature.

Artists

• Dana Brotman is a painter in Falls Church, VA, whose work is shown regularly at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC. Her most recent solo show, Transitional Spaces, was a series of paintings that explored the liminal space between what is here and what is gone, what is remembered and what is only dreamed, what is real and what is imagined, what is desired and simply, and at times regrettably, what one does and does not have. The show, scheduled to open on March 13, 2020, was already hung when the gallery space was shut down due to COVID restrictions (the show was moved online). Other shows include her 2017 solo show beg borrow + steal: works on cardboard, the 2016 group show Figure 8+1, the 2014 group show Form Transformed: Five Sculptors. In addition to her work as a painter and photographer, she practices clinical psychology in Falls Church, VA.
• Gjertrud Hals was born and raised on a small island on the northwestern coast of Norway, which has, to a large extent, influenced her artwork. As a seasoned traveler, she has observed many different cultures. Much of her artistic work is an attempt to express the connection between the island’s micro-history and the world’s macro-history. She was educated as a tapestry weaver; however, she soon started experimenting with other techniques. Her breakthrough came in the late 1980s with Lava, a series of one-meter-high urns made of cotton and flax pulp. These vessels marked her transition from textile to fiber art. She makes objects that vary in nature and in the techniques applied: casting, spraying, cutting, knitting, and weaving. She enjoys creatively acting as she pleases, using whatever material she wishes, being severe and meditative one day and playful the next.

• C. Jama Adams, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of Africana studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). His most recent book, Africana Peoples in China: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment, was published by Routledge in 2018.
• Rocío Barcellona, PsyD, works in a maximum-security prison. As a clinician, she seeks to make space, to encourage autonomy, and to facilitate self-discovery, believing that the more we know ourselves, the less damage we do to ourselves and others. She doesn’t go to work to “fix,” change, or judge anyone. She doesn’t know what is best for people and cannot keep anyone safe or alive. She can only listen and promise not to run away.
• Marcia Black, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice for over twenty-five years in Massachusetts. She has been active as a volunteer at the intersection of domestic violence, the criminal justice system, and social change for many decades. Currently, she provides pro bono affidavits for asylum-seekers who are fleeing situations of extreme abuse or torture, through Health Right International.
• Fang Duan, PhD, LMSW, is a Chinese-Canadian living in the United States, and a psychoanalyst in training at IPTAR. Working with a diverse population from various social-cultural backgrounds, she is interested in exploring, both clinically and theoretically, the implications of psychoanalytic thinking for individual and societal development.
• Linda Emanuel, MD, is an academic physician focused on palliative and end-of-life care. More than a decade ago, she began training as a psychoanalyst. She is now professor emerita at Northwestern and in private practice as a psychoanalyst, still with a focus on people and those with family members facing life-shortening illness. She is a faculty member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
• Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate member of IPTAR, where he serves as secretary on the board of directors and teaches in the respecialization program. He is a member of ROOM’s editorial board and a co-chair of the Room Roundtable. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.
• Gabriel Heller is a candidate in the adult program in psychoanalysis at IPTAR and teaches writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His stories and essays have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Crazyhorse, The Sun, War Literature & the Arts, Witness, and other literary publications.
• Mohamad Kebbewar was born and raised in Aleppo. Immigrating to Canada at age nineteen, Kebbewar earned a degree in history from Concordia University before becoming a graphic designer. He recently published a chapbook with Phafours press entitled Evacuate. He is putting the final touches on his novel The Bones of Aleppo.
• Omer Leshem is a clinical psychology PhD student at the New School for Social Research. His research examines the role of emotion, empathy, and interpersonal interaction in shaping musical experience.
• Joshua Maserow is a clinical psychology PhD student at the New School for Social Research. His scholarly interests include comparative psychoanalysis and psychotherapy research.
• Dinah Mendes, PhD, is a member of IPTAR and a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. Her article “Psychological Transformation: Convergent Themes in Jewish and Psychoanalytic Thinking” will be published in the December 2020 issue of Psychoanalytic Review.
• Maryam Omidi is a clinical psychology PhD student at the New School for Social Research. Her research looks at the intersections of race, ethnicity, social justice, and mental health. She is the author of Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums.
• Lara Sheehi, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at the George Washington University. She is currently co-authoring a book with Stephen Sheehi, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge). Lara is on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and to Psychoanalysis for Pride.
• Shreya Varma, MPhil, is a clinical psychologist in New Delhi and a professional life member of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists. She has an interest in studying the relationship between works of literature and perversions. She works with adults in her private practice.
• Caroline Volel, MD, MPH, is a second-year psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Harlem Family Psychoanalytic Institute. She is trained in pediatrics and preventive medicine and is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Population & Family Health.

Poets

• Aremu Adams Adebisi is a North-Central Nigerian writer and economist. In 2019, he was nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His work of poetry, “Force Mechanism,” was adapted into Lucent Dreaming’s first theatrical performance in Wales. He has works published in Newfound Magazine, Lucky Jefferson, and elsewhere. He served as a mentor for SprinNG Fellowship and a panelist for the Gloria Anzaldua Prize. He edits poetry for ARTmosterrific, facilitates Transcendence Poetry Masterclass, and curates the newsletter Poetry Weekly on Substack.
• Daisy Bassen is a poet and practicing psychiatrist who graduated from Princeton University’s creative writing program and completed her medical training at the University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Oberon, McSweeney’s, The Sow’s Ear, and [PANK] as well as multiple other journals. She was the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, and the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. She was doubly nominated for the 2019 Best of the Net anthology and for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.
• Paula Coomer spent most of her childhood in the industrial Ohio River town of New Albany, Indiana. The daughter of more than two hundred years of Kentucky Appalachian farmers, she moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1978. She has been a migrant farm laborer, a waitress, a bean sorter in a cannery, a cosmetics saleswoman, a federal officer, a nurse, and a university writing instructor. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Gargoyle, Ascent, and The Raven Chronicles, among others. Books include the novels Jagged Edge of the Sky, Dove Creek, Summer of Government Cheese, the Blue Moon health and wellness series, and two poetry collections, Nurses Who Love English and Devil at the Crossroads. Ms. Coomer was nominated for the Pulitzer, the Pushcart, and other awards. Her newest book, a collection of short fiction, Somebody Should Have Scolded the Girl, is a BuzzFeed-recommended title. She lives in eastern Washington State, where she teaches and promotes writing in the community.
• Margarita Serafimova is the winner of the 2020 Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award and a 2020 Pushcart nominee. She has four collections in Bulgarian and a chapbook, A Surgery of A Star (Staring Problem Press). Her chapbook, En Tîm (Wilderness) (San Francisco University Poetry Center), and a full-length collection, A White Boat and Foam (Interstellar Flight Press), are forthcoming. Her work appears widely, including in the Nashville Review, LIT, Agenda Poetry, Poetry South, Botticelli, London Grip, Steam Ticket Literary Journal, Waxwing, A-Minor, Trafika Europe, Noble/ Gas Qtrly, Obra/Artifact, great weather for Media, Origins, and Nixes Mate Review.

Artists

• Eric Chasalow, PhD, is the dean of the Graduate School, Irving G. Fine Professor of Music, and director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio at Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1990. He is especially well known for works that combine instruments with electronic sound but has collaborated with other musicians and artists to create a wide range of projects. The Eric Chasalow collection in the Library of Congress was established in 2009.
• Daniel Derderian is a French fine artist, born in 1962 in Marseille to parents of Armenian origin. He is the third generation after the genocide. A former dancer at the National Ballet of Marseille directed by Roland Petit and the Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam, he now teaches classical dance in the conservatories of Paris. He began his work as a fine artist in 2008. His early works were X-ray collages – a clinical material that objectively shows the interior of a body and with which he explores his origins, cultural and social influences, and education. He exhibited them in 2008 and 2009 at the VIP Marseille Gallery. In 2013 he switched to paper and canvas. This work is mainly figurative, most often portraits of subjects that are lost on a solid background. He projects on them his loneliness and his fantasies. To date, he has made around a thousand drawings and canvases, which he is beginning to share and to exhibit.

• Julia-Flore Alibert, MD, is a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst member of Société psychanalytique de Paris, working in private practice in Paris and in an institute for deaf children.

• Daniela Andronache, PhD, is a candidate at the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis.

• Giuseppina Antinucci is a fellow of the BPAS, where she teaches. She has a private practice in Milan and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

• Lee Ascherman is an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and is a training and supervising analyst and child supervising analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.

• Stefania Baresic is an RP (qualifying) member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and the Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapists, and IARPP, as well as a graduate of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto.

• Lesley Caldwell is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association and honorary professor in the  psychoanalysis unit at University College London.

• Joseph A. Cancelmo, PsyD, FIPA, is past president, training/supervising analyst, and co-chair of the Gould Center at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).

• Bernard Chervet, MD, is a training/supervising analyst in the Paris Society, past president SPP, representative IPA Board, and director French Speaking Psychoanalysts Congress (CPLF).

• Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, PhD, is a training/supervising analyst at the Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Tel Aviv University Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. Past president of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, she has a private practice in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. She is the author of The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other (Routledge, 2014).

• Tiffany Chu is a medical student at USC Keck School of Medicine. She is interested in mental health and narrative.

• William F. Cornell, MA, TSTA (P), maintains an independent private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the editor of the Routledge book series Innovations in Transactional Analysis.

• Carmen Cuenca Zavala, PhD, is a member of the Association of Psychoanalysis in Guadalajara, member of IPA,
  and member of the dissemination committee of the FEPAL Virtual Library of Psychoanalysis.

• Ronald Davies, PhD, is a candidate at the South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPA), Cape Town.

• Miriam DeRiso, PhD, has a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is affiliated with Keeping Our Work Alive: Relational Psychoanalytic Training Group.

• Michael Diamond, PhD, is an honorary member of IPTAR, where he is on faculty, and is a steering committee member of the Gould Center. In 2019, Michael received the award of Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO).

• Simonetta Diena, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Societa Psychoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and the IPA. She lives and works in Milan.

• Cristina Escudero, PhD, is a supervising psychoanalyst at the Madrid Psychoanalytical Association, has a master’s in family psychotherapy, and holds an expertise in group dynamics.

• Yehuda Fraenkel, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, member of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and IPA, and on the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Elizabeth Goren, PhD, is on the faculty of New York University’s postdoctoral program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.

• Joachim Kuchenhoff is a member of the IPA and of the Swiss and German psychoanalytic societies. He is editor-in-chief of the Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and president of the supervisory board and visiting professor at International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin.

• Dinah Mendes, PhD, is a member of IPTAR and a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NY.

• Kate Muldowny is a child and adolescent therapist in private practice in Manhattan. She is the director of the IPTAR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program.

• Rosemarie Nassif is a candidate at the Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis (ALDeP) (Association libanaise pour le développement de la psychanalyse www.aldep.org)

• Marc Nemiroff, MD, is a member of the Washington Baltimore Center of Psychoanalysis and former chair of the Infant & Young Child certificate program at the Washington School of Psychiatry.

• Justyna Pawłowska, MA, is a psychologist and psychoanalytical psychotherapist at Polish Psychoanalytical Society.

• Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD, is an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD.

• Juan Pinetta is a member of Asociación Psicoanalítica, Argentina.

• Adriana Prengler, FIPA, is a training analyst at NPSI (Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute), SPC (Caracas Psychoanalytic Society) and vice-president elect of the IPA.

• Bartosz Puk, MD, is member of the IPA, GroupOne, and the Polish Psychoanalytical Society (PTPa), where he is president of the PTPa Revisory Commission.

• Laura Ribeiro Ferreira, PhD, is a specialist in psychoanalysis from the Institute of Psychiatry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), holds a master’s degree in public health by ENSP/Fiocruz, and is a candidate of the Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• David Rosenfeld is a training analyst at the Buenos Aires Society, consulting professor of psychiatry at Buenos Aires University, and past vice president of the IPA.

• Julia Roy-Stäblein is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice who works at the Centre de psychanalyse et de Evelyne and Jean Kesternberg Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Center at the Mental Health Association of the 13th arrondissement of Paris (ASM 13).

• Cosimo Schinaia, MD, is a training and supervising analyst of SPI and full member of IPA.

• Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA), former president of DPV, former member of IPA Board, and member of COWAP and Migration and refugees committee.

• Harvey Schwartz, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) and at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP). He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia. He currently serves as the Chair of the IPA in Health Committee.

• Irina Sizikova, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the children’s and teenage narcological department of Clinical Hospital in Moscow, a member of the Moscow Group of Psychoanalysts, and a member of the IPA.

• Alice Lowe Shaw, PhD, is a member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco.
• Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA, is vice president of North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC), member of the IPA Psychoanalytic Education Committee, and past president of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC).

• Manuela Tosti, PsyD, lives in Bolzano, Italy, studied psychology at the Leopold Franzens Universitàt Innsbruck (Austria), works as a psychotherapist in private practice, and is currently being trained as a psychoanalyst at the Training Institute of Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis (ISIPSé) in Milano.

• Elizabeth Trawick, MD, is a psychoanalyst practicing in Birmingham, Alabama.

• Brian Wu is a MD/PhD graduate from Keck School of Medicine of USC and is a current psychiatry resident at LAC+USC Medical Center.

• Ümit Eren Yurtsever  is a psychoanalyst at the Istanbul Psychoanalytical Training, Research and Development Association (Psike Istanbul).

Poets

• Kate Angus’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Indiana Review, Court Green, Gulf Coast, The Atlantic´s online Object Lessons series, The Washington Post, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day feature. She is the recipient of an A Room of Her Own Foundation Orlando award and an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Sozopol Seminar fellowship, as well as residencies from the BAU Institute, the Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room and Interlochen Arts Academy (writer in residence). Angus is the author of So Late to the Party (Negative Capability Books) and the founding editor of Augury Books. Born and raised in Michigan, she currently lives in New York.
• Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poetry, Rope Bridge and Unfinished City. The recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and an NEA Literature Fellowship, she lives in Los Angeles and codirects the poetry programs of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
• Eugene Mahon, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. He has published three books—A Psychoanalytic Odyssey, Rensal the Redbit, and Boneshop of the Heart—and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He practices in New York City.
• Marc Alan Di Martino is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the collection Unburial (Kelsay Books, 2019). His work appears in Rattle, Baltimore Review, Palette Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, Matador Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and many other journals and anthologies. New work is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Free Inquiry, and First Things. His second collection, Still Life with City, will be published by Pski’s Porch in 2020. He lives in Italy.
• Amy Miller’s full-length poetry collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, and ZYZZYVA. She lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she works for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is the poetry editor of the NPR listeners’ guide Jefferson Journal.
• Galit Hasan-Rokem is professor emerita of Hebrew literature and folklore research at the Hebrew University. In addition to many scholarly books and articles, she has published three poetry volumes in Hebrew and several poetry translations of major Swedish poets into Hebrew. She is also co-editor of The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present and cultural editor at the Palestine-Israel Journal.
• Jeneva Stone is the author of Monster, a mixed genre collection. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell and Millay Colonies. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Waxwing, Scoundrel Time, and APR, with work forthcoming in New England Review.
• Jeffrey Thomson’s  most recent book is Half/Life: New and Selected Poems from Alice James Books. He is professor of creative writing at University of Maine, Farmington.

Artists

• Enrique Enriquez is a New York-based Venezuelan poet. His work with the Marseilles Tarot breaks new ground intellectually and artistically.
• Linda Louis, BA, MFA is an artist whose work has been handled by a number of New York City and Greater-Metro art galleries.  Presently, as in the past, Ms. Louis has occupied positions on the boards of directors of art organizations. 
  Ms. Louis is an art consultant, an art competition juror, and an art curator.  Ms. Louis’s artwork has been shown in the New York Times and other publications. She taught entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on art, at Hofstra University, worked as an art instructor for the YMCAs of New York and New Jersey, and has taught Asian children and adults for the YMCAs through an interpreter. She was honored by Nassau County, New York, as a “Groundbreaking Woman” for her body of work and her contribution to the field of art. 
  Ms. Louis is also well known as an abstract land-sea-sky-scape painter.  One of her nine suites of work centered on the face, eighty-seven bas-relief sculptures called “Earthkins,” inspired by the faces of children she encountered in her childhood due to her long involvement with challenged youngsters, won her special recognition by the National Endowment for the Arts as featured artist for their fiftieth anniversary.  Her “Famly of Humans” series is the latest to receive special recognition.
• Susan Luss (b. El Paso, TX) is an inter-disciplinary artist living in New York City, maintaining a studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Luss received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her BFA in Studio Arts Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Luss has exhibited her work at various venues in the New York area and beyond, including Lowe Mill A&E in Huntsville, AL, the Museum of Art and Culture, New York, Chashama in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, the Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, and Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, the Hole in NYC, Haverstraw RiverArts in Haverstraw, NY, Garner Arts Center in Garner, NY, Westbeth Gallery and the Painting Center in NYC, among others. Luss has curated exhibitions at Pratt Institute, Westbeth Gallery, and Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York. She serves as an advisory member of ArtShape Mammoth, a nonprofit organization with the mission to cultivate arts research, education, and dialogue by supporting the development of artists and connecting them with new communities. Luss’s work is held in public and private collections including Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and La Table des Artistes, France, among others.
• Rafael Silveira is an internationally renowned Brazilian fine artist with a strong background in the graphic arts. Silveira graduated in fine arts at Federal University of Parana, Brazil, and received a degree in advertising from Centro Universitario Curitiba in 2002. His works have been exhibited in prominent Brazilian galleries and are included in numerous collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janeiro. Silveira is a three-time winner of the Max Feffer Design Award. The majority of his works consists of oil and acrylic paintings that mix a classical atmosphere with contemporary techniques and subjects, especially cartoon imagery.

• 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: benvenistephd.com

• 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 for a decade. She lives in Nashville. Website: www.katedanielspoetryandprose.com

• Michael Diamond, PhD, is professor emeritus of public affairs and organization studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Since 2016, he has been a resident of New York City and an organizational consultant, political theorist, and political psychologist. He is the author of Discovering Organizational Identity (2017) as well as the author/coauthor of other books and scholarly articles and is currently a faculty and steering committee member of the Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation at IPTAR, where he is an honorary member. In 2019, Michael received the award of Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). He is a previous recipient of the Levinson Award for Excellence in Consulting from the American Psychological Association.

• Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is a visiting assistant professor at the New School for Social Research, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and an analytic candidate at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of the book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology (Lexington Books, 2019). He was also featured in the documentary Psychoanalysis in el Barrio (Winograd & Christian, 2015).

• William W. Harris, PhD, is a child advocate who works with policy makers on efforts to increase the government’s investment in low-income young children and families. He is chairman of Children’s Research and Education Institute and an adjunct professor at UCSF Medical School, in the Department of Psychiatry.

• Michael McAndrew, MA, LPCC, is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation from Denver, Colorado. He is a poet and a veteran of the United States Navy. Michael is a member of the Denver Veterans Writing Workshop, where he writes primarily about war neuroses and psychoanalysis. Michael is also a member of the Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field, as well as a member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (IF-SPFLF). 

• Elizabeth Herman McKamy, MSW, presents and consults nationally about retirement, particularly as it impacts careers characterized by long-term mutual engagement with clients. Recent publications include  “Closed for business: Reflections on a psychoanalytic psychotherapist’s voluntary retirement” published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 51/4,727–746 (2015), and “Retirement from psychotherapy practice: A mutually generative rite of passage,” published in Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis edited by Susan Lord, PhD, 248–263, Routledge, NY. (2018) “For Crying Out Loud” is McKamy’s first published piece of fiction.

• Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice and an analytic candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an assertive community treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A manual for self-defense and the recent poetry collection Shadow Box. 

• Daniel Rosengart, PsyD, teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and maintains a private practice in New York City. He won the JAPA New Author Prize and is an editor of an upcoming translation and commentary of Alfred Lorenzer’s “In-Depth Hermeneutical Cultural Analysis.” He writes about psychoanalysis, race, and theology.

• Jared Russell, PhD, is an analyst in private practice with offices in New York City and Wilton, Connecticut. He is a member of IPTAR and NPAP. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Clinic: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Metaphysics (Routledge, 2017) and Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud’s Psychic Apparatus (Routledge, 2019).

• Gary Senecal, PhD, is an assistant professor of human services and rehabilitation studies at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. His research is on the social psychology of violence and with a specialized focus on contact sport athletes and military veterans. He is a member of the Army Reserve. 

• Aneta Stojnić, PhD, is a candidate at IPTAR (adult psychoanalysis and CAP Programs) and a theoretician, curator, artist, and professor of performance and media theory. She has published three books and numerous essays and academic papers. Her latest book is Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Juan Pablo Valdivieso Blanco, is a Venezuelan visual communicator, who graduated from Prodiseño (2002), and received a Bachelor of Philosophy— from the Catholic University Andrés Bello (2019). He is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at Simón Bolívar University. His visual inquiries began during design career— and continue in later years, as a broadcasting designer in motion graphics for Sony Entertainment Television. In 2009, a desire to reunite with his body and, simultaneously, with a spiritual life, he decided to make a professional move away from design to devote himself to yoga. He is currently a yoga teacher.

• Daniel S. 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 (2015) and is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. https://benvenistephd.com/

• Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the clinical faculty of IPTAR and is a director of their Clinical Center. She is interested in questions of female development and in the overlap between secular and religious experience.

• Michael Diamond PhD, is professor emeritus of public affairs and organization studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Since 2016, he has been a resident of NYC, an organizational consultant and author of Discovering Organizational Identity (2017), among other books and scholarly articles, and is currently a faculty and steering committee member of the Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation at IPTAR, where he is an honorary member. In 2019, Michael received the award of Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO).

• Scott Graybow, PhD, LCSW, completed the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at the New York Contemporary Freudian Society. He will begin the training program in adult psychoanalysis there in January 2020. He is a member of the International Erich Fromm Society and on the advisory board of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. He is editor of Progressive Psychoanalysis as a Social Justice Movement (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) and the author of articles about the political economy of mental health.

• William W. Harris, PhD, is a child advocate who works with policy makers on efforts to increase the government’s investment in low-income young children and families. He is chairman of Children’s Research and Education Institute and an adjunct professor at UCSF Medical School, in the Department of Psychiatry.

• Jane Lazarre’s most recent book is The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter, a memoir. Her first memoir, The Mother Knot, was recently published in Spain as El Nudo Materno. Other works include Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, and the novels Inheritance and Worlds Beyond My Control. She has just completed a collection of poems, Breaking Light. www.janelazarre.com

• Joshua Maserow is completing his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research. His intellectual interests include relational psychoanalysis, mentalization, facilitative interpersonal skills, and the intersection of literary thinking and psychotherapy practice. He is an editor for PublicSeminar.org and he co-edited a volume of short fiction entitled Amagama Enkululeko! Words for Freedom: Writing Life Under Apartheid. A fragment of Toothache appeared in Gaztambide, D. J. & Maserow, J. (2019). Becoming trainees, becoming therapists: A poetic call and response between supervisor and supervisee. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 54(1), 30-37.

• Charles A. Rizzuto, LICSW, currently maintains a practice in clinical supervision in Amherst, MA. He was an adjunct assistant professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work and adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work for eleven years. He earned his analytic certification at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center in New York City.

• Sophie Sandberg is a gender justice activist, artist, and founder of the popular chalk art initiative against street harassment, Catcalls of NYC. She is involved in local efforts to combat gender-based violence through public art, education, and events. She also leads Chalk Back, an international youth-led movement, consisting of 150 “Catcalls of” sites around the world. www.chalkback.org

• Reverend Jacob A. Smith is the rector of Calvary-Saint George’s Episcopal Church near Union Square in Manhattan. He is also the cohost of a weekly podcast entitled Same Old Song. https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/rss

• Isaac Tylim, PsyD, FIPA, is an IPTAR Fellow, IPA training and supervising analyst, member of the Argentina Psychoanalytic Association, and a clinical professor, training analyst, and consultant at NYU’s postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, where he cofounded the Trauma and Disaster Specialization Program. For the last five years, he has been involved in the theatrical dramatization of Freud and Ferenczi’s thirty-year correspondence, which is being presented internationally. He is a co-editor of Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018) and maintains a multilingual private practice in New York City.

• Abraham Velazquez Jr. is a youth worker at the Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), an organization in Harlem that provides comprehensive, holistic, and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. He is also a cofounder of the Hip-Hop and poetry collective the Peace Poets, sharing art which responds to social and political crisis in over forty countries. Abraham earned his master of arts in educational theatre at New York University, where he studied theatre of the oppressed with Julian Boal, Barbara Santos, and Sanjoy Ganguly. In 2015, Abraham released his first solo album, A South Bronx Tale, engineered by Grammy Award recipient Mikaelin “Blue” Bluespruce.

• Patrick Webb is a painter. His paintings since 1990 have depicted a singular version of the Italian clown Punchinello in contemporary narratives. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a grantee from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Art Matters, the NEA, and the PRATT Institute Faculty Development Program, where he is a professor. Webb is represented by the Ray Wiggs Gallery in Provincetown and will be exhibiting work at Jadite Gallery (November 19–30) and Leslie Lohman Project Space (February 14–16, 2020), both in Manhattan. His work is also on view at patrick-webb.com.

• Polly Weissman is a mostly nonfiction writer who takes facts more seriously than is currently fashionable. She has published books for children and contributed to many textbooks. She is currently working on a novel about someone who keeps getting it wrong.

• 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. He is in private practice and teaches in New York City.

• Catherine Baker-Pitts, PhD, grew up living feminism with her three sisters and activist parents. In private practice for twenty years, she is a graduate of New York University  Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; lecturer at NYU School of Social Work; guest faculty at New Directions Writing Program; and co-director and faculty of a feminist relational therapy training program. Her work focuses on gender creativity, racial justice, and radical body acceptance.

• Raquel Berman, PhD, is a founding member of MAPPTR and past president and training director of its Freud Institute. She is a foreign member of IPTAR. In 2016, in collaboration with INMUJERES (Government Agency for Women), she established a yearly prize in honoring “Women facing Adversity with Resilience.” In 2019 the International Psychoanalytic Association awarded her psychoanalytic community interventions with groups of  female adolescents living in violent contexts with a prize from its IPA community committee on violence.

• Rachel Brown is an educator and interdisciplinary media artist. She is currently an adjunct professor at NYU and works for Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that believes in technology as a force for good. Since 2014, Rachel has been a member of The Illuminator, a political projection collective based in NYC. She has an MFA in integrated media arts from Hunter College (CUNY), and is an avid cyclist, yogi, and wanderer. Instagram: @oikofugicrchl | Email: info@wanderingarrow.com

• Molly S. Castelloe, PhD, earned her doctorate in performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and is a candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. She has a blog for psychologytoday.com on group psychology called “The Me in We” and garnered the Gradiva Award for her documentary film Vamik’s Room, on the life and work of Vamik Volkan, www.vamiksroom.org

• Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the clinical faculty of IPTAR and is a director of their Clinical Center. She is interested in questions of female development and in the overlap between secular and religious experience.

• 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. More specifically, his work examines the role culture plays in determining an individual’s role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation.

• 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 for a decade. She lives in Nashville. Website: www.katedanielspoetryandprose.com

• Daniel Esparza,  MA, is a Paul H. Klingenstein Fellow in the religion department at Columbia University, where he is developing his research on forgiveness as a PhD candidate.

• Gala Garrido (Caracas, Venezuela, 1987) is a Venezuelan photographer. The central axes of her work are power and eroticism from the feminine. Garrido has exhibited her work at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL); Sala Mendoza; Museo de Arte de Acarigua-Araure; Sala de Exposiciones Centro de Arte El Hatillo; Panorámica Arte emergente en Venezuela 2000-2012, Sala TAC Trasnocho Cultural; Espacio Mad Los Galpones; No Lugar Arte Contemporáneo (Quito, Ecuador); and Féroces International Photography Festival (Lyon, France), among others. | Website: http://www.laong.org

• Jill Gentile, PhD, is a faculty member at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, sits on several psychoanalytic journal editorial boards, and has published many scholarly essays, including “What Is Special about Speech?” which was awarded the 2017 Gradiva Award. She is the author, with Michael Macrone, of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire (Karnac Books, 2016) which explores the mutual resonances between psychoanalysis and democracy, through the lenses of free speech and the feminine. She maintains a clinical practice and leads study groups in New York City. Website: http://jillgentile.com/abstracts.html

• Joan Golden-Alexis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst practicing in New York. She is the former curriculum coordinator, as well as training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member at the New York Jungian Psychoanalytic Associations and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. Her last two publications are “Amelia: Images of Mystery: The transformation of Shadow in Women” and “When Politics Invade the Personal: A New Mandate for Psychoanalysis in the Trump Era.”

• Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate member of IPTAR, where he serves as secretary on the board of directors and teaches in the respecialization program. He is a member of ROOM’s editorial board and a co-chair of the Room Roundtable. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

• Jeri Isaacson, PhD, is a member and clinical supervisor at IPTAR. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing in Montclair, New Jersey.

• Frank W. Putnam, MD,  is a professor psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in the psychological and biological effects of maltreatment on child development. He is the author of over 200 research papers and three books on the lifelong effects of child maltreatment. His most recent book, The Way We Are: How States of Mind Influence our Identities, Personality and Potential for Change, New York, IP Books, investigates the biological and psychological processes shared by radically disparate mental states ranging from meditation to catatonia.

• Mireya Lozada, PhD, is the coordinator of the Political Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Institute of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). For the last twenty years, she has worked in peace-building programs and promoted psychosocial accompaniment programs with different sectors of the population affected by the impact of polarization and sociopolitical conflict.

• Ellen Marakowitz, PhD, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.  She is a training analyst and fellow at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and is also a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.

• Francesca Schwartz, PhD merges psychoanalysis with her background in the performing and fine arts. She is on faculty at IPTAR and has private practice in New York where she specializes in treating emerging artists. Pieces from her Series I appeared in the CLIO Art Fair, NYC, March 2018.

• Aneta Stojnić, PhD, is a candidate in IPTAR’s Respecialization and CAP Programs and a theoretician, curator, artist, and professor of performance and media theory. She has published three books and numerous essays and academic papers. Her latest book is Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Sara Mansfield Taber is the author of Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter, the writer’s guide Chance Particulars: A Writer’s Field Notebook, and two books of literary journalism. Her poetry, essays, travel, and opinion pieces have appeared in literary magazines such as The American Scholar and newspapers such as the Washington Post. A psychologist and social worker, she has taught creative nonfiction writing for twenty years. More about her at: www.sarataber.com | www.sarataberwritingservices.com

• José Vivenes, is a Venezuela-based painter. He graduated from the Armando Reverón University Institute of Advanced Plastic Arts Studies (Caracas, Venezuela). Vivenes earned honorable mention recognition in the 12+1 Edition of the prestigious Eugenio Mendoza Awards (Venezuela) for his series Enough of False Heroes (2015). Among the acknowledgments Vivenes has received are the Francisco de Miranda Stock Exchange, I Exxon-Mobil Art Salon of Venezuela, Sacred Museum of Caracas, Eladio Alemán Sucre Award, 63rd Arturo Michelena Art Biennial, Mario Abreu XXVII and XXXIII Prize, Aragua National Art Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Maracay Mario Abreu. He currently resides and works in Caracas, Venezuela. https://vivenescollages.blogspot.com | http://vivenespintura.blogspot.com

• Coline Covington, PhD, is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a fellow of the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank created to apply psychoanalytic concepts to understanding political conflict. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and society, most recently Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, 2016). She is in private practice in London. Her new book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity, will be published by Phoenix Publishing House in 2020.

• Carolyn S. Ellman, PhD, is a fellow at IPTAR and co-editor of several books: The Modern Freudians: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique (Jason Aronson,1998); Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self: A New Freudian Synthesis (Jason Aronson, 1997); and A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation (Karnac, 2011). She has also written extensively on envy, particularly among women.

• Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the clinical faculty of IPTAR and is a director of their Clinical Center. She is interested in questions of female development and in the overlap between secular and religious experience.

• Michelle Fine, PhD, is distinguished professor of critical psychology and gender/women’s studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY; a founding member of the Public Science Project at the Graduate Center; and author of recent book JUST Research in Contentious Times (Teachers College Press, 2018).

• Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate member of IPTAR, where he serves as secretary on the board of directors and teaches in the respecialization program. He is a member of ROOM’s editorial board and a co-chair of the Room Roundtable. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

• Yitzi Katz, LCSW, maintains a private practice in Jerusalem, Israel, and treats survivors and perpetrators of sexual abuse at an agency in Israel. Prior to relocating to Israel, Yitzi had cofounded the Chicago Trauma Collective and worked extensively with survivors of trauma in the child welfare system in Chicago. Yitzi is a lecturer in the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) and a graduate of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP) program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

• Mohamad Kebbewar was born and raised in Aleppo. Immigrating to Canada at age 19, Kebbewar earned a degree in history from Concordia University before becoming a graphic designer. He recently published a chapbook with JackPine Press entitled The Soap
  of Aleppo. He is putting the final touches on his novel The Bones of Aleppo. His chapbook is available for purchase at jackpinepress.com.

• Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv, is a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine. She has consulted globally and nationally on violence prevention and prison reform. She has an extensive publication record, including opinion-editorials, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and fifteen edited books including the New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Macmillan, 2017). She has most recently authored the textbook Violence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and does clinical work in correctional and public-sector settings.

• Eugene Mahon, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. He has published three books—A Psychoanalytic Odyssey, Rensal the Redbit, and Boneshop of the Heart—and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He practices in New York City.

• Brent Matheny is a student at Kenyon College and will be graduating in the spring of 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He recently presented a research project on the possibility of and obligation for communication across the American political divide at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Currently, he is working on a thesis that expands this idea, thinking about it in the context of a Davidsonian theory of communication through the lens of a feminist ethic of care.

• Natasha Kurchanova, PhD, is a candidate at IPTAR.Her doctorate is in art history. Apart from studying psychoanalysis and working as a clinician, she contributes reviews and interviews with artists for such publications as Studio International, The Candidate Journal, The Burlington Magazine, CAA Reviews, Bomb Magazine, Art Journal, and other publications. She is on the editorial board of The Candidate Journal.

• Kerry Malawista, PhD, a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, with essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Zone 3, Washingtonian Magazine, Intima, Huffington Post, and Account Magazine. She is co-author of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis, The Therapist in Mourning, and Who’s Behind the Couch?  She co-chairs the Washington Psychoanalytic Program, New Directions in Writing.

• Dana Sinopoli, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic candidate in private practice in Philadelphia. She has been an outspoken critic of the current administration. She authored a letter in response to the zero- tolerance policy which, on behalf of the mental health community, was signed by over 21,000 people and 200 organizations and was delivered to the highest officials in all three branches of the US government.

• Simon Western, PhD, is president of ISPSO, adjunct professor at University College Dublin, and CEO of Analytic-Network Coaching. His Advanced Coach Training program has a global footprint, using contemporary psychoanalytic methods to develop leaders and help them adapt to the digital age. He is the author of Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd ed., Sage, 2019), Global Leadership Perspectives (Sage, 2018), and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage, 2017).

• Polly Weissman is a mostly nonfiction writer who takes facts more seriously than is currently fashionable. She has published books for children and contributed to many textbooks. She is currently working on a novel about someone who keeps getting it wrong.

• C. Jama Adams, PhD, is associate professor in the department of Africana studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). His most recent book, Africana Peoples in China: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment, was published by Routledge in 2018.
• Delia Battin, LCSW, is a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS), a fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association (FIPA), a member of IPTAR and of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, and on the faculty of IPTAR and the CFS. She practices in New York City. She has previously published articles on screen memories, play, the golden section, grief, and clinical psychoanalysis.
• Joseph A. Cancelmo, PsyD, FIPA, is former president, training and supervising analyst and faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He currently serves as co-chair of the Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation. He is a co-author of Child Care for Love or Money?, co-editor of Terrorism and the Psychoanalytic Space and The Selected Papers of Allan Frosch (in press), and has published articles on application of Winnicott’s and Bion’s ideas to clinical process. He maintains a private practice in New York City with adolescents, adults, couples, and psychoanalytic consultation to executives and organizations.
• Coline Covington, Ph.D., is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank created to apply psychoanalytic concepts to understanding political conflict. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and society, most recently Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, 2016). She is in private practice in London. Her new book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity, will be published by Phoenix Publishing House in 2020.
• Michael Diamond, PhD, is professor emeritus of public affairs and organization studies, University of Missouri, Columbia. He is an organizational consultant and author of Discovering Organizational Identity (University of Missouri Press, 2017) and is currently a faculty and steering committee member of The Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation at IPTAR.
• Carolyn S. Ellman, Ph.D., is a fellow at IPTAR and co-editor of several books: The Modern Freudians: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique (Jason Aronson,1998); Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self: A New Freudian Synthesis (Jason Aronson, 1997); A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation (Karnac, 2011). She has also written extensively on envy, particularly among women.
• Lama Z. Khouri, LCSW, is executive director and founder of Circle OASIS, a not-for-profit serving Arab immigrant and refugee school-aged children and their families. She is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at the Arab American Family Support Center and has a private practice in New York City. Prior to psychoanalysis, Khouri maintained a fourteen-year career at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where she was a political affairs officer. http://www.lamakhouri.com/publications/
• Eugene Mahon, MD, is training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. He has published three books—A Psychoanalytic Odyssey, Rensal the Redbit, and Boneshop of the Heart—and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He practices in New York City.
• Rachel Neve-Midbar, MFA, is the author (under the name Heimowitz) of the chapbook  What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Spillway, Prairie Schooner, and Georgia Review. She was recently a finalist for the COR Richard Peterson Prize, winner of the Passenger Prize, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Rachel completed her MFA at Pacific University in 2015 and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California.
• Aneta Stojnić, PhD, is a candidate in IPTAR’s Respecialization and CAP Programs and a theoretician, curator, artist, and professor of performance and media theory. She has published three books and numerous essays and academic papers. Her latest book is Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018).
• Elizabeth Trawick, MD, is a psychoanalyst practicing in Birmingham, Alabama.
• Isaac Tylim, PsyD, FIPA, is an IPTAR Fellow, IPA training and supervising analyst, member of the Argentina Psychoanalytic Association, and a clinical professor, training analyst and consultant at NYU’s postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, where he co-founded the Trauma and Disaster Specialization Program. For the last five years, he has been involved in the theatrical dramatization of Freud and Ferenczi’s thirty-year correspondence, which is being presented internationally. He is a co-editor of Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018) and maintains a multilingual private practice in New York City.
• Kaja Weeks is a poet and essayist who often writes of music and healing. In addition to being a graduate of New Directions: Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge, Weeks maintains a career as a clinic-based developmental music educator, which integrates the work of Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder. When young children’s ability to engage and grasp verbal language is compromised, she harnesses the power of vocalizations and relational rhythms to elicit communicative interaction.

• Sheldon Bach, PhD, is an adjunct clinical professor of psychology at the NYU 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. He is in private practice and teaches in New York City.
• Phyllis Beren, PhD, is a past president of IPTAR, a fellow and faculty member and director of the IPTAR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. She is editor of the book Narcissistic Disorders in Children and Adolescents and has written papers about child, adolescent, and adult treatment. She is currently writing a memoir.
• Lorenzo Figallo Calzadilla, PhD, is a sociologist and teacher with a clinical background in the fields of Alzheimer’s, neuro-cognitive rehabilitation, and geriatrics. Calzadilla participates and speaks at community and corporate social responsibility programs. As an artist, Lorenzo works in clay. Known as “Raical” and “Sernelo,” Lorenzo and his mother, Rhaiza Calzadilla, have created “Los Caminos del Barro” (The Paths of Mud).
• Dorothea (Thea) Crites, MDiv, LMFT, has practiced as a pastoral psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist for thirty-five years, in private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the past twenty. She’s an ordained United Methodist minister and recent graduate of New Directions writing program.
• Roberto Echeto teaches at the Institute of Creativity and Communication (ICREA) and at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. Echeto has published three books of stories (Liquid Tales, Galante Breviary, and The Classic Machine), a novel (There Will be No End), and two essays, 70 Years of Humor in Venezuela and Elementary Maneuver, which won the Transgender Contest of the Foundation for the Urban Culture in 2015 (Venezuela). He has produced radio shows and collaborated in magazines and newspapers. He publishes essays and short stories in his blog (Spanish): http://robertoecheto.blogspot.com/
• Federico Parra is a photojournalist who studied photography at Roberto Mata’s Photography School and at the Nelson Garrido Organization Photography School. Parra covers breaking news, politics, and sports for the Agence France Presse based in Caracas. His photographs have been published by Time, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde, and the Guardian.
• Sylvia Flescher is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her paper “Googling for Ghosts” grew out of her long-standing participation in New Directions and was published in the Psychoanalytic Review. In it, she describes the powerful effect on her of her mother, Anna, being honored at Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
• William W. Harris, PhD, is chairman of Children’s Research and Education Institute.He is a child advocate who works with policy makers on efforts to increase the government’s investments in low-income young children and families.
• Gabriel Heller’s writing has appeared in many literary publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Electric Literature, the Gettysburg Review, and the Sun. He is the recipient of the Fourteenth Annual Inkwell Short Story Award and a Special Mention in the 2018 Pushcart Prize Anthology. He teaches writing at NYU and is a respecialization candidate in psychoanalysis at IPTAR.
• Leah Lipton, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and collage artist in New York City. She is a supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) and a faculty member at ICP and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).
• Juan Mariño is an emerging artist born in Valencia-Venezuela in 1987. Marino attended the Arturo Michelena Art Center located in Caracas. Now, Mariño lives and works in Valencia, where he continues his exploration in painting and ceramics.
• Laureen Park, PhD, is an associate professor at City Tech, CUNY. Her research applies phenomenological approaches to analyzing empirical problems such as conflict, interdisciplinarity, and narcissism. Her essay “Self Respect in the Light of Narcissism,” in Identity and Self-Respect, edited by Istvan Bujalos (Debrecen: University of Debrecen Publishers, 2013) was the inspiration for Shapira’s “Chunhyung.”
• Ittai Shapira is a soloist, composer, and curator who has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and China, at venues ranging from the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Louvre Auditorium to the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He is the founder and artistic director of Sound Potential, an organization dedicated to medical, educational, and societal healing through music and a consultant for Weill Cornell’s Music and Medicine Program. Websites: www.ittaishapira.com | www.soundpotential.org

• Special thanks to Carlos Padrón, PhD, for his contribution introducing Cuatro Por Venezuela non-profit. Website: www.cuatroporvenezuela.org

• Natalie Korytnyk Forrester, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Washington, DC. She is an alumni at Washington Psychoanalytic Program New Directions in Writing and Psychoanalysis and is affiliated with the George Washington Center for Integrative Medicine. Website: www.DrNatalieK.com

• Margaret Fulton, PhD, ABPP, LP is a member of the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (MPSI) and the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC). She is on the faculty of MPSI and Past-President of the Society. Margaret also served on the Minnesota Board of Psychology for five years and she has a private practice in psychoanalysis in Minneapolis, MN.

• Richard B. Grose has a PhD in Russian Studies from University of Chicago. He is an advanced candidate at IPTAR, an editor on ROOM’s editorial board and co-chair of the ROOM Roundtable. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

• Stefanie Hofer is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. She has published on contemporary German literature and cinematic depictions of Germany’s struggle to come to term with Nazi atrocities and left-wing terrorism. Her current research focuses on the role of autobiographical narratives in post-traumatic healing.

• Ann E. Kaplan, MA is an economist and writer. She is a vice president at the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a New York City based nonprofit that measures education outcomes. She has studied charitable giving for 25 years.

• Young-Ran Kim, PhD is a Korean Candidate at IPTAR in the Adult Psychoanalytic Program and the Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAP). She received an MA in philosophy from Ewha Woman’s University, and a MA in clinical psychology from the Catholic University of Korea. She holds a doctorate in psychology from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul and has lectured and researched on abnormal psychology, DSM-5 revisions, dimensional and categorical diagnostic system, and classification of personality disorders.

• Betty Teng, MFA, LMSW is a trauma therapist who is in psychoanalytic training and practices at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in Manhattan. She is a contributor to the recent book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and a screenwriter and editor whose credits include films by Ang Lee, Robert Altman and Mike Nichols.

• Sara Mansfield Taber is the author of Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter, as well as essays, social commentary, and literary journalism. A psychologist and social worker, she has taught creative nonfiction writing for twenty years. Chance Particulars: A Writers Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists,Memoirists,Novelists,Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and other Notetakers and Recorders of Life will be published May 2018. More about her at: www.sarataber.com | www.sarataberwritingservices.com

• Diane Seuss’s most recent collection, Four-Legged Girl, was published in 2015 by Graywolf Press and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010) won the Juniper Prize and was published in 2010. Her fourth collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in May 2018. Recent poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker. Seuss was raised in rural southwest Michigan. ‘Still Life With Dictator’ originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.

• Francesca Schwartz, PhD merges psychoanalysis with her background in the performing and fine arts. She is on faculty at IPTAR and has private practice in New York where she specializes in treating emerging artists. Pieces from her Series 1 will appear in the CLIO Art Fair, NYC, March 2018.

   

• Coline Covington Ph.D., is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation and former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a Fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank formed by Prof. Vamik Volkan, Lord Alderdice and Dr. Robi Friedman to apply psychoanalytic concepts in understanding political conflict. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and society, most recently Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, 2016). She is in private practice in London.

• Enrique Enriquez is a New York-based Venezuelan poet and artist. His work with the Marseilles Tarot breaks new ground intellectually and artistically.

• Jeri Isaacson, Ph.D., is an Associate Member of IPTAR. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing in Montclair, New Jersey.

• Joanna Goodman Ph.D., is an artist, photographer and a Training and Supervising

  Psychoanalyst at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society where she on the faculty. She treats adults and children in private practice in Seattle.

• Brian Kloppenberg FIPA, teaches at IPTAR, NPAP and SVA. At IPTAR, he chairs the Faculty  and Curriculum Committee and IPTAR-Q. His essays appear in JAPA, Psychoanalytic Psychology and The Undecidable Unconscious.

• Eugene Mahon M.D., is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic. His articles have been published widely in major psychoanalytic journals. His books include A Psychoanalytic Odyssey: Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities (Karnac, 2014), Rensel the Redbit: A Psychoanalytic Fairy Tale (Karnac,2015) and a volume of poetry, Bone Shop of the Heart (IPBooks, 2017).

• Ellen Marakowitz, Ph.D., is a Member of IPTAR. She is on faculty at IPTAR and at Columbia University where she is director of the MA Program in Anthropology. She is in private practice in New York.

• Jared Russell Ph.D., is an analyst in private practice in NYC. He is a member, clinical supervisor, and on faculty at IPTAR and NPAP. He is Managing Editor of The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis (U. of Nebraska Press). He is the author of Nietszche and the Clinic: Psychoanalysis , Philosophy, Metaphysics. (Karnac, 2016).

• Diana Schmertz is an artist and educator. She has received grants and awards from organizations such as the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Aljira Emerge Fellowship program, and the Drawing Center and has participated in residencies in Russia, Europe and the U.S. Her work has been shown at Garis & Hahn and Columbia University in New York City, the International Museum of Women, San Francisco and Galería Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In addition, Schmertz has made public art supported by grants. Currently, she is in a two-person exhibition, Soma, at Muriel  Guépin Gallery LES, NYC and in a group show at Center for Book Arts, Chelsea NYC.

• Diane Seuss is a poet whose most recent collection, Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf Press, 2015) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, (U. of Ma. Press, 2010) won the Juniper Prize. Her fourth collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in May 2018. She has published widely in literary magazines including Poetry, The Iowa Review, and The New Yorker. Diane lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

• Sarah Valeri is an art therapist working with children with visual impairments and diverse developmental experiences, as well child survivors of trauma. She is a Candidate in the IPTAR’s Child Analytic Program (CAP). Sarah is an internationally exhibiting artist.

• C. Jama Adams is Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY. He is currently working on a book about the psychological adjustment strategies of Africana workers in China.

• Sheldon Bach is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on faculty at IPTAR, He has written five books on psychoanalysis, most recently “Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach” (IP Books, 2016).

• Violette Bule uses photographic and mix-media projects to highlight complex social problems as a means for social change. She has exhibited in contemporary art museums and fairs in Tokyo, Caracas, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Miami, NYC, and Basel. In 2014 she was awarded the Cisneros Foundation grant. Bule won first place in the 18th edition of Jóvenes Con Fia 2015, Caracas, Venezuela.

• Ani Buk is a Training Analyst and on Faculty at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Graduate Art Therapy Program of New York University, as well as the Kint Institute, a post-graduate program focused on the use of the creative arts therapies to treat traumatized populations.

• Richard Grose i s an advanced candidate at IPTAR. He has private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City and was editor of the Round Robin (2013-2017).

• Susan Katz is a photographer, writer, and psychotherapist in private practice in NYC, NY.

• Joan V. Liebermann is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, DC and a clinical faculty member at the GeorgeWashington University School of Medicine.

• Carlos Padrón is a licensed psychoanalyst and an advanced candidate at IPTAR’S adul t psychoanalytic program. He has written on the intersections between philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature. He hails f rom Venezuela.

• Arlene Richards is a training and supervising analyst at IPTAR and poet. Her most recent book is Myths of Mighty Women. (Karnac 2015).

• Jared Russell is a psychoanalyst and on faculty at IPTAR. His most recent book is Nietzsche and the Clinic (Karnac 2016).

• Audrey Siegel is an analyst emeritus at IPTAR, a photographer, and was the first co-director IPTAR’s Clinical Center from 1992-2000.

• Rona Silverton is a psychoanalyst, a member of IPTAR and a watercolor artist.

• Gila Ashtor is a Candidate in IPTAR’s child and adult psychoanalytic programs. She holds a doctorate in literature and philosophy.

• Joseph Cancelmo i s a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst and Chair, The L.J. Gould Center for Systems-Psychoanalytic Studies at IPTAR.

• Elizabeth Evert is the Co-Director of IPTAR’s Clinical Center and on faculty at IPTAR.

• Janet Fisher is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst and on faculty at IPTAR.

• Jane Lazarre is the author of Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of B lack Sons. Her for thcoming memoir The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter is in press at Duke U. Press. She is on the guest faculty at IPTAR.

• Eugene Mahon is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic. His for thcoming volume of poet r y BONE SHOP OF THE HEART is in press with IPBooks.

• Otto-Werner Mueller (1926-2016). Professor of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music, Julliard School of Music, and Yale School of Music. Music director of the Yale Philharmonic.

• Hattie Myers is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at IPTAR.

• ROOM 2.17 would also like to acknowledge the editorial guidance of Sonal Soni, Odile Hullot-Kantor, Karen Berntsen and the support of the IPTAR Board of Directors.

• Mafe Izaguirre is a New York-based Venezuelan visual artist, a graphic designer with twenty years of experience developing brand platforms, and an educator whose research focusses on the conceptual image of the mind in new media. For the last seven years she has led the strategic advisory firm, Simple7 Design Lab, managing marketing and outreach for brands. In 2016, Izaguirre moved to New York to pursue her research developing “machines that can feel” and to explore the creation of artifacts that mimic human senses and consciousness. She is currently an artist member of Fat Cat Fab Lab, the Long Island City Artist Association (LICA), a tech mentor at Mouse Inc, and the Bronx based non-profit DreamYard Project. In 2017, in collaboration with members of the IPTAR community, Izaguirre created ROOM. Website: www.mafeizaguirre.com