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James S. Amelang has been Professor of Early Modern History at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid since 1989. He has published several works on the social and cultural history of Barcelona and early modern Europe, beginning with Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490–1714 (Princeton University, 1986) and including The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe (Stanford University, 1998). He translated and edited A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the Barcelona Tanner Miquel Parets, 1651 (Oxford University, 1991) and has co-edited several collections of essays. His Twelve Walks through Barcelona’s Past, co-authored with Xavier Gil and Gary W. McDonogh (Olimpíada Cultural S.A., Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1992), served as the official historical guidebook to Barcelona in the 1992 Olympic year. His most recent book, Historias paralelas: judeoconversos y moriscos en la España moderna (Akal, 2011), is forthcoming in English as Parallel Histories: Converted Jews and Muslims in Early Modern Spain. Currently, he is completing The Oxford History of Early Modern Spain and has begun a study exploring diverse aspects of urban discourse in early modern Europe titled Writing Cities.

Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Theology (Emeritus) at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Men, Religion, and Melancholia (Yale University, 1997) and Understanding Psychosis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). He edited Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader (Yale University, 2001), and with Janet Liebman Jacobs, he co-edited Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis (Westview, 1997).

Paul H. Ornstein is Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus) and Professor of Psychoanalysis (Emeritus) in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati; the Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Self Psychology; and Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. A graduate of the [End Page 431] Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, he has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, a Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a member of the faculty at the PINE Psychoanalytic Center. He has written extensively on the clinical aspects of psychoanalytic psychotherapies, the process of psychoanalysis, and the interpretive process in both psychotherapy and psychoanalysis—much of this jointly with his wife, Anna Ornstein. He has authored numerous clinical and theoretical papers from the perspective of psychoanalytic self psychology. With Michael Balint and Enid Balint, he co-authored Focal Psychotherapy: An Example of Applied Psychoanalysis (Tavistock, 1972). He edited and introduced The Search for the Self: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut, Volumes 1–4 (International Universities, 1978–1990).

Francey Russell is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Having received her B.A. in philosophy and film studies at the University of Toronto, she completed her M.A. in philosophy and psychoanalysis at the New School for Social Research in New York. She has presented her work in North America and Europe. Her paper “The Space of Pathos: Heideggerean Angst and Ethics” will be published by Walter De Gruyter in a collection of essays from the 2011 conference on existential philosophy and ethics held at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Léon Wurmser, M.D., Ph.D. h.c. (honorary degree in philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin) is a psychoanalyst and former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of West Virginia, with regular and extensive teaching in Europe. He is the author of The Hidden Dimension: Psychodynamics in Compulsive Drug Use (Jason Aronson, 1978); The Mask of Shame (Johns Hopkins University, 1981); Das Rätsel des Masochismus [The Riddle of Masochism] (Springer, 1993); Magische Verwandlung und tragische Verwandlung [Magic Transformation and Tragic Transformation] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999); The Power of the Inner Judge (Jason Aronson, 2000); Ideen- und Wertewelt des Judentums: Eine psychoanalytische Sicht [Ideas and Values of Judaism: A Psychoanalytic View] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001); Torment Me, But Don’t Abandon Me (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Scham und [End Page 432] der böse Blick [Shame and the Evil Eye] (Kohlhammer, 2011) and co-author with Heidrun Jarass of Jealousy and Envy: New Views on Two Powerful Emotions (Routledge, 2007), a monograph in the Pychoanalytic Inquiry Book series. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst for the New York Freudian Society...

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