Contributors
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Richard Brockman, M.D. is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of A Map of the Mind: Toward a Science of Psychotherapy (International Universities Press, 1998) and over thirty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals. He has received numerous awards, including the Teichner Scholar award for 2011–2012 from the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He lectures regularly on the topic of the interface of psychotherapy and neurobiology. His work as a playwright includes “Good Behavior,” “Angels Don’t Dance,” “The Black Devil,” “5 O’clock,” “The Interrogation of a Well Dressed Lady,” “The Recruit,” “Informed Consent,” “Whatever She Loves,” “Lake Effect,” and “Air Rites.” His plays have been produced off-Broadway in New York and at the London Fringe, as well as in regional theaters in the US and abroad. Honors include the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Samuel French Best Play Festivals of 2001 and 2005, and the 7 Devils Playwrights Conference. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He belongs to The Workshop Theater Company as a founding member, to The Dramatists Guild, New York, and to The Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, New York.
Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, 2010), Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2005), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2006), After Words (Palgrave, 2002), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 1999). His most recent books are Feelings (Routledge, 2011) and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (Palgrave, 2012). [End Page 291]
Daniel Jacobs, M.D. is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies in Princeton and Aspen, as well as Director of the Hanns Sachs Library and Archive at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. His most recent writings have centered on the life and work of Tennessee Wil-liams. His play “Hallie,” written with his wife Susan Quinn, was recently performed in New York.
Walter Kalaidjian is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Professor Kalaidjian has authored four books on twentieth-century American literature, including The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past (Johns Hopkins University, 2005), and he is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge Universiy, 2005). His research and teaching focus on transnational modern and contemporary literature and culture specializing in poetics, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.
G. W. Pigman III is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Grief and Renaissance English Elegy (Cambridge University, 1985) and the editor of George Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (Clarendon, 2000). Formerly a training analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, he is currently writing a book on conceptions of dreaming from Homer to Freud.
Madelon Sprengnether is Regents Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has published widely in the field of feminism and psychoanalysis, most notably as co-editor of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1985) and as author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1995). She has also published two memoirs, Rivers, Stories, Houses, Dreams (1983) and Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir (2002), two collections of poems, The Normal Heart (1981), and The Angel of Duluth (2006), and a co-edited [End Page 292] collection of travel writing by women, The House on Via Gombito (1985). Her work in progress includes a book on Freud titled Freud: Modern and Postmodern and a memoir titled Great River Road: Memoir and Memory.
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