Contributors
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Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sciences and Technologies of Cognition of the Italian Council for Scientific Research (ISTC-CNR) in Rome and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, which he founded in 1995. He teaches psychoanalytic clinical practice in several institutes in Naples, Kiev, Moscow, and Mexico City and is the author of many books and papers in different languages, most recently: Mechta Lacana [Dream Lacan] in Russian (Aleteyya, 2006); "Perversion and Charity: An Ethical Approach," in D. Nobus & L. Downing (eds.), Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2006); with A. Molino, In Freud's Tracks (Jason Aronson, 2008); Accidia: La passione dell'indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] (il Mulino, 2008); Perversionen: Sexualität, Ethik und Psychoanalyse [Perversions: Sexuality, Ethics and Psychoanalysis] (Turia & Kant, 2009); and La gelosia [Jealousy] (il Mulino, 2011).
Erika Bourguignon is Professor of Anthropology emerita at the Ohio State University, where she taught for more than forty years. Her doctoral fieldwork in Haiti raised questions some of which she was able to address in the five-year Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociational States that she directed under a grant from NIMH. Her book Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change (Ohio State, 1973) and a series of other publications by her and her collaborators and students report some of the results of this study. She saw this work as relating to the larger field of psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religion, and the then new field of the anthropology of women. Her publications include a widely used textbook Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979) and A World of Women: Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World (Praeger, 1980). In later years she published Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Ohio State, 1998) by her aunt Bronka Schneider, who, [End Page 557] with her husband Joseph, escaped from Austria in 1939, following which they spent a year as servants in a castle in Scotland. Bourguignon received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology and a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ohio State University. Her Alma Mater, Queens College of the City of New York, awarded her the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.
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.
John E. Davidson is the founding director of the Film Studies Program at the Ohio State University, where he teaches in Germanic Languages and Literatures. He serves as executive editor of The Journal of Short Film, a quarterly DVD publication of original artistic work (www.thejsf.org) and on the editorial board of Studies in European Cinema. He is author of Deterritorializing the New German Cinema and co-editor (with Sabine Hake) of Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. He has contributed [End Page 558] to venues such as...
