Contributors
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Lynette Danychuk, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is currently President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). She has been Director of ISSTD’s Professional Training Program and is a member of the Certificate Program for ISSTD’s Center for Advanced Studies in Trauma and Dissociation.
Stefanie Hofer is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. She has published on contemporary German literature and cinematic depictions of Germany’s struggle to come to terms with Nazi atrocities and left-wing terrorism. Her current research focuses on the role of autobiographical narratives in post-traumatic healing.
John S. Kafka, M.S, M.D. is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine, supervising and training analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and a past Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives. He has lectured and published widely on psychoanalytic theory and technique, time and psychoanalysis, trauma, schizophrenia, and the Holocaust. His theories on schizophrenic thought disorder are based largely on his work at Chestnut Lodge. His book Multiple Realities in Clinical Practice (Yale, 1989) has been translated and published in French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Russian. In recent years, he has been actively involved in teaching and organizing psychoanalytic education in Central and Eastern Europe.
Jacob D. Lindy, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst and former director at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of [End Page 333] Cincinnati. He has authored five books and numerous papers on post-traumatic stress, many as part of a study group including Bonnie Green, Ph.D. and Mary Grace, M.S., M.Ed. The impact of the clinical encounter on the therapist and the usefulness of countertransference in deepening clinical work are central themes to his writings. His book, with John P. Wilson, Trauma, Culture and Metaphor (Routledge, 2013) highlights the role of trauma-specific metaphor in the recovery process. He served as the fourth president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is the recipient of the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in Traumatic Stress and the Edith Sabshin Award for excellence in psychoanalytic teaching. Recently, he has worked at the Cincinnati Veterans Hospital in their outreach program to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Elyn R. Saks is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences and the Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at USC Gould School of Law. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Law at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. From 2005-2010, she served as USC Law’s associate dean for research. She specializes in mental health law, criminal law, and children and the law. Her recent research has focused on the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and the forced treatment of people with mental illness. Her scholarly books include Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Yale University, 1999), Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University of Chicago, 2002), and, with Shahrokh Golshan, Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (Fordham University, 2013). She has also published The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), a memoir about her struggles and successes with schizophrenia and acute psychosis. She was a 2009 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. [End Page 334]
