Contributors
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Paul Eisenstein is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of English at Otterbein University. He is the author of Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject (State University of New York, 2003) and coauthor, with Todd McGowan, of Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political (Northwestern University, 2012). His essays have appeared in History and Memory, German Quarterly, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, and Theory. His teaching and research interests include psychoanalytic theory, film, the Holocaust, and the novel since 1945. He is an Associate Editor of American Imago.
Jamey Hecht received his doctorate in English and American Literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of four books: Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation of Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Editions, 2004); How to Write About Homer in Bloom’s How to Write About Literature series (Chelsea, 2010); and Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009), a collection of fifty 14-line elegies for President Kennedy. He performs Shakespeare with the L.A. Shakespeare troupe, The Porters of Hellsgate, and practices as a psychotherapy intern (MFTi) at The Relational Center in Los Angeles. He is a post-seminar doctoral candidate in training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
Leonie Gombrich is a writer and editor living in London. Since the death of her grandfather, the art historian E.H. Gombrich, she has acted as administrator of his Literary Estate. She previously worked as a producer in the performing arts, most notably in contemporary dance where she managed first the Michael Clark Company and then DV8 Physical Theatre. [End Page 235]
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner FAIA is a Professor in the Department of Architecture and an Associate Dean in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and recipient of the Distinguished Professor award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, he has authored and edited five books and multiple articles on architecture and design, including several essays on the psychoanalytic aspects of memorials and the interactive design process. His essay “The Staten Island September 11 Memorial: Creativity, Mourning, and the Experience of Loss” is included in Grief and Its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, and Creativity (Routledge, 2015).
Joseph S. Reynoso, Ph.D. is a supervisor and instructor for the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in New York. He is the former Book Review Editor for the American Psychoanalytic Association journal Psychoanalytic Psychology (2007–2015). He has presented on topics including activism in psychoanalysis, celebrity culture in the clinical setting, and pathological narcissism in emerging adulthood. He is an author of published empirical studies on both the object relations of childhood ADHD, as well as the effectiveness of Otto Kernberg’s Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. Currently, he is working on a psychoanalytic investigation of the psychology of athletes and fans in professional American sports.
Milton Viederman, M.D. is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and previously directed the Consultation-Liaison Service at New York Hospital. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his undergraduate degree, residency, and psychoanalytic training at Columbia University. Initial publications involved the formulation of psychodynamic developmental models to conceptualize the adaptation of patients to renal hemodialysis, renal transplantation, and diabetes. The narrative perspective was applied to active psychotherapeutic engagement of patients in crises and led to the development of psychotherapeutic interventions including the Psychodynamic Life Narrative, the Induction and Use of a Benevolent Transference to Effect [End Page 236] Change, and Psychodynamic Interventions in Crisis. This led to the formulation of models to understand rapid and substantial change in individuals confronted by crisis. This approach, using the organizing life narrative and its relationship to adaptation, was applied to the study of painters (Magritte, Munch, Matisse, Picasso, and Seurat) to demonstrate how their work reflected an attempt to resolve inner conflict. A series of publications have focused on therapeutic change in psychoanalysis. [End Page 237]
