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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 has authored books and papers translated into several languages, including: Mechta Lacana [Dream Lacan] in Russian (2006); with A. Molino, In Freud’s Tracks (2008); Accidia: La passione dell’indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] (2008); and La gelosia [Jealousy] (2011). His book What Are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis (2016) has now appeared in English.

Harold P. Blum is Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Sigmund Freud Archives. He is the author of Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views (1977), Defense and Resistance: Historical Perspectives and Current Concepts (1985), and Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis: Childhood Revisited and Recreated (1994), as well as more than one hundred fifty psychoanalytic papers. Until 2013 he was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. He has been Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Education at New York University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award and of the Mahler, Hartmann, and Lorand Prizes. He was Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives from 1987 to 2014. [End Page 493]

Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her previous appointments include a Readership in Modern Literature at Cambridge University. Her most recent book is The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud (2010).

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999), After Words (2002), Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (2005), For and Against Psychoanalysis (2006), and Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (2010). His most recent books are Feelings (2011), A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (2012), and Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013).

John S. Kafka is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Services 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 has published widely on psychoanalytic theory and technique, time and psychoanalysis, trauma, schizophrenia, and the Holocaust. His book, Multiple Realities in Clinical Practice (1989), has been translated and published in French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Russian.

Daniel Pick is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the Senior Investigator in a collaborative research project titled Hidden Persuaders, funded by the Wellcome Trust and hosted at Birkbeck, which explores the history of Cold War brainwashing and the psy professions. He is also a psychoanalyst and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has written on the history of psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry; the relationship of Freudian thought to historiography; nineteenth-century evolutionary theory and the idea of degeneration; and various aspects of Victorian and [End Page 494] early twentieth-century cultural and intellectual history. His publications include Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction (2015), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts (2012), Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi (2005), as editor (with Lyndal Roper), Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis (2004), and Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848–1918 (1989). He is an editor of History Workshop Journal and a member of the advisory boards of Psychoanalysis and History and of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. He is on the editorial board...

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