Contributors
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Shelley Cross, MD, is Associate Professor Emerita at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. A graduate of Wellesley College (Philosophy) and graduate student at the University of Minnesota (Philosophy), she graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Residencies in Internal Medicine (Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University) and Neurology (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University), and a fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute) followed. She joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic, Department of Neurology, where she concentrated on patient care and teaching. She has authored more than 30 papers and book chapters on neurological topics. An academic graduate of the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute, she is interested in applying analytic concepts in medical encounters. Her paper, “Wilfred Bion’s Concept of the ‘Selected Fact’ and its Usefulness in a Neurological Practice” won the Dieperink Prize of the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians (Canada), the American Academy of Neurology, and the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society, and a member of the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and the American Psychoanalytic Association. She plays the cello.
Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bi-cultural individuals. He is on the faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and culture. More specifically, recent publications examine the role cultural systems play in structuring individuals and organizing collectives, as well as the experience of cultural dislocation and its impact on the mind.
Bernard Edelstein, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is past President of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he is a training and supervising analyst and a member of the faculty. He is part time Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School and a teacher and supervisor at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
Forrest Hamer, PhD, is an Oakland psychologist and psychoanalyst who teaches at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. The author of three books of poetry—Call and Response (Alice James, 1995), winner of Beatrice Hawley Award; Middle Ear (Roundhouse, 2000), winner of the Northern California Book Award; and Rift (Four Way Books, 2007)—he has also authored articles on race and psychoanalysis, one of which, “Guards at the Gate: Race, Resistance and Psychic Reality” won the 2000 Affiliate Council Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Adrienne Harris, PhD, is Faculty and Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. In 2012, she, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safran established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University. Along with Lew Aron, Eyal Rozmaren and Steven Kuchuck, she co-edited the Book Series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, a series now with over 100 published volumes. She is an editor of the IPA e-journal Psychoanalysistoday.com, which is developing cross-cultural communications among the five language groups in the IPA.
Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP, is a Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, Professor and PsyD Program Director Emeritus at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes is widely-recognized for her work on the impact of race and gender on psychoanalytic treatment process. She continues to be involved in national psychoanalytic organization leadership roles. She practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Bluffton, SC.
Noëlle McAfee is professor of philosophy and director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory University. Her books include Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis (Columbia 2019), Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia 2008); Julia Kristeva (Routledge 2003); and Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell 2000). She is co-editor of the Kettering Review, published by the Kettering Foundation, and an editor of the feminist section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In 2018, she completed the four-year course of study as an academic candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic...
