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John Boyle has a Ph.D. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He also has an M.A. in Western Esotericism (University of Exeter). He has completed clinical M.Sc. degrees in integrative psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy as an integrative psychotherapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor. He has previously published papers in journals such as the British Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and History. He is employed as a forensic practitioner in a statutory community forensic team in Northern Ireland.

Nancy Chodorow is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Sociology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, where she was a founding member of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium and of the UC Berkeley Gender and Women’s Studies Department. She is Faculty at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Chodorow’s books include The Reproduction of Mothering (Jessie Bernard Award); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory; Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond; The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture (Bryce Boyer Award); Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice; and The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition. She is honored in P. Bueskens, ed., Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: 40 Years On. Chodorow’s writings helped to create feminist theory and psychoanalytic feminism and to bring together psychoanalysis and the social sciences. They have also contributed to contemporary attention to Hans Loewald and the establishment of a Loewald Center.

Peter Lawner, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and Diplomate in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Until COVID-19, he was coordinator of the Roazen Group on the history of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor, Part Time, in the Psychiatry Department of the Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is a supervisor of psychotherapy in the Program for Psychotherapy at the Cambridge Hospital; psychotherapy supervisor in the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England Ease (PINE) Center; and teaching faculty at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP).

Daniel Jacobs, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where he is director of the Hanns Sachs Library and Archive. He also directs the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at Princeton. He is the author of over 40 publications.

Kim Larsen is senior psychologist at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the Medical Faculty of the University of Oslo, and the Psychiatric Department at Østfold Hospital Trust. He is clinical psychologist and certified specialist in community psychology. He has been interested in the history of psychoanalysis ever since he read Henri Ellenberger’s monumental and groundbreaking book The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (1970) as a first-year psychology student over 40 years ago. Larsen has published extensively in his fields of interest. In 2004 he was awarded the Bjørn Christiansen Memorial Prize by the Norwegian Psychological Association for his articles on historical, contextual, and clinical reinterpretations of Josef Breuer’s patient “Anna O.” (Bertha Pappenheim, 1859–1936). He later published similar studies of Freud’s patient “Dora” (Ida Bauer, 1882–1945), a study on countertransference issues in the evaluation and treatment of suicidal patients, and numerous essays and reviews of books in social psychology, the history of psychiatry, and suicidology.

John Martin-Joy, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His book Diagnosing from a Distance (Cambridge University Press, 2020) probes the history and ethics of the American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater Rule and provides an in-depth look at Barry Goldwater’s influential libel suit against Ralph Ginzburg and Fact magazine in the 1960s. His articles on the Goldwater Rule, the maturation of defenses across the life span, and other topics have appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and elsewhere. For many years he has taught adult development at the Harvard Longwood/BIDMC Harvard Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere is Emeritus Professor of Russian at the University of...