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Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor, Vice Dean for Research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, Editor-in-Chief of Ma'arag – The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, poetess, and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books, two memoirs in prose, and four psychoanalytic nonfiction books (and more than 50 articles), including Cleft Tongue (Karnac, 2014), On the Lyricism of the Mind (Routledge, 2016), Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, 2018), Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge (Routledge, 2021), and Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality (Routledge, 2024). She is the winner of many literary and academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards.

Sara Boffito, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and IPA expert in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, works in Milan with children, adolescents, and adults. She is a member of the editorial boards of the COWAP IPA Book Series and the Rivista di Psicoanalisi (the Journal of the Italian Society), and she is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published several works in Italian and international journals and collective volumes. Among the most recent is "The Mule and the Dancer: Freud, Moses, and the Dilemma of the Hybrid" (2022), which appears in the volume On Freud's "Moses and Monotheism," edited by Lawrence Brown for the IPA Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Book Series. She has translated some fundamental English-language psychoanalytic authors into Italian, such as Thomas Ogden, Nina Coltart, Dana Birksted-Breen, and Melanie Klein.

Rachel Boué-Widawsky, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is the Chair of Admissions at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Associate Clinical Professor at NYU Medical School. She is the Editor of the Foreign Books Reviews of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of numerous articles on French psychoanalysis. Her most recent contributions are "Maternal Eroticism or the Necessary Risk of Madness," in Eroticism, edited by S. Akhtar and Rajiv Gulati (Routledge, 2020), and "Maternal Eroticism and the Journey of a Concept in Julia Kristeva's Work," in The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva by Sara Beardsworth, published in the series The Library of Living Philosophers (Open Court, 2020). She is also the author of several books in French on literary criticism.

Andrea Celenza is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also adjunct faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She has written numerous papers on love, sexuality, and psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of JAPA. She has two online courses and is the recipient of several awards. Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Chinese, and Farsi. Her third book, Transference, Love, and Being: Essential Essays from the Field, was published in 2022 by Routledge and was nominated for the Gradiva Award. Dr. Celenza is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst (SPI, APsaA, IPA). He lives in Pavia, Italy. His books include: The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field (2010); The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis (2012); The Necessary Dream: New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (2014); Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict and Psychoanalytic Criticism (2015); The Analytic Field and its Transformations (with A. Ferro, 2015); Truth and the Unconscious (2016); An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2019); Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (2018); Vitality and Play in Psychoanalysis (with A. Ferro, 2022); Psychoanalytic Field Theory: A Contemporary Introduction (2022); The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art (2023); and On Arrogance: A Psychoanalytic Essay (2023). In 2022, he received the Sigourney Award.

Dr. Stan Coen is a training and supervising analyst and has been Senior Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at...