Authors & Translators
Gotz Aly
Gotz Aly is a freelance journalist and historian living in Berlin. He is the author of numerous scholarly works on the Holocaust and was the 2004-2006 visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main.
Books: Fromms (Author)
Serge Andre
Serge Andres, a psychoanalyst in Brussels, Belgium since 1975, has written more than one hundred articles. In addition to this book, he is also the author of The Perverse Imposture (Le Imposture Perverse, 1993), already translated into Spanish and Portuguese and forthcoming in English in 2003 from Other Press.
Books: What Does a Woman Want? (Author)
Francois Ansermet
Francois Ansermet is a psychoanalyst, professor, and head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at the University of Geneva. He is member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP).
Books: Biology of Freedom (Author)
Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist and writer. Her fiction includes Paris Requiem, Sanctuary, The Dead of Winter, and The Things We Do for Love, among other novels. She is also the author of Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir, a biographical portrait of Simone de Beauvoir, and Cabaret.
Books: Freud's Women (Author)
Daniel Araoz
Daniel Araoz is a professor at The C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, a National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis certified psychoanalyst, and an American Board of Professional Psychology diplomate. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Family Relations and has written many articles and several books, mainly on hypno- therapy.
Books: The Symptom Is Not the Whole Story (Author)
Peter Avery
Sir Peter Avery is a fellow of Oriental Languages at King's College, Cambridge.
Books: Hafiz of Shiraz (Author)
Isaac D. Balbus
Isaac D. Balbus teaches social and political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the author of The Dialectics of Legal Repression, Marxism and Domination, and Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father.
Books: Mourning and Modernity (Author)
Karyn Ball
Karyn Ball is an associate professor specializing in critical theory and literary theory in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She has edited special issues of Cultural Critique and Parallax. Her book, Disciplining the Holocaust, is forthcoming from the State University of New York Press.
Books: Traumatizing Theory (Author)
Dick Barnes
Dick Barnes was born in San Bernadino, California, in 1932. Educated at Pomona, Harvard, and the Claremont Graduate School, he taught medieval and renaissance literature at Pomona for nearly forty years. He published several volumes of poetry and translations. He died in May, 2000.
Books: A Word Like Fire: The Selected Poems of (Author)
Bruce Bauman
Bruce Bauman's work has appeared in Salon, BOMB, Bookforum, and numerous anthologies and literary magazines. He is an associate editor of Black Clock magazine and is adjunct professor in the CalArts MFA Writing Program. He is married to the painter Suzan Woodruff, and lives in Los Angeles.
Books: And the Word Was (Author)
Sharone Berger, PH.D.
Sharone Bergner, Ph.D. is Adjunct Assistant Professor and Supervisor in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York, and is a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Books: Mind to Mind (Author)
Gerard Bleandonu
Gerard Bleandonu is a communicty psychiatrist in a suberb of Lyon in France. He is the author of books on group therapy and on dreams.
Books: Wilfred Bion: His Life and Works (Author)
Marcianne Blevis
Marcianne Blevis is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She is a member of the Societe de Psychanalyse Freudienne and Director of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Department at the Sainte-Anne Hospital (Paris). She has published numerous articles in psychoanalytic journals and art publications.
Books: Jealousy (Author)
Stefano Bolognini
Stefano Bolognini, the author of several books, including Psychoanalytic Empathy, is a frequent morning show guest and contributor to newspapers in Italy. Winner of the Gradiva Award for Like Wind, Like Wave, he lives and works in Bologna.
Books: Like Wind, Like Wave (Author)
Daniel Cil Brecher
Daniel Cil Brecher is an independent historian living in Amsterdam. A former director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, he has taught at Haifa University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His documentary films and exhibitions have been shown throughout Europe and the U.S.
Books: A Stranger in the Land (Author)
Svetlana Broz
Dr. Svetlana Broz, cardiologist, is currently Director of the NGO Garden of the Righteous in Sarajevo, the President of the Board of The First Children's Embassy in the World and a member of various NGOs, including the Association of Independent Intellectuals CIRCLE 99. She lives in Sarajevo.
Books: Good People in an Evil Time (Author)
Ronit Chacham
Ronit Chacham, a native of Israel currently living in Jerusalem, is a widely published cultural critic who contributes regularly to news magazines in Israel. She is also the author of numerous works of fiction, including children's books, short stories, and plays.
Books: Breaking Ranks, Breaking Ranks (Author)
Myriam Chapman
Myriam Chapman teaches French at New York City's Bank Street School for Children. Why She Married Him is her first novel.
Books: Why She Married Him (Author)
Yvette Christianse
Yvette Christianse was born in South Africa under apartheid and emigrated with her family via Swaziland to Australia at the age of eighteen. She is the author of the 1999 poetry collection Castaway. She teaches English and postcolonial studies at Fordham University and lives in New York City. Unconfessed, her first novel, was honored as a 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist.
Books: Unconfessed (Author)
Joanna Clapps Herman
Joanna Clapps Herman's essays have appeared in the collections Don't Tell Mama and The Milk of Almonds, as well as in numerous periodicals. She teaches creative writing at Manhattanville College and City College in New York.
Books: Our Roots Are Deep with Passion (Author)
Nina Coltart
Deeply admired for her direct, honest, moving, and illuminating work, Nina Coltart is a highly regarded member of the British psychoanalytic community. In her talks and essays, she explores the parameters of the psychoanalytic relationship against a background of broader issues in morality and culture. Offering her insights to a North American audience for the first time, this volume is an outgrowth of her vast experience as a psychoanalyst, teacher, and consultant.
Books: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Author)
Sylvain Cypel
Sylvain Cypel, senior editor at Le Monde, joined the paper in 1998 as deputy head of the international section, following a five-year tenure as editor in chief of Courrier International and a stint as deputy editor in chief at the journal Les Echos. Cypel has long worked for the daily Le Matin de Paris and as a freelance journalist for France 2, Liberation, and other media outlets, often covering the Middle East. He holds degrees in sociology, contemporary history, and international relations, the last of which he earned at the University of Jerusalem. He lived in Israel for twelve years, and is now based in Paris. Walled was originally published in French; the Spanish translation of the book has been awarded the 23rd "Francisco Cerecedo" Journalism Prize from the Association of European Journalists.
Books: Walled (Author)
Boris Cyrulnik
Boris Cyrulnik is a neuropsychiatrist and ethologist. Director of Teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Toulon, he is also the author of more than a dozen books, including The Dawn of Meaning(1992).
Books: The Whispering of Ghost (Author)
Francoise Davoine
Over the past thirty years, psychoanalysts Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have worked at a public psychiatric hospital, as consultants, and in private practice. They are currently professors at the ...cole des Hautes ...tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and both hold advanced degrees in classics (French, Latin, and Greek literature) and doctorates in sociology.
Books: History Beyond Trauma (Author)
Erri De Luca
Erri de Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and lives near Rome today. He is the author of several novels, including God's Mountain and Sea of Memory.
Books: Three Horses: A Novel (Author)
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte was chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2007 and chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 1999 to 2003. Her work contributed to the indictment, arrest, or prosecution of dozens of persons accused of genocide and other war crimes, including Slobodan Milosevic, Theoneste Bagosora, and two of the world's most-wanted men, Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic. Del Ponte has received numerous awards and honors. She is currently Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina.
Books: Madame Prosecutor (Author)
Vinciane Despret
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and psychologist. She teaches at both the University of Liege and the University of Brussels in Belgium.
Books: Our Emotional Makeup (Author)
Elizabeth Diamond
Elizabeth Diamond lives in Devon, England. An Accidental Light is her first novel, for which she received a British Arts Council grant. She has just finished her second novel.
Books: An Accidental Light (Author)
Muriel Dimen
Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., wrote Surviving Sexual Contradictions and The Anthropological Imagination and, with Adrienne Harris, edited Storms in Her Head (Other Press, 2001). She has a private psychoanalytic practice in New York. Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., practices psychoanalysis and family therapy in Manhattan.
Books: Storms in Her Head (Author)
Dorothy Dinnerstein
Dorothy Dinnerstein was born in a poor Jewish section of the Bronx, New York City, in 1923. As a psychologist, she worked with such well-known names as Kohler, Wertheimer, and Asch. She was a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University for thirty years and lived in New Jersey until her death in a car accident in 1992.
Books: Mermaid and the Minotaur (Author)
Sean Dixon
Sean Dixon is a writer and actor. His work has been published in The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, and Brick, A Literary Journal. Coach House Books published Dixon's play collection, AWOL, and his young adult novel, The Feathered Cloak, was published by Key Porter. He lives and plays banjo in Toronto.
Books: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal (Author)
Joel Dor
Joel Dor was a professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VII and a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique. He is also the author of Introduction to the Reading of Lacan and Structure and Perversions (both Other Press).
Books: Introduction to the Reading of Lacan, Clinical Lacan (Author)
Francoise Dorner
Francoise Dorner is an actor, playwright, and screenwriter. In 1994 she was awarded the Prix du Jeune Theatre by the Academie Française for two of her plays. The Woman in the Row Behind, which won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2004, is her first novel. She lives in Paris.
Books: The Woman in the Row Behind (Author)
Lawrence Douglas
Lawrence Douglas teaches at Amherst College. He is the author of an acclaimed study of war crimes trials, The Memory of Judgment (Yale University Press, 2001), and coauthor of a book of humor, Sense and Nonsensibility (Simon and Schuster, 2004). His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Hudson Review, McSweeney’s, and the New Yorker, and he is a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times Literary Supplement. Douglas lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Books: The Vices (Author)
Charles Enderlin
Charles Enderlin has been the Bureau Chief for France 2 since 1990. When Shattered Dreams (Other Press, 2003) was first published in France it was an immediate bestseller and led to a documentary series aired worldwide. The Lost Years also became the basis for a television documentary, "The Years of Blood," to be aired in its American version by the Discovery Times Channel and in its international version by TV stations all over Europe. He has lived in Jerusalem since 1968.
Books: The Lost Years, Shattered Dreams (Author)
Leslie Epstein
Leslie Epstein, whose father and uncle, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein, wrote Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, and many other classics of the golden era of films, is the author of nine previous books of fiction, including King of the Jews and San Remo Drive, both published by Handsel Books/Other Press. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where for many years he has directed the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.
Books: San Remo Drive, San Remo Drive, King of the Jews (Author)
Judith Feher-Gurewich
Judith Feher-Gurewich, Ph,D., practices psychoanalysis in Cambridge, MA. She is affiliated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique in Paris. Dr. Gurewich is the Director of the Lacan Seminar at Harvard University's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies.
Books: Lacan and the New Wave (Author)
Lydia Flem
Lydia Flem is the author of several books on Freud and Freudianism, and is also the author of the best-selling work Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and lives in Brussels and Paris with her husband and daughter.Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.
Books: Freud the Man (Author)
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., F.B.A., is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Univesity College London.
Books: Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, Affect Regulation, Mentalization (Author)
David Ross Fryer
David Ross Fryer works in phenomenology, psychoanalysis, gender theory, queer theory, and Africana studies. He is a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University.
Books: Intervention of the Other (Author)
Gyorgy Gergely
Gyorgy Gergely, Ph.D., is Director of the Developmental Psychology Laboratory of the Psychology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Books: Affect Regulation, Mentalization (Author)
Tomas Geyskens
Tomas Geyskens, Ph.D., is the author of Our Original Scenesand Confusion of Tongues (Other Press, 2004). He is a member of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Anthropology and a practicing member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis.
Books: From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory (Author)
Patricia Gherovici
Patricia Gherovici is an analyst in private practice and founding member and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar. She has published in numerous journals and collections, most recently Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis (Continuum: 2001). She is the former director of a mental health clinic in Philadelphia.
Books: The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Author)
John Gould
John Gould is the author of The Kingdom of Heaven: Eighty-Eight Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. A Sessional Instructor in Fiction at the University of Victoria and a member of the editorial board of the Malahat Review, he lives in Victoria, Canada, with his wife and stepchildren.
Books: Kilter (Author)
Charlotte Greig
Charlotte Greig worked as a music journalist in print and radio before becoming a folk singer and songwriter. She has made five albums and written a book on girl groups, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: Girl Groups from the 50s On. She is also a playwright, for radio and stage. She lives in Cardiff, Wales, U.K., with her family. A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy is her first novel.
Books: A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (Author)
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, proclaimed "the Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of eight books, including Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather.
Books: Our Roots Are Deep with Passion (Author)
Leigh Hafrey
Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-Master of Mather House, Harvard College. His journalism, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New York Times and other American and European periodicals.
Books: The Story of Success, The Story of Success (Author)
Roberto Harari
Roberto Harari, Ph.D., has been a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires since 1965. He is a charter member and former President of Mayica-Institucisicoanalca. Since 1986, he has directed the Freud-Lacan Collection in Ediciones Nueva Visi. Harari has published more than 200 articles in international magazines, and is the author of sixteen books. Several have been translated into French and Portuguese.
Books: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, How James Joyce Made His Name:, Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety (Author)
Marina Harss
Marina Harss translations include For Solo Violin (Per Vionlino Solo), a war memoir by Aldo Zargani, and stories in The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda, by Sonia Rivera-Vald. Her translations have also appeared in Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, and Autadafe. She is a researcher at The New Yorker, and lives in New York City.
Books: Two Friends, A Week in October (Translator)
Jean Hatzfeld
Jean Hatzfeld, an international reporter for Liberation since 1973, is the author of many books, including two on the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, winner of the Prix Joseph Kessel. He lives in Paris.
Books: Life Laid Bare (Author)
Olivia Heal
Olivia Heal lives in Tours, France, where she is completeing a master's degree at the University of Paris VIII. She has translated, among others, texts by Monique Wittig and Nicole Brossard.
Books: Jealousy (Translator)
Patrice Higonnet
Patrice Higonnet was born in Paris in 1938. He was educated in American, French, and English universities and is currently the Goelet Professor of History at Harvard University. He has written books on the compared history of the French and the American Revolutions, and on French history and culture, most recently Paris: Capital of the World(Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also had numerous articles published in renowned academic journals, as well as reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review.
Books: Attendant Cruelties (Author)
Ninni Holmqvist
Ninni Holmqvist was born in 1958 and lives in Skane, Sweden. She made her debut in 1995 with the short story collection Suit [Kostym] and has published two further collections of short stories since then. She also works as a translator. The Unit marks Holmqvist's debut as a novelist.
Books: The Unit (Author)
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis certified analyst. Formerly an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Temple University Medical School, she is now in full-time private practice at Clinical Associates Main Line in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Books: False Self (Author)
Gail A. Hornstein
Gail Hornstein is Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and was the Founding Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center for its first ten years.
Books: To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World (Author)
Mardy Ireland
Dr. Mardy S. Ireland is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with a practice in Berkeley, CA. She is on the core faculty of the New College of California, and is the author of Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity.
Books: Art of the Subject (Author)
Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar was born in Chicago in 1978. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved back to the U.S. at thirteen. She is a writer and translator whose honors include the Million Writers Award, the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award and the Geoffrey James Gosling Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares as well as in numerous journals and anthologies. Her translations from the Arabic have appeared in Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers; recently, she translated Hassan Daoud's novel, The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A Map of Home is her first novel. Visit Randa online at rockslinga.blogspot.com.
Books: Map of Home, A (Author)
Elliot L. Jurist
Elliot L. Jurist, Ph.D., is Director of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the City University of New York; Professor, Department of Psychology, the City College of New York; and Lecturer, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
Books: Affect Regulation, Mentalization (Author)
Reinhard Kaiser
Reinhard Kaiser, writer, translator, and editor, was born in 1950 and now lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has won many literary prizes for his books, including Paper Kisses.
Books: Paper Kisses (Author)
Judy Leopold Kantrowitz
Judy Leopold Kantrowitz is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Patient's Impact on the Analyst and numerous publications on the patient--analyst match. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Books: Writing About Patients (Author)
Gisela Kaplan
Gisela Kaplan, Ph.D., social scientist and scientist alike, is highly prolific in both fields. She has published numerous papers, contributed to a number of volumes, and has written fifteen books. SHe currently lives in Australia.
Books: Gene Worship (Author)
Karen Kaplan-Solms
Karen Kaplan-Solms is a speech and language pathologist and neuropsychologist. She was an Honorary Lecturer in Neuro-surgery at the London Hospital Medical College at the time she conducted this research. She is an Associate member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She has published broadly in neuropsychological and psychoanalytic journals.
Books: Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis (Author)
Paulina F. Kernberg
Paulina F. Kernberg, M.D., who passed away in 2006, was director of Cornell University Medical School's residency training program in child and adolescent psychiatry in Westchester. Her previous book, Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents (2000), coauthored with Alan S. Weiner and Karen K. Bardenstein, examined the origins of narcissistic andantisocial disorders.
Books: Beyond the Reflection (Author)
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905. She published her first novel, Gilgi--A Girl Just Like Us, in 1931. Her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, instantly became a bestseller. After the war, she resumed writing under the name of Charlotte Tralow, enjoying only modest success until her early works were rediscovered and reissued in the late 1970s. She died in 1982 in Cologne.
Books: The Artificial Silk Girl (Author)
George Konrad
George Konrad, a former president of International PEN and the Academy of Arts in Berlin, is the author of The Case Worker and The Invisible Voice, among many other widely translated books. He lives in Budapest.
Books: A Guest in My Own Country (Author)
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall was born in Warsaw in 1937 and was a reporter for Polityka from 1957 until 1981, when martial law was imposed and her publications were banned. The recipient of numerous international literary awards, her books have been translated into 15 languages. She lives in Warsaw.
Books: Woman from Hamburg, Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories (Author)
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is one of our most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in linguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary and political theory. As a linguist, she has created a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation. As a practicing psychoanalyst, she has explored the nature of the human subject and sexuality.Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.
Books: Crisis of the European Subject (Author)
Antonie Ladan
Antonie Ladan is a psychiatrist and a staff member of the Netherlands Psychoanalytic Institute. He was the editor of By the Skin of One's Teeth/ Het vege lijf (1997) and Solace and Illusion/ Troost en illusie (1999), among other works. He lives in Zeist, Netherlands.
Books: Walking Heads (Author)
Sofie Laguna
Sofie Laguna has previously written for children and young adults, including Surviving Aunt Marsha and Too Loud Lily (Scholastic). She is also an actor. One Foot Wrong is her first adult novel. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Books: One Foot Wrong (Author)
Romulo Lander
Romulo Lander is a psychoanalyst at la Sociedad Psicoanalitica de Caracas and a Training Analyst in el Instituto de Psicoanalisis de dicha Sociedad. An active member of the IPA, he studied developmental psychiatry at the University of Caracas, and Infant Psychiatry at Harvard. He has published a number of articles and books in Spanish. Subjective Experience and the Logic of the Other is his first book to be published in English.
Books: Subjective Experience and the Logic of t (Author)
Alexandre Leupin
Alexandre Leupin, a native of Geneva, Switzerland, is Gregorie Professor in French at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he teaches French literature, art, epistemology, and psychoanalysis. In addition to numerous articles, his works include Le Graal et la litterature, Barbarolexis, Fiction and Incarnation, La Passion des idoles, and Phallophanies.
Books: Lacan Today (Author)
Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis won two Emmys and many other honors as a writer and producer of Hill Street Blues. His "Meritocracy Quartet" is intended to chart the progress of a generation. The first book of the quartet, Meritocracy: A Love Story, won both the Independent Publishers Book Award for General Fiction and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine.
Books: Theme Song For An Old Show, Adam the King, Conference of Birds, Meritocracy, Meritocracy (Author)
Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton is the author of The Nazi Doctors, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won the National Book Award; Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism; and most recently, Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books: Home from the War (Author)
Robert Lindner
Dr. Robert M. Lindner was the author of numerous seminal texts on psychoanalysis, including The Fifty-Minute Hour (Other Press edition 2002) and Must You Conform? He died in 1956 at the height of his career.Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at The University of Chicago. He is the author of Aristotle: The Desire to Understand and Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.
Books: Fifty minute Hour (Author)
Robert M. Lindner
Dr. Robert M. Lindner was the author of numerous seminal texts on psychoanalysis, including The Fifty-Minute Hour (Other Press edition 2002) and Must You Conform? He died in 1956 at the height of his career.
Books: Rebel Without a Cause (Author)
Kara Lindstrom
Kara Lindstrom was a set decorator and production designer on movies before becoming a screenwriter. She splits her time between Los Angeles and Paris.
Books: Sparkle Life (Author)
Philip Lopate
Phillip Lopate is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic, poet, and editor. He is the author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (2004), as well as the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically. He is the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and the Library of America's Writing New York. Two Marriages is his first book-length fiction since The Rug Merchant (1987). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Books: Two Marriages (Author)
Pierre Magistretti
Pierre Magistretti is a professor of neuroscience, Co-director of the Brain Mind Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL) in Lausanne, and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Neurosciences at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne. He holds the International Chair 2007-2008 at the Collège de France, Paris. He has served as the president of the European Federation of Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
Books: Biology of Freedom (Author)
Elizabeth Maguire
Elizabeth Maguire (1958-2006) was born in New York City and had a distinguished twenty-five year career as an editor and publisher. She nurtured numerous prize-winning books and was especially known as a champion of African-American nonfiction and for her deep commitment to African-American writers. Maguire published one novel, Thinner, Blonder, Whiter (2003), during her lifetime. She had just completed her second novel, The Open Door, at the time of her death from ovarian cancer.
Books: The Open Door (Author)
Lydia Marinelli
Dr. Lydia Marinelli is Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and has published works on the history of psychoanalysis and dreaming.
Books: Dreaming By the Book (Author)
Catherine Mathelin
Catherine Mathelin, a psychoanalyst and psychologist, works in the child psychiatry and neonatology units of the Saint-Denis Hospitals. She was a member of Lacan's Ecole Freudienne from 1974 until its dissolution, and the Centre de formation et de recheres psychanalytiques (Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) until the founding by Maud Mannoni of Espace Analytique, of which she is currently a member.
Books: Lacanian Psychotherapy With Children (Author)
Todd Mcgowan
Todd McGowan teaches film and critical theory in the English Department at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Feminine "No!" and The End of Dissatisfaction: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment. He lives in Vermont.
Books: Lacan and Contemporary Film (Author)
Linda Mck. Stewart
Linda McK. Stewart is a travel writer whose work has appeared in major metropolitan newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. She currently resides in New Jersey.
Books: 25 Months (Author)
Icchokas Meras
Icchokas Meras was born in 1934 in Kelme, a town in northwestern Lithuania. His novels, short fiction, essays, and plays have been widely published and translated. Meras has been the recipient of many literary awards including the International Rememberance Award for Excellence and Distinction in the Literature of the Holocaust, for Stalemate. He currently lives in Holon, Israel.
Books: Stalemate (Author)
Donigan Merritt
Donigan Merritt is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of seven novels, among them One Easy Piece (1981) and My Sister's Keeper (1983). He lives in Washington, DC.
Books: Possessed by Shadows (Author)
Anna Mitgutsch
Anna Mitgutsch's fiction includes Three Daughters and Lover, Traitor, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Recipient of the 2001 Solothurner Literaturpreis for German-language literary achievement, she lives in Austria and Boston.
Books: House of Childhood: A Novel (Author)
Joseph Newirth
Joseph Newirth, Ph.D., has been a psychologist, psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for over 25 years. He is currently the Director of the Postdoctoral Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University and a Supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. He lives in Garden City, New York.
Books: Between Emotion and Cognition (Author)
Miglena Nikolchina
Miglena Nikolchina is a professor in the Department of Theory and History of Literature, Sofia University, Bulgaria. Her theoretical books include The Utopian Human Being (1992) and Born from the Head: Plots and Narratives in Women's Literary History (2002). In English, her essays have appeared in Differences, Semiotica, Diacritics, Paragraph, and Tessera.
Books: Matricide in Language (Author)
Christian Oster
Christian Oster is a novelist who lives in Paris. In the last two decades, he has published eight novels as well as numerous stories, poems, and essays in French reviews.
Books: The Unforeseen (Author)
Eric Paras
Eric Paras received his doctorate in the history of European thought at Harvard University and is an affiliate of Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He lives in McLean, Virginia.
Books: Foucault 2.0 (Author)
Mietek Pemper
Mietek Pemper was born in Krakow in 1920. He studied law and economics, and, after 1945, sociology at Krakow's Jagiellonian University. Between completing his master's degree and leaving in 1958, he held a leading position in the office for auditing state-owned companies. He now lives in Augsburg, Germany.
Books: The Road to Rescue (Author)
Richard Polsky
Richard Polsky is the author of I Bought Andy Warhol and The Art Market Guide (1995-1997). He began his professional career in the art world thirty-one years ago and in 1984 founded Acme Art, where he showed the work of such artists as Joseph Cornell, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Bill Traylor. Since 1989 he has been a private dealer specializing in works by postwar artists, with an emphasis on Pop art. He is currently a contributor to Artnet magazine online and lives in Sausalito, California.
Books: I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon), The Art Prophets, I Sold Andy, Warhol (Too Soon) (Author)
Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabate is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvainia, and has authored or edited over twenty books on modernist authors such as Joyce and Pound, and on literary theory, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.
Books: Lacan in America, The Ethics of the Lie (Author)
Ellie Ragland
Ellie Ragland is the Fredrick A. Middlebush Professor of English, and former Chair of the Department of English at The University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of numerous critical works, most recently The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan (SUNY-Albany, 2004). She edited the first Lacan English journal, Newsletter of the Freudian Field for eight years and is now coeditor of (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies.
Books: Lacan: Topologically Speaking (Author)
Atiq Rahimi
Books: Earth and Ashes, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, The Patience Stone (Author)
Leo Rangell
Dr. Leo Rangell has contributed over 450 articles and seven books to psychoanalytic literature. He has also twice been President of both the American and the International Psychoanalytic Associations. He is currently the Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Rangell resides in Los Angeles, California.
Books: My Life in Theory (Author)
Richard Raubolt
Richard R. Raubolt, Ph.D., is in independent practice offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and was special editor of an issue of Group entitled, "Charismatic Group Leadership: Theoretical and Ethical Issues." Currently he is chair of the trauma committee for the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.
Books: Power Games (Author)
Jurgen Reeder
Jurgen Reeder, Ph.D., is a training analyst and member of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association. He is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Department of Education, University of Stockholm, Sweden, and has been in private practice since 1979.
Books: Hate and Love in Pyschoanalytical Institutions (Author)
Owen Renik
Owen Renik, M.D., is currently a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society. He was Editor in Chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly for ten years, Program Chair of The American Psychoanalytic Association for two terms, and served as Director of Training and Associate Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco. He maintains a private practice in San Francisco.
Books: Practical Psychoanalysis (Author)
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Rogers is Professor Emeritus of English at Penn State. His previous novels are The Pursuit of Happiness, The Confessions of a Child of the Century, and At the Shores.
Books: At the Shores, Jerry Engels (Author)
Robert A. Rushing
Robert A. Rushing, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, is Assistant Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Unit for Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
Books: Resisting Arrest (Author)
Mari Ruti
Mari Ruti received her Ph. D. from the Harvard University Comparative Literature Department in 2000. She teaches critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies at the University of Toronto English Department. She lives in Toronto.
Books: Reinventing the Soul (Author)
Moustafa Safouan
Moustafa Safouan was the first to translate Freud?s The Interpretation of Dreams into Arabic. He has published many books, the most recent of which are Lacaniana, a widely celebrated bestseller in France, and The Seminar of Moustafa Safouan (Other Press, 2002). In recent years, Safouan has taught psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory in various countries, as well as continuing his practice in Paris.
Books: Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis (Author)
Tom Sancton
Tom Sancton makes his debut as a writer of political thrillers with The Armageddon Project. For 22 years he worked at Time magazine, most recently as the Paris Bureau Chief. He coauthored the 1998 international bestseller Death of a Princess: The Investigation, which examined the circumstances surrounding Princess Diana’s death. His acclaimed memoir, Song for My Fathers (Other Press, 2006), recounts his early life among legendary jazz men in his native New Orleans. He currently lives in Paris.
Books: Song for My Fathers, Song for my Fathers (Author)
Lara Santoro
Lara Santoro was born in Rome and educated in the U.S. and France. A veteran journalist who has worked for the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek, Santoro has traveled extensively covering wars, famines, and every major aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Mercy is her first novel. She lives in Ranchos de Taos, NM.
Books: Mercy (Author)
Ralph James Savarese
Poet, essayist, translator, and scholar, Ralph James Savarese teaches American literature and creative writing at Grinnell College. He lives in Grinnell, Iowa.
Books: Reasonable People (Author)
Roy Schafer
Roy Schafer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in New York City. He has written nearly a dozen books on psychoanalysis, among them the noteworthy Aspects of Internalization, A New Language for Psychoanalysis, and Language and Insight: The Sigmund Freud Lectures at University College, London. Dr. Schafer has taught and lectured all over the U.S. and abroad. He lives in New York.
Books: Insight and Interpretation, Bad Feelings (Author)
Jacques Sedat
Jacques Sedat is the General Secretary of the International Association for the History of Psychoanalysis. An analyst in the group Espace Analytique, he is the editor and author of numerous articles in journals and encyclopedias of psychoanalysis. He lives in Paris.
Books: Freud (Author)
Deliana Simeonova
Deliana Simeonova was born in Bulgaria and studied English philology and American literature at the University of Sofia. She has worked for civil-society NGOs in Tajikistan, Serbia, Liberia, and now in her native Bulgaria.
Books: Isaac's Torah, Farewell Shanghai (Translator)
Colette Soler
An analysand of Jacques Lacan's, Colette Soler is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She was a member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris until its dissolution, and then of the Ecole de la cause freudienne.
Books: What Lacan Said About Women (Author)
Mark Solms
Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst who has done pioneering re-search into brain mechanisms of dreaming. He is co-chair of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and, with Karen Kaplan-Solms, author of Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis.
Books: Brain and the Inner World (Author)
Michael Sontheimer
Michael Sontheimer is a correspondent for Der Spiegel and has appeared as a commentator on NPR and CNN International. In addition to his work in newspapers and magazines, he has written nine books on politics.
Books: Fromms (Author)
Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer is currently working towards a master's degree in Editorial Studies at Boston University's Editorial Institute. He earned his bachelor's degree in literature from Boston University in 2002.
Books: Elected Friends (Author)
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Weinfelden, Switzerland. He is the author of the novel, Agnes (1998), and numerous short stories and radio plays. He lives outside of Zurich.
Books: On A Day Like This, In Strange Gardens and Other Stories, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, We're Flying, Unformed Landscape, In Strange Gardens and Other Stories, Unformed Landscape (Author)
Charles Strozier
Charles B. Strozier is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP). He is the author of Lincoln's Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait and Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Books: Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Author)
Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Elizabeth Subercaseaux was born in Chile, the great-great-granddaughter of the German composer Robert Schumann. She is the best-selling author of ten books. Her nonfiction includes Michelle, a biography of the first woman to be elected president in Chile, and the amusing feminist manifesto, The Ten Things a Chilean Woman Should Never Do. Subercaseaux lives in Pennsylvania.
Books: A Week in October (Author)
Mary Target
Mary Target, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at University College London.
Books: Affect Regulation, Mentalization (Author)
Jonathan Tel
Jonathan Tel is the author of the story collection Arafat's Elephant (Counterpoint, 2002) and the novel Freud's Alphabet (Counterpoint, 2003). His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Zoetrope. He has worked as a quantum physicist and an opera librettist. While in New York he writes about Beijing, and while in Beijing about New York.
Books: The Beijing of Possibilities (Author)
Harry Thomas
Harry Thomas edited Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1993) and Talking With Poets (Handsel Books, 2004). He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Books: Talking With Poets (Author)
William Tucker
William Tucker, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been teaching psychiatry and the humanistic aspects of medicine to psychiatric residents, medical students learning internal medicine, and interested colleagues, for the past 30 years.
Books: How People Change (Author)
Miklos Vamos
Miklos Vamos is one of the most respected and widely read writers in his native Hungary. He is the author of twenty-eight books, eleven of them novels. He has taught at Yale University on a Fulbright fellowship, served as The Nation's Eastern Europe correspondent, and was the host of a popular cultural TV talk show in Hungary. Today he is a correspondent for the Washington Post online. He is the father of three children, including a daughter who lives in London and five-year-old twin boys in Budapest.
Books: The Book of Fathers (Author)
Didier Van Cauwelaert
Didier van Cauwelaert is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Poisson d'Amour, La Vie Interdite, and Rencontre Sous X (forthcoming in English from Other Press). He wrote a libretto that was featured in the recent off-Broadway musical, Amour. He lives in Paris.
Books: One Way (Author)
Philippe Van Haute
Philippe Van Haute is a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Nijmegen. His books include Against Adaptation (Other Press, 2002) and Confusion of Tongues. Tomas Geyskens, Ph.D., is the author of Our Original ScenesandConfusion of Tongues (Other Press, 2004). He is a member of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Anthropology and a practicing member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis.
Books: Against Adaptation, From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory, Confusion of Tongues (Author)
Suzanne Verderber
Suzanne Verderber is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Pratt Institute. She recently translated Jean-Michel Rabate's The Ethics of the Lie and Charles Enderlin's The Lost Years.
Books: The Lost Years, The Ethics of the Lie (Translator)
Paul Verhaeghe
Paul Verhaeghe is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counseling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice as well. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (1999) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2004), which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship, all available from Other Press.
Books: New Studies of Old Villains, On Being Normal and Other Disorders, Does the Woman Exist? (Author)
Angel Wagenstein
Angel Wagenstein is a prizewinning Bulgarian novelist. His novel, Isaac's Torah, has been published in Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, France, the Czech Republic, and is forthcoming from Handsel Books. Farewell, Shanghai, his third novel, won the Jean Monnet award in 2004.
Books: Isaac's Torah, Farewell Shanghai (Author)
Steven T. Wax
Steven Wax is in his sixth term as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon. A cum laude graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Law School, he was a key part of the Brooklyn, N.Y. District Attorney's prosecution of David Berkowitz, a.k.a."The Son of Sam." Wax and his team are currently representing seven men held as "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo. He has taught at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, serves as an ethics prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar, and lectures throughout the country.
Books: Kafka Comes to America (Author)
Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Best New American Voices, StoryQuarterly, and other periodicals. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and recipient of the Carol Houck Smith Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is a contributing editor of A Public Space. This is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles.
Books: The Interloper (Author)
Jonas Zdanys
Jonas Zdanys is the author of twenty-nine books, twenty-six of them collections of his own poetry and of his translations from Lithuanian. He serves presently as Chief Academic Officer in the Connecticut Department of Higher Education.
Books: Stalemate (Author)
