Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He lives and has a private practice in Pavia, Italy. Among his books are: 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 Apocriphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2019); A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis (with A. Ferro, 2018); 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 (Routledge, in press); and On Arrogance: A Psychoanalytic Essay (2023). Dr. Civitarese has also co-edited L’ipocondria e il dubbio: L’approccio psicoanalitico [Hypochondria and Doubt: The Psychoanalytic Approach 2011]; Le parole e i sogni [Words and Dreams,2015]; The W. R. Bion Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades (2015); and Advances in Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Concept and Future Development (2016). He edited Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reading A Memoir of the Future (2018. In 2022, Dr. Civitarese received the Sigourney Award for outstanding psychoanalytic achievement.

Anne J. Adelman, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she is the Dean of Students, and a recipient of that institute’s award for excellence in teaching in 2019. She is also a Teaching Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. As Co-Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Review of Books, she launched a feature column titled “Why I Write,” inviting analysts to reflect on the experience of writing. Dr. Adelman is also a co-chair of the New Directions in Writing Program and is co-author and editor of four books, along with several published papers and chapters. Her books are titled Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (with Kerry Malawista and Catherine Anderson, Columbia University Press, 2011); The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (with Kerry Malawista, Columbia University Press, 2013); Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns of Modern Love, Loss and Longing (Routledge, 2018); and When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychoanalytic Stories from Life (with Kerry Malawista and Linda Kanefield, Columbia University Press, 2022). Dr. Adelman maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Mark Winborn, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Memphis, Tennessee. He currently serves as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts . In addition, he has served as the Training Coordinator of the Memphis Jungian Seminar, a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich and the Romanian Society for Analytical Psychology, and a visiting faculty member at a number of institutes and seminars both in the USA and internationally. His primary areas of interest are analytic technique, the integration of psychoanalytic theories, and aesthetics. Dr. Winborn has published or edited five books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. A large portion of his published work has focused on the intersection between the ideas of Jung and Bion, as well as presenting these ideas at various international conferences. His work has also been published in Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Hungarian. He received the Gradiva prize from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for the best article published in 2022 (Whispering at the Edges: Engaging the Ephemeral) and was a finalist in 2014 for the best edited book in psychoanalysis. His most recent book, Jungian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction, is part of the Routledge Series Contemporary Introductions to Psychoanalysis edited by Aner Govrin.

REFERENCES (partial list)

Adelman, A. J. (2021). Through the looking glass: Holding the analytic frame on Zoom. American Imago, 78: 491-501.

Civitarese, G. (2023). Intercorporeity, un-distancing, and aura in Skype analysis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 92: 223-261.

Civitarese, G. (2022). Tales of COVID-19: Fear of contagion and need for infection. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91: 89-118.

Hilliard, R. (2021). Teleanalysis: Reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of conducting psychoanalysis remotely. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(2): 169-182.

Moran, C. (2020). The impact of the virtual setting on the psychoanalytic process. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(4): 619-644.

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