 Rosemary Balsam, M.D., M.R.C. P (Edinburgh), M. R. C. Psych. (London) is originally from Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland. She came to the US, to the Yale Medical School in 1969 after her early psychiatric training. Currently she is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, where she is on the staff in the Yale University Student Health Services. Dr. Balsam is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, teaches and administers there, and is in private practice in New Haven, CT. With her husband, Paul Schwaber, she is co-Editor of the Book Review section of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago. Dr. Balsam's interests include late adolescence, the theory of female development, the history of ideas about female development with a particular interest in the body, the importance of mental representations of siblings, and the work of Hans Loewald. She has written many papers and book chapters and book reviews over the past two decades. Her two books are : "Becoming a Psychotherapist: A Clinical Primer" (1974/1984) U. of Chicago Press, (which is still selling well on the market! as an introductory text for students), and her edited "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Supervisory Process" (2001 I.U.P). A book is in progress called: "The Psychoanalytic Body" to be published by Routledge, which will take up the many distortions of this virtual entity. Recent writing includes: The Mother Within the Mother, (2000) PQ; "Women of the Wednesday Society" (2003) American Imago Vol 60; "Mothers and Daughters" edited with Ruth Fischer, (2004 & 2006) Psychoanalytic Inquiry Vols 24 & 29; The Pregnant Mother and the Body Image of her Daughter JAPA 44; 69;.Toward less fixed Internal transformations of gender. A commentary...on Melancholy Gender by Meg Jay, Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2007) Vol8; The Essence of Hans Loewald (2008) JAPA 56; Fathers and the Bodily care of their Infant Daughters: (2008) PI Vol 28. Two of her papers on female development, and integration of male and female elements in female integration won JAPA's annual awards for best paper and in 2001 and 2003. The American Psychoanalytic Association named her National Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar for 2004-2005. In 2007 she was a major lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress in Berlin, on "Remembering the Female Body."
Women Showing Off: Notes on Female Exhibitionism
 Jennifer I. Downey is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York. She received her MD degree from Case-Western Reserve School of Medicine in 1976. She was a resident in Psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and NY State Psychiatric Institute in 1978—1981 and was Chief Resident in Psychiatry in 1980-81. At Columbia she held a 5-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Downey attended the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, from which she graduated with a Certificate in Psychoanalysis in 1988. She has been a researcher, educator and clinical scholar in the areas of women's health, psychoanalysis, and sexuality. In the early 1990's with Dr. Richard C. Friedman, Dr. Downey began to write about homosexuality. In 1994 they published an invited Special Article on Homosexuality in the New England Journal of Medicine. One of their articles on female homosexuality received an award from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association as the Journal's best publication of 1998. Their most recent book is "Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice," re-issued by Columbia University Press in 2008. Presently, she and Dr. Friedman are working on their next book, which concerns sexuality and dynamic psychotherapy. Jennifer Downey lives and works in NYC where she teaches at Columbia University Medical Center and practices dynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Sexual Differentiation of Behavior
Dianne Elise, Ph.D. is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a Training Analyst member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is an Associate Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Elise has written a series of papers over two decades examining gendered aspects of early developmental experiences, sexuality and erotic transference. Nationally recognized for her innovative contributions to the psychoanalytic literature on gender and sexuality, she has consistently challenged conventional accounts of development. Her publications have appeared in many of the analytic journals. Her 1997 paper published in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, offered a critique of the concept of "primary femininity." A year ago her paper, "The Black Man and the Mermaid: Desire and Disruption in the Analytic Relationship" was the lead paper in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Her 2008 paper in JAPA, "Sex and Shame: The Inhibition of Female Desires," was the subject she took up in January on a panel at The Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in NYC. Dr. Elise practices in Oakland, California.
Sex and Shame: The Inhibition of Female Desires
 Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA, is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Consultant to the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is Chair of the Postgraduate Education Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. His work integrates empirical research with psychoanalytic theory, and his clinical interests center around borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships. He has published over 300 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. His most recent books include Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology (with M. Target); What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research (with A. Roth); Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-Based Treatment (with Anthony Bateman); Mentalization-Based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide (also with Anthony Bateman); Reaching the Hard to Reach: Evidence-Based Funding Priorities for Intervention and Research. (with Geoffrey Baruch & David Robins) and Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment (with Jon Allen).
Richard C. Friedman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College (Cornell) and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia. He received his MD degree from The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1966. He was a resident in psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and NY State Psychiatric Institute in 1967-70 and was Chief Resident in Psychiatry in 1969-70. Friedman then attended the Columbia Center For Psychoanalytic Training and Research from which he was graduated in 1978. Dr. Friedman has been a researcher, educator and clinical scholar in psychoanalysis. Dr. Friedman has carried out research in affective disorders, and also endocrinological and psychodynamic dimensions of male homosexuality. His book on psychoanalytic aspects of male homosexuality published in 1988 had a major impact on the field. Richard Friedman lives and works in NYC where he is in full time practice of dynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Sexual Differentiation of Behavior
 Richard Gottlieb (Introduction and editor of JAPA's special section on sexuality) is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA). He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, on the teaching faculties of the New York and Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institutes, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a past recipient of the Heinz Hartmann Award of the N Y Psychoanalytic Institute, the Journal Prize of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His recent study of the life and work of the author/illustrator Maurice Sendak appears in the current volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
Introduction to section on Sexuality
Theodore Shapiro, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Faculty member of The Columbia Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Professor Emeritus at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He has contributed to the Psychoanalytic literature and lectured widely focusing on the interplay of linguistics, development and psychoanalytic theory and practice. He also has written on his and his collaborator's empirical studies of language and affect in Early Infantile Autism, normal development, and most recently, his collaborative studies of hypnosis and neuroscience. Further contributions to the literature on the pursuit of meaning in clinical practice are forthcoming. Dr. Shapiro has given the Brill (1999) and Hartmann (2004) Lectures at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the Rado Lecturer at The Columbia Psychoanalytic Association. He was the Plenary Speaker at the 2002 American Psychoanalytic Association meeting in Boston and has been the recipient of many Prizes in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He was the Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1983 to 1993 and the Book Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis from 1993-2001. He was Program Chair of the 1999 biennial meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Association meeting in Santiago Chile. Dr. Shapiro is the author of Clinical Psycholinguistics (1970) and coeditor of seven other books and more than 200 scholarly and research papers published in a wide array of professional journals and books. Dr. Shapiro has spent his academic career as a teacher and mentor to psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and child and adolescent psychiatrists. He was Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine from 1972 to 1976, and for 26 years he held the same position at the Cornell Medical College where he also was Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He currently heads the Cornell Post Doctoral Program of the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology in Infant Psychiatry.
Masturbation, Sexuality and Adaptation
Ruth Stein, Ph.D. is Associate Clinical Professor at New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and on the Faculty of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She is Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsA), which she represents at the Annual Meetings of the Conference of Psychoanalysts of the French Language (CALF). She is on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapist and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) Faculty, the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) and Faculty and Supervisor of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS). She has recently terminated her time at the North American Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, is an Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, International Editor, Studies in Gender & Sexuality and is on the Editorial Boards of several other journals. She wrote her MA thesis in experimental psychology with Daniel Kahneman and studied with the late Amos Tversky (both Nobel Laureates) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Stein is a Clinical Psychologist and wrote the first doctoral dissertation in psychoanalysis in Israel with the late Joseph Sandler. The book that evolved from this work, "Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect," came out in 1991 by Praeger and was reissued by Karnac in 1999. Her forthcoming book, "For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism," with Stanford University Press, will be released by the end of 2009. Dr. Stein who has a background in French literature and philosophy has published over 60 papers and book chapters in several languages. Her areas of interest include literary aspects of the psychoanalytic dialogue, affects, sexuality, perversion, and religious violence. In her work she integrates diverse currents in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. She currently lives and practices in New York City.
The Otherness of Sexuality: Excess |