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Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis; Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; Universidad de Monterrey and Harvard Medical School. Research interests include creativity, metacognition, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. A contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and member of several editorial boards, Marilyn is actively engaged in mentoring future generations of psychoanalytic scholars, clinicians, and researchers. An artist, poet, and writer, she has presented her work nationally and internationally, publishing more than 100 articles and book chapters, and five books: Patterns; Constructing Realities; Learning from Experience; Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan; Psychoanalysis and Literature; and five edited volumes, including Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Forthcoming from APA Press: Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis.

Elizabeth Corpt, MSW, LICSW is President Emerita, Supervising Analyst, Faculty Member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Editor Emerita of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, member, Boston Institute and Society for Psychoanalysis. She writes, publishes, and presents on topics such as clinical generosity, the impact of social class on the forming of an analytic identity, and aspects of relational and psychoanalytic ethics. She maintains a private practice in Arlington, MA.

Roger Frie is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York. From December 2025, he will be University Professor of Psychoanalysis in the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst as well as a trained historian and social philosopher. He is author of many books, most recently, Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust (Oxford, 2024), and the forthcoming, Reckoning and Responsibility: Silenced Legacies of Genocide and Racial Violence (also with Oxford).

Peter Krause, PhD is an Associate Professor of Political Science at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ and a Research Affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win and co-editor of Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics and Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science. His research and teaching focus on Middle East politics and Israeli-Palestinian relations, political violence, nationalism, rebels and civil war, and peace-building. He is writing two new books: one on how to have a constructive conversation about Israel and Palestine, and the other on which rebel groups take power after regime change. He is a former Fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, and the Democracy, Peace and Justice Forum at Uppsala University.

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿. Dr. Kreeft completed his undergraduate studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before pursuing graduate studies at Fordham University in the Bronx, earning an MA (1961) and PhD (1965). Dr. Kreeft taught at Villanova University from 1962 to 1965, and has taught courses at numerous academic institutions, including Fordham University, The King's College (New York City), St. Charles Seminary, and Our Lady of Grace Seminary. Dr. Kreeft is a sought-after speaker who has taught, lectured, and written topics as varied as classical philosophy, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, virtue, and surfing. He is the author of over 100 books.

Suzanne R. Kirschner, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, is an internationally recognized cultural and theoretical psychologist. Her books and articles explore how psychological theories/practices and their sociocultural contexts influence and shape each other. Currently, she is writing a book that integrates insights from psychodynamic anthropology, social theory, and literary theory to develop a sociocultural psychology that is more faithful to the depth and complexity of human experience and interaction. Kirschner has served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24) and the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (a section of APA Division 5). She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service, including the American Anthropological Association’s L. Bryce Boyer Award in Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the American Psychological Association’s Theodore Sarbin Award for distinguished contributions to narrative and critical psychology.

Dr. Elizabeth Pienkos is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. Dr. Pienkos and Dr. Louis Sass jointly developed the EAWE: Examination of Anomalous World Experience, a semi-structured phenomenological interview that explores alterations of the lived world in schizophrenia. Her recent work focuses on situating phenomenological psychopathology, expanding phenomenological models of schizophrenia and other illnesses to articulate the embeddedness of subjectivity in social, cultural, and historical worlds. At Duquesne, she leads the Situated Phenomenology Lab, which is currently focused on developing research methods that address this intertwining of self and world in subjective experience.

Louis Sass, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, where he is also affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program and Center for Cognitive Science. Sass has published on phenomenological psychopathology, psychoanalysis, and the thought of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Foucault. He is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought and of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind. Long a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, Sass has been a visiting professor in France, Belgium, Spain, England, Colombia, and Mexico. Sass has received various awards. A revised edition of Madness and Modernism (Oxford University Press) was awarded the British Medical Association First Prize as best book in psychiatry for 2018.

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a Consulting Editor of the American Psychologist. She is a member of theÌýHolmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books.