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​​SILVIA LIPPI
is a psychoanalyst. Trained as a philosopher, she holds a PHD in psychology (Université Paris-Diderot), she is a hospital psychologist at the Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand in Étampes, and she is a researcher associate at Université Paris-Nanterre. She is the author of Soeurs, Pour une psychanalyse féministe, Seuil, 2023 (with Patrice Maniglier), Rythme et mélancolie(Erès, 2019), Freud. La passione de l'ingovernabile (Feltrinelli, Milano, 2018), La décision du désir (Eres, 2013), Price Œdipe le Salon 2014, Transgressions. Bataille, Lacan (Eres, 2008). She co-edited the collective work Marx, Lacan: l'acte révolutionnaire, l'acte analytique (Eres, 2013). Her works have been translated in Italian and English (The decision of desire, University of Minnesota Press, 2020). In her articles and books, she has developed a psychoanalysis that is particularly attentive to psychotic experiences and the interpellations of contemporary minority groups.
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CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERLIN
is a Berlin-based psychoanalyst and theorist. He is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in California, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and an Affiliate Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin). He also serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.
ERIC L. SANTNER
is the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He came to Chicago in1996 after twelve years of teaching at Princeton University. He has been a visiting fellow at various institutions, including Dartmouth, Washington University, Cornell, and the University of Konstanz. He works at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and religious thought. His books include: Friedrich Hölderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination; Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany; My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity; On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig; On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald; The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (with Slavoj Zizek and Kenneth Reinhard); The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty; The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy (revised version of the Tanner Lectures in Human Values given at UC Berkeley); Sovereignty Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (with William Mazzarella and Aaron Schuster); Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory. He edited the German Library Series volume of works by Friedrich Hölderlin and co-edited with Moishe Postone, Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Korean, Hebrew, Polish, Italian, and Portuguese.
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JASON ROYAL
is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where he works with adolescents, and adults. He is adjunct supervising faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College, supervises at the Greene Clinic, and has taught seminars in training programs at the Greene Clinic, Pratt Institute, and the Pulsion Institute. His writing has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division/Review, The Psychoanalytic Review, and The Threepenny Review. In 2016, he set the Group for Independent Formation into motion, as one of the orienting structures of his analytic training. He has a long relationship with music, primarily as a pianist, and in a previous life earned a doctoral degree in music composition.
MATTHEW OYER
is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a Co-Director at the Greene Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College. He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. With a small group of others, Dr. Oyer created and implemented a program of independent psychoanalytic training through which he continues to pursue lifelong formation. He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is a board member of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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NATHAN GORELICK
is a term assistant professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University and the author of The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature Between Ideology and the Unconscious, from Northwestern University Press. His work focuses on the politics of the unconscious, and has appeared in various essay collections and in journals of literary theory and Continental philosophy, including CR: The New Centennial Review, Continental Thought and Theory, Cultural Critique, Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, Psychoanalytic Review, and Parapraxis. He is a member of the New York Circle of the Freudian School of Quebec, a long-time student of the analysts at Gifric in Quebec City, and a Candidate in the Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis at the Pulsion Institute in New York.
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FRED MOTEN
works in the departments of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University. He is concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and Black study, and has written several books that address these concerns. His latest projects include a poetry collection, Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books, 2023); a record album, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver (Reading Group Records, 2022); and a performance in filmmaker Wu Tsang's Moby Dick, or the Whale (2022), and an essay collection, All Incomplete (Minor Compositions, 2021), written with his long-time coworker, Stefano Harney.
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DAVID PAVÓN-CUÉLLAR
is a Mexican Marxist philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and critical psychologist. He is a professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rouen (France) and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). His recent books include Psicoanálisis y colonialidad: hacia una inflexión anticolonial de la herencia freudiana (Mexico City, Fontamara, 2024), Then and Now: On the Crowd, the Subject, and the Collective (with Betty Fuks, Paola Mieli, Rosalind Morris and Alain Vanier, New York, Agincourt, 2023), Sobre el vacío: puentes entre marxismo y psicoanálisis (Mexico City, Paradiso, 2022), Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements (with Ian Parker, 1968 Press, London, 2021, translated into nine languages), Virus del Capital (Buenos Aires, Docta Ignorancia, 2021); Más allá de la psicología indígena: concepciones mesoamericanas de la subjetividad (Mexico City, Porrúa, 2021, translated into portuguese), Zapatismo y subjetividad: más allá de la psicología (Bogotá, Cátedra Libre, 2020); Psicología crítica: definición, antecedentes, historia y actualidad (Mexico City, Itaca, 2019); Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology? (London, Routledge, 2017).
EMMA LIEBER
is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in New York; part-time faculty in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School; founding member of the Group for Independent Formation; and training member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020) and co-editor of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave 2022), with Anna Fishzon. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Imago, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, The Point Magazine, New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Lit Hub, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and other popular, academic and psychoanalytic publications.
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MARISA BERWALD
is a practitioner of psychoanalysis, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UCLA, and a candidate as well as Director of Research at Pulsion Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics. Marisa’s current ethnographic research is on psychoanalysis in the pandemic and its aftermath, where she considers how dimensions of the individual and group in psychoanalytic praxis may be shifting to create new understandings of the relation between psychoanalysis, race, sexuality, and politics.
FERNANDO CASTRILLÓN
is a practicing personal and supervising psychoanalyst, faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and the founder of the Foundation of California Psychoanalysis (FCP). He is also the founding director of CIIS’ The Clinic Without Walls, an innovative psychotherapy clinic serving mostly poor and immigrant communities. Dr. Castrillón is an Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Istituto Elvio Fachinelli ISAP (Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis) based in Rome, Italy. He also serves on a variety of editorial boards, including the Journal of World-Systems Research (JWSR) and is the co-editor of two books and author of numerous articles in Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and English. Home page: www.drcastrillon.com.
JORDAN OSSERMAN
is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK, and practices psychoanalysis in East London. Jordan serves as Co-President of his university's union branch, and is interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis and political struggle. His book Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery was published with Bloomsbury.
​​LOREN DENT
is a psychologist is private practice, and co-director of and supervisor at the Greene Clinic. Prior to working private practice, he was a team leader at a first episode psychosis program at Lenox Hill Hospital. He is the senior editor of DIVISION/Review, a publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Society, and teaches courses on psychoanalytic theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a founding member of the Group for Independent Formation, and an analysand in formation at Apres-Coup.​​
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AVGI SAKETOPOULOU
is a Cypriot and Greek scholar and a psychoanalyst based in NYC. She is faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia” and co-author of “Gender Without Identity. Her forthcoming book is provisionally titled “The Offer of Sadism.”
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SOPHIE LEWIS
is a writer and an independent visiting scholar at Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sophie is also a member of the teaching faculty of the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. They are the author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso Books, 2022) and of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Books, 2019), which Donna Haraway hailed as "the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for." Their third book, Enemy Feminisms, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books (2024).
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DAGMAR HERZOG
is Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she teaches on the histories of gender and sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust, and historical methodology and theory. Publications include: Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton, 2005); Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge, 2011); Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (Cambridge, 2017); Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (Wisconsin, 2018); and (coedited with Chelsea Schields) The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (Routledge, 2021). She recently edited a special issue of Psychoanalysis and History on “Queering Freud Differently” (Edinburgh, 2020).
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SAFIA ALBAITI
is an LCSW/postgraduate psychotherapist at the Greene Clinic in Brooklyn, New York, with a background in Marxist politics and an interest in questions of class injury, the politics of memory, and spirituality in her clinical practice.
ROULA HAJJAR
is an LCSW/psychotherapist in the Greene Clinic’s postgraduate program, located in Brooklyn, New York, where she practices in Arabic and English. Roula is an analytic candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and is engaged in the struggle/journey of analytic formation as an individual in community. She is also a graduate of the American University of Beirut and the London School of Economics where she began to pursue an academic career in political theory and economics.
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JORDAN DUNN(he/they)
is a clinical psychologist in the Greene Clinic's postdoctoral program. He completed his doctorate at the New School for Social Research where he wrote his dissertation on the psychological experience or burnout among migrant and racial justice activists, exploring forms of connectedness, reciprocity and solidarity which helped activists recover from burnout and continue in social movements. They have been engaged in a number of different community organizing efforts in New York City including sanctuary movement organizing, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Queers for Economic Justice. He also integrates perspectives from socially engaged Buddhism and recently trained as a mindfulness meditation teacher at the Interdependence Project.