Board of Directors

Prof RICARDO AINSLIE is a psychologist - psychoanalyst who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, and Affiliate Faculty in American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies. He is also Adjunct Faculty at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute where for five years he taught candidates and fellows. He is a member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society as well as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of journals including Cultural Anthropology. In books and articles his publications range from clinical topics to the application of psychoanalytic ideas to socio-cultural issues. He has also directed and produced a documentary film, Crossover on the impact of the desegregation of schools in Hempstead, Texas,  a photographic exhibit on the impact of the murder of James Byrd on the community of Jasper, and is currently working on a documentary film about kidnappings and violence in Mexico City as a community symptom. He has presented his work widely, including the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and at numerous psychoanalytic institutes and societies.  In 1998 he was honored to be one of the keynote speakers at the 29th Annual Margaret Mahler Symposium sponsored by the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute for his work on the psychology of twins.

Prof MARSHALL ALCORN is Professor of English and Human Sciences at George Washington University.  He was Excutive Director of APCS from 1995 to 2004.  He is author of Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric Text, and Subjectivity and Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire.  He is Chair of the Psychoanalytic Theory for Scholars Program sponsored by the Washington Psychoanalytic Society and Chair of the Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities, affiliated with the Washington School of Psychiatry.  He is currently a Research Candidate with the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

Prof C. FRED ALFORD , Executive Director, is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park.  He is author of a dozen books and over fity articles on moral psychology.  His most recent book is "Rethinking Freedom: : Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done To Save It (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Prof JEFFREY BERMAN is Professor of English at the University at Albany.  He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue (1977), The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis (1985), Narcissism and the Novel (1990), Diaries to an English Professor (1994), Surviving Literary Suicide (1999), Risky Writing (2001), and Empathic Teaching: Education for Life (2004).

Prof MARK BRACHER is cofounder of APCS, founding editor of PCS, and director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University. His research attempts to articulate pedagogical and other interventions into the psychological roots of social injustice. Publications include Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism and The Writing Cure: Psychoanalysis, Composition, and the Aims of Education.

Dr MARILYN CHARLES is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice, affiliated with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council and Michigan State University.  Interests include trauma, creativity and nonverbal communications. She is the author of Patterns: Essential Building Blocks of Experience (2002), Learning from Experience: A Clinician’s Guide (2004), and Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor (2004).

Prof  SIMON CLARKE is Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. His research interests include the interface between sociological and psychoanalytic theory; emotions; Kleinian and post Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published numerous articles, essays and reviews on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social conflict. Simon is the author of Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (2003); From Enlightenment to Risk: Social Theory and Contemporary Society (2005) and Emotion, Politics and Society (2006) with Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson. Simon is Editor (with Lynne Layton) of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (Palgrave Macmillan Journals). He is currently directing a research project which forms part of the larger £5 Million ESRC 'social identities' programme . The project looks at notions of home and identity in contemporary Britain.

Prof MARTIN GLISERMAN, Ph.D. (Lit), PsyA.  I have taught English at Rutgers University since 1971; I am also psychoanalyst in private practice. My research focuses on semantic fields (and specifically the human body) in world anglophone novels from Robinson Crusoe on. I work on the semantic and syntactic unconscious; the project is called teXtRays. I am editor emeritus American Imago (editor, 1985-2000) My first book is Psychoanalysis, Language and the Body of the Text (U Press of Florida, 1996).

Prof KARL FIGLIO is a Professor in, and Director of, the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.  He is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an Associate Member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy.

Prof JANICE HAAKEN is Professor of Psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, and a documentary filmmaker. She has published in the areas of psychoanalysis and feminism, the psychology of social movements, and trauma narratives. Haaken is author of Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back and the forthcoming,
Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy.

Prof PAUL HOGGETT is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Associate Member of the Lincon Clinic and Centre and Member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. He co-edits the journal Organisational and Social Dynamics. His research interests focus on politics, the state and the emotions. Previous publications include Partisans in an Uncertain World (Free Association Books, 1992) and Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare (Macmillan, 2000).

Prof MARCIA IAN is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  She is author of Remembering the Phallic Mother:  Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the Fetish, and essays on psychoanalysis, literary modernism, and popular culture.  She is currently working on a book on American secularism.

Prof HENRY KRIPS is Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Henry researches in the areas of rhetoric of science, philosophy of physics, cultural studies and psychoanalytic theory. He has published The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (Oxford, 1990), and Fetish: An Erotics of Culture (Cornell, 1999).

Prof LYNNE LAYTON is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice and teaches both psychoanalysis and culture and popular culture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. With Simon Clarke, she is the Editor of PCS and is an associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press), and co-editor of two books: Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self (NYU Press), and Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press).

Dr KAREEN ROR MALONE is Professor of Psychology at University of West Georgia. She is also on the Women’s Studies Faculty. Her research interest is Lacanian psychoanalysis within both social and clinical contexts, especially issue related to gender, race, and science, queer theory, and North American “Psy” disciplines.  She is co-editor of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious and The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian reader for psychologists, both from State University of New York Press.

Prof ROBERT A. PAUL is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Dean of Emory College, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He maintains a private clinical practice, and holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His professional interests within Anthropology include psychological anthropology, comparative religion, myth, and ritual, and the ethnography of Nepal, Tibet, the Himalayas, and South and Central Asia.. His extensive scholarly publications include The Tibetan Symbolic World (University of Chicago Press, 1982) and a special issue of Cultural Anthropology, “Biological and Cultural Anthropology at Emory University”, which he edited.  He served for many years as Editor of ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and was President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology from 1992-1994. His book Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud’s Myth (Yale University press, 1996) received the Heinz Hartmann Award in Psychoanalysis, the L. Bryce Boyer Award in Psychological Anthropology, and the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish Thought.

Prof ESTHER RASHKIN is Professor of French & Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Modern Dance at the University of Utah. She is the author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative (Princeton, 1992), Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading (just completed), and  articles on psychoanalytic theory and practice, literature, film, and popular culture. She is a former Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Academic Liaison and member of its Fellowship Committee, and in private practice in Salt Lake City.

Prof BOB SAMUELS has a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VIII and a PhD in English from Kent State  University. He is the author of Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Hitchcock's Bi-Textualiy, Writing Prejudices, and the forthcoming, Integrating Hypertextual Subjects.  He is a Lecturer in the English department at UCLA and the President of the University of California, American Federation of Teachers Union.

Prof CHARLES SHEPHERDSON is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany.  He is the author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (2000), The Epoch of the Body (Stanford, forthcoming), and The Ethics of Female Love, a collection of essays translated into Serbo-Croatian for a special issue of the journal Zenske Studjie (Women's Studies). He is also the editor of Insinuations, a book series at SUNY Press on Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Literary Theory. He has had grant support from the Ethel Mae Wilson Foundation, the Henry A Luce Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has held fellowships with the Commonwealth Center at the University of Virginia, the Humanities Institute at the Claremont Graduate School, the Pembroke Center at Brown University, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Prof PAUL VERHAEGHE is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Ghent and Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis. He is a practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the European School for Psychoanalysis. He is author of Does Woman Exist?; Love in a Time of Loneliness: Three Essays on Drive and Desire, and Beyond Gender: From Subject to Drive.

Dr VAMIK VOLKAN, M.D. is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA and Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center , Stockbridge, MA. He is also an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst , Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington, D.C. He has written 40 books, the latest one is Blind Trust: Large Groups and
Their Leaders in Timeas of Crises and Terror.

Prof JEAN WYATT is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College. Her latest publications include "Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Identification, Misrecognition, and Difference in Feminist Multicultural Community" in Signs 29.3 (Spring 2004), 879-903, and Risking Difference: Identification, Race and Community, a book published by SUNY Press (2004).