Giovanna Ambrosio - On Incest. Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Giovanna Ambrosio is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AIPsi), the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the Secretary of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AIPsi). She is also the Chief Editor of the journal Psicoanalisi, and European co-chair of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (2001-2005). Her main scientific interests include the field of the intra-psychic interaction between the truth and the false, the meanings of lies and issues related to the well-known problem of the confusion of tongues.

Alcira Mariam Alizade, MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (2001-2005) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair (1998-2001). Her publications include: Feminine Sensuality (Karnac, 1992); Near Death: Clinical Psychoanalytical Studies (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1995); Time for Women (Letra Viva, Buenos Aires, 1996); The Lone Woman (Lumen, Buenos Aires, 1999); Positivity in Psychoanalysis (Lumen, Buenos Aires, 2002). She is the editor of IPA-COWAP-Karnac Series (The Embodied Female, Studies on Femininity, MasculineScenarios) and of the collected papers of COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues (Lumen, Buenos Aires).

Simona Argentieri is Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AIPsi) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Her main scientific interests are the mind-body relationship, psychosomatic medicine, and the gender identity, on which she has written extensively. In addition to her full-time clinical practice, she has been involved in the field of bio-ethics, in teaching at universities, and in active psychoanalytic divulgation in the mass media. She has dedicated much thought to the relationship between psychoanalysis, culture, and art, particu-lary the cinema. She is the author of many essays and books on the above subjects. She edited the Italian edition of Freud and the Art, and has co-authored: Freud in Hollywood; The Babel of the Unconscious (on the mother tongue and foreign languages in the psychoanalytic dimension); Anna Freud, the Daughter; The Bogyman (a small catalogue of infantile anxieties), The Weariness of Growing Up: Anorexia and Bulimia in a Confused Epoch; and The Maternal Father.

Monique Cournut-Janin is a psychiatrist and a training analyst of the Socit Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP). She is a former coordinator of the Jean Favreau Consultation and Treatment Centre. In addition to her work as present training secretary of the SPP, she is a consultant member of the COWAP. Among other texts, she has written Fminin et Fminit, published (in French) in Paris by the Presses Universitaires de France (1998).

Brendan MacCarthy was a consultant child psychiatrist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in London between 1969 and 1987. He is a member, Training Analyst, and Child Analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was a Medical Director of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis 1985-1993 and 1998-2000, and the President of the British Psychoanalytic Society 1993-1996.

Juan Eduardo Tesone completed his psychoanalytic training at the Socit Psychanalytique de Paris, of which he became a member in 1992. He is also training analyst of the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has worked as psychiatrist at the Hpital de lAssistance Publique in Paris (1978-1988), psychiatrist at the Direction des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de Paris, Departement de lEnfance et lAdolescence (1981-1987), and Medical Director of the Centre Mdico Psycho-Pdagogique E. Pichon Rivire de Paris (1987-1997). In 1989 he was counsellor at the Ministre des Affaires Sociales de France. In 1997 he returned to Argentina where he currently practises. He is author of over fifty articles in specialized journals in English, French, Italian, German, Serbo-Croat, and Spanish, and co-author of three books published in Italy, Croatia, and Argentina. He teaches at the University of Paris VI and at the UCES in Buenos Aires.