Mariam Alizade - Studies on Femininity

Simona Argentieri Bondi is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AlPsi) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Her main scientific interests include the mind-body relationship, psychosomatic medicine, and gender identity and she has published extensively in these fields. Besides 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 and culture and art, particularly the cinema. She is the author of many essays and books on the above subjects, including Freud in Hollywood, The Babel of the Unconscious and The Maternal Father.

Giangaetano Bartolomei, PhD, is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and works in private practice in Florence. He teaches Sociology of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.

Nancy J. Chodorow is professor of Sociology and clinical professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, faculty member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and in private practice in Oakland, CA. Her books include the award-winning The Reproduction of Mothering, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities, and The Power of Feelings (winner of the L. Bryce Boyer Price). She is American Book Review Editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Associate Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is recipient of the Distinguished Contributor Women and Psychoanalysis Award of Section 5 of Division 39. Her most recent fellowship was at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, 2001-2002.

Monique Cournut-Janin is a psychiatrist and a training member of the Society Psychanalytique de Paris. She is a former coordinator of the Jean Favreau Consultation and Treatment Centre. In addition to her work as present training secretary of the S.P.P., she is a consultant member of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association (COWAP). Among other texts, she has written Feminin et FiminM (1998).

Emma Piccioli, MD, is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and a training and supervising analyst. She works in private practice in Florence.

Danielle Quinodoz is a training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and works as a full-time adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. She was a Consultant in the Psychiatric Department of the Geneva University. She has published more than 40 psychoanalytical papers, mainly in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and in the Revue Frangaise de Psychanalysis. She is the author of Emotional Vertigo, Between Anxiety and Pleasure (1994) and Words that Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak (2003). She was awarded the Sacerdoti Prize in 1989, and the Prix Psychologie 1995 in Paris for her book on vertigo.

Teresa Rocha Leite Haudenschild is a training analyst and analyst of children and adolescents with the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Sao Paulo, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has been working in the field of clinical psychoanalysis for almost 30 years, particularly studying early symbolization and the constitution of identity, and has published in Brazilian, Latin-American and European journals and collections. She is currently a delegate of the COWAP in Sao Paulo, regional editor of the Revista Brasileira de Psicandlise (Brazilian Psychoanalytic Journal), and co-editor in the Publications Department of the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytical Society.

Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a full member and training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Since 1995, she has been head of the Alexander-Mitscherlich-Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Kassel and has published widely in areas concerning psychotherapy with elderly patients, female identity and aging, psychodynamic aspects of climacteric change and menopause, gender and transference-counter-transference.

Frances Thomson-Salo is an adult and child psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She works in private practice, and is~ a senior child psychotherapist at the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, and a senior lecturer on the University of Melbourne Masters in Infant Mental Health. She has published on the topic of work with infants and children.