Charles B. Strozier, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York; a Training and Supervising Analyst at the TRISP Institute and Foundation; and a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the author of the definitive biography, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001), and more recently the lead author with several others of The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut’s Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2022). He is also the co-author of The Fundamentalist Mindset (2010); and the author of Apocalypse: The Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (1994); Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and the World Trade Center Disaster in the Words of Survivors and Witnesses (2011); two books on Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln’s Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait (1982, revised edition in 2001) and Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln (2016); and several other books and close to 100 articles. He is the lead author of two current books in progress, the first with Orly Shoshani, Idealization: Psychological, Spiritual, and Political Meanings, and the other with David Terman, et.al, is How Self Psychology Actually Works.

George Hagman, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in Stamford, Connecticut. He is on faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology, and is a training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. George is the author of numerous published articles and several books and edited volumes. He is a co- editor-in-chief of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and the editor of 2 book series for Routledge Press, Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis and New Directions in Self Psychology. George is also co-editor with Peter Zimmermann and Harry Paul of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer.