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Christel Airas, the Finnish Consultant of epff, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and Child and Adolescent analyst from the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society, working in private practice in Helsinki. She was born in Sweden by Finnish parents and moved with the whole family as a teenager to Finland.

Erik Bäfving was born in Malmö, Sweden in 1973. He started working professionally with film in 1996 with two 60-minute documentaries for the Swedish Television. In 2002 he made the short film Boogie Woogie Daddy which has received eight international awards. He is now editing an international documentary called Belfast Girls, and developing a television series on psychoanalytic concepts for the Swedish Television preliminary called A Short Message from Dr Psycho.

Ronald Baker is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has published several papers on various aspects of psychoanalysis, including three on the subject of Humour, and a Film Essay  ‘Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood’s Undoing of the Hollywood Myth of Screen Masculinity in Play Misty for Me’ which is a chapter in the book Psychoanalysis and Film edited by Glen O. Gabbard.

David Bell is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and Chair of its Scietific Committee. He is also Consultant Psychiatrist in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic. He has published and lectured widely on culture and psychoanalysis, Freud scholarship,  and on Klein and Bion. He co-chairs a group of psychoanalysts and philosophers. Publications include Culture and Psychoanalysis: a Kleinian perpective (Karnac books) and Paranoia  (Icon books).

Emanuel Berman Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Haifa, and a Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute. He edited Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis (NYU Press, 1993) and authored Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education (Analytic Press, 2004). He is the editor of Hebrew translations of Freud, Ferenczi, Balint, Winnicott, Mannoni, Hanna Segal and Ogden. His work appeared in Gabbard's Psychoanalysis and Film (2001) and in Sabbadini's The Couch and the Silver Screen (2003).

Bernardo Bertolucci, the leading Italian film director and the Honorary President of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, was born in Parma in 1941. His films include: Before the Revolution, The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, La Luna, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty, Besieged and The Dreamers.

Donald Campbell is a former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and past Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has written on the subjects of violence, suicide, child sexual abuse and adolescence, including a chapter in The Couch and the Silver Screen (2003): ‘Dario Argento's Phenomena: A psychoanalytic perspective on the 'horror film' genre and adolescent development’.

Ian Christie is a film historian, writer and broadcaster, and Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published extensively on Russian cinema, Powell and Pressburger and Scorsese, as well as on the relationship between film and the visual arts - which will be the subject of his Slade Professorship lectures at Cambridge in 2006 and his contribution to the Victoria & Albert Museum's forthcoming Modernism exhibition.

Maria Vittoria Costantini is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI), and Professor of Psychoanalytic Diagnostics at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Padua. She is concerned with theoretical and clinical issues on loss, separation and working through, and with applied psychoanalysis, with a special interest in cinema.

Diana Diamond is Associate Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. She has co-authored several books, including Affect and Attachment in the Family (Basic Books, 1994) and Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability (Basic Books, 2000). She has published a number of articles in the areas of attachment theory, borderline personality disorder, trauma studies and film and psychoanalysis. She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.  She is co-editor of a volume on film and psychoanalysis, (Projections of Psychic Reality: A Centennial of Film and Psychoanalysis) and co-editor of a four volume monograph series on Attachment Research and Psychoanalysis. She is a psychoanalytic candidate at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in New York. 

Peter Williams Evans teaches film at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of books on Hollywood, Spanish and British cinema. These include, The Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire (OUP, 1995), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI, 1996), and most recently, Carol Reed  (MUP, 2006). He is also the co-editor (with Isabel Santaolalla), of Luis Bunuel: New Readings (BFI, 2005).

Sari Ezouz was born in Israel in 1973 and is a graduate of the film program at the Camera Obscura Art School, in Tel Aviv. Her professional life is divided between Tel Aviv and Paris. She was the editor of Keren Yedaya's first short film, Lulu (1998), and co-scriptwriter and editor of Or(2004), which won numerous prizes at Cannes and other festivals. She also edited Road 181 directed by Eyal Sivan and Michel Klifie.

Glen O. Gabbard is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is also Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Psychiatry and the Cinema and Film and Psychoanalysis. He was the first Film Review Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has won many awards, including the Mary Sigourney Award in 2000 for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.

Matteo Garrone was born in 1968 in Rome, where he lives and works. He started his career as a documentary filmmaker and in 1996 he won the Sacher Festival Prize for short films with Silhouette. His first features, Terra di mezzo (1996) and Ospiti (1998), are still influenced by the documentaristic approach. Estate romana (2001) is perhaps his most poetic and ironic movie, but it is L’imbalsamatore [The Embalmer] (2002), his first film based on a scenario, that revealed him to a wider public. His last film is Primo Amore (2003).

Pietro Roberto Goisis is a psychiatrist and a member of the SPI (Societá Psicoanalitica Italiana) and of the IPA. He is responsible for the ‘Film and Psychoanalysis’ section of the SPI website and has been the chairman of several events on cinema and psychoanalysis. He is the author of a number of educational videos and has already presented his work (on two families of Italian film directors) at epff2.

Paola Golinelli, the Italian Consultant of epff, is a full member of the SPI (Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi) and Foreign Secretary of its Board. She is also a member of the Croatian Sponsoring Committee, having been engaged since 1994 in the programme of developing psychoanalysis in that country. She is interested in the creative processe and in the interrelation between psychoanalysis and the arts, with a special interest in cinema, painting and poetry.

Earl Hopper, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, group analyst and organisational consultant in private practice. He is a supervisor and training analyst for The Institute of Group Analysis, The British Association of Psychotherapists and The London Centre for Psychotherapy. An honorary tutor at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and a member of the Faculty of the Post-Doctoral Program at Adelphi University, New York, he is the author of many books and articles, and an internationally renowned lecturer and teacher. He is also a past President of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and a past Chairman of the Group of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His recent publications include The Social Unconscious: Selected Papers and Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

Eric Karas is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Head of a large NHS Psychotherapy Department in North London. With a long standing interest in the relationship between film and social and psychological culture, he has been involved with the organization of the epff over the past four years.

Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Vikman, screenwriters of Mother of Mine, are a married couple who have written together a series of short filmscripts. Kirsi was born in Finland and has lived for many years in Sweden, where she has completed her film studies. Jimmy is a Swedish scriptwriter and director who had already worked with Klaus Härö on the prize-winning film Elina. Jimmy and Kirsi now live in Finland, working separetely on two different filmscripts. They have two boys, the youngest born during the filming of Mother of Mine.

T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at Boston University. His publications include Andre Malraux and the Metamorphosis of Death (Columbia U. Press, 1973), Bertolucci's Dream Loom: A Psychoanalytic Study of Cinema (U. of Massachusetts Press, 1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Film (Johns Hopkins, 1992), Bernardo Bertolucci Interviews (co-edited with Bruce Sklarew and Fabien Gerard) (U. of Miss. Press, 2000), and articles on the French novel, French theater and European cinema. Kline is now at work on The Cinema and its Doubles, a project intended to explore cinema’s “co-optation” of rival aesthetic, cultural and psychological domains. He currently serves on the editorial board of Studies in French Cinema (UK).

Alina Marazzi was born in 1964 and lives in Milan. She studied film in London, where she graduated in 1989. She directed several tv documentaries on social subjects; worked as assistant director on feature films, mainly with Italian director Giuseppe Piccioni (Not of this world, Light of my eyes). She collaborates with the artistic group Studio Azzurro, both on film projects and interactive installations. In the past she led workshops in prisons in Italy, and worked for two years for the Fabrica project, under the artistic direction of Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi). Her filmography includes the following documentaries: Per Sempre/Forever (2005), Il sogno tradito/ Betrayed dream (1999) Ragazzi dentro/ Kids Inside (1997) and Il declino di Milano/ The decline of Milan (1992).

Barbara Mattson is a psychoanalyst from the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice. A ‘war child’ herself, she has a special research interest in the Finnish 70,000 war children who were sent to safety to Sweden during the Second World War.

Chris Mawson is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a former member of the epff committee. He first trained as a clinical psychologist and worked with adolescents and children at the Tavistock Clinic and in the Child Psychiatry department of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He now works in private practice and is particularly interested in the study of mental groupings (individuals, groups and organisations) from a psychoanalytic perspective, and in the study of psychoanalytic technique. Currently he is editing the Collected Works of Bion.

Eileen McGinley FRCP FRCPsych, is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She works in private practice as a psychoanalyst and in the NHS as Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital, London, where she runs a course on the psychoanalytic understanding of borderline psychopathology. She is a member of the organising committee of epff3.

Laura Mulvey, professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), and Citizen Kane  (1996). She has co-directed six films with Peter Wollen, including Riddles of the Sphinx (BFI 1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (Arts Council 1980) and, with artist/film-maker Mark Lewis, Disgraced Monuments (Channel Four 1994). She has just completed Death 24 x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (forthcoming Reaktion Books).

Christian Petzold was born in 1960, at Hilden (near Duesseldorf). He grew up in near-by Haan, a suburban area with two autobahn-ramps and no cinema. Instead of going to the army, Petzold worked with difficult adolescents in the film-club of the local CVJM (Christian Union of  Young  Men), presenting them films in a double-bill of an appetizer and an art movie. In 1981, he moved to Berlin, where he studied German Literature and Theatre and obtained an M.A. with a thesis on the German poet Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975), entitled ‘Recognizing, Repating, Erasing’ (1989). From 1989 to 1994 he was a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, working as an assistant to Hartmut Bitomski and Harun Farocki. He has been directing films since the end of the ‘80s,. The best known include Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In, 2000,  German Film Prize, Fipresci Award), Toter Mann ( Dead Man, 2001, Fipa d’or 2001, German Television Prize, Grimme Prize 2003); Wolfsburg (2002, Fipresci Award, Berlinale 2003) and Gespenster (Ghosts, 2005).

Daniel Pick is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal and is on the advisory board of Psychoanalysis and History. His publications include Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi (Jonathan Cape, 2005) and as co-editor (with Lyndal Roper), Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2004).

Catherine Portuges is Director, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies; Professor & Graduate Program Director, Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published many papers and film reviews, is the author of Screen Memories: the Hungarian Cinema of Márta Mészáros (l993) and co-editor of Cinema in Transition, Gendered Subjects: the Dynamics of Feminist Pedagogy. A leading scholar of contemporary European cinema, with specialties in post-Communist Eastern Europe and French film cultures, she is the founder and curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival.

Andrea Sabbadini, the Chairman of epff and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA, is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, honorary senior lecturer at University College London, and the book review editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited Time in Psychoanalysis (Feltrinelli, 1979), Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema (Brunner-Routledge, 2003).

Gerhard Schneider, the German Consultant of epff, is a psychoanalyst
in private practice in Mannheim and training analyst at the Psychoanalytisches Institut Heidelberg-Karlsruhe of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV). He has been working on personal identity (Affirmation und Anderssein, 1995), on internalisation (Internalisierung und Strukturbildung,1995, co-edited with with G.H. Seidler), on psychoanalytic technique (concept of atopia, narcissistic resistance to change; aporetic situation in psychoanalysis), as well as on  psychoanalysis and the visual arts (Malevich, Psychoanalyse und bildende Kunst (ed.), 1999) and film (Hitchcock, Bergman).

Bruce H. Sklarew, M.D., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a co-founder and co-chair of the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film, an interdisciplinary group that applies psychoanalytic understanding to film; co-editor of The Last Emperor: Multiple Takes (Wayne St. V. Press) and Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews (U. of Mississippi Press); organizer of film workshops and discussion groups at meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association; principal investigator of the School-Based Mourning Project in Washington, D.C.

Imelda Staunton¸ a British actress graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts,  had for many years starring roles on the stage in dramas, plays and musicals. On television she appeared in The Singing Detective (1986), Up the Garden Path (1990) and Murder (2002). In the movies she has been a reliable character actress in such films as Peter's Friends (1992), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Crush (2001). In 2004 she acquired international recognition for her role in Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake, a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination as well as Best Actress awards from, among others, the Venice Film Festival, BAFTA and the Evening Standard.

Alexander Stein’s pre-psychoanalytic career as a concert pianist continues to inform his listening and writing. He has authored numerous articles exploring the interelationships between music and psychoanalysis, in addition to book reviews and psychoanalytic film essays. ’Music, Mourning, and Consolation’, published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Assocation (52/3), was a 2004 recipient of the prestigious Gradiva Award. He is on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review, and is a reader for the Film Essay Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is also a frequent presenter at international psychoanalytic and multi-disciplinary conferences and symposia. He is a faculty member of The Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), member and training analyst of The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) in New York, and is in private practice.

Helen Taylor Robinson is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in full-time private practice and a contributor to previous epff1 and epff2 on Samuel Beckett's "Film", with Juliet Stevenson and Ian Christie; on Michael Apted (on the relationship of Fiction to Documentary), and on the Animated Films of Ruth Lingford. She lectures and publishes on Psychoanalysis and the Arts and most recently spoke with Ian Christie, Ruth Lingford and Simon Pummell at the "Animating the Unconscious" Symposium at the NFT.

Carol Topolski a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice, was for a dozen years a senior censor at the British Board of Film Classification, the national regulator of film and video. She has written and taught about film and psychoanalysis, lectured and broadcast widely about censorship. She was one of six psychotherapists who set up an NHS psychotherapy project for women and families in one of London's most deprived inner city areas, and set up and ran a Woman's Refuge and Rape Crisis Centre in Canterbury.

Margot Waddell is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Consultant Child Psychotherapist in the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic. She has published widely in areas both literary and clinical, especially in relation to adolescence.  Her most recent books are Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Karnac) and Understanding 12-14 year olds (Jessica Kingsley).

Andrew Webber is Reader in Modern German and Comparative Culture in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He is the author of The Doppelgänger (OUP, 1996) and of The European Avant-garde 1900-1940 (Polity, 2004) as well as of many essays on early and more recent film, especially in its relationship to psychoanalysis. His current research project, supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, concerns the cultural topography of twentieth-century Berlin.

Lissa Weinstein is an Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. She is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is currently on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Research and Training. Along with Arnold Wilson, she was the winner of the Heinz Hartmann Award for outstanding publication in the theory or practice of psychoanalysis by a recent graduate. She is the author of Reading David: A Mother and Son’s Journey through the Labyrinth of Dyslexia (Penguin, 2003), which won the Margot Marek Prize from the International Dyslexia Association. She has published articles on the relevance of the work of Lev Vygotsky to psychoanalysis, Freud’s theory of language and representation, as well as clinical papers on child psychoanalysis and film. 

Shimshon Wigoder received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at C. S. P. P. Berkeley. In his training and work in San Francisco he specialized in psychotherapy with adults, adolescents, couples and families of diverse ethnic backgrounds. In Tel Aviv he maintains a private practice, teaches in the school of psychotherapy at Bar Ilan University, and is one of the founders and a candidate at the Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He published papers in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature and wrote the introduction to the Hebrew translation of Thomas Ogden's The Primitive Edge of Experience.

Franziska Ylander, the Scandinavian Consultant of epff, is a training analyst of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, working as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockholm. She chairs the Outreach Platform IPA/EPF which is a European network for sharing experiences and finding ways to apply psychoanalytic thinking outside the consulting room; literature and film are among the subjects she is mostly interested in.  

Ralf Zwiebel is a psychoanalyst and professor of psychoanalytical psychology at the University of Kassel and training analyst of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) at the Alexander Mitscherlich-Institut in Kassel. He has been working on clinical issues of psychoanalysis, mainly countertransference; on inner working models of the analyst, including the Reflecting Function; on psychoanalytic education (especially at the university); on the relationships between psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophy (especially zen-buddhism); and on film and psychoanalysis (with papers on Hitchcock and Kieslowski).