Authors
Daniel Benveniste, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist originally from San Francisco, California. His primary psychoanalytic influence was his independent training under Dr. Nathan Adler (a student of Siegfried Bernfeld). Dr. Benveniste’s main interests are the use of metaphor as interpretation, the relationship between libido development and cultural evolution (a theme related to Totem and Taboo) and in psychoanalytic history. In 1999 he moved to Caracas, Venezuela where he practices, teaches and writes. He is currently considering a move to re-settle in the Seattle, Washington area.
Martin S. Bergmann, was clinical professor of psychologist of the New York University post-doctoral program, where he taught the course on the history of psychoanalysis. He was a trainer and supervisor of psychoanalysts at the New York Freudian Society; a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association; recipient of the Sigourny Honorary for Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1997); and the recipient of the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award by the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (1998).
Michael Bergmann graduated with a B.A. in Latin from Columbia University in 1975 and studied film concurrently at N.Y.U. Undergraduate Film School and then at the N.Y.U. Graduate School of Film and Television.
Sylvia Brody, Ph.D., a distinguished psychoanalyst and developmental researcher, came to prominence with her books documenting her observational, clinical, and theoretical studies on maternal behavior and child development. Among her contributions are Patterns of Mothering (1956), Anxiety and Ego Formation in Infancy (1970), Mothers, Fathers, and Children: Explorations in the Formation of Character in the First Seven Years (1978), and Evolution of Character (1992), a follow‑up study of the sample at eighteen years, as well as some thirty papers about infancy and early childhood. This body of work has served to demonstrate vividly the significance of the child’s earliest experiences on their emerging character structure and ego and superego functioning. In 2002, Dr. Brody published The Development of Anorexia Nervosa; and in 2007 a revised edition of the same book was released.