Harry Paul PhD was a founding member, past president, faculty and supervising and training analyst at the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology and current founding member and faculty at The Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology. He is the co editor and contributor with George Hagman and Peter Zimmermann of Intersubjective Self Psychology published by Routledge in 2019. He is the co-author of The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland, 2006, and he has authored papers on intersubjectivity and addiction. He is in private practice in New York City and in Chappaqua New York.

Gordon Powell LCSW is a psychoanalytically trained social worker in private practice in New York City. He proudly graduated from TRISP back in 1998, when it was a four-year psychoanalytic training institute. He has taught, supervised, and served as a training analyst at three institutes in New York City: TRISP, ICP (the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy), and PPSC (the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center). He is the author of a chapter entitled “Intersubjective Self Psychology and Sexuality: What Matters” in TRISP’s Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer (2019).