Dr. Sue Grand is faculty at the NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy & psychoanalysis; faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; faculty at the Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis; visiting scholar at The Psychoanalytic Institute for Northern California, & a fellow at the Institute for Psychology and the Other.  She is on the Boards of Psychoanalytic  Dialogues & Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. She is the author of  The Reproduction of Evil and The Hero in the Mirror. She has co-edited 2 volumes on the trans-generational transmission of trauma; co-authored, with Jill Salberg an upcoming book on this topic;  and has co-edited 2 volumes on relational theory. She is in private practice in Manhattan and Teaneck NJ.

Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst,  Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles,  and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)  has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”.  The author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma”  (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019),  he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns:  American Xenophobia;  Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of  Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to  our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.