Understanding and Coping With Failure : Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Brent Willock is President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Board Member of the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and on the faculty of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology. He is the editor with Lori C. Bohm and Rebecca Coleman Curtis of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2007), On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalysts’ reflections on finality, transformations and new beginnings (Routledge, 2007) and Loneliness and Longing: Conscious and unconscious aspects (Routledge, 2011).

Rebecca Coleman Curtis is Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University, and Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York.

Lori C. Bohm is Supervising Analyst, Faculty and Director at the Center for Applied Psychoanalysis and Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programs at the William Alanson White Institute. She is Psychotherapy Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at City College of the City University of New York.