Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher in the European Research Council project FILM AND DEATH, an integrated member of CineLab – Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis.

Sien Rivera, MD, is Assistant Program Director of the Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina General Psychiatry residency program, and Assistant Clincial Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. They received their medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed their general psychiatry residency and child adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina. They are a graduated fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a winner of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award. They are former co-chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality and they present nationally and internationally on topics related to gender, sexuality, and new technologies.

Dr. Talha Can Işsevenler holds a B.A in social and political sciences from Sabancı University, Istanbul and Ph.D. in sociology from Graduate Center CUNY. He teaches sociology as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The City College of New York and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also an analytic candidate at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. His research interests include temporality, media, and power. His single and co-authored articles have appeared in Subjectivity, The Agonist, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology. Dr. Işsevenler has also recently published an open-access textbook on Political Sociology

Leora Trub, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Pace University’s doctoral program in School/Clinical-Child Psychology and a practicing clinical psychologist. Her research and writing focus on the ways that digital technology influences how people relate to themselves and others, including in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on these and other topics in research, clinical, and psychoanalytic journals. She was recently awarded a research grant from the International Psychoanalytical Association to study analytic process through a screen from the perspective of analysts and patients. In 2023, she founded Academics for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Psychology, which is committed to reversing the sharp decline of psychoanalytic thinking in academic psychology programs.

Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD, FIPA, is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and across California via telehealth. His research explores clinical work, emotional life, technology, and religion and spirituality, and his writing appears in both scholarly venues and popular publications such as the Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic. He recently led a multiyear research initiative, based at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, that convened scholars for projects examining the impacts of technologies on human relationships. He is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, a Research Associate at the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Volunteer) at UCSF School of Medicine.

Sara Biondi is a Psychoanalyst and a Sport Psychologist. She is ISIPSÈ (Institute of Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis) member, IAPSP and IARPP member, she is also a member of the IARPP Child, Adolescent and Parent Committee. She is the regional reference of AIPS (Italian Association of Sport Psychology) and a CONI Olympic trainer. She works in private practice in Rome with adolescents and adults and as Sport Psychologist with athletes and coaches; she collaborates on Italian Volleyball Federation training projects. She has published scientific articles on sports psychology and relational psychoanalysis with a particular focus on younger generations.

Luca M. Possati is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, specializing in human-technology interaction. He also holds a senior researcher position with the international research program Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT). His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy of technology, postphenomenology, and the psychology of technology, exploring how humans engage with and are shaped by technological systems. His methodological approach integrates insights from cognitive sciences, neuropsychoanalysis, design studies, and actor-network theory, allowing for a multidisciplinary analysis of the complex relationships between individuals, society, and technology. This combination of disciplines enables him to address both theoretical and practical questions about technology’s role in shaping human experience and behavior.

Stephen Hartman, PhD is co-editor in chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a former co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Chair of the Relational Track at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, he teaches also at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and for the Sociedad Méxicana de Psicoanalistas Relacionales and the Ukrainian School of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Stephen’s writing charts the noisy nexus of technology and object relations.

Patricia Ticineto Clough, Ph.D. L.P. is a Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY. She is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Relational Track of NYU Postdoc as well as at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapies, where she also is a member of the Training Committee and the Chair of the Curriculum Committee. Among her recent publications are Autoaffection (2000), The Affective Turn (2007), The User Unconscious (2018). and most recently, “What is the Social?” and “Bring in the Social, Bring in the Noise” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2023, 2024).