The Author: Michael O’Loughlin holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Postdoctoral Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from Adelphi University. He is a professor at Adelphi University, where he teaches in the department of curriculum and instruction in the school of education. He also teaches and supervises in the graduate and postgraduate programs at Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi. He has a private practice in child and adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, New York.

«Michael O’Loughlin is a consummate teacher and a psychoanalyst, a combination of stances, thoughts, desires, fears, and style of being that finds [its] way into his writerly world and creates his investments and growing sense that thinking imagination begins only when we open the gates of both education and psychoanalysis to the chaos of the actual world. His commitment is to present himself and his subject as becoming, and he knows full well there is no such thing as a teacher or analyst without others (…). O’Loughlin has the wherewithal to introduce to educators the clinical style of the analyst’s thinking, and share with the analytic community, the pedagogical thinking of the teacher.» (From the Preface by Deborah Britzman)