Wilma Bucci did her graduate training in clinical and cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics at the University of Michigan and New York University; then joined the faculty of the Psychiatry Department of the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Center as a clinical researcher. Since 1983, she has been on the faculty of the Derner Institute, the doctoral clinical psychology program of Adelphi University, where she is now Professor and Director of Research. She is also Vice-President and Scientific Co-Director of the Glass Institute of Basic Psychoanalytic Research, and is on the faculty of the International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme.

She and her husband, Bernard Maskit, who is a mathematician, share five children, with extended family, all of whom have opinions on the issues covered in this book.

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Wilma Bucci, PhD, is Professor and Director of Research at the Derner Institute, the doctoral clinical psychology program of Adelphi University. Vice-President and Scientific Co-Director of the Glass Institute of Basic Psychoanalytic Research, she is also on the faculty of the International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme. Dr. Bucci completed her graduate training in clinical and cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics at the University of Michigan and New York University.