Irwin Hirsch, PhD is co-founder, former director, and currently faculty and supervisor of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; distinguished visiting faculty, William Alanson White Institute; adjunct clinical professor of psychology and supervisor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and faculty and supervisor, the National Training Program, the National Institute of the Psychotherapies. He's authored over 90 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters and six books, including: the 2008 Goethe Award winning, “Coasting in the Countertransference”; “The Interpersonal Tradition”; “The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis,1960’s-1990’s,” co-edited with Donnel Stern; “Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s,” co-edited with Donnel Stern; “More Human than Otherwise”; and “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Intense Involvement in Sports,” co-edited with Phillip Blumberg and Robert Watson. Dr. Hirsch serves on the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.