Robert D. Stolorow is a founding member, trainer and supervisor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. It is also a founding member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Personality New York, and professor of clinical psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is coauthor of several books, of which the most recent are Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (2002, with George E. Atwood), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An intersubjective Approach (1997, with George W. Atwood) Psychoanalytic Treatment: An intersubjective Approach (1987). In 1995 he received the Distinguished Scientific Award of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.