Maxine Anderson, MD, trained in psychoanalysis in both the US and London, England. She is a training and supervising analyst for several psychoanalytic institutes in North America and is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has published widely on psychoanalytic topics especially relevant to contemporary Kleinian and Bionian thought. She has published two previous books: The Wisdom of Lived Experience: Views from Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience Philosophy and Metaphysics (Karnac, 2016) and From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). She lives and practises in Seattle, Washington.