Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Ph.D., studied literature, philosophy and psychology in Heidelberg and Zürich, where she worked as a university professor for clinical psychology. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society and at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her areas of expertise are metapsychology, in particular drive theory, its clinical applications, and psychoanalysis applied to creative processes. She is the author of two books and over 40 articles, published in many languages, and edited a Freud Reader and two collections of short stories. Currently she is the Chair of the IPA in Culture Committee. She works in private practice in Brookline (MA).