Annie ReinerAnnie Reiner, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, is a senior faculty member and training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. Her work was profoundly influenced by the ideas of Wilfred Bion, with whom she studied in the 1970s. Her witings appear in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is author of 'Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind', an examination of Bion's concept of O through philosophy, theology and the arts, and 'The Quest For Conscience and the Birth of the Mind'. Dr Reiner is also an accomplished poet, playwright, and painter, with four books of poems, a book of short stories, and six children's books which she also illustrated. She maintains a private practice in Beverly Hills, California. Read More Read Less