Melissa KnoxMelissa Knox, PhD, a New York City native, teaches American literature and culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. She endured more than twenty years of psychoanalysis, wrote a psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde titled Oscar Wild: A Long and Lovely Suicide (Yale University Press, 1996), and has authored numerous personal essays about disturbed family life, often in relation to psychoanalysis. Read More Read Less