Orya Tishby, PsyD, holds a master's degree from Hebrew University and a doctor of psychology degree from Rutgers, where she received the Best Dissertation Award from the New Jersey Psychological Association. She is an associate professor in clinical psychology and clinical social work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. She is head of the clinical psychology graduate program, and clinical faculty at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, as well as director of the Freud Center for Research in Psychoanalysis. She practices and supervises long- and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and her research focuses on the therapeutic relationship and countertransference. She is coeditor (with Hadas Wiseman) of The Therapeutic Relationship: Innovative Investigations.

Hadas Wiseman, PhD, completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She received clinical training at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, and at the Psychological Services at Hebrew University, where she also completed her postdoctorate. She is currently a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education, at the University of Haifa, Israel, and chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Development doctoral studies committee. Dr. Wiseman is also on faculty in the Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa. Her scholarly work and research has focused on psychotherapy process, the therapeutic relationship, attachment and relationship patterns in psychotherapy, personal and professional development of psychotherapists, and intergenerational trauma and interpersonal relationships in families of Holocaust survivors. She is senior author (with Jacques P. Barber) of Echoes of the Trauma: Relational Themes and Emotions in Children of Holocaust Survivors and senior coeditor (with Orya Tishby) of The Therapeutic Relationship: Innovative Investigations. Dr. Wiseman is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice in Kiryat Tivon, Israel. She served as president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research.

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