Jerrold R. Brandell is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University School of Social Work, and instructor and past president, Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. A practicing psychotherapist-psychoanalyst, he is (founding) editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Social Work. His scholarly interests include theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis, the portrayal of psychoanalysis in the cinema, psychotherapeutic process, psychodynamic supervision, and therapeutic storytelling with children. He has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters, and 15 books, including Psychodynamic Social Work; Of Mice and Metaphors: Therapeutic Storytelling with Children; and Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies.
