received his Ph.D. at NYU. He was certified in both psychoanalysis and group therapy. He has written frequently on Bion and on films such as "Lord of the Flies," "Schindler's List," "Son of Saul," "The Act of Killing," and the depiction of violence in Western movies. He also published Getting Away with Murder concerning his analytic treatment of a man who "killed someone" as a child. Recently he published a book on A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence: The Holocaust, Group Hallucinosis and False Beliefs (Routledge, 2018).