‘xviii ABOUT THE AUTHORS ‘Abrams coauthored with Sutton-Smith (1981) and ethers, The Folkstories of Children, a book tht helped establish the ‘growing, new intrdisciplinary field of narrative studies in children and adults. For the 1986 feurth edition ofthis book, Abrams coauthored three chapters with Bellak on a new way to score object relations on thematic tests, the use of ‘Hhemati tests in the assessinent of borderline und narcissistic disorders, und neuropsyehological indicators on thematic fests. The latter chapter presented the first thematie test protocols of the then-not-well-acepted diagnosis of attention. deficit disorder (ADD) in childsen and adults, which hus now become the “diagnosis ofthe 90's." Abrams also ‘coauthored with Bellak and Ruby Ackermann-Engel a book in 1992 ented Flanbook of Invensve Brief and Emergency Paychotherapy: Among his cwn pioneering papers is one on the intensive treatment of « profoundly deat gil (Abrams, 1991), dream interpretation (Abrams, 1992) ancl the fist case presentations of tematic test protocals of childfen anu adolescents with a primary dlagnosis of the notyet-well-accepted diagnosis for clildren of narcissistic disorder (Abrams, 1993, 1995, in press). Abrams has broad experience in th field flom personality assessment to neuropsychology, criss and early intervention, and a long-standing commitment to community mental health with profoundly deaf and poverty populations, He is qualified in bot adult psychoanalysis snd child psychoanalysis and is & ‘member of the Association for Child Psyehicanlysis. Over the last several yeas, he fas been researching and writing a book on Herbert Graf (1903-1972), the inventive cpera stage director who was the subject of Freud (1909) famous ese known as “Lite Fans” (4 4-yearold boy who was afiaid of horses), and working ona handbook on treatment planning, From his doctoral dissertation and 13 years as Chief Psychologist atthe Center for Proventve Psyehiatry, White Plains, New York, to later work as Clinic Director, Bast New York Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Lexington Center for Mental Health Services; Associate Clinical Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at City University the Doctoral Programm in School Psychology of Yeshiva University, and the Insite of Child, Adolescent, and Families Studies in New York Cty, he has perhaps administered and supervised more thematic ess than many psychologists ofhis generation, Abrams approaches clinical work asa creative collaboration with patients to help therm discover their wn cure, which brings urique insight and prescience to his psychological test evaluation and. psychotherapy with children, adolescents, an adults