Allen Bishop, Ph.D., is completing his 6th year as the Chair of the Clinical Psychology Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dr. Bishop received his analytic training at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles and served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center. He served as a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Dr. Bishop continues to practice analysis in Santa Barbara, and this fall will be embarking on a research and writing sabbatical devoted to examining the ways in which the life of Beethoven illuminates issues around the confluence of hopelessness, transcendence of object need, and artistic creativity.