Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is in private practice in Milwaukee. She is the past ethics chair and a board member of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and past president of Division 39's Section III, Women, Gender, and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Maroda has published several books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews. She lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of aspects of the therapeutic process, including the place of affect, self-disclosure, countertransference, legitimate authority, enactment, the analyst's gratification, and the need for clinical guidelines. Dr. Maroda serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is a corresponding editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She actively encourages her colleagues to write and talk about what they actually do as therapists.