Dr Claudia Luiz is a training and supervising psychoanalyst residing in NYC. She is the first-place winner of the Phyllis W Meadow award for excellence in Psychoanalytic Writing; the 2008 Writer's Digest Best Writer’s Award; and a NAAP 2020 Gradiva Award nominee for "Catrina Learns to Breathe," now available for download. Her book, "The Making of a Psychoanalyst" (Routledge, 2019) was reviewed by the Journal of Modern Psychoanalysis (2020) as "arguably the best lay book written on modern psychoanalysis” and by New Books in Psychoanalysis as "poised to create a seismic shift in consciousness."  More about Dr Luiz can be found at www.claudialuiz.com