Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University (NYC), and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute (NYC). He is also Teaching Faculty at HamAva Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Tehran, Iran). He is Past President of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is also Staff Psychiatrist at Scarborough Health Network (Toronto) and Co-Founder of Mobius Psychological Services (Toronto). He is the 2024 recipient of the Cooper Award for seminal contributions to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of the Cornell Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Kanwal is co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of the books, Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections (Karnac, 2017) and Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).