Jessica Benjamin is a practicing psychoanalyst, supervisor and faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as faculty and founding board member of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is the author of The Bonds of Love (1988); Like Subjects, Love Objects (1994); Shadow of the Other (1998); and Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition theory, Intersibectivity and the Third (2018). Her work has been translated into many languages, and her essay "Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness" has been the most cited article on PEPweb for the last five years, as well as in the top ten for the last two decades. She has studied collective trauma, organized a project for Acknowledgment in Israel/Palestine, and continues to publish on the importance of acknowledgment and the idea of moving from doer and done to into the Third of recognition both clinically and in social relations.