Ronald Ruskin is a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, and associate professor and training and supervising analyst at Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has co-edited texts on psychotherapy supervision, as well as on humanities and medicine, such as his 2011 book 'Body and Soul'. He is a founding editor of 'Ars Medica', a medical-humanities journal, published over forty-five stories in literary and medical journals, and written a thriller entitled 'The Last Panic', and 'The Analyst Who Laughed to Death', the tragic-comic story of a tormented analyst who never escaped childhood.