Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an assertive community treatment (ACT) program, providing twentyfour seven services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. Mucha has worked as a counselor and consultant for US combat veterans undergoing training for digital forensic investigations in child pornography.Before going into the clinical field, Mucha worked as a freelance journalist, truck driver, furniture mover, construction worker, union organizer, staff member at a juvenile DCFS locked unit, and taught briefly at a women's prison. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for SelfDefense as well as two collections of poetry, The Ambulatorium and Shadow Box, and a novel, The Heavyweight Champion of Nothing.