E. Virginia Demos is a retired member of the clinical staff at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA, who continues to work in private practice as a clinical psychologist. She also previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is an authority on trauma and has also worked closely with Silvan Tomkins during her career, editing Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins (1995).