Mucha, Zak: - 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 twenty-four 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 Self-Defense as well as two collections of poetry, The Ambulatorium and Shadow Box, and a novel, The Heavyweight Champion of Nothing.