Alan Roland è practicing psychoanalyst, training analyst e senior member della National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. È autore di
In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross Cultural Psychology (1988),
Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis: The Asian and North American Experience (1996) e
dreams and drama: Psychoanalytic Criticism, Creativity And The Artist , Continuum, London (2002).