Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), an Honorary member at IPTAR, New York, a Founding Member of Das Unbehagen and co-founder and trustee of the board of Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003; Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: 2017). She has published three edited volumes (with Manya Steinkoler): Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Lacan On Madness: Madness, Yes You Can’t ( Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016), and a collection (with Chris Christian), Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge: 2019). Her recent book (with Manya Steinkoler) Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans (Routledge: 2023) has been nominated as a finalist for the Gradiva Award.

Maryrose Kiernan (RegPract. APPI, IGAS, GASi,  NPSA, Assoc. IGA) is a  psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a clinical  group analyst and a clinical  group  supervisor.  She has lectured in TCD, and DIT and run groups for several organisations including HSE, DBS and the Clanwilliam Institute. She has been on the executive of APPI and  Psychoanalytic Section of ICP and has organised international group seminars with European colleagues. She has many years’ experience of working with individuals and groups  privately and within the Irish Health Service (HSE), in particular with survivors of institutional and childhood abuse. She now works privately as a clinical group supervisor and psychoanalyst in the private sector.

Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor, practicing psychoanalyst and author in London. She is the president of the College of Psychoanalysts UK (CP-UK), chief editor of Analytic Agora (the journal of The Academy of Psychoanalysis), analyst member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR), and the author of “Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture,”  “Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations.” Her upcoming books include: ‘How Does Analysis Work?’, )2024) & “The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity” (2024).

Geraldine McLoughlin a professional psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a core background in clinical and counselling psychology with considerable experience in working with adults and adolescents with a history of childhood abuse and neglect. She has provided significant training to health care practitioners and legal personnel on the effects of child abuse and trauma, and is engaged in research on trans-generational trauma linked to her LLM in International Human Rights Law where she researched transitional justice mechanisms following disclosures of human rights abuses with a particular focus on children who were abused within residential settings. My research also includes working on the application of restorative justice mechanisms and the development of an understanding of “perpetrator paradigms.”

Ann Murphy is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and visual artist. She is Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, where she was a founder and Director of the MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She lectures on psychoanalysis, particularly on the work of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion, on postgraduate courses at Trinity College Dublin and St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin and is a training analyst and clinical supervisor. She has a private practice in Dublin. She published a piece on her solo exhibition, Transitional/Transitive (Dublin Castle, Ireland, 2012) in The Winnicott Tradition, eds. Margaret Boyle Spelman and Frances Thomson-Salo (Karnac, 2015).

Pauline O’Callaghan is a Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with a private practice for the past twenty-five years in Dublin. For many years she taught psychoanalysis in various colleges in Dublin. She is one of the directors of FLi and was chair of the Editorial Board of Lacunae until recently.

Carol Owens works in private practice in Dublin. Her book Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents (co-edited with Stephanie Farrelly Quinn) was published in 2017 (Karnac/Routledge) and nominated for the Gradiva award. She has given seminars and talks on her work with at national and international psychoanalytic events. Her most recent book is Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch (with Stephanie Swales) published in 2020 (Routledge). She is the series editor for Studying Lacan’s Seminars at Routledge.

Annie G. Rogers is Professor Emerita of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Hampshire College and has a private practice in Amherst, Massachusetts.  She is a supervising and teaching Analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco and Vice-President of its Board. She is a printmaker and member of Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts. Formerly a Fulbright Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Radcliffe and Murray Fellow at Harvard University; Whiting Fellow at Hampshire College; and Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs, Dr. Rogers is the author of A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy (1995); The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma (2005); and Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language (2016).

Eve Watson is a psychoanalytic practitioner and lectures on psychoanalysis in undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Dublin. She has published over 30 articles and book chapters on psychoanalysis, sexuality, culture, literature, and film. Her books include Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (Punctum: 2017, co-edited with Dr. Noreen Giffney) and forthcoming  books include Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2024, co-edited with Dan Collins), Freud’s Clinical Case and Clinical Practice Today (Routledge 2024, co-edited with Helena Texier). She is the editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. In 2022, she was the Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  She is the course director of (FLi,) the Freud Lacan Institute (www.freudlacaninstitute.com).