Olga Cox Cameron is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Dublin for the past thirty-three years. She lectured in psychoanalytic theory and also in psychoanalysis and literature at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin from 1991-2013. She has published numerous articles on these topics in national and international journals. She is the founder of the annual Irish Psychoanalysis and Cinema Festival, now in its 14th year.

Fergus Campbell teaches British and Irish history at Newcastle University where he is Reader in Social and Cultural History. He is the author of Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 (Oxford, 2005) and The Irish Establishment, 1879-1914 (Oxford, 2009). He is currently writing a book on the history of psychoanalysis in Ireland, c. 1917-2021.

Rik Loose is a member of ICLO-NLS, APPI, the NLS (New Lacanian School) and the WAP (World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is former Head of Department of Psychoanalysis in DBS School of Arts and former Senior Lecturer there. He also initiated, developed and presided over an MA in Addiction Studies in the same college.

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).

Hugh Arthurs (MSc, MA, Reg.Pract. APPI, MICP) was Director at Prospect Psychotherapy Practice from 1996 until December 2002, Hugh has been working as a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapist for almost thirty years. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy, and an M.Sc. in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from St. Vincent’s University Hospital, School of Psychotherapy, SVUH. He has taught psychoanalytic theory and practice at Master’s level in DCU and was previously Head of Psychotherapy Training in Independent College Dublin. Hugh is a Registered Practitioner Member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI). He has served on the Executive Board and as Chairperson of the Association.

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.

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University (Belgium), and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of the books The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective and Diagnosis and the DSM: A Critical Review and of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical diagnosis.

Leon S. Brenner  is a philosopher and psychoanalytic counsellor from Berlin. His work focuses on subjectivity theory and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. His book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language was published with the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2020. Among his extensive international academic speaking and various publications, Brenner has made numerous appearances in interviews and video publications online. He is a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin and Unconscious Berlin and is currently a research fellow at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin and Ruhr-University Bochum.

Noreen Giffney (MIFPP, MICP, BPC Founding Scholar) is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is the author of the book, ‘The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic’ (Routledge 2021) and the co-editor (with Dr Eve Watson) of ‘Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (Punctum Books 2017). She is the Director of ‘Psychoanalysis +’, an international, interdisciplinary initiative that brings together clinical, academic, and artistic approaches to, and applications of, psychoanalysis. Noreen is a lecturer and researcher specialising in psychoanalytic and psychosocial theories and reflective practice at Ulster University, Belfast.

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).

Harriet Parsons (MICP, Reg. Pract. APPI) is a fully accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She holds an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Psychotherapy, an MA in Addiction Studies from DBS, and a BA (Psychology) from DBS. Harriet joined Bodywhys: The Eating Disorders Association of Ireland in 2005 and as the current Training and Development Manager, works to provide Bodywhys support to the HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders. In addition, Harriet gives frequent training and lectures on the subject of eating disorders. Harriet is a RegPract. member of APPI, the Irish Council of Psychotherapy, and a member of the Editorial Board for the peer-review APPI journal, Lacunae.

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).

Astrid Gessert is a psychoanalyst and a member of CFAR (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research London, https://cfar.org.uk) and the College of Psychoanalysts-UK. She has worked for many years in the NHS, in private practice and as a supervisor. She is a regular contributor to the CFAR annual public lecture and training program, and she lectures and facilitates at other psychoanalytic organisations’ event. Her book is an edited collection titled Obsessional Neurosis: Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018). She features in the well-known short series of videos about psychoanalysis made by the Freud Museum London.

Pauline O’Connell is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in private practice at Auburn Counselling and Psychotherapy in Dublin.  She has an M Sc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Trinity College Dublin and is accredited with Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and a member of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP). She has served on the Executive Committee of APPI. She is a member of the Dublin Lacanian Reading Group and Espace Analytique Ireland. Prior to training psychoanalytically she worked as an officer in the Defence Forces serving in a variety of appointments both at home and with the United Nations overseas where she was involved in the provision of employee counselling and welfare assistance to distressed colleagues.

Marie Walshe (MICP, MIECFT, RegPract. APPI) is a psychoanalyst, supervisor and Director of Leeson Analytic Centre, a practice in which she treats adults, children and couples. Marie, who has been in clinical practice for over two decades, has also lectured on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has presented clinically-oriented papers in Ireland and the UK. Her articles have been published in the Letter and Lacunae journals (http://appi.ie/publications/) and she contributed a chapter on her adolescent practice to a textbook on Lacanian perspectives on child and adolescent psychoanalysis, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child, edited by Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly Quinn (Routledge, 2017).

Kevin Murphy (Reg.Pract. APPI, MICP) is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, training analyst and registered supervising analyst  based in Dublin. In his private practice he works mainly in the area of sexuality. His doctoral research on asexuality was conducted under the supervision of Russell Grigg at Deakin University, Melbourne and was published by Routledge in 2023 as “Asexuality and Freudian Lacanian Psychoanalysis – Towards a Theory of an Enigma”. He has presented papers at conferences and seminars in Ireland and abroad. His current area of research is focussed on Freudian and Lacanian theories of perversion in relation to child sexual abuse.

Peter Kelly (MSc Psychotherapy, Advanced Dip. Supervision, B.Ph. Philosophy, Dip. Social Studies, M.I. trainer, EMDR Practitioner, Reality Therapy Certified) is both a generic psychotherapist and addiction counsellor and trainer. Peter currently works in private practice and has also been involved in the provision of both drug counselling and drug education for the past twenty-five years. Key areas of interest for Peter are the role of the unconscious in mental health and in particular the ways in which the past can get repeated/played out in the present, but also the process of change and how people can shift out of difficult subjective states into more adaptive and healthier functioning.

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.

Emmet Mallon has practiced psychoanalytically for 18 years and has worked as a lecturer on psychotherapy postgraduate courses. He has served as Honorary Secretary/Vice Chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and was Guest Editor of Lacunae, International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in 2022. His areas of specialty include Lacanian structural theory, psychopathology and discourse analysis and his doctoral thesis was a uniquely Irish investigation of psychopathy.

Helena Texier has been working as a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice for almost 30 years. She was involved in teaching at TCD, UCD and DBS, on clinical training programmes at Masters’ level and to undergraduates. She has been invited to speak at professional congresses at home in Ireland and internationally. For a decade, she was editor of the psychoanalytic journal, THE LETTER. She has had articles published in English, French and German and contributed to the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. She’s an ex-Chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and is a director of FLi. She is interested in the metapsychology underpinning psychoanalytic practice, consideration of revisions that may follow from developments in neuroscience, and research possibilities for psychoanalysis. She is currently co-editing with Eve Watson a collection on Freud’s case histories and is a registered practitioner of APPI, an ICP registrant, and is currently working towards a doctorate on psychoanalysis and science.

Anna Comerford is an experienced individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist, group analyst and supervisor and is currently a member of the APPI Executive Committee and holds the Clinical License to Practice with the Irish Group Analytic Society. As a Training Group Analyst, Anna has been involved for many years in teaching and administering the Diploma and MSc in Group Analysis at the School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s University Hospital. She has worked in the area of Psychosis and Suicide Risk in an inpatient setting for a number of years.

She is currently chair of the Psychoanalytic section of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy and a director on the Board of the I.C.P.

Stephen McCoy (BA Psych, MA) began studies in psychoanalysis and philosophy in UCD and completed a BA in psychology in 2004. While employed in the teaching of children with Autism and Aspergers syndrome, he completed an MA in clinical Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Stephen’s work concerns the counselling and psychotherapy of children and adolescents with a range of emotional and behavioural problems. This one-to-one counselling/psychotherapeutic approach has been built on experience gained in in national and primary schools in the Dublin area. Stephen is a lecturer in psychotherapy at Dublin Business School and on the MSc in Psychotherapy Turning Point Institute.