Eve Watson (PhD, MICP, RegPract. APPI) is a psychoanalytic practitioner and university lecturer. She has published over two dozen articles on psychoanalysis, sexuality and film. She co-edited the book Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017: Punctum) with Dr. Noreen Giffney. She is the editor of Lacunae, the APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (http://appi.ie/publications/), and is course director of the Freud-Lacan Institute. She is currently working on a book project on the drive and in 2021 will take up a residency at the Austen-Riggs Centre in Massachusetts as the Erikson scholar.

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.

Kevin Murphy (PhD, MICP, RegPract. APPI) is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Dublin for nearly twenty years. In his clinical practice, he works, among other things, with sexual issues and his doctoral and ongoing research is in the area of asexuality, defined as the experience of no sexual desire for another person. He completed his doctoral research under the supervision of Russell Grigg at Deakin University in Melbourne. He regularly presents conference papers in Ireland and abroad and is currently working on a monograph of his doctoral thesis.

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).

Maryrose Kiernan (MICP, RegPract APPI, IGAS, IGA, Member GASi) is a clinical psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a clinical group analyst and a Clinical Group Supervisor. She has a diploma in Fine Art from NCAD. She has lectured in TCD, DIT and facilitated groups in DBS. She has sat on the executive of APPI and is currently a member of the Psychoanalytic Section of ICP. Maryrose has organized international group seminars with European colleagues. She has many years’ experience of working with individuals and as a group analyst privately and within the Irish Health Service (HSE), in particular with survivors of institutional and childhood abuse. She has also worked in the public and private sectors as a clinical supervisor.

Dr. Pauline Twomey (MB., BCh., BAO, MRCPsych, FRANZCP, MCPsychI, MMedSc Psychotherapy) is a Consultant Psychiatrist trained in Ireland and Australia with long experience of working with patients with psychosis. Specialising first in rehabilitation psychiatry linking in with community services, she specialises in the more acute area of psychiatric intensive care and low secure care. Her experience as a psychiatrist is unusual in that she has predominantly worked with severely mentally ill patients in hospital who have been actively psychotic and commonly are diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder or bipolar disorder. Many of her patients are detained under the Irish Mental Health Act, 2001, and have complex comorbidities with substance abuse and emotionally unstable personality traits. She has worked as tutor for many years which included a period of chairing the Association of Psychiatric Tutors of Ireland. During her time as tutor, she was involved in developing guidelines for supporting doctors who have experienced suicide of a patient in their care. She has also worked with the Mental Health Commission serving as an Inspector of services. In the past, she has worked as Director of a Brain Trauma Programme in a Psychiatric Service in Australia. She has chaired the Human Rights and Ethics Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland which recently published the ethical guidelines for psychiatrists. At her suggestion, the theme for the College of Psychiatrists for 2021 is the Right to Treatment.