Therese Maguire is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist, social care programme evaluator, and provider of training, education and consultancy services to NGOs in Ireland with a special focus on training NGO’s working directly with people with a neurodegenerative or life limiting illnesses. She has a degree in psychology from QUB, an MSc in clinical psychotherapy from Independent College Dublin, and is an accredited member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy and RegPract member of APPI. She is Clinic Director at The Psychotherapy Clinic based in North Wicklow and a Director of the Freud Lacan Institute, a training institute which provides academic and professional training courses for psychotherapists pre- and post-accreditation.

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 is a member of the Editorial Board of Lacunae, the International for Psychoanalysis.

Marie Walshe (MICP, MIECFT, RegPract. APPI) is a psychoanalyst, supervisor and Director of Leeson Analytic Centre, a practice in which she works with adults, children and couples. Marie has been in clinical practice for over two decades and has lectured on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has presented clinically-oriented papers in Ireland and the UK and has published in psychoanalytic journals and in a textbook on Lacanian perspectives on child and adolescent psychoanalysis, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child (Routledge, 2017).

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.”

Alan Corcoran is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Dubin. A graduate of Independent College Dublin, he holds a clinical masters in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He has given talks at seminars and conferences on a number of philosophical and psychoanalytic themes.

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 15h year. Olga has taught and published extensively on the history of madness, psychoanalytic ethics, the enigmas of desire, intersections of literature, film and psychoanalysis, the film work of David Lynch, and (forthcoming) on Lacan’s seminar on identification.

Belinda Moller is an experienced group analyst specialising in group analytic psychotherapy and group dynamics in organisations as they impact on professional, management and leadership roles in the private and public sectors.

Eve Watson (PhD) is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and research. She is a co-director of a busy Dublin city centre practice, and has published over thirty essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017, Punctum), Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2024), and another collection, Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy (Routledge, 2025). She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis from 2016-2024. In 2022, she was the Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.