Contributors

John Boyle has completed clinical MSc degrees in both integrative and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as an MA degree in Western Esotericism. He is employed as a community forensic practitioner with the Southern Trust Community Forensic Mental Health Team in Northern Ireland where he is also a visiting lecturer in the specialist forensic practitioner program at the University of Ulster. He has previously published papers on forensic and psychotherapeutic topics and is currently registered as a doctoral research student at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex in England.

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, ), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, ), Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ), After Words (Palgrave, ), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ). His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (Palgrave, ), A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (Palgrave, ), and Feelings (Routledge, ).

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews (Palgrave Macmillan, ) and Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes (Northwestern University, ). Thirty-one of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. In 2012 he gave the Seymour lectures on biography sponsored by the National Library of Australia. His book Robert Lowell in Love (University of Massachusetts) appeared in January 2016.