Notes on Contributors

Glenda Beigler has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Catholic University of São Paulo and is a psychoanalyst from Sedes Sapientiae Institute. She is a member of the working and research group Faces do Traumático [Faces of Trauma] at the Department of Psychoanalysis at Sedes Sapientiae Institute. She worked as a therapeutic companion in inclusion projects in schools. She also assists children and adolescents in foster care through Fazendo História Institute. She is a clinical psychologist of children, adolescents, and adults in private practice in São Paulo.

Ruth Blay Levisky is a psychologist; group, couples, and family psychoanalyst; biologist; and has a Masters and a PhD in human genetics (University of São Paulo). She was the founding member and President of the Brazilian Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (ABPCF) from 2017 to 2021; assistant secretary of ABPCF (2021 to 2023); founding member and part of the Directive Council of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF); as well as the author of books and specialised articles in these areas; and one of the organisers of the Dictionary of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (Editora Blucher).

Wayne Bodkin, DCplPsych, is a consultant couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has published extensively in French on sexual abuse, paedophilia, and women in couples who are violent. Since 2012 he has worked with a specialised forensic sexual abuse unit in an emergency psychiatry department of a public hospital in the southern French city of Montpellier. Dr Bodkin is a consultant to the French Catholic Church in their current review of sexual abuse policies. He is bilingual and an international trainer, writer, and researcher. He maintains a clinical and training practice in Montpellier.

Christopher Clulow, PhD, is a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, past director of Tavistock Relatio