Notes on Contributors

Klaus M. Beier is Director at the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, and in charge of the undergraduate and postgraduate training in his field as well as the outpatient clinic dealing with the full range of sexual disorders and gender dysphoria. His main research focus is the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA). The goal is to encourage self-identified undetected paedophiles to seek professional help in order to avoid committing CSA or consuming child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In 2005 Klaus initiated the “Prevention Project Dunkelfeld”, which has now expanded to ten additional locations all over Germany (dont-offend.org), as well as a prevention approach to recruit juveniles with sexual interests towards children (just-dreaming-of-them.org), which is to be financed by the German insurance system for the next four years. In 2017 he started the internet-based self-management tool “troubled desire” for assessment and treatment of paedophilia to prevent CSA and the use of CSAM, currently available in English, German, Marathi, and Spanish (troubled-desire.com).

Louis Brunet is past President of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Professor of Psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published seven books and over 150 papers. His university research is mainly around individual and group violence, terrorism and mass violence, always from a psychoanalytic perspective. He has been published on topics concerning murderers, genocides, terrorism, and child-soldiers. His personal psychoanalytic research is mainly about archaic conflicts and suffering, narcissistic identity suffering for which symbolisation, representation, subjective appropriation are problematic; in relation to the functions of the analyst and the use of the transference.

Duncan Campbell is a former Guardian crime correspondent and former chairman of the Crime Reporters' Association. The Underworld is due to be published soon b