Notes on Contributors

Coline Covington, PhD, BPC, is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation, and former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a Fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank formed by Professor VamIk Volkan, Lord Alderdice, and Dr Robi Friedman, to apply psychoanalytic concepts in resolving political conflict. Coline's publications include Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence (Karnac, ); Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch (Karnac, ); Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis (2^nd edition, Routledge, ); and Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, ). Her forthcoming book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity, will be published in 2020 by Phoenix Publishing House. Coline is in private practice in London. Email: ccovington@freemind.co.uk

Alison Frater, PhD, FFPH, FRSA, MA, held leadership roles in the voluntary and public sector. As Chief Officer, Brook Advisory Centres, she fought for access to sexual health services for young people. As a Director of Public Health she championed public health programmes to address health inequalities including within prisons. Continuing a commitment to social justice she is now a visiting professor in Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and public health lead on a randomised trial at UCL evaluating mentalization for antisocial personality disorder. As Chair, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, she is inspired by a creative network to promote arts in justice. She believes passionately in multidisciplinary working and as a recent MA graduate in professional writing uses story-telling to identify the human impact of inequalities. She publishes in the scientific and general press most recently on deaths in custody in the BMJ. Email:

John Gordon is a Founder Member of the British Psychoanalytic Assoc