Notes on Contributors

John, Lord Alderdice is a member of the Upper House of the British parliament and former President of Liberal International, the world federation of liberal parties. As Leader of the Alliance Party, he was one of the negotiators of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, first Speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly, and then one of four international commissioners overseeing security normalisation. A psychoanalytic psychiatrist, he works on religious fundamentalism, political violence, and the problems of indigenous peoples. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Executive Chairman of the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford.

Stephen Blumenthal, DClinPsychol, FInstPsychoanal, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice and at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has a particular interest in understanding the connection between the mind and behaviour, and the risk of acting out in ways which are harmful to self and others. He is interested in the public understanding of psychological ideas. He is author of a number of books, including Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers, as well as articles in the popular press.

Ronald Doctor is a consultant psychiatrist in medical psychotherapy at the West London NHS Trust and has a psychoanalytical private practice. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a board member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and is Chair of the IPA Committee for Psychoanalysis and Law.

Natalya Frolova has a PhD in medicine and is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, forensic psychotherapist, and a specialist of the Russian Psychotherapeutic Association.

James Gil