Notes on Contributors

Wayne Bodkin, DCplPsych, is a psychoanalyst and couple and family therapist. He trained at Tavistock Relationships and holds a doctorate in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy. For more than thirty-five years he has lived and worked in Montpellier, where his practice moves between the consulting room, prison, and the public hospital, between couples and families and those who have transgressed. Since 2012 he has been consultant psychotherapist in the forensic sexual abuse unit of the CHU's psychiatry department. He is Vice-President of the French Society of Forensic Psychologists, and also several international associations devoted to questions of sexual violence. He writes and speaks widely, most recently in 2025 Living With Illness in the Couple: Clinical Reflections from a Special Interest Group, and in chapters on sport, institutions, and the fractures of family life. His work is concerned with what cannot be ignored, and what must sometimes be faced obliquely. Email: bodkin.wayne@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-2199-3043

Sarah Byrne is a Cork-born writer, editor, and curator based between Ireland and France. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, The New Statesman, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Irish Examiner, and she has received multiple awards for her writing. Her work is informed by a decade spent in criminal justice, mental health, and restorative justice settings. She founded The Disaster School in 2025, a creative programme exploring writing, crisis, disaster, and survival. Email:

Massimo De Mari, MD, is a psychiatrist and a criminologist. He is a full member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (SPI); a member of the SPI and the IPA Committees on Psychoanalysis and Law; a core member of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) “Violent and Acting Out Patients Committee”; and a member of the board of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP). He is also coeditor of the IAFP journal. He has a private practice