Notes on Contributors

Paul Hoggett is Professor of Social Policy at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. Paul's latest book Politics, Identity and Emotion was published by Paradigm Publishers in 2009.

Wendy Hollway is Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the Open University. She is a social and qualitative psychologist with a particular interest in psychoanalytic epistemology and its application to empirical research methodology. With Tony Jefferson, she coauthored Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method, which explored the implications of positing a “defended subject” for interview research (2nd edition, 2013). In subsequent research, she has developed psychoanalytically informed methods in an empirical project on identity changes involved in becoming mothers, using principles of psychoanalytic (infant) observation in parallel with the free association narrative interview method. Her recent and current writing documents the implications of British post-Kleinian psychoanalysis for data generation, data analysis, writing and research ethics, based on longitudinal data from interviews, reflective field notes, observation notes, and observation seminars with twenty “becoming mothers” in Tower Hamlets. She is a co-founder of the British Psychosocial Studies Network and the European Psycho-societal Research Group.

Professor Alessandra Lemma is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a consultant clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and Honorary Professor of Psychological Therapies in the School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is the editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge) and one