Introduction to Special Issue on Academic Freedom: Reclaiming Paths to Individual and Collective Sovereignty

Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His most recent book is Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University, New York. His most recent book is Precarities of 21st century childhoods: Critical explorations of time(s), place(s), and identities (Lexington Books, 2023). He is co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. He is also editor of the book series, Psychoanalytic Interventions: Clinical Social, and Cultural Contexts, and co-editor of the book series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies. He founded the Adelphi Asylum Project and he has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, NY.

Reader in Social Sciences, University of East London (UK). She is the Co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture Society. She has published articles and book chapters on gender and feminism; psychoanalysis and philosophy; psychoanalytic approaches to politics, pedagogy and space; and psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. She is the author of After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her recently publications include the co-edited volumes After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial transformations after COVID- 19 (2021) and Movement, Velocity and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective (2022). She is training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the SITE of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.