About Authors

Doc. Mgr. Josef Fulka, Ph.D. (CZ) - teaches as an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities Charles University, and at the department of Deaf Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He also works as a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, department of the 20th century philosophy. He has published books on psychoanalysis (Psychoanalysis and Contemporary French Thought, Prague ), literary theory (Roland Barthes - From Ideology to Fantasy, Prague ), modern philosophy (Michel Foucault: Politics and Aesthetics, Prague 2005, co-authored with Pavel Barša) and French Enlightenment (Denis Diderot and Contemporary Philosophy, Prague ). He has translated more than twenty books from French. In 2009, he was awarded the Wichterle Award for Outstanding Young Researchers of the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Fields of research: modern philosophy, literary theory, psychoanalysis, sign languages.

Ágnes Hódi (HU) - psychologist, training and supervising child and adult psychoanalyst, psychodrama therapist, honorary professor of ELTE University, Budapest, Supervisor in Panorama Psychosomatic and Medical Center, Budapest, Focus of interest: psychotherapy with chronically sick children and adults, helping children and their families in hospital, preparation for and elaboration after medical interventions.

Ann Horne (GB) - is a Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) and a proud Honorary Member of ČSPAP. Trained at the BAP (British Association of Psychotherapists, now IPCAPA - Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association at the BPF) in the Independent tradition, she was later head of training and then of post-graduate development. She has edited the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, co-edited with Monica Lanyado The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and developed the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series for Routledge. Her Selected Papers (On Children Who Privilege the