Keith Armitage read English at Goldsmiths' College and is a trainee with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has worked for many years in the voluntary sector, in addiction and with street homeless communities. He is developing a private practice as a psychotherapist, often working with groups who are excluded from psychoanalysis. E-mail: keitharmitagee3@aol.com.
Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master, Head of the Department of Psychosocial Studies and Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2005), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2006), After Words (Palgrave, 2002) and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 1999).
Paul Gurney studied Philosophy and Politics at Southampton University (1979-82) and Psychodynamic Counselling at Goldsmith's College (1989-91), before training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Philadelphia Association (1991-98). He currently lives and works in south London, in the NHS and in private practice. He is at present serving on the training committees of the Philadelphia Association and the Guild of Psychotherapists.
Kirsty Hall is an active member of The Site. Currently she is a member of both Council and the Training Committee. She has a part-time private practice, leaving her time to write. Her research interests range from Freud to placebos. She is the author of The Stuff of Dreams: Fantasy and Anxiety in Psychoanalysis (Karnac 2007), and has co-authored two books scheduled to appear later this year, The Problem with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and The Problem with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Alan Pope is a founder member of The Site and a member of the training committee. He trained at the Philadelphia Association. He now works in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and for the NHS as a counsellor at Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Psychological Health Service.
Joanna Ryan, Ph.D is a founder member of the Site, having trained at the Philadelphia Association, London. She works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor privately and in the NHS. She is coauthor, with Noreen O'Connor, of Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis (Virago 1993; Karnac 2003). Her research on class was done whilst a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London.
Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University. He is the author of over twenty books, and over 100 articles, chiefly on the history and social organisation of sexuality and intimate life. Key publications include Coming Out (1977), Sex, Politics and Society (1981), Sexuality and its Discontents (1985), Invented Moralities (1995), Making Sexual History (2000), Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life Experiments (with Brian Heaphy and Catherine Donovan, 2001), Sexualities and Society (with Janet Holland and Matthew Waites, 2003), and a 3rd edition of Sexuality (2009). The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life, was published by Routledge in June 2007. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television.