Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz is a translator in the fields of psychoanalysis and philosophy, with translations published in various journals (Parallax, Social Research, EPF Bulletin) and featuring authors like Christopher Bollas, Laurence Kahn and Pierre Legendre. She is training as a psychoanalyst with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Anna Cavness is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and was previously a lecturer at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Her research focuses on psychoanalysis and postcolonial criticism in francophone and Arabic literature and film.
Philip Derbyshire is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow currently working at Birkbeck, University of London, on the cultural imaginaries of North West Argentina. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature and film.
John Fletcher Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. He has published three volumes on the work of Jean Laplanche. He is currently finishing a book on the role of trauma in Freud's thought: Freud and the Scene of Trauma. He is co-editor of the forthcoming English language version of Laplanche's collected works (Presses Universitaires de France).
Philip Hill is a psychoanalyst, writer and teacher with over 20 years clinical experience. He has worked in the NHS, schools and charities and has a private clinic in London. Philip trained with the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) of which he is a member and is also a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Philip has written Lacan for Beginners and Using Lacanian Clinical Technique, An Introduction. He is working on two books that apply Freud and Lacan's ideas to immunology and the history of science.
Chris Oakley is a member of the Site. His recently published book, Football Delirium, was shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards Football Book of the Year .
Nicholas Ray is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis and is currently co-translating Jean Laplanche's most recent volume, Sexual.
Guy Rosolato is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst who, along with Jean-Baptiste Pontalis and Jean Laplanche, is one of the three Honorary Members (membres d'honneur) of the Association Psychanalytique de France (APF). Analysed by Jacques Lacan, he first followed Lacan in 1964 after the foundation of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris. He then joined the APF in 1967 after distancing himself from Lacan. Apart from his celebrated work on the symbolic (Essais sur le symbolique, ), Rosolato has published ten books and numerous articles, including La relation d'inconnu (‘the relationship to the Unknown’ ), Le sacrifice and Les cinq axes de la psychanalyse .
Léon Rozitchner see introductory note.
Dominique Scarfone is a medical doctor (MD), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst and a member of the Psychoanalytic Society and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Montreal. A professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal where he teaches psychoanalytic theory, he is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, in charge of the Analyst at Work section. His publications include an introduction to the work of Jean Laplanche (Jean Laplanche, Paris, PUF, collection ‘Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui,’ ), Oublier Freud? Mémoire pour la psychanalyse, Montréal, Boréal, 1999 and Les Pulsions, Paris, PUF, Coll ‘Que sais-je?’, 2004.