Philip Derbyshire is currently a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow based at Birkbeck, University of London. He is working on aspects of cultural production in North-west Argentina, including the transculturation of European philosophy (and psychoanalysis) by Andean modes of thought.
Stephen Gee is Chair of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He practices full time as a psychoanalyst and supervises at London Friend and the Studio Upstairs. He has a background in the arts and community politics. He believes psychoanalysis to be as demanding and as potentially disciplined a practice as the theatre at its best and as such it should remain autonomous and ungovernable.
John Fletcher is Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. He has edited three collections of Laplanche's work and translated a number of his essays. He is currently finishing a book on the role of trauma in Freud's thought, Freud and the Scene of Trauma. He is editor of the forthcoming English language version of the Collected Works of Jean Laplanche.
Kirsty Hall is an active member of the Site, psychoanalyst and sporadic entrepreneur. Her latest venture is a foray into digital publishing in the form of a series of short ebooks exploring different aspects of the talking cure aimed at both the informed reader and the interested layperson. Visit openmindbooks.uk.com
Jonathan House, MD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis at Columbia University where he is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is currently co-translating Jean Laplanche's most recent collection of essays, Sexual.
Jean Laplanche is Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VII and Doctor Honoris Causa at the universities of Lausanne, Buenos-Aires and Athens. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Language of Psychoanalysis (with J.-B. Pontalis), Life and Death in Psychoanalysis, New Foundations for Psychoanalysis, and the seven volume Problématiques. He is also the scientific director of the French edition of Freud's Œuvres complètes.
Alberto Luchetti is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi and The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual. He has translated many French psychoanalytic texts into Italian, including most of the work of Jean Laplanche, and written extensively on psychoanalysis.
Nicholas Ray is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory, at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Tragedy and Otherness, and is currently co-translating Jean Laplanche's most recent collection of essays, Sexual.
Julie Walsh is a PhD candidate in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on theories of narcissism across psychoanalytic and cultural discourses. She is training as a psychoanalyst with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.