Dina Al-Kassim is a critical theorist who works on political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics in transnational modernist and contemporary postcolonial cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. She is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) and the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant (University of California Press, 2010).
Sheila Cavanagh is Associate Professor of sociology at York University, Toronto (Canada). She is chair of the Canadian Sexuality Studies Association and co-editor of the Somatechnics journal. Her research is in the area of gender and sexuality with a concentration on queer, cultural, and psychoanalytic theories. She is the editor of a special issue on transgender and psychoanalysis in Transgender Studies Quarterly (2017). She is also the author of Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies (UBC, 2007) and Queering Bathrooms (UTP, 2010).
Laura Chernaik is a psychotherapist in private practice, and a trainee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has a PhD in History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1995. She has published two books, Social and Virtual Space, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2005, and New Hope, a science fiction novel, Kindle and paperback, 2016.
Paul Gurney studied Philosophy and Politics at Southampton University, Psychodynamic Counselling at Goldsmiths College and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Philadelphia Association. He has been in practice since 1987 in charity, NHS and private sectors. Publications include “The Acc(id)ental Tourist: exploring the tribal areas between class and race” in Sitegeist No.3/Online Journal for Psychotherapy & Social Studies.
Juliet Jacques is a freelance author based in London, a journalist, critic
and writer of short fiction, known for her work on the transgender experience, including her transition as a trans woman.
Damian McCann is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist working as Head of Learning and Development at Tavistock Relationships. He is also a consultant systemic psychotherapist working in a child and adolescent mental health service and is an associate of Pink Therapy where he teaches on the diploma in relationship therapy for gender and sexual diversities. His doctoral research was concerned with understanding the meaning and management of violence in the couple relationships of gay men.
Guy Millon is a counselling psychologist and is currently in training as a psychoanalyst with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He works at an NHS gender identity clinic and advances an approach of making psychoanalysis more relevant to the trans person. He also works in private practice in Exeter.
Chris Oakley has been a psychoanalyst, supervisor and teacher for over 45 years. He is a founder member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and former member of the Philadelphia Association, where he worked with R.D. Laing. He is the author of Football Delirium.
Matthew Oyer is a licensed staff psychologist at Mount Sinai's Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders (CITPD) in New York, an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is on the editorial board of the European Journal
of Psychoanalysis and is a participant at Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association and Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis.
Val Parks is in private practice as psychotherapist and supervisor. She is Chair of the London Training Committee of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Henry Strick van Linschoten is a psychotherapist in private practice, based in London, UK. He is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specialising in relationships, sexual, gender and relational diversity, trauma and dissociation. He is an Advisor to Confer, and has made contributions to Confer and the Open University. He is a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and registered with Pink Therapy. In his earlier career, he graduated in Development Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, and was an international businessman. Preferred pronouns: he/his.
Barry Watt is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is a Senior Psychotherapist at the Psychosis Therapy Project at Islington Mind and a Senior Psychotherapist for St. Mungo's Single Homeless Housing and Support Service in Waltham Forest.