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  • Contributors

John Boyle has completed clinical MSc degrees in both integrative and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as an MA degree in Western Esotericism. He is employed as a community forensic practitioner with the Southern Trust Community Forensic Mental Health Team in Northern Ireland where he is also a visiting lecturer in the specialist forensic practitioner program at the University of Ulster. He has previously published papers on forensic and psychotherapeutic topics and is currently registered as a doctoral research student at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex in England.

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, 2010), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2006), Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2005), After Words (Palgrave, 2002), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 1999). His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (Palgrave, 2013), A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (Palgrave, 2012), and Feelings (Routledge, 2011).

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Thomas Mann’s Artist-Heroes (Northwestern University, 2014). Thirty-one of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. In 2012 he gave the Seymour lectures on biography sponsored by the National Library of Australia. His book Robert Lowell in Love (University of Massachusetts) appeared in January 2016. [End Page 129]

Moriya Rachmani is completing her doctorate in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ben-Gurion University. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the role played by the phenomenon of ritual practice in preserving self-identity within the concentration camps. She has published several articles and participated in various research groups relating to Holocaust studies, trauma, and psychoanalysis. She is an active member in the Van Leer Institute Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah group and a Fellow in the I-Core (Israeli Centre of Research Excellence). She has published her poetry under the titles In the Name: A Poetic Seder of the Third Generation of Survivors and A Heart A Heart Fingering Through a Wall, a City Without a Shadow.

Frances L. Restuccia is an English Professor at Boston College where she teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. She is co-chair of the “Psychoanalytic Practices” seminar at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center. She has published James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale, 1989), Melancholics in Love: Representing Women’s Depression and Domestic Abuse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford, 2006), and in The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum, 2012). Currently, she is working on a book on the relation of Agamben’s philosophy to literature and psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on his concept of the messianic.

Raluca Soreanu is Wellcome Trust Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London. She is associate member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro and of the Instituto de Estudos da Complexidade, Rio de Janeiro. Previously, she was Marie Curie Fellow in Sociology at Birkbeck College. At present, she is working on a monograph titled Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Recognition and Denial in the Brazilian Uprising, which explores the legacy of Sándor Ferenczi as a social and political thinker and articulates a psychosocial theory of collective trauma. As Wellcome Trust Fellow, she is studying the emergence of Balint groups, looking especially at the boundary-work between psychoanalysis and the medical sciences. [End Page 130]

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