Ayelet Schafir-Hirshfeld – Los Gatos, California
Ayelet Schafir-Hirshfeld is a clinical psychologist and a Lacanian psychoanalyst. She is the president of DiversItUS Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis Inc., a mental healthcare clinic in Los Gatos, California. She is the founder of several tech, artificial intelligence and mental healthcare companies and on various advisory boards. She is an analyst of the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA; a psycho-traumatologist and a domain expert in trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, critical incident stress, vicarious traumatisation, secondary stress and compassion fatigue. She is also a consultant for the National Institute of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Tel-Aviv, Israel. 

Mona Chahoury Charabaty – Beirut, Lebanon
Mona Chahoury Charabaty is a psychoanalyst, and a member of International Psychoanalytic Association. She is a training analyst in the training institute of the Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis (Aldep). Mona teaches on the master’s degree course at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, where she conducts seminars about borderline pathologies, interpretation and courants psychanalytiques.

Cristiana Cimino – Rome, Italy
Cristiana Cimino is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a Freudian and Lacanian training. She is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, SPI (IPA). She is also a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis (ISAP) and a co-editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. Cristiana has worked extensively on the thought of the psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli and has published several texts in specialised journals e.g. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, La Rivista di Psicoanalisi, La Psicoanalisi, aut aut, The European Journal of Psychoanalysis and others.  She is the author of Il discorso amoroso. Dall’amore della madre al godimento femminile (Manifestolibri, 2015).

Kristina Forss – Gothenburg, Sweden
Kristina Forss is a psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher in psychotherapy in the psychoanalytic tradition. With additional competence in Jungian psychology, religion psychology and the theory of science. She runs her own private psychotherapy practice, and has worked in the public mental health care and social welfare sector since the 1980s.

John Gale – London, UK
John Gale is the president of the International Network of Psychoanalytic Practices (INPP) and an editor of the online journal Vestigia. A former Benedictine monk, he taught philosophy and patristics before leaving the priesthood. He was the director of a number of organisations in the field of therapeutic communities specializing in the treatment of psychosis, and of traumatized ex-soldiers who had become homeless. He was a board member of ISPS (UK). He has edited several books and is the author of many scholarly articles at the interface of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and spirituality. 

Gohar Homayounpour – Tehran, Iran
Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and award winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also the founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board of the Freud Museum in Vienna and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. She serves on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vestigia and on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. She is also the editor-in-chief of the series Psychoanalytic Notebooks published in Iran by Ghatreh Publishing House. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (MIT Press, 2012) won the Gradiva Award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is Persian Blues: Psychoanalysis and Mourning (Routledge, 2022).

Satish Reddy – New York, USA
Satish Reddy M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association as well as a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Physicians. He is board certified in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Satish is a member of the IPA Committee to the United Nations. His interests are in psychoanalysis and religion and has published several articles on the subject. They include: ‘Psychoanalytic Process in the Bhagavad Gita’, ‘Time in Hinduism’ and ‘Spiritual Conversion in the Bhagavad Gita’.

Lizaveta van Munsteren – London, UK
Lizaveta van Munsteren is a psychotherapist in private practice and Associate Lecturer who teaches on the MA Psychoanalysis and History module and Graduate Course in the Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy Program at Birkbeck, University of London. Previously she taught in the department for the Theory of Psychoanalysis at the East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis in St Petersburg where she was also the curator at the Freud’s Dreams Museum and an editor of the online psychoanalytical journal Lacanalia dedicated to Freudian and Lacanian thought. As well, she is a part of the research project Free Clinics and Psychoanalysis for the People at the University of Essex (https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/free-clinics-and-a-psychoanalysis-for-the-people).

FORMATTING EDITOR

Arpita Tandon – Bhopal, India

SENIOR BULLETIN EDITOR

Dovina Dilu – United Arab Emirates

ASSISTANT EDITORS (BULLETIN)

Zahra Nosrati – Kermanshah, Iran

Kavya Menon – Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

TRANSLATORS

Mona Chahoury Charabaty, Cristiana Cimino, Maria Teresa Albarràn