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Sian Ellis (session chair) is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She is a member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (AGIP) and a registrant of the UKCP. She is also a member of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK, The Academy of Psychoanalysis and their Board of Governors.
Kevin Jones (speaker) Starving Artist, Street Theatre and Political Activist 1979-86, Dip Art Therapy Goldsmiths 1986-87, Dip Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and MA Psychotherapy and Social Studies 2001, private psychotherapy practice as member of Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, UKCP Registered, 2000- present. Lecturer Art Psychotherapy Goldsmiths University of London, 2000-present. Interests include art and psychoanalysis in the age of the neo-liberal drive toward death.
Darian Leader (speaker, chair) is a psychoanalyst practising in London and the current President of both the College of Psychoanalysts–UK and The Academy of Psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. His books include Why do women write more letters than they post?, Freud’s Footnotes, Stealing the Mona Lisa: what art stops us from seeing, Why do people get Ill? (with David Corfield) and The New black: mourning, melancholia and depression.
Phil Mollon (speaker) is a psychotherapist (Tavistock Society), psychoanalyst (British Psychoanalytical Society), and clinical psychologist (British Psychological Society). In addition to his work within the NHS, he has a small private practice. He has authored a number of books on trauma, dissociation, narcissism, shame, EMDR and, most recently, Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy. With Richard Reeves, he is also co-author of the recent publication ‘The State Regulation of Psychotherapy: From Self-regulation to Self-mutilation?’ (Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol .3, Karnac 2009).
Haya Oakley (session chair) has been practising and teaching psychoanalysis in London for over thirty years. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK, The Academy of Psychoanalysis, and their Board of Governors. She is also a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists and The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Paul Verhaeghe (speaker) is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counseling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and also works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (Other Press 1999) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (Other Press 2004), which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship. His latest publication is New Studies of Old Villains (Other Press 2009).