Editor

Dr Simon Clarke University of  the West of England, UK

Associate Editors

John Bird University of the West of England, UK
Jem Thomas University of the West of England, UK

Editorial Board

Prof C. Fred Alford University of Maryland, USA
Prof Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK
Prof Mark Bracher Kent State, USA
Prof Don L. Carveth York University, Canada
Prof Anthony Elliott University of the West of England, UK
Prof Karl Figlio University of Essex, UK
Prof Paul Hoggett University of the West of England, UK
Prof Lynne Layton Harvard University, USA
Prof Esther Rashkin University of Utah, USA
Prof Barry Richards University of Bournemouth, UK
Prof Michael Rustin University of East London and Tavistock Clinic, UK
Prof Paul Verhaeghe University of Ghent, Belgium
Prof Robert Young University of Sheffield, UK
 

C. FRED ALFORD is Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, USA. His books include Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Cornell University Press, 2001), Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Cornell University Press, 1999), What Evil Means to Us (Cornell University Press, 1997), and Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory(1989)

ALISON ASSITER is Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England,  Fellow of the RSA and Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. Her books include Pornongraphy, Feminism and the Individual, Pluto Press, 1989; Bad Girls, Dirty Pictures, (ed. with Avedon Carol) Pluto Press, 1993; Althusser and Feminism, Pluto Press, 1990; Enlightened Women, Routledge, 1996.  She has also published edited books on Higher Education policy issues.

JOHN BIRD is Co-Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies and Reader in Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He teaches courses on race and ethnicity; the sociologies of belief and culture, and relationships between psychoanalytic ideas and the social and cultural. He is currently researching the psycho-social consequences of computer mediated communication.

MARK BRACHER is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University.  He is a graduate of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute (Research Associate, 1993), co-founder of the international and interdisciplinary Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, and founder and editor of JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, which was recognized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals as one of the best new journals to appear in recent years.  His most recent books include Lacan, Discourse and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism and The Writing Cure: Psychoanalysis, Composition, and the Aims of Education.  He has published numerous articles on topics such as violence, racism, postmodernism, and pedagogy.

DONALD L. CARVETH is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Member of the Canadian and Toronto Psychoanalytic Societies.  He is Professor of Social & Political Thought at York University, Glendon College, in Toronto.  He is Editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse, Editor of Kleinian Studies, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought and Free Associations.

Dr SIMON CLARKE is Reader in, and Co-Director of, the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England where he teaches courses on sociological theory, psychoanalysis and the sociology of racism, and psycho-social studies.  His research interests include the interface between sociological and psychoanalytic theory; emotions; Kleinian and post Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published widely on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism and ethnic hatred and is author of Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism. He is currently working on a major new book entitled: From Enlightenment to Risk: Social Theory and Modern Societies . Simon is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. Formerly an Associate Editor of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (OSUP); Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (Palgrave Macmillan Journals) and Editor of the online journal -Journal of Psycho-Social Studies.

KARL FIGLIO is a Professor in, and Director of, the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.  He is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an Associate Member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy.

PAUL HOGGETT is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies in the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of the West England.  His research has focused on the changing nature of the welfare state in the UK and Europe.  He has worked widely as a consultant to organisations in the public and voluntary sectors and has been on the staff of Group Relations conferences in the UK, Netherlands and Bulgaria.  He was a founding editor of the journal Free Associations.  As well as being co-editor of the journal Organisational and Social Dynamics, he has published widely and his most recent book Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare was published by Macmillan in 2000.

LYNNE LAYTON is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and teaches popular culture at Harvard University. Formerly co-editor of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Lynne is editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, a candidate at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, author of  Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Towards a Postmodern Psychoanalysis.

ESTHER RASHKIN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah where she teaches courses on  French & Francophone Film in Cultural Context, Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory; Psychoanalysis and Film; Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture. Her book on the psychoanalytic theory of the "phantom,"Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative, Princeton UP 1992, is a study of literary narratives that are constructed by the transgenerational transmission of family secrets.  Esther holds a Master of Social Work degree and has experience in the clinical treatment of trauma and mental illness.  She is currently preparing a book manuscript on psychoanalysis, film, and popular culture. Esther is a member of the board of Directors of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society,  and a Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Society.

BARRY RICHARDS has been Professor of Public Communication in the Bournemouth
Media School since September 2001. Before that he was Professor of Human Relations at the University of East London. He had lectured in the social sciences at UEL and its predecessor institutions since 1977, developing East London's innovative programmes in psychosocial studies and psychoanalytic studies, and heading the multi-disciplinary Department of Human Relations from 1996 to 2001. Prior to entering academia, he had trained and worked as a clinical psychologist in the National Health Service. His books include The Dynamics of Advertising (co-authored, 2000) Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture (1994) and Images of Freud (1989). Barry was formerly editor of Psychoanalytic Studies, and was a founding editor of Free Associations.

MICHAEL RUSTIN is Head of School of Social Sciences, and a Professor of Sociology at the University of East London. He is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. His current teaching work is mainly in the field of psychoanalytic studies and psychoanalytic research, most of this taking place on the joint postgraduate programme of UEL and the Tavistock Clinic. Recent books include: Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics (Continuum Books, UK, and Wesleyan University Press, USA), 2001; Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction, 2nd edition, with a new postscript 'The Inner World of Harry Potter', co-authored with Margaret Rustin, Karnac Books, 2001. He is currently completing a book with Margaret Rustin on Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society, which is due to be published by Karnac Books in the Tavistock Clinic Series in Spring 2002. He is coediting with Prue Chamberlayne and Tom Wengraf a book on Biographical Strategies in European Societies which is also due to be published in 2002. He is co-editor of Soundings magazine; Chair of the Editorial Board of Rising East: Rising in the East: The Regeneration of East London and a member of the Editorial Board of Infant Observation.

JEM THOMAS is a sociologist and is currently Associate Pro Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England. His main research interest is in German social theory; he has published on Max Weber, on Theodor Adorno, and is currently working on the intellectual legacy of Herbert Marcuse.  He is also Review Editor of History of the Human Sciences and Associate Editor of the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies. He has a strong interest in psychoanalysis and was involved for many years in teaching psychotherapists in training, doing work for both the London Centre for Psychotherapy and for the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy

PAUL VERHAEGHE is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Ghent and Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis. He is a practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the European School for Psychoanalysis. He is author of Does Woman Exist?; Love in a Time of Loneliness: Three Essays on Drive and Desire, and Beyond Gender: From Subject to Drive.

ROBERT M. YOUNG is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield and Honoured  Professor at the Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations, New Bulgarian University, Sofia. He is the founder of Free Association Books, Editor of the quarterly journal Free Associations and Associate Editor of the ejournalsKleinian Studies and Human Nature Review. He is the moderator of several egroups,  and co-editor of the human-nature.com web site. His books include Mind, Brain and Adaptation; Darwin's Metaphor; Mental Space; The Culture of British Psychoanalysis; Whatever Happened to Human Nature? and many other writings on human nature, psychoanalysis, science studies and related matters.