Elizabeth T. de Bianchedi is a member of Asociacion Psicoanaly­tica de Buenos Aires, with training, supervising and teaching functions. She is widely known in Europe and South America, for her teaching and her publications. Her book Introduction to the Work of Bion written in collaboration with Leon Grinberg and Dario Sor, has become a classic for understanding of Bion's work.

John Boots is a training analyst in private practice in Sydney. He is also a consultant to child protection services in Sydney and the ACT.

Roger Buckle is a training and supervising analyst, member of the APAS, practising in Melbourne.                   

Robin Chester is a psychoanalyst in full-time private practice and teaches and supervises at several teaching hospitals in Adelaide. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on paradox.                               

Helga Coulter trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in London and is now in full-time private practice in Melbourne. She is member of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists and the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (VAPP). Currently she is the Chairperson of the VAPP Training Committee.             

Rick Curnow is a training analyst in the APAS. He works in full time private practice in Adelaide.

H. Shmuel Erlich is a training analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He holds the Sigmund Freud Chair of Psychoanalysis at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is European Regional Representative on the IPA Board, and Chair of the Working Party on Interface Issues of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adolescents and adults. He lectures in Israel and other countries, and has published numerous papers on psychoanalytic and applied subjects, including: adolescent development and treatment; psychoanalytic theory, especially experiential factors influencing object relations; and psychoanalytic-systemic studies of group, organizational and social processes.

Louise Gyler, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, a member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, in private practice in Sydney. She is also the course coordinator for the Psychoanalytic Studies program at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry.

R.H. Hook is a member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. After teaching in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne he moved back to Canberra and private psychoanalytic practice. From 1974 to 1980 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University and is interested in mind and culture in relation to psychoanalysis.           

Maria Teresa Hooke is a training analyst of APAS. She lives and works in Sydney. She has been former Scientific Chair of APAS and International Correspondent of the IPA Newsletter. Her interests are in psychoanalytic education and in the engagement of psychoanalysis in the social problems of our times. She has contributed to the founding and developing of PACFA.          

Michal Lapinski is a training analyst of the APAS, in full-time psychoanalytic practice in Melbourne. He is a Hon. Associate Professor at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne.                   

Shahid Najeeb is a member of the APAS, psychoanalyst in private practice in Sydney. His interests include the application of psychoanalytic thinking to other aspects of our lives, particularly relationship between psychoanalysis and Buddhism.         

Helen Martin (Ph.D.) works in full time private psychoanalytic practice in Melbourne, where she is a training analyst for the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and a member of the Melbourne Branch of the Society. Dr Martin has an interest in the interface between literature and psychoanalysis.         

John McClean is a training analyst, member of the APAS, practising in Sydney.                   

Craig Powell is a Sydney member of the APAS. He trained with the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis during the late 1970s and early 1980s where the prevailing paradigm was Ego Psychology, though his own inclinations were more in the direction of Object Relations and Self Psychology. He returned to Sydney in 1982. Since 1993 he has been on the committee of the annual Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, where his paper published here was first presented. He has also published several volumes of poetry.       

Danielle Quinodoz is a training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society, in full-time private practice in Geneva. She is the President of the Training Committee of the Swiss Society. She is a former consultant at the Department of Psychiatry and Geriatrics, University of Geneva.              

Peter Read is an Australian Research Senior, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. He has worked extensively in Aboriginal history and Australian places studies. He is the author of A Rape of the Soul so Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generations (1999), Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places and Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership (both Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996 and 2000).      

Craig San-Rogue is a Jungian analyst from Alice Springs where he has worked for ten years on the intersection of Aboriginal and European approaches to law, therapy and alcohol use. During his time in Central Australia he has developed several inter-cultural performances with communal therpeutic intent. He has been the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysis.

Peter Smith is a psychoanalyst in private practice, member of the Melbourne Branch of APAS.                   

Ron Spielman is a training analyst, member of the APAS, in private psychoanalytic practice in Sydney.                   

Garry Sheehan is a training analyst, member of the APAS, in private psychoanalytic practice in Melbourne.    

Frances Thomson Salo is an adult and child psychoanalyst, member of the Australian and British Psychoanalytical Societies and works in private practice. She is an honorary psychoanalyst at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and Senior Lecturer in the Infant Mental Health Masters, University of Melbourne.

Kay Torney Souter is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. She has a special interest in the relations between literary and psychoanalytic theory, especially British object relations and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, and in the representation of the female body.          

Neville Symington is a training analyst in Sydney. He studied philosophy, theology and graduated as a psychologist in Britain. He trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis in London and worked for a number of years at the Tavistock Clinic.He has given papers and lectures in Australia and other countries. He is the author of numerous papers and of a number of significant books. His website is at http:/www.nevillesymington.com/.

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of psychiatry, training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and founder of the Centre for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA. He is a former President of the International Society of Political Psychology and a former member of The Carter Centre's International Negotiation Network Her has recently been the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at The Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, MA., and at present he is a Visiting Scholar at Fulbright - Sigmund-Freud - Privatstiftung, Vienna. Prof. Volkan’s, work, apart from clinical interests, has focused on individuals and societies traumatized due to mass violence or wars.To this field he has made theoretical, research as well as practical contributions, taking part in the work in the socio-political field. He published over 300 scientific papers, book chapters and books. For this work he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2005.             

Maurice Whelan trained as a psychoanalyst in London. He is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytic Societies, and now lives and works in Sydney. He has lectured widely throughout Australia and New Zealand. He has been the author of many publications on social work practice, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and of the following books, Special Education and Social Control -Invisible Disasters (1981), Thoughts for the Twenty First Century: In the Company of William Hazlitt (due out June 2003), and the editor of Mistress of Her Own Thoughts: Ella Freeman Sharpe and the Practice of Psychoanalysis (2000).          

John Wiltshire is a reader in English at La Trobe University.