Dr Estela Welldon is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in London. In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Estela works privately as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the Confederation of British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association

Associate Medical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at SLAM where he works in prison, secure health and community services providing treatment and management for offenders with personality disorder. He completed his PhD on the developmental neurobiology of aggression at KCL. He also has an interest in organisational dynamics and trained in the systems psychodynamics model of organisational consultancy at the Tavistock, London.

Dr Daniel Riordan BSc. MBBS MA MSc. FRCPsych. FRANZCP. MInstGA Dip FT is a consultant forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist (general and forensic) and group analyst. He has worked in secure hospitals and prisons in the UK and Australia. He is a member of the IAFP and Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association (AFPA) board. He has published articles and books/chapters in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

I am a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalyst and have experience in the assessment and treatment of people suffering from a wide range of personality and other difficulties who have been destructive to themselves and others.

Elena Mundici works as an Adult Psychotherapist in the NHS and is Director and Co-Founder of Panoptikon, an organisation that works with prison institutions in the UK. She is a member of Tavistock Society of Psychotherapist and the Forensic Psychotherapy Society.

Dr Leonardo Cabrer works as a Director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, where he leads a team within the Research & Design department. Prior to his career in finance, he completed his PhD in mathematics and worked as a mathematician in universities worldwide for over 15 years. He is the author of numerous publications on the connections between mathematical logic and geometry.

Dramatherapist, clinical supervisor, visiting lecturer and author, specialising in the assessment and treatment of difficult to engage violent offenders in NHS secure hospitals using a combination of theatre, movement and psychotherapy. She currently manages a team of Arts Psychotherapists in the Forensic Directorate of East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Wayne Bodkin is a practising psychoanalytic couple therapist. He trained with Tavistock Relationships and holds a doctorate in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has lived and worked in the city of Montpellier in the south of France for the last 32 years.

Psychiatre I MD Psychiatry I Founder, Comprehensive Evidence-Based Child Abuse Prevention Toolkit (BOAT)

M.D. is a Psychiatrist and Criminologist, full member of the Italian (SPI) and International (IPA) Psychoanalytic Society. He works as Consultant Psychiatrist in the male prisons of Padua (Italy). He is been guest lecturer on Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Padua and has edited a book ("L’io criminale” (2018) Alpes, Roma) on Forensic Psychiatry from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Dr Luiselotte (Luisa) Ziackova is Senior Specialty Doctor at St Andrews Hospital Essex, working in the Female PICU and Male Low Secure Personality Disorders units. Prior to moving St Andrews, Luisa worked in the private child and adolescent mental health sector in the UK. She has many years of experience, working in Britain and abroad, in child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as general adult psychiatry. Alongside her work in psychiatry, Luisa is a keen artist. See https://artbylui.com

Anna is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who has worked in forensic settings for the NHS for 30 years, specialising in evaluation and psychotherapeutic work with criminalised women.

Chief of a Psychiatric network of Local Health Authority “Toscana Centro” managing mental health services inside the prisons or the residences for psychiatric patients sentenced to a security measures. Director of a REMS.

Annie is a psychodynamic psychotherapist working in private practice in Soho, London and Central Oxford. She also work as a reflective practitioner for Oxford Health's forensic mental health service. She treats relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression and other mental health problems. She is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and blogs at www.psychoanalysisinotherstories.com

Social worker and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney. I treat children, adolescents, adults and couples presenting with a broad range of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric difficulties. Prior to commencing private practice, I worked in secure settings treating children/adolescents who engaged in harmful sexual behaviours and adult sex offenders. I provide independent expert advice to the courts & NGOs.

Maria Luisa Müller is a psychologist, psychodynamic psychoterapist and forensic psychologist in private practice. She works for the judiciary and in a extra-parlamentary commision. After pedagogic studies she attained a Master Degree in clinical psychology at the university of Geneva in Switzerland. She studied forensic assessment in Zürich, with a focus on forensic diagnosis and risk assessment. She is member of various professional associations in Switzerland, France and Italy (Sipfo).

Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Vice-President of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/The EFPP and a candidate of the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society / International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He has worked as a clinical specialist in a number of government psychiatric hospitals and was training director in a charity foundation to prevent juvenile delinquency. He had organized number of scientific & educational projects, including the first ever IAFP training course in Russia.

Prof. Dr. Carabellese Felice, MD, Psychiatrist, Forensic Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, is Associate Professor of Forensic Psychiatry in the University Aldo Moro of Bari, School of Medicine. Author of more than 150 scientific works his research focus on relationship between psychopathological dimension and crimes; criminal responsability of mental illness patients; forensic treatment of sexual offenders and NGRI offenders; mentally illness competence to consent to treatment.

Alex Maguire is Senior Music Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital specialising in the treatment of violent offenders in high dependency and intensive care settings. He has written and presented widely about this work, as well as maintaining a parallel career as an improvising jazz musician worldwide.

Victoria Childs

Psychiatrist, with experience in the Russian penitentiary system, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, PhD. Currently resides in Israel

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. A Registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council, he is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health. A Trustee of the Freud Museum London, he is author or editor of twelve books and series editor of over fifty-five further titles.

Ronald Doctor is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and Forensic Psychotherapy at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust. He trained at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was formerly a Visiting Psychiatrist at HM Wormwood Prisons. He was Treasurer of the IAFP, Treasurer and Chair of the Association for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy in the NHS, Academic Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty & Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Richard Curen works in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. He trained at the Gestalt Centre London and at that Portman clinic where is teaches and supervises trainees. Richard was consultant forensic psychotherapist and supervisor at Respond where he worked for 17 years, and where he led the forensic service for adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities or autism. He is the Chair of the Forensic Psychotherapy Society and is registered with BPC and BACP.

Babs (BSc., MSc., PGCert) has worked in the field of psychiatry for the last 15 years in various child and adult mental health services, forensic NHS clinics and therapeutic communities, including roles in Sussex, SLaM, RCPsych and KCL. She is currently a Communications Officer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. She has completed a foundation course in psychodynamic practice at Birkbeck and her goal is to train as a psychotherapist.