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Sharmini Bailly Editor & Translator

Lionel Bailly is a psychoanalyst and a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is a practicing analyst of the Association Lacanienne Internationale and an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London Psychoanalysis Unit where he is particularly involved in the doctoral school. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. After a long collaboration with Jean Berges he became head of Sainte-Anne's Biopsychopathology Unit, which he led until moving to London in 2000. He is the author of two books, one on psychotrauma in children (in French) and 'Lacan: A Beginner's Guide' (in English). Sharmini Bailly is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in the NHS and in private practice in the UK, and a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She worked for eighteen years in radio and television journalism and had extensive experience in producing and presenting international news, arts features and documentaries before turning to psychoanalysis. Her first psychoanalytic writing was her contribution to the 2009 book, 'Lacan: A Beginner's Guide'. David Lichtenstein is a psychoanalyst in New York, Editor of 'DIVISION/Review', a quarterly psychoanalytic forum; faculty at CUNY Graduate Center, New School University; and founding member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.